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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #1
While tidying up a corner of the shed yesterday, I discovered a box of old stuff. Toys, comics, dandy annuals etc. But at the bottom of the box I found an old binatone gaming console. This was cutting edge back in the day! My brothers and I had a load of fun with it when we were kids.

I showed it to my son who is a huge xbox fan but when I explained what it did, well, he wasn't all that impressed. :lol:



Next job is to see if it works!

This could be a lot of fun over the christmas period...
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #2
I had one very similar to that and I think it's still in my mums roof space, and my kids burst out laughing when I explained what way it worked and what it did when we talked about the toys of our youth.
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #3
Those things are collectors items now and can fetch quite a lot of money.
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #4
Had one similar myself, oh the hours spent following the pink dot going diagonally across the screen and trying to shoot it. Mine also had Motorbike bit, you raced along three lines and tried to jump buses. Think it was made by grandstand.
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #5
I"ve still got an old Atari, doubt it"s worth much.
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a Few weeks ago at the Saturday morning Car Boot Sale in Antrim a guy was looking for £35 for an old Atari one. He also had an old Amstrad PC Computer and printer and was looking £150 for it. I threw mine out when I was moving in June. Almost made me sick.
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #7
They were probably yours, a lot of the booters raid the recycling centers and dumps for stuff like that!
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FC i thought as much but then Liz near devoured me for thinking such a thing.
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #9
great mids think alike Jack, what do those weemin know anyway :lol:













i'm running for the door before any of them catch me after that!!
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #10
You guys must have had affluent parents. I felt lucky to have a yo-yo !
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You guys must have had affluent parents. I felt lucky to have a yo-yo !


i was in the same boat as you digger, my yo yo only had half a string!!! but we were happy :lol: :lol: :lol:
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 ·  Posted: 09.12.2013  ·  #12
cardboard box = hours of fun! never mind fancy stuff like that!
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Reading this makes me feel OLD up in my loft is a Commadore 64 with a whole box full of games not bought for me but for my kids. Only takes about 10 minutes to download each cassette but when it came out you could get one for love or money for Christmas.
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Reading this makes me feel OLD up in my loft is a Commadore 64 with a whole box full of games not bought for me but for my kids. Only takes about 10 minutes to download each cassette but when it came out you could get one for love or money for Christmas.


My folks did a great job to provide us with nice things at Christmas but I was part of a big family so getting an expensive present like a computer for Christmas was only a dream!

My friends who were of smaller families enjoyed the world of commodore 64's and spectrum ZX and the like!
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 ·  Posted: 10.12.2013  ·  #16
ZX81 here, still in the shed with its manuals and the 16k Ram Pack I got for it at the time.
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that explains why the forum ran slow last year :lol:


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The yo yo was state of the art technology when you were a lad digger :lol:


Digger was lucky all we had was a yo,Santa couldn't the string :fgrin:
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that explains why the forum ran slow last year :lol:


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that explains why the forum ran slow last year :lol:


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