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Gibberings CLXXII - I Have Zero Imagination

Crystal Maze was great when wossisface - bald chap who did The Rocky Horror Show - presented it. Went downhill when Ed Tudor-Pole took over (was him wasn't it?). Only saw bits of the more recent series and did seem to have completely lost it's initial charm.

Richard O'Brien - that's who I meant. He was brilliant hosting it but without him it was just what it was and what it was was kinda dull and repetetive mostly.
 
Shambles said:
Had the game for me auld Speccy too but that was quite frankly shite...
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are you talking about knightlore or knightmare?

i am probably the confused one but knightlore was one of the best computer games i've ever played (on any platform):

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a long, long time ago this was my bluelight avatar:
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good times.

alasdair
 
Shambles said:
Crystal Maze was great when wossisface - bald chap who did The Rocky Horror Show - presented it. Went downhill when Ed Tudor-Pole took over (was him wasn't it?). Only saw bits of the more recent series and did seem to have completely lost it's initial charm.

Richard O'Brien - that's who I meant. He was brilliant hosting it but without him it was just what it was and what it was was kinda dull and repetetive mostly.
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Totally agree there re Crystal Maze but Knightmare basically made my Friday nights for me as a child. Lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvved that show. I used to love when they would ride the dragon or go through that corridor with the spikes coming out, right freaked me out did that LOL.... I would imagine myself going through the corridor n avoiding those spikes.

Alasdair - that avatar is ace :)

Evey
 
alasdairm said:
are you talking about knightlore or knightmare?

i am probably the confused one but knightlore was one of the best computer games i've ever played (on any platform):

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a long, long time ago this was my bluelight avatar:
kl.gif


good times.

alasdair
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Knightmare not Knightlore - the latter is a stone cold classic. Am a big fan of oldskool isometric Speccy games. Head Over Heels was probably the best of the lot I'd say but Knightlore would be right up there.

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Knightmare looked more like this (actually looked exactly like this if you happened to be on that screen)...

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Did anyone here used to play games on Amstrad? I used to like a game called the Mummy n the tune to it, was spooky n was flipping ace! They also had a Scooby Doo game. I don't like games myself but Mummy n also Snake on the old Nokia mobile phone were ace n truly addictive-fun.

Evey
 
JSW is an absolute classic. As is Manic Miner but JSW has the edge for me in terms of downright weirdness. Have (very) occasionally dabbled in Spectrum emulators and is fun to go back and potter with the entertainments of me yoof. Many of 'em hold up surprisingy well in terms of sheer fun factor. Many also turned out to be distinctly rosy-tinted but such is life.

Similar era and ilk... any Monty Mole fans about? =D

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Eveleivibe said:
Did anyone here used to play games on Amstrad?
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Amstrad?!? Boo! Hiss! Ol' Scroteface bought out Sinclair which really annoyed me and many a Speccy fan. Just didn't feel right seeing Amstrad instead of Sinclair in the copyright message thingy that comes up when you fire it up. Quality of the actual computers went down too with silly stuff like adding pointless disc drives which never got used for owt but meant you could charge a load more for semi-useless iterations.

Tthe above may not be entirely serious - those old 8 bit poots were probably much of a muchness - just so happened we got a Spectrum (48k, rubber keyboard) and that's what I used right up until many, many years later when a little-known computer called the SAM tried to resurrect the Spectrum as a (sort of) 16 bit machine. If anybody else in all of BL owned one of those I'd be both gobsmacked and rather impressed.
 
speaking of disc drives does anyone remember the 3 n half floppy disc.... Blah... I HATED those, always running out of space n stuff... Was in complete HEVEN when zip disc came out! Then was even more elated when the pen drive came out, but had all my poetry n stuff on the zip - no zip drives no more... gutted! I think I musta chucked it anyway but those floppys OUCH they were AWFUL man... and those dot matrix printers! Blah... Thank goodness that the world evolved!

Thank goodness for Thursday 5 March 1998 at 12:55 pm - the day I was introduced to the SOCIAL element of the Internet.... I thought I had ARRIVED!!!! ok steady on..... where was I? yes, the floppy!

Edit: Sorry, I only knew of the Amstrad. I remember being a kid when my Dad brought it home n it loaded up with a blue screen n cassettes.

Evey
 
You remember the precise date and time you first used the internet, Evey?!? Blimey. How come so specific?

First time I used it I had no idea what to do with it so didn't do much of anything. Would've been sometime in the late 90s one day when I got chatting to a gal... can't recall how but do recall spending the night with her and she showed off this whizzy new WWW thingamajig she had sometime before we became more distracted by other recreational activities.

As for shitey disc drives, bloody Amstrad stuck one of those onto the third (I think) iteration of the 128k version of the Speccy. I never had one myself and don't feel I missed out on much. Did quite like some other Amstrad machine my stepdad had which had two disc drives on the side of the monitor. I used it for word processing and playing the only game I could find for it. Which happened to be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure which was a bit of a bonus. Had a thing for both text adventures and HGTTG. And still do actually.
 
I'm extremely good with dates.
My first E-mail account was Hotmail created Friday 13 March 1998 at 10:15 am, and first E-mail received was Friday 20th March 1998 round 1 pm.

There's other stuff but I won't bore the forum lol. Like the first time I was granted internet access was at my college and was Friday 17th December 1997. The Day after I saw some rubbish group called Steps at our local leisure centre who become famous for awhile... Blah! Hated them afterwards.

My first ex was obsessed with Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, never seen it myself...
Do you ever remember Clarris Works???? And a game on windows called Solitaire, with cards.

Edit: When I first chatted on the Internet "I'll Never Throw My Knickers at You" by Tom Jones and Catanonia was a big hit...

Evey
 
Blimey. That's bordering on proper eidetic memory. That's quite the talent you have there, Evey. Although having perfect recall of seeing a Steps gig must be quite traumatic so can see it has its downsides too :D

No idea what Clarris Works is but a quick Google suggests I probably do even though I don't cos we used Apple Macs loads at college. Windows' version of Solitaire (or 'Patience' as it's actually called :p) I must've played at some point cos everybody has. Used to play it a lot with actual cards at my grandparents when I'd stay for the summers. Actually mostly played variant versions - Clock/Clock Patience (very similar but arranged in the pattern of a clock face instead of columns) and 'Chinese Patience' which is for two players. Was rather into card games as a nipper as it happens. Buggered if I can remember how to play most of 'em now though. My memory is significantly less impressive than yours :D

I also liked to play actual Solitaire which involves marbles on a geometric grid and is vaguely like Draughts. Or Checkers is we're using American names for games tonight.
 
Oh Clarris works was Apple's version of windows. School gave me a laptop, I didn't want as I wanted to be like everyone else so remember accidently dropping it 14 February 1995, I remember that because it was Robbie Williams birthday on 13th February and I used to be a mega Take That fan LOL....

Yes the memory of steps was traumatising hahahahaha but when they came out with 5678 n that lime dancing stuff I thought they were gna be good but started going all poppy n cringe worthy where all these kids followed them - so yep, I try to forget that hahahahaha

Shame my short term memory is shit though thanks to suboxone hahahahaha, well that's my excuse anyway n I'm sticking to it LOL....

Evey
 
Eveleivibe said:
Yes the memory of steps was traumatising hahahahaha but when they came out with 5678 n that lime dancing stuff I thought they were gna be good but started going all poppy n cringe worthy...
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As opposed to the more classically-influenced complexity of 5678? ;)

That memory thing is pretty damn impressive though. My (longterm) memory is surprsingly good - I can recall what it felt like to wear a (full) nappy then bounce down the stairs on my backside in it from... hopefully quite a long time ago - was before I thought in sentences anyway. There's no order to it though - more of a jumble of things I recall quite vividly but would find nigh-on impossible to put into anything other than the most general and vague of order. I know the nappy memory predates the one of having a massive, pussy blister on my thumb that got popped whilst on a bouncy castle... but when did the being cracked on the head by somebody jumping on the see-saw I was busy doing whatever I was doing under it happen? Could be between the two, could be after. No idea really. Same goes for most of my memory - it's all there but is a bit chaotic.
 
I get the reference but am not exactly expert with vi nor variants thereupon. I know that cursor layout like the back of my hand though cos I never did get on with joysticks so was always a keyboardy kinda player of pooty games.
 
Did anyone here used to play games on Amstrad? I used to like a game called the Mummy n the tune to it, was spooky n was flipping ace!
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Do you mean Oh Mummy? Yes that was great....prob first home computer game I played
 
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