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You Nostalgia, you lose - *Don't Quote the pictures!*

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  • #2492
    jack of all
    Registered Users Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭jack of all


    This is yet another Christmas gift from more than 30 years ago- junior microscope, Japanese made so decent lens quality. I actually used this recently to confirm the (worn) condition of the stylus on my record player (yes, I am old school!). I remember having great fun with this- disecting spiders and the like!


  • #2493
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf




    Time extension !! :D


  • #2494
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    So many days spent screaming in frustration playing these bastard games on the Amstrad CPC 464.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSxBT0WfqJc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4qvmUQDGg



    This one was also the business and insanely adult orientated for the time.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NB-UMb1vUE


  • #2495
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Having had a couple of the Dizzy games I never knew what the **** was going on. I recently watched a lets play video like above and I still can't make sense of the game. No idea how it was popular.


  • #2496
    blaze1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


    18 Minutes to complete Treasure Island Dizzy.... Pretty sure i lost days to that game!


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  • #2497
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUfv-tAfXn4


  • #2498
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    <<<snip>>>

    I knew all the words to the rules...

    "Mallets mallet is a word association game..."


  • #2499
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    everlast75 wrote: »
    I knew all the words to the rules...

    "Mallets mallet is a word association game..."

    "BLEURGH" :D


  • #2500
    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    kfallon wrote: »

    Can I have my 52 seconds back, please?
    (Yes, even though I watched less than half of it, I still want my time back)


  • #2501
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQHwFk66H9M

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQktsKvXcg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZZg_-yrZHI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJI87u3DoQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMo4k7iG7s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5F1zYQF5M

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRV5raXCDkA


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  • #2502
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Getting up to devilment as a child, randomly dialing numbers with one of these :P

    AAAACwdoOI4AAAAAANjjRQ.jpg?v=1278465550000


  • #2503
    laraghrider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭laraghrider


    Itzy wrote: »
    Getting up to devilment as a child, randomly dialing numbers with one of these :P

    AAAACwdoOI4AAAAAANjjRQ.jpg?v=1278465550000

    I much preferred dialing 171 and running quietly up the stairs, waiting for brother, sister, mother to run out to the phone and answer a non existent phone call. Cordless phones have stolen us of such simple moments!


  • #2504
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUdEorW3EMI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrwOOBK_WY


  • #2505
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    original-lego.jpg

    1980s Spaceship guy!


  • #2506
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    I was up in the Parent's attic last year looking for something and found the pacManuel Spicy Tugboating for my first mobile phone. I think it was around Oct '98 when I got it.

    Anyways as I no longer had the phone, my sister had it after me and lost it, I put a search on ebay and got one recently for 99p in the UK. Massive thing! Only problem is I have no charger but I didn't realise everything except the phone and charger was in the box, which I only opened last night.

    Brings back memories!

    IMAG1042_zpsb84f0952.jpg

    IMAG1041_zpsa9b6acff.jpg

    IMAG1037_zps56a1d63d.jpg

    IMAG1040_zpsa238f540.jpg

    IMAG1036_zps061b3b19.jpg

    I still have the same mobile number today! :cool:


  • #2507
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    striker8.jpg

    I used to love this game, you put the ball at their foot and press the heads to make them kick. Hours of fun as a kid with this.


  • #2508
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    boxart.jpg


    Loved this game - started me on D&D and then Warhammer... good times :)


  • #2509
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Homestead, ag teacht cun tí..


  • #2510
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    BC0355.jpg
    Used to absolutely adore these growing up in the 90s. So much sugar, though. Good old fashioned, stick-to-your-teeth goodness! :D
    I'm told you can still get them in certain shops but I'd given up hope of ever finding them after a long and fruitless search.
    Then, today, I was in Tiger in the Pavillions and I found that they sold their own brand of what I and t'Mammy called "Midget Gems".
    Currently munching away on a handful of them right now! :D


  • #2511
    blastman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭blastman


    These are Midget Gems, I remember them well. There's probably one or two still stuck to my teeth!

    midget_gems__80628_zoom.jpg


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  • #2512
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    n64548313808_9254_xlarge.jpeg

    Toys inside cereal boxes - because of stupid kids that swallow them :mad:


  • #2513
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    n64548313808_9254_xlarge.jpeg

    Toys inside cereal boxes - because of stupid kids that swallow them :mad:

    I only found out this wasn't a thing any more recently - when did that change come about? I'm not even old either!


  • #2514
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    The Pheasant2 wrote: »
    I only found out this wasn't a thing any more recently - when did that change come about? I'm not even old either!

    About a decade ago... :pac:


  • #2515
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,094 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Homestead, ag teacht cun tí..
    Ah, you're missing the fiúntas! Need the value!

    "Homestead-Fiúntas, ag teacht chun tí" I think Homestead and fiúntas were nearly said on top of each other. :D


  • #2516
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    046284cea727bec6b302dd286e519201.jpg


  • #2517
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybg0l2Alaw


  • #2518
    matchthis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭matchthis




    Anyone else remember this? Yer one knocks on the door.... Idiots grotbag!


  • #2519
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Anyone remember these?

    Gamesmaster



    Bad Influence



  • #2520
    Lucena
    Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    renofan wrote: »
    I was up in the Parent's attic last year looking for something and found the pacManuel Spicy Tugboating for my first mobile phone. I think it was around Oct '98 when I got it.

    Anyways as I no longer had the phone, my sister had it after me and lost it, I put a search on ebay and got one recently for 99p in the UK. Massive thing! Only problem is I have no charger but I didn't realise everything except the phone and charger was in the box, which I only opened last night.

    Brings back memories!

    I still have the same mobile number today! :cool:

    Does that say 80p a minute daytime in the top right-hand corner?!!:eek:


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  • #2521
    pajor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭pajor


    Lucena wrote: »
    Does that say 80p a minute daytime in the top right-hand corner?!!:eek:

    I think it says 50p but still, a lot.


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