Retro Rob

Matthew Smith, if ever you see this, thank you for giving the world Jet Set Willy II.

Your game is one of my happiest childhood memories. ❤️

[Retro Rob @robertbaylis123]

You know when people buy things in supermarkets and then they change their mind, and they put the thing back on a shelf in the wrong section, so now the thing is left in the wrong place... I buy those things.

I bought some doughnuts earlier on that basis. They were amazing.

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@jenkin7NICK The good thing about MySpace (in its original incarnation at least) was that it let people use HTML in the page boxes, so you could either have normal text, or you could format things in the style of a website.

I think a lot of people had their first go at writing HTML that way.

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@colwyn0077668 Yie Ar Kung Fu was a game with real lasting appeal. I really can't imagine just how many hours I put into that. It had a really great learning curve, where you could play it for weeks or months and still keep getting at least slightly better. ❤️

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I still remember my ZX Spectrum so well. Even the smell of the rubber keys. I was nine years old. 41 years ago.

Exploring the mansion in Jet Willy II just felt so amazing.

It didn't matter how bad school was going, or whatever family problems there were; that was pure 100% fun.

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@TheFluffster1 Ah, my friend had one of those. We used to play Ikari Warriors on it as two player. I can't quite remember whether it was actually a two player game, or whether one of us did the direction inputs and the other did the firing. :-)

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@LFC_1970 Harrier Attack was the first game I ever saw being played on a spectrum, even before I owned one.

And then eventually of course I had it and played it, and definitely has to be up there in my top 10. ❤️

[David @Disc_light]

@robertbaylis123 The ZX Spectrum was responsible for me being a software developer today ! I still have it boxed in my study!

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@VirtualJames ❤️

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@RDKLInc It's certainly very beautiful. My guess is that it's something from a late 90s arcade cabinet (something really top end and amazing for the time) but that could be completely wrong.

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@VirtualJames Looks totally beautiful. ❤️

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@VirtualJames Thank you very much for saying so James. I hope that your journey is going well.

[Retro Rob @robertbaylis123]

Preparing to leave a beautiful city abroad which has come to feel more like home than any in my own country.

My old mum is ill and I'm needed at home, so I have to take the flight.

Huge thanks to the retro community here on X for all the joyful content through testing times. ❤️

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@cr0bar I don't own one of those, but I have two of the original Game Boy Pockets, which are just awesome. Nice form factor, and they don't suffer from the screen tear of the original Game Boy.

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@cr0bar Alfred Hitchcock could have done a sequel to The Birds called The Bees.

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I remember my mum once said this was the first toy I had which kept me quiet. :)

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@80s_Kidz We all did. Anyone who says they didn't is lying.

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@jenkin7NICK They would assume aliens had landed and gifted us their technology.

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@VintageMags I would love to see the lapel budget for that photo shoot.

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@RetroScapeX Saw this in the cinema. I remember liking it, but not what actually happened in it. :)