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Late 80s would have been ST days.
Other than Cubase the ST was shite, the Amiga kicked it's arse for games in both quality and quantity.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 6:19 pm
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ST was better for developing and working on.

Name a game that wasn't released on the ST?


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 6:46 pm
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ST was better for developing and working on.

Name a game that wasn't released on the ST?

MOONSTONE 🙂

Plus all the Team 17 stuff I think?

There were loads actually. Not all of it top notch, admittedly.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 8:32 pm
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Hookers.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 8:47 pm
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What, when you were 7, Bullheart? 😯

Think I might've had me first puff on a ciggie by that age. And bin quite sick. 😳

And then got skelped by me mum. 😥


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 8:51 pm
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Other than Cubase the ST was shite, the Amiga kicked it's arse for games in both quality and quantity.

Saying the ST was "shite" is a bit unfair given that there wasn't a huge amount to tell them apart, and less so with the advent of the STe. It came out earlier than the Miggy; when I bought one, the Amiga hadn't been released.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 9:05 pm
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A Kettler go-kart, one like this

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Posted : 13/05/2011 9:06 pm
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A microscooter and inline skates. Genuine advances in outdoor fun (we had video games when I was a kid, and I'm less than convinced that all the developments mean modern ones are actually more fun). Oh, and a trampoline. Does nobody on this thread have kids, as those are the things mine and the local kids play on which seem lots of fun and we never had?

I'd have also really loved to have the cheap rc helis and planes I now own - real boys toys.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 10:54 pm
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A black widow catapult

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We used to use dried chickpeas (probably about 10p/kilo back in the day) and kick up some carnage in the woods. Lost mine in a swampy river thing - was gutted 🙁


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 10:57 pm
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I had a terrific amount of LEGO.

My gran sold it all one day without telling me because I was "too old for it." Must've been thousands of pounds' worth, I think she let it all go for about 30 quid.

Twenty+ years on, I'm still cross about that.

I'm with you on that one. I remember my mum advertising my collection in the local rag for £50 (after convincing me I'd outgrown it 😈 ). Sure enough it went that weekend. T'was a sad day.


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 11:00 pm
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can't think of any toy that'd be better than lego or meccano. Apart from a huge piece of paper and some felt tips. I am with you all the way OP!Best thing about being a kid is all about freedom, imagination and creativity. No need for parameters or boundaries of a limiting toy. All that stuff you wished for, you could draw or build that, for yourself, and make your own world.

I have no kids 😉


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 11:08 pm
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Not interested in modern toys, just give me a hoop and a stick or an empty cardboard box or an orange any day. 😆


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 11:23 pm
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but you can turn a hoop a stick and a carboard box into an apollo moon lander. Guess I was just a bit of a mental kid 😀

on the other hand. Pump action supersoaker better than BB gun? figght!


 
Posted : 13/05/2011 11:28 pm
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