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Conor's Bandon Blog: The “Your Sinclair” Rock n Roll Years 1985 now available

  • Walter · 4 years ago
    You were a speccy acolyte ? - You kept that quiet.

    > check out what a sad puberty I really had.

    I envied people who got their games published in Your spectrum. My sad puberty beats yours by a mile.

    Walter
  • conor · 4 years ago
    What's sadder is that I still have the Spectrum in my attic. Unfortunately it is in a replacement case with a proper keyboard so it is probably worth nothing to anyone except me.

    After I wrote that posting, it dawned on me that December 1985 was 20 years ago. Now I'm depressed.

    I've told Oscar, my eldest, that I am going to get a flash card and Spectrum emulator for his Nintendo DS so he can play all the same games I did when I was a kid.

    I think he is more interested in the imminent arrival of Mario Cart DS from Santy.

    It turns out that this game enables the Wi-Fi feature on the DS and he'll be able to play against other people on the web. That's flippin incredible! Despite my best efforts to explain this to him, he admitted that he had no idea what I was talking about.

    Modern 6-year olds, eh? When I was 6 I was, emmm, well actually I was fishing for frogs in our septic tank............
  • Donncha O Caoimh · 2 years ago
    When I were 6 we had a Pong-type sports console at home. Great fun, especially as it had 2 joysticks! Them were the days! Ah yes.
  • conor · 2 years ago
    I think we had the same thing. We went up to Dublin to do the Christmas shopping and we were in somewhere like Switzers or Arnotts or Clerys and they were demoing this tennis game.

    I'd never seen anything like it. We all jumped up and down until the parents gave in, whilst protesting that £16 was a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a Christmas present. Ah those were the days.

    Wonder what £16 is equivalent to now. Less than a bloody Wii I'm guessing.