Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger
Atari 2600, and loved every minute of it. Next came a C64 which used 5 1/2 inch floppy disks and had no hard drive, which might as well be called a console, because it couldn't do squat as a computer (Who else remembers Load "*",8,1?).

FLOPY DISK??? hell My C64 had a Tape drive,
Well it didnt really have that Either, I had to Buy it seperate.

What my c 64 came with was A book.

Youd sit there typing out Lines of code for literaly hours.
cos the description in the book said that the program you would create with it was "FUN"

Well after about 4 hours of typing.
And Re checking all the text for mistake's Youd hit enter.

And the only thing all that Text you wrote did was make a damn turtle walk on the screen and draw a line behind him

GAH!!

So i bought a tape deck and some games...
youd stick a 60 min tape in the thing.
Watch the screen turn all sorts of blotchy colours for a while, Then decide il go make a coffe.

Guaranted when I got back Would be a message saying.
"Data error please rewind tape and press any key"
GAAAA!!!!!

Well Eventualy I got some games to work.

And i loved the c64 really i did,
It had DIZZY "Cant beat Dizzy for a game about an egg"
It had Masses of text based rpg's
It also had a seemingly Endless suply of Platformers.
Some 2 player...
Although geting 2 controllers to work on the c64 at the same time for 2 player's Ended up being near to if not totaly impossible.

Ahh They dont make em Like they used to
"I THANK MY LUCKY STARS!"