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My obsession...

SpectorSpector
edited February 2004 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Trying to remember quite what I did in the 80's and when I did it is quite hard, as I was a way little tyke and it's all a blur. But I was really surprised to find an old diary I had from 1987, in which I had written a few entries, but obviously had given up out of boredom. Feb 27th has one entry - "Finally got Space Harrier POKE to work! Completed the game!"
Feb 28 has one entry too -"Tried Scooby Doo poke again and again, but doesn't work!"
And at the back there is a year planner, where you write in the little boxes, what special events are coming up, like holidays etc. And what had I written in the March 26th box? "Crash!" And indeed, in other boxes, I had done something similar. I didn't even know this diary existed, but I must have been obsessed with the Spectrum and videogaming back then, I really must have, to use a year planner to remind me when the new "Crash" was coming out. And all those years later, I still read those old issues, which is quite a poignant thing for me.
So what's the question? Ehhh... oh yes! Has anyone else discovered things they had from the 80's that show how much they were into it back then, like for example, little review magazines they made by themselves? Or did you do something really naff? This may have been asked donks ago, but I'd like to hear anyway :)
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  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited February 2004
    Yep, I found an old year calender from (I think) the early 1990s or late 1980s. It's a Beano Calender with big boxes for each day in which to write special events.

    Once a month, three things are repeated:

    "S.U. out"
    "Y.S. out"
    "Crash out"

    I still wonder how I could afford all three every month, and I wonder even more where all my old issues are now :(.
  • SpectorSpector
    edited February 2004
    On 2004-02-02 23:55, MattLamb wrote:
    Yep, I found an old year calender from (I think) the early 1990s or late 1980s. It's a Beano Calender with big boxes for each day in which to write special events.

    Once a month, three things are repeated:

    "S.U. out"
    "Y.S. out"
    "Crash out"

    Fantastic! That's what it's all about! I used to get the Beano Calendars too back in the mid/late 80s funnily enough...:)
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  • Cornishdavey:))Cornishdavey:))
    edited February 2004
    Well not spectrum related, but i have a drawing book, where i drew a picture of my New Chrimo toy !

    A Chopper !! wow, second hand, but it was awesome.

    Oh and did you know there doing some limited edition of them as i type this, only ?250 or was it ?350 either way I WANT ONE NOW !!!
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited February 2004
    I can remember my Mum asking me who Su was... She should have known really, since it must have been her who paid for S.U. and the others.

    Cornishdavey, I heard something on Radio 2 the other day about them re-releasing the Chopper. I missed them first time round, as I was an 80s child. Maybe I should see what all the fuss was about.


    [ This Message was edited by: MattLamb on 2004-02-03 00:23 ]
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited February 2004
    I remember writing off hundred of letters to software houses in the early to mid 80s, pretending to be a software dealer.

    I would ask if they could send me information on their latest games.


    Most replied (except for OCEAN and US GOLD i remember....pah!), and I got tons of glossy posters and literature.

    The best replies I got were from ULTIMATE, VORTEX, SOFTWARE PROJECTS, and HEWSON (loads of huge glossy posters etc.), and from MICROSPHERE, a hand written letter!


    Goes to prove ---
    great companies = great games (Ultimate).

    Idle uncaring companies = Shoddy buggy games, and crap ST ports on the Amiga (Ocean)

    [ This Message was edited by: chaosmongers on 2004-02-03 00:27 ]
  • Cornishdavey:))Cornishdavey:))
    edited February 2004
    Yeah we wrote to the arcade people, Willams/Atari/Electrocoin and a shit load of others, we all got flyers and stuff from yankie land, very cool, under the guise of a school project of course:) Alas dont have um now, Willams was awesome, very nice binder big big flyers, and atari as i recall was super sexy as well :) Well they had Dig Dug at the time ........

    As for the Chopper, yeah should be around anytime now, but they MOVED THE FUC!!NG GEAR CHANGE ! Bastards.... Will have to get a kit and move it back to were it should be, on the bar.

    Bloody health and safety ARGGGGGGGGG!
  • ArjunArjun
    edited February 2004
    I had a notebook full of self-reviews of games. It followed the standard review conventions used by magazines like SU, complete with ratings and comments. The pity is that no one else ever got to read it (although I did force some 'friends' to read a couple of them).

    The other thing I had was a thick file full of cuttings, posters, poke tear-aways, maps, etc. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it anymore.
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  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited February 2004
    That reminds me, though it was for the C64 :roll: rather than for the Speccy. Every month when Commodore Format came out, I used to write all the Action Replay pokes into an excerise book, thus building a definative Bible of game cheats.

    And getting back to the Spectrum, just for the fun of it I can remember mapping totally pointless games like Target Renegade, which is 100% linear so who needs a map???
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