‘Member-berries & General Purpose Nostalgia Thread

Ummm was it Lemmings 3D? There might have been another since then… or an HD remix…

So this will be a niche memory I think…the old man ended up having a period of freelancing in desktop publishing, and we ended up with this gigantic office desk, an Apple LCIII and a laser printer the size of a Yugo (remember those?!)

It was absolutely space age when we got it but was absolutely clapped out by the end. I ended up being a bit of a dab hand at Quark Express, which is doubtlessly as dead as the rest of print media now, but I always remember thinking MS Word was absolutely shite in comparison.

Anyway there was a big shareware scene on the Mac in those days, which was a good thing as it was always the poor cousin of the 486 Dos PCs some of my mates had. But I remember really quirky versions of classics like Defender, Missile Command (‘Patriot Command’), stuff like Myst (which could barely run) and an F18 simulator (ditto, but still loved it).

Best of all was a game called Space Rogue. It was superbly atmospheric and was like wireframe/early flat polygon graphics for space combat (a bit like OG elite), until you docked at a space station. Then it was top down and delightfully spritey.

Every station had shops, bars, pirates and rogues and characters you could interact with (a bit like No Man’s Sky now but way less dry). I’ve been delighted to find some videos about this tonight and wonder if anybody else remembers it - looks like it was on PC too and it may well still be available on Steam.

I’d bloody love a new proper Lemmings game.

I tried Flockers because everyone said that was the next best thing but it was all a bit too busy to feel right. Same as Worms, I think Lemmings benefits from the spartan presentation of early titles rather than adding bolder graphics, brighter backgrounds and 3d later in the franchise.

I liked Tachyon, though I think it came at the tail end of the space combat era and I never actually finished it.

I'd love a new lemmings game, but tbh I'm not really sure where they could take it. Just a remaster of the original would probably be great, though I imagine it still plays just as well today.

My school had BBC Micros for computer class, and we'd all spend the entire class ignoring the teacher and playing games (reptar/repton?, chuckie egg, that one about jumping your motorbike as far as you could, etc...) and then just hitting the restart button anytime the teacher walked around so it booted instantly back to the command prompt.

Not sure I actually ever *learned* anything on a BBC Micro.

We learnt we could make a boy called Simon cry by showing him this scary witch and took full advantage of that

Back when I was very little and we'd be taken in to town to do shopping, we'd get to go to John Menzies and spend our money on the little cassette box C64 games. The joy from then until getting home just staring at those screenshots and reading the little bit of blurb, thinking about what the game would be like. It was amazing. Invariably of course the actual game would be shit wouldn't it. Or it would crash five minutes in to loading. Related to that, does anyone else recall when John Menzies started doing this new thing in-store where they would copy your game from a master tape at the checkout? You'd get this generic grey cassette with a newly copied version of the game? They NEVER fucking worked. They'd crash more often than not. Little wunty was incensed. INCENSED.

Brilliant read on Digitizer off Teletext:

www.superpage58.com/what-is-digitiser-guide-to-teletext-phenomenon.htm

Something different for a bit but are Feast Ice creams still made anymore? It just popped into my head at work today and I always loved their concept with the solid chocolate centre.

Definitely still around, but agreed, not as good (basically not pumped full of E numbers) or massive anymore.

Mint Feasts of circa 1988 were another level.

God this is shouting at clouds stuff but our/today’s kids will really never know the joys of all this will they. A magazine is alien to mine. Sigh. I think it’s quite sad!

Using Roxy instead of Poison on the cover for Final Fight must bring a sigh of relief to the less progressive horny teens of the era who used it for private time fun.

No one’s really that sure but there’s concept art from before release listing her as a trans woman (or the slang Japanese term for that at the time, at least)

Never that keen on a Feast, but a Feastwich on the other hand were supreme!

In my day you could get a Beano and a handful of giant cola bottles and still have change left for the ferry back to Shelbyville.