Does anyone else have one of these? An 'interactive VCR game' released by #OceanSoftware, in conjunction with #ABCsports & #Mindscape, in 1987. I knew nothing about it until I was given this one.
Never tried to play it - not interested in sports & have no VCR player #RetroGaming
I was 17 and remember reading about it in the papers
Well, that didn't take long! Well done. That occurred on 19 August 1987 and the perpetrator used a Type 56 assault rifle, which isn't exactly the same as the gun shown on the ad but near enough for Ocean to change the ad.
Does anyone know the specifc reason why this gun across the bottom of this ad for #Gryzor & #CombatSchool was removed?
Clue: An event occured inbetween the publication of these ads to cause the bosses of #OceanSoftware to amend the advert. #RetroGaming
I have no memory at all of the groovy '2nd hand car dealer' coat I'm wearing in these photos, aged 4! #AbingtonPark
Family trip to #AbingtonPark in #Northampton in March 1975. That slide and tower were scarily high to a 4 year old (myself!)
When I was 3 years old, in the summer of 1973, I liked dressing up & playing the fool. Here's some photos from that time. I would like to point out that since the last photo was taken I have never dressed up in women's clothes since. #Summer #Summer1973
Me filling up the paddling pool at Allen Road, Northampton in the #summer of 1977. Then I was photographed pretending to piss in it while my sisters were sat in it.
#1970s #Summer1977
Info on #OceanSoftware's presence at the September 1988 PCW show. This was featured in a show special supplement that came with #Crash, #Zzap64 & #TheGamesMachine magazines.
#ZXSpectrum #Commodore64 #AmstradCPC #RetroGaming
I interviewed co-owner of Northampton Home Computer Centre, Graham Wilson, for my #LoadDijDij book. It runs for 9 pages. Here's the 1st 4 pages, for the rest you have to download my #MarkJonesBook. Link for it is in my profile description.
#RetroGaming
& before the #CoOp I had a #paperround in 1985 at what used to be called 'Sydney Childs' on the corner of Lutterworth Road where we lived at the time. 6 mornings a week for a princely sum of £3.50. It's still there but Sydney is long dead! I was able to afford the odd copy of #Crash & #C&VG magazine
Before I worked at #NHCC I did 8 hours a week at the #CoOp on the corner of Barry Road in Northampton (which is still there) through 1986 & earned £10. This was usually spent on a #ZXSpectrum game from #NHCC. Sometimes I'd have change so I could by a Spectrum magazine, usually #Crash
A few more games & receipts I bought from #NHCC
#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming
I've been meaning to take a photo of where #NHCC was for years. Managed it today. Ken & Graham rented the ground floor & cellar (where all the repairs were done). Sky Cars were next door back when I went there & they're still there today. #MarkJonesBook #ZXSpectrum #Commodore64
The original site of Northants Computer Centre (now Zizou Express). They occupied here until early 1987. This is where I spent hours after school between 84 & 86 & where my Saturday job turned into a fulltime 1.
Great days! I wrote about it lots in my #LoadDiJDij book. #NHCC
#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming
4 games from #BugByte advertised at the end of 1984. I had all 4, on copy, bar Star Trader (which I bought on the #ZXSpectrum as it was in a sale. It wasn't great). My favourite was Turmoil, 1 of the few games my mum actually had a go on.
Did you buy or just play any of these BITD? #RetroGaming
A message from #OceanSoftware artist Bill Harbison - should be interesting! 👍
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#RetroGaming #ZXSpectrum #AmstradCPC #Amiga #AtariST @harbonaut.co.uk
This was the only time in my life I knew almost all of the then current politician's names!
Read my memoir. We were supposed to give them a demo, they didn't get it & used a demo of Athena instead. Maybe they got their revenge on being let down by giving it a shitty, arsey review? I write about all of it in #LoadDijDij
While skimming through a 1990 issue of #SinclairUser last night I found a review I'd never seen before of my #Gryzor on the #ZXSpectrum from when it was reissued on #TheHitSquad label by #OceanSoftware
78% isn't too bad considering it was already 3 years old 😄
#RetroGaming
Nice to see they used my quote in the headline! 🤣 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater... #Salford #ManchesterEveningNews #MEN #Dog
Willow's feeling sorry for herself. She was spayed yesterday & had a stubborn puppy tooth out. Duggie's looking after her though 😊 #Dog #MansBestFriend
Those were the days!! Thanks for taking the time out to read it
Here's mine - 26 July 1983, also aged 13 & about to go in & watch #TheBeatles at Abbey Road video show 😀
Can anyone help Martyn Carroll to track down some of the winners of the #UltimatePlayTheGame trophies?
#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming
I managed to get 2 of the Chemistry set I had for Christmas 1981 a few years back. 1 used, the other never touched. Both in great nick, though I didcovered the plastic aprons had disintegrated wh3n I tried to open them.
'Legend of Avalon' by Steve Turner & released by Hewson Consultants. The 1st game were I really felt I was visiting another land & time. Creepy as flip and full of atmosphere. A true landmark in #ZXSpectrum games.
AND it came with a beautifully drawn little map! :)
Willow's been to the salon. 1st photo is a Before shot taken yesterday 😃 #Dog #MansBestFriend
Wanker! #ShitParking
Computer game posters in Gonch's bedroom from Ep 01 Series 12 of #GrangeHill.
I can see Project Stealth Fighter, Freddy Hardest, 4x Imagine games, Dungeon Master & Super Hang On
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#RetroGaming #ZXSpectrum #Commodore64
