Do you guys remember the Mastertronic 199 games you could buy at newsagents? I had quite a few of them for my plus 4.
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Originally posted by CMcK View Post
Anyone else own an Electron? That was my first home computer. It's a stripped down BBC Model B like you may have used at school. Games were mostly ported from the BBC and were reasonably easy to get a hold of at all the usual places and my local chemist bizarrely. The dodgems game that came on the demo tape with it was utterly addictive. And I fairly enjoyed Soccer Boss a sort of proto Champ Man style game. The game was written in basic and you could easily interrupt the game and modify the code to give your team loads of money!
The tape deck the came with it was massive. It was even larger than the 1541 floppy drive for the C64.
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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostDo you guys remember the Mastertronic 199 games you could buy at newsagents? I had quite a few of them for my plus 4.
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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostDo you guys remember the Mastertronic 199 games you could buy at newsagents? I had quite a few of them for my plus 4.
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Yeah had a ton of ?1.99 Mastertronic games for my Speccy and Vic 20 such good value. We had a local computer shop in our town that used to rent out Spectrum, C64, Amstrad and BBC games, we used to pay pennies for a rental buy some blank tapes use our double tape decks and have us some copies...
I still see the guy who used to run it regularly and asked him if he knew that the local kids used to do this and he said yes he was fine about it, considering the price of games in the early eighties. I seem to remember ?10 for a Spectrum game was a lot back then but nothing compared to the prices my parents shelled out for my for Atari 2600 games in the late seventies early eighties ?29.99 for Pac-man/ Space Invaders? That was a fortune!
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Originally posted by k0pp0 View PostGod I memorised Treasure islands map. Commando was great as well.
One Of the best games was POD. Hugely addictive.Originally posted by dvdx2 View PostIts were most of my pocket money went - remember doing the old, 'cant get this to load' trick with the newsagent to get a different game if it was crap.
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Originally posted by Baseley09 View PostOne of my mates had a Dragon (32?) which was like a ****ter Spectrum, then got an 8 bit Atari (XE perhaps), which was a bit butters by 1990 or so. Felt bad for him.
Pretty sure it had Pacman, Jet Set Willy and a few other top Speccy games on it.
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I remember when virgin megastore's games section used to only have tapes & discs, one of thos fancy game consoles there at that time. Going into town armed with just ?3 and spending several hours sat on the floor in front of the spectrum section reading all the tape covers deciding what i was going to come home with that day.
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