Memories of Childhood...Images only please

(03-02-2019 15:38 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Computer games revisited part 1 Did you ever play this? I think someone mentioned it at some point.
Daley Thompson's Decathlon. Great game but you needed to time races with your manic fingers going flat out AND for field events timing was everything.

I had this on the Amstrad CPC 464 with a green screen monitor.
Great game but I broke many a joystick playing it.

The Tomorrow People ITV childrens series April 1973 - February 1979

(That Elizabeth Adair was nice also before that blonde Sammi Winmill)

Watching the UFO tv series on forces tv reminded me of the UFO Interceptor I had as a boy. The series was a bit before my time and I had the toy second hand. I remember the release that fired the rocket had a really stiff spring that was near lethal if you caught your finger in it.

(03-02-2019 23:43 )Tractor boy Wrote:  Watching the UFO tv series on forces tv reminded me of the UFO Interceptor I had as a boy. The series was a bit before my time and I had the toy second hand. I remember the release that fired the rocket had a really stiff spring that was near lethal if you caught your finger in it.

Yes I had the UFO interceptor as well...and yes I have a painful memory of the damn spring on the thing

I had the mobile vehicle as well. Both of those items ended up in a jumble sale years ago.

(Got SHADO mobile no tracks, had the Interceptor, still got Straker's Car)

Will post a video of it moving shortly(Straker's Car on lino)
Computer game pt3 HyperSports. Now this was a mixture of all types of different sports and each wasn't as easy as it looked.


Incidentally if you've seen a program called Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker one of the episodes was called BANDERSNATCH. Now I am convinced that not only was that mentioned in Jabberwocky by Edward Lear BUT it is also a failed computer game idea that was mooted by IMAGINE software-they collapsed after that-the other one was called PSYCLAPSE.

This was done a few years ago and the man in the video is my Dad. The Ed Straker car is pulled back by scraping the back wheels backwards until the built-in spring or flywheel is tight and then they impel the car forward-it shot across the kitchen lino albeit not quite straight.

Here is what I was on about in the post No. 167

Computer magazines(Spectrum) I used to read and the INPUT, one of those partworks that took months to build up(I still have the complete run of them in two box folders)