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Arcadia

morphmorph
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The ancient greeks used Arcadia as a far away, idyllic place. Like Utopia.

The french colonised Canada first in the 1600s. They called the land Acadia. The Bristish and French then fought a war in the 1750s over who owned Canada. The British won, and a lot of the French settlers decided to move (Were thrown out) to other French bits of North America, mainly Louisana around the mouth of the Mississippi where New Orleans still is today.

The Acadians gradually became known as the Cadians, and then Cajuns. And thats why the culture from that part of the world is known as Cajun. Its a corruption of Arcadian.

Just hope they remembered to plug a Fuller sound box first.

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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    ...and here was me thinking this was going to be a thread about the Commode Amiga based Arcade hardware.

    Pass whatever your smoking my way, sounds like it's some good sh*t! :p
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2019
    Or the General Motors vehicle of the same name which is yer typical US family gas guzzler.
    https://www.markquartmotors.com/assets/stock/colormatched_01/white/640/cc_2018gms240003_01_640/cc_2018gms240003_01_640_gan.jpg
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    used to love that game on the speccy, one of Imagines earlier games
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  • LunyLuny
    You mean the one and only decent imagine game, before the buy out. ;)
    Sod it!

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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Probably not....Arcadia was crap! :p
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Probably not....Arcadia was crap! :p
    nah ah diddums was crap..........but its great :P
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    No Ah Diddums was just crap...
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  • LunyLuny
    Now Pedro... That was a classic 8-} =))
    Sod it!

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  • SokurahSokurah
    Luny wrote: »
    Now Pedro... That was a classic 8-} =))
    ... classic example of early crap ;)

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  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    ... and what about Stonkers?
  • LunyLuny
    Oh yeah, good point Juan. To be fair, it was a badly run company that contain some decent talent.
    Sod it!

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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    tbh i love all those early crap games as thats what i grew up with from 1983
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  • grey keygrey key
    The Great Space Race, I bought 5 copies for 1p each at the big computer fair in London about a couple of months after it came out, I never did get to ask for my money back...………..
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  • LunyLuny
    There is something appealing and nostalgic about the crap games. I think for me it harks back to the early days, before the more polished games came out. Some of those early Vic and ZX80 games were very basic, but it was all down to a matter of perspective. I never really played anything other than pong and space invaders. So having letters running around the screen in some sort of game seem amazing.
    Sod it!

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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited February 2019
    Luny wrote: »
    There is something appealing and nostalgic about the crap games. I think for me it harks back to the early days, before the more polished games came out. Some of those early Vic and ZX80 games were very basic, but it was all down to a matter of perspective. I never really played anything other than pong and space invaders. So having letters running around the screen in some sort of game seem amazing.

    Yeah, I recently bought loads of speccy games, and almost all of them are pre 1985. Mostly 82, 83 and a couple of 84s. My era. I especially wanted the Atarisoft games back in the day but never got any so just bought Galaxians, it's not perfect but it's just like having the arcade machine in your home back in the day, roll on ms pacman.
    also space raiders is another early classic conversion I recently bought and always loved
    Post edited by mel the bell on
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Should just buy Cassette 50 mel, it's got all that good stuff on :p
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  • RetrobrothersRetrobrothers
    Arcadia was a good early game. I quite liked Zzoom too from pre-bust Imagine
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    Retrobrothers wrote: »
    Arcadia was a good early game. I quite liked Zzoom too from pre-bust Imagine
    Thats one i need again, have the tape but no box or inlay :(
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • grey keygrey key
    mel the bell wrote: »
    Retrobrothers wrote: »
    Arcadia was a good early game. I quite liked Zzoom too from pre-bust Imagine
    Thats one i need again, have the tape but no box or inlay :(

    Which box are you missing Mel, you confuse us all !

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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    grey key wrote: »
    mel the bell wrote: »
    Retrobrothers wrote: »
    Arcadia was a good early game. I quite liked Zzoom too from pre-bust Imagine
    Thats one i need again, have the tape but no box or inlay :(

    Which box are you missing Mel, you confuse us all !

    FOUND IT

    Zzoom lol
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
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