ah spectrum games? u guys.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
"Dun Darach", "knight Lore" and "Highway Encounter", a 3-way tie for 1st place.
― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/index.html
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
xpost to nakh
Well yeah quite:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/ill-try-anything-with-a-detached-air-of-superiorit,10679/
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
Target Renegade narrowly beat Barry McGuigan Boxing for me (training mode on the latter was a game-changer imo)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:12 (fifteen years ago)
mercenary!
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)
I had Jim Watt Boxing. You jabbed pointlessly for 4 rounds then went in with the heid and finished it in the 5th.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)
Mercenary is fucking dope btw but not a Speccy exclusive.
Excellent de-rail btw guys.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
Must download this actualy
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
are video games worse than they used to be
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
exclusive to me, i never had a c64, they're the enemy xxp
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah obviously
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:16 (fifteen years ago)
When you loaded a game the stupid C64 tape machine didn't even make an awesome noise
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:10 (2 seconds ago)
Ha yeah but the comments kinda give lie to that. Some bored civil servants ardently responding to a livebloggah detailing the voodoo coronation of the Chelmsford Ceaucescu's fluoresecent fuckbuddy and one of Business Lunch's foremost alumni. So it cuts across class lines I guess.
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:19 (fifteen years ago)
Chaki Egg
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
Matt Dizzy
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
Albatman
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:23 (fifteen years ago)
Albatman: The Caped Crusader
Albatman: The Movie
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
xhuxk e. egg
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
HI DERE Encounter
(It was that or Dan HI DERE: Pilot of the Future)
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:28 (fifteen years ago)
Super Cars-mody
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)
PineFoxx Fights Back
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)
Didn't they have any other sources of meaning in their lives in the 1980s apart from Spectrum games?
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)
racist indie stars
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)
DG's Quest for Tires
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)
The life and career of Normski
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
My 80s was basically first third = footie down the park, second third = SPECCY SPECCY SPECCY, third third = ACIEEEEED, occasional uni tutorial
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)
Some crossover between thirds
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:35 (fifteen years ago)
That good old acid + football combination.
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:37 (fifteen years ago)
just going to interrupt to harrumph over a lil bit of dumbing down: "The tea fields of Ceylon [as Sri Lanka was then known in the UK] are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo."
why not put "[the battle not the station derp]"?
*goes out to buy telegraph*
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)
Presumably the writer or the sub was frightened that using the historically appropriate name might make the readership get a bit testy.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:42 (fifteen years ago)
The lion at Waterloo
Sounds like a pub to me. What lion anyway?
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)
i *think* it's outside the entrance that leads sort of diagonally on to the concourse?
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
Napolion Bonapurrte
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:47 (fifteen years ago)
lol actually this has opened a whole can of worms... the waterloo lion (the one at the station, not the one on the battleground), was MOVED in 1966 (a few years before sri lanka was so named) to somewhere NEAR waterloo station
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)
You confused me by making it seem as if there were lions present at the Battle of Waterloo, led around on chains by Mamelukes no doubt
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)
you mean the stone lion that's now on westminster bridge?
http://www.moodmapper.com/idx_result.asp?mood=199&place=113
never heard of the lion brewery before tbh
― ledge, Monday, 6 September 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lJclA8pn1kw/TDSZqQWDlVI/AAAAAAAADnY/LK0blzwi14M/s1600/lion+waterloo.jpg
not sure what it represents, exactly. not 'what a tragic waste of life' tho, clearly!
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
King William I of the Netherlands ordered the construction of this monument in 1820, to commemorate bravoury of his son, the prince of Orange, who was wounded here during the battle.
another typical monpolisation of history by the ruling classes then.
― ledge, Monday, 6 September 2010 12:58 (fifteen years ago)
Can tell it's a Dutch lion and not an English one by the way it has expertly trapped that cannonball with its paw
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)
ha
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)
nice
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:06 (fifteen years ago)
A+ tom
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:08 (fifteen years ago)
The great question now, ostensibly, is whether her "brand" is strong enough for her to "go it alone".
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
ilx for beginners really
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Thursday, 9 September 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)
So sang Steven Patrick Morrissey in the unbearably sad I Know It's Over, from an album titled The Queen Is Dead – the Smiths' masterpiece, released in 1986.
Lot of background filling there. Reads like Dan Brown.
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Friday, 10 September 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)
what a dreadful piece...so lacking in actual points. and the final insult, indie is too white cos people didn't want to go and see GORILLAZ
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 10 September 2010 09:45 (fifteen years ago)
99% Caucasian males, limply strumming away, in endless tribute to the same old white-bread influences.
That reminds me, I haven't been to a folk gig in a while
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)
Why do I read the comments on Guardian articles? :(
or maybe
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 10 September 2010 09:52 (fifteen years ago)