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Post by motti82 on Mar 13, 2024 16:30:27 GMT
I ‘member that. With a lion (I guess from the Times masthead) as a main character?  That's the one. My grandad got the Sunday Times every now and again, so he'd keep them back for us to read. |
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 13, 2024 16:35:09 GMT
I can't remember at what age I stopped reading The Beano but I suspect it was way too old. I watched a lot of kids shows for way longer than I should have as well.
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Post by cubby on Mar 13, 2024 16:43:44 GMT
If kids TV was shown on evening telly I'd still definitely watch it.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 13, 2024 17:12:52 GMT
The Fighting Fantasy books by Steve Jackson and/or Ian Livingstone (and sometimes others). I graduated from Choose Your Own adventure to them pretty quickly because they were edgier - but I wouldn't play them properly with character sheets and dice rolls, I'd either just auto-win every encounter or I'd just read the death entries one by one. Weekend morning cartoons - Defenders Of The Earth, City of Gold, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Beech Nut chewing gum - the spearmint one. Penny bombs. I actually made some with my son a couple of weeks ago but they didn't work properly, I guess the paper caps are a different formula or smaller or something. Health and safety gone made I tells ya. I'm just trawling through this thread for the first time but gotta agree on the fighting fantasy books. For some reason, as a kid, when I 'played' forest of doom, I was transfixed by the artwork and especially the map. I had a vision as a kid of owning a house in the country one day, and have it on a bookshelf in my house near a roaring fire. And fast forward god knows how many years later and then this - (You can just make out the cover just to the left of the lamp) photos.app.goo.gl/wifTW6cgbJznFEo96Bucket list! |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 13, 2024 19:23:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2024 19:25:37 GMT
Zonik sounds like a Russian Sonic clone released exclusively on the Dendy.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 13, 2024 19:27:57 GMT
I can't remember at what age I stopped reading The Beano but I suspect it was way too old. I watched a lot of kids shows for way longer than I should have as well. Same here. It's because there was fuck all else though. It was quite literally better than nothing. |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Mar 13, 2024 19:35:40 GMT
What about borrowing your sister's copy of Look In?
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Post by zephro on Mar 13, 2024 20:08:03 GMT
Anyone else spend time in the 90s writing in to girl's magazine advice columns with total idiocy? My friendship group was kinda 50/50 girls/boys and it was a sport to come up with the most idiotic letters to send in. "Can I get pregnant via jizz on my belly button" kinda stuff.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 13, 2024 20:17:44 GMT
This country’s sister’s had Look In or Smash Hits. Germany’s sisters had Bravo. No justice.
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Post by wunty on Mar 13, 2024 21:34:32 GMT
I can't remember at what age I stopped reading The Beano but I suspect it was way too old. I watched a lot of kids shows for way longer than I should have as well. Same here. It's because there was fuck all else though. It was quite literally better than nothing. I used to have a stack of Beanos beside my bed that pretty much came up as high as the top of the mattress. I eventually got told to get rid of them and even decades later wish I'd kept them. The Dandy was shit but I loved the Beano. Highlight of my week was the newsagent posting it through our letterbox on a Saturday morning (my dad paid for a subscription for me). |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 13, 2024 21:59:36 GMT
Tch, luxury
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Post by Dougs on Mar 13, 2024 22:46:38 GMT
My son used birthday money 2 years running to subscribe to The Beano. He absolutely loved it from about 10-12. As soon as he hit 12/13 though, that was it. Done. Gave them all to a friend's boy who had just turned 11. Initially wasn't bothered and then couldn't put them down. A good read is a good read.
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Post by Zuluhero on Mar 13, 2024 22:50:12 GMT
I actually had the first book in the series. |
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Post by rawshark on Mar 14, 2024 0:37:40 GMT
There were some straight up books. I had at least two. One had Sonic face off against thinly-veiled Street Fighter characters where the author went to great lengths to describe each one in detail, until - and I promise I’m not making this up - he couldn’t remember the last two characters and instead said “there were two others, but they were moving so fast Sonic couldn’t see them.”
I did have a choose your own adventure Mario book. Same deal - art was all copy pasted from a library of approved material and the copy was done by someone who vaguely knew the games. £1.99 at Smiths. Kids happy for an hour or so. Job’s a good’un.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 14, 2024 6:20:20 GMT
We have a couple of more recent 'choose your own adventure' type books. DC Superheroes and Carmen Sandiago. But they have like 3 pages of text, then a choice, then 3 pages of text. So you only get to make about 5 choices before you hit an ending.
Not half as good if you ask me.
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Post by wunty on Mar 14, 2024 11:29:05 GMT
Did anyone else have this when you were little? It was a choose your own adventure type deal and was pretty good. I remember being VERY young and going through it with my dad. We were close to the end and he was working later one evening so I finished it myself. I was so happy to tell him when he came home and his reaction was weird. He seemed to be a little bit sad.
Only later did I realise why. Sorry dad 
Didn't win the holiday either...
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 14, 2024 11:32:28 GMT
Strangely I haven't grown out of of getting the Viz Annual every year for Christmas, I must have started when I was like 16. I'm 40 now. It's still hilarious, more so now with the breakdown of society.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 14, 2024 12:02:07 GMT
Has it still got 8 ace in? I love him.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 14, 2024 12:27:11 GMT
Yeah, I don't necessarily buy them every year, but can't resist a Viz annual if it pops up on sale. Very much something I bonded with my dad over as a teen, and always nice to see it's still going.
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Post by britesparc on Mar 14, 2024 17:44:23 GMT
I had a Star Wars choose your own adventure book that I thought was absolutely great when I was about 11. You "play" the son of a Jedi and obviously discover you have Jedi powers yourself, with your dad's old lightsaber which you keep hidden inside the tummy of your little robot dog.
I remember I got into a fight with Boba Fett and actually won. But then I lost my place in the book; I had a bookmark but foolishly didn't mark which section I was on (y'know, "page 46, section 113" or whatever they'd say). Still I bit gutted I never finished.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 14, 2024 17:59:53 GMT
Has it still got 8 ace in? I love him. Of course. My current favourite is Daily Male. |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 14, 2024 18:14:48 GMT
Lovely
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Post by rawshark on Mar 14, 2024 23:31:50 GMT
Jesus fucked up by not making the Bible a Choose Your Own Adventure story.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2024 23:33:23 GMT
At least he wised up and got some of that sweet sweet superhero money.  |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 15, 2024 2:20:36 GMT
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Post by rawshark on Mar 15, 2024 7:53:46 GMT
Love how irritated Lego Jesus looks.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 15, 2024 11:01:54 GMT
He should be more cheerful, that cross is a lot smaller than the one that the human Jesus got nailed to.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 15, 2024 11:06:45 GMT
Bit lighter too.
I think he goes to the same clothing shop as Luke Skywalker.
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Post by wunty on Mar 15, 2024 12:18:33 GMT
Love how irritated Lego Jesus looks. He looks really cross doesn't he. |
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