What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

negativecreep... I can see Gamecube, MasterSystemII, XBox, SNES plus..... what's the Sega on the right? Is that a Mega Drive? Looks frickin' gigantic! Or is it a Saturn?

 

I've got one of them Master Systems tucked away, a late one with Sonic built in instead of Alex Kidd. I badgered my mum for it, got it from Tandy in Mansfield, and I promptly decided it was boring about two weeks later when my mate got a Mega Drive. It's been played about a dozen times.

[Negative Creep]

negativecreep... I can see Gamecube, MasterSystemII, XBox, SNES plus..... what's the Sega on the right? Is that a Mega Drive? Looks frickin' gigantic! Or is it a Saturn?

 

I've got one of them Master Systems tucked away, a late one with Sonic built in instead of Alex Kidd. I badgered my mum for it, got it from Tandy in Mansfield, and I promptly decided it was boring about two weeks later when my mate got a Mega Drive. It's been played about a dozen times.

 

 

It's a Saturn - sadly completely eclipsed by the PS1 but with some awesome titles including the best driving game ever, Sega Rally. Also own but don't have room for a PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, NES, Game Boy Colour and Atari 2600 whilst my 360 is down in Plymouth. Once I have my own place I feel some gigantic shelving arrangement is in order. Great for bringing women home to

[Pillock]

Indeed.... I'd love a collection like that. I used to rent consoles years ago, fiver for a couple of nights, Saturn or PS1. The Saturn was always my choice, but strangely when I came to buy I got a PS1 as the Saturn was already starting to show a game weakness. I think Gran Turismo tipped it for me, with the Dual Shock controller bundled.

 

GT5 out Thursday

[retrogeezer]

NC - I'll dig that 3DO out for you this week....and I could have sold you a master system too.

 

I have got a spare Atari 2600 woody here if you are after one of those too?

 

Oh, and I think the Word was on at 11pm, not 10pm.

[MrDuke]

Am I imagining things, or was there an optional 3D controller for the Saturn, with a tracker-ball in the middle? I seem to remember playing Sega Nights and being able to move completely differently with it, even though you could complete the game using the stock pad.

 

When I saw the silver 'Cube, I thought for a split second you'd netted a Panasonic jobbie. My local indy shop had one on a very high shelf behind the counter, and they got quite annoyed with my constantly wandering in just to stare at it. Must be like rocking-horse poo now.

[CIH]

 

That looks like Super Probotector plugged into your snes. If so, awesome.

[Negative Creep]

NC - I'll dig that 3DO out for you this week....and I could have sold you a master system too.

 

I have got a spare Atari 2600 woody here if you are after one of those too?

 

Oh, and I think the Word was on at 11pm, not 10pm.

 

 

 

If you want shot of that as well I'd be interested. Already got one but it's the all plastic one so not quite as interesting. Also that is Super Probotector and it is still fucking awesome. The part where the alien bomber napalms the area was seriously impressive when it first came out.

 

Oh and if anyone else has old games they don't want then let me know. Generally only after the ones with boxes and manuals but that can be trying to buy an E36 that hasn't had m3 mirrors stuck on it

[Pillock]

Just console stuff? I've got a load of boxed original Amiga games that to be fair, are just gathering dust.

[Mr Lobster]

original Amiga games

 

I remember when I was about 15 having some sort of strip poker game for the Amiga.

 

Pixel porn FTW.

[Negative Creep]

Only console games at the moment. I do fancy a CD32 but they aren't cheap!

[Pillock]

There's one on ebay for £40 BIN.... from Analogic who I'm sure were Amiga dealers in decades past. But yeah, prices seem to have gone up!

 

I got £350 for my A1200 in 2002ish. I'd spent well over £1000 on it though!

[Guest]

I still have my Amiga 500, and I also have a Mega Drive 1 knocking around. Did have a Saturn but flogged it as I was very hard up at the time. Do know a lad with a Virtual Boy, and an FM Towns Marty. He had a PC Engine but sold it on.

[Pillock]

a Virtual Boy, and an FM Towns Marty. He had a PC Engine but sold it on.

 

[Negative Creep]

Woah, a Virtual Boy is solid gold shite. Worth quite a a bit.........................erm I mean it's worth nothing, I'll give him a tenner to get it off his hands

[retrogeezer]

oh yeh, I've got a Virtual Boy at my mums as well....only the one though.

[trigger]

I remember having this games console called a Philips G7000 or something like that, I think it got dumped in the end as it was naff and replaced with a NES with duck hunt, this was back in 1991 though, I bet the Philips is worth a fortune now though.

 

Just done some googling, this is the game i had with it as well

[Negative Creep]

oh yeh, I've got a Virtual Boy at my mums as well....only the one though.

 

 

How about 10 quid and a copy of Parade July 1979?

[retrogeezer]

I remember having this games console called a Philips G7000 or something like that, I think it got dumped in the end as it was naff and replaced with a NES with duck hunt, this was back in 1991 though, I bet the Philips is worth a fortune now though.

 

Just done some googling, this is the game i had with it as well

 

Yeh, Phillips G7000 Videopac - I had one in 82ish for about 3 months before I sold it and got a ZX Spectrum. Now I have 2 in my mums loft.

 

I really do have a big collection of this stuff....I might have some photos somewhere from when we moved and I was storing it there.

[face]

Ah, the Videopac

 

I loved the Baseball game on that

[Angrydicky]

I loved my NES, I had Super Mario Bros 1,2 and 3, Duck Hunt, Tiger Heli and loads of others, probably about 30 or 40 games in total. I bought it in 2002 for a fiver from a bootsale in mint condition with the original box - guess what the first thing to go in the bin was

 

I've still got a MIB NES "Asia Version" which I've never had working for the feeble reason that there's no ariel lead with it

 

I seem to remember I had an incredibly shite orange Binatone console that was all in b/w and had a mega shite tennis game on it - good fun though

[cms206]

What makes me grin? The look on the face of the suited, booted, prim and proper looking Jehovas Witnesses who have just had the pleasure of having the door answered to them by me, in my Spongebob Boxers, hair all over the place, wearing sunglasses. They dropped the watchtower on the mat and ran back down the path...

[AXrescuer]

Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer.

[Guest]

All the best for your lad AX-R.

 

 

Woo! The bitch is back.

 

I bought this 1951 Zenith when I was on holiday with family in Maine about 9 years ago. I found it in a tat shop, paid about $30 for it and brought it home, much to the chagrin of US Customs (and this was pre 9/11).

 

I took it to Alan Marchant at the VWC (as he's very local) in 2004 to try and locate a step down transformer. He's just got new stock in that will run the radio at our voltage, but predictably I'm skint. A friend at Uni wants to use it as a prop in a play she's planning, so I went and fetched it on the way home. It still looks awesome even if the grille has oxidised and it has more dust than previously noted.

I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists?

 

1. 1947 Ferguson 208U (works)

2. 195? Philco One Oh Two (works, does FM)

3. 194? Bush DAC 90 (works, it has a metal grille but this is 'wrong' apparently)

4. 1943 Radialva Super AS (battered and with a chunk missing, it's a nice ornament)

5. 1951 Zenith H725 (powered up in the States but couldn't pick up any stations.)

 

 

Zenith did some seriously fit radios back in the day. They did one that was nicknamed the 'Racetrack' (the H511). I want one of these as well.

 

 

Of course, the most awesome Bakelite radio ever IMHO is the Ekco A22 - possibly the most stylish post war British commodity yet, although the pre war AD65 and AD76 run it close. I don't care if I have to spend £800, I will own one.

[AXrescuer]

Thanks wat!

 

My family had an Ekco A22 when I was but a nipper. I'm pretty sure that when I was around 3 or 4, I tore it apart to see what was inside it!

[mattblack]

Seeing an X-plate Metro in beige on the road today made me grin.

[Angrydicky]

Overtaking a Merc SLK and several A4's in the fast lane of the A12 at 70mph in my Austin Cambridge

 

Also saw an immaculate Marina saloon in Damask Red with a beige vinyl roof driven by a flat-capped giffer

[eddyramrod]

+1000, Angry! Good for you, I'd love to have seen their faces.

[Louise2cv]

Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer.

 

Nice one!

 

He's done well to get in, esp with "the current climate"... the force here has frozen recruitment again. Best of luck

[wuvvum]

Overtaking a Merc SLK and several A4's in the fast lane of the A12 at 70mph in my Austin Cambridge

My Humber Hawk used to be good for that - in overdrive top its natural cruising speed seemed to be 75, which surprised a few modern car drivers - in fact many of them would come back past me at 85 a short while later. Most of the time I managed to resist the temptation to wind the Humber up to 90 and breeze past them again - the fuel consumption used to climb exponentially above 70.

[autofive]

watching the 1970 sci-fi Tv series Timeslip i downloaded earlier

 

series one has hetty wainthropp's husband has the main characters dad

 

series two has Hilda Rumple & C.J in shiny spandex (C.J. plays a computer driven clone)

 

just starting on series three - and its in COLOUR