Twats!

[Fleabag]

I do think kids miss out by having all their entertainment fed to them electronically - exacerbated by the fact that parents are brainwashed into thinking it's not safe to let their kids out to play.
We had long bike rides, playing in the park, playing tennis & leapfrog, reading, painting, spending hours in the back garden building a miniature desert island environment, playing pirate ship on the air raid shelter (not actually during the war, I hasten to add - the air raid shelter is still there).
I'd rather all that than reminisce about Grand Theft Auto in my old age

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[Fubar1977]

It's not a matter of opinion either, just a fact. That said, not every kid today would agree that 'kick the can' is better than the Xbox experience.

True, but Manic Miner teaches you that life isn't fair and that, sometimes, you're just gonna get your arse kicked.
No restarting from the last checkpoint when I was a kid!

When a game takes 3 1/2 minutes to load you're going to persevere with that shit no matter how hard it is.
I do feel privileged, however, to have watched first hand as games evolved from Horace goes Skiing up to Modern Warfare and Skyrim.

Doom still kicks ass though, I don't care what anyone says.

 

[Chegs]

My evenings after school were spent hanging around with my mates, when they were teenagers they all had skateboards(I wasn't allowed one as it was just a fad that would die out')and we'd all loiter under the supermarkets cover built at the end of the street. Then I got a milk round so was up at 4am and after school would help out on a farm(paid in gun usage to shoot rabbits on the farm, which were to feed our own dog and the guide dog pup as we did the puppy walking scheme) I wanted a spectrum z80(or was it zx81)but they were also a'fad ' that would soon die out. I did finally get a CB radio bought for my birthday(1981)but wasn't allowed to attach an external aerial, or put it in a car so I had to wait until everyone was in bed before I could use it as it caused TVI, then I kept getting yelled at for keeping them awake as they could hear it. No TV 24 hours a day then either. If I wanted to go anywhere, I walked or if further away cycled. I was 18 before we started going into town of an evening to simply wander around, police used to patrol in'panda cars' such as BL mini, the vans were Morris Ital or the shit Sherpa,and CID used Mk 2 Escorts, we used to chat with various coppers and occasionally wind them up by legging it as soon as we saw them which always resulted in a chase, then if we let them catch us we'd be searched and questioned why we'd run, we'd walked into town but the answer was always "we were running for the bus, and now you've made us miss it" Such fun


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[Fubar1977]

My evenings after school were spent hanging around with my mates, when they were teenagers they all had skateboards(I wasn't allowed one as it was just a fad that would die out')and we'd all loiter under the supermarkets cover built at the end of the street. Then I got a milk round so was up at 4am and after school would help out on a farm(paid in gun usage to shoot rabbits on the farm, which were to feed our own dog and the guide dog pup as we did the puppy walking scheme) I wanted a spectrum z80(or was it zx81)but they were also a'fad ' that would soon die out. I did finally get a CB radio bought for my birthday(1981)but wasn't allowed to attach an external aerial, or put it in a car so I had to wait until everyone was in bed before I could use it as it caused TVI, then I kept getting yelled at for keeping them awake as they could hear it. No TV 24 hours a day then either. If I wanted to go anywhere, I walked or if further away cycled. I was 18 before we started going into town of an evening to simply wander around, police used to patrol in'panda cars' such as BL mini, the vans were Morris Ital or the shit Sherpa,and CID used Mk 2 Escorts, we used to chat with various coppers and occasionally wind them up by legging it as soon as we saw them which always resulted in a chase, then if we let them catch us we'd be searched and questioned why we'd run, we'd walked into town but the answer was always "we were running for the bus, and now you've made us miss it" Such fun


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That`s how to do it, right enough.
I`d used a .22 Rifle a long time before I`d used a home computer.
Went plinking for Rabbits most weeks.

 

[u8myufo]

Fuck me, if I knew this was going to start a trip down memory lane I wouldnt have bothered with it. It is great reading peoples stories though

 

[Chegs]

http://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=429695

Lol, that should have been "congratulations Chegs, that proves it's only your short term memory that's fucked" u8myufo

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[Gandalf]

Two threads already. Methinks Specsavers should apply for Vendor status.

people would have to speak to each other, how would one find out what is going on?
I would ban it, just one big experiment or have I seen too many conspiracy theories

 

[sparkyjuice]

Yep, had a Spectrum but I was only allowed to use it after I`d worked 23 hours a day down t`pit and eaten broken Glass and dead Rats for tea.

By `eck lad it`s Grim Up North tha knows

You forgot getting up before you went to bed and lickin' road clean wit' tongue

 

[Gandalf]

FUBAR
Manic Miner lol
we had a commodore 64 and used to play that, the tune is now going around in my head and probably lay in bed with the tune still going on & on & on.
The good old days eh
we were soon conned into thinking a PC was gods gift, with huge programs doing the same as an Amiga (yes we progressed up a bit to a 20MG hard drive wow!)
Just goes to show big is not always better, showing my age now time for a Vap

 

[Mawsley]

As a child I used to amuse myself by skipping merrily outside, building giant wicker effigies and burning strangers. Young people today don't appreciate the danger strangers pose, this could be someone from the next hamlet or even further afield.

Political correctness gone mad has stopped me from doing this with my children, they will never learn our traditional ways, so we tend to hack strangers to pieces with axes and wear their flesh as cloaks instead. Sometimes we just go to B&Q to laugh at the sales staff.