Yep had my brothers old hand me down original 64

Then saved up and got the amaiga 500 using my school tuck money.

Posted By: eddie on January 7th 2020 at 09:08:54

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38 years ago today, the Commodore 64 was launched at CES. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jan 7, 08:37:07
- I started out with an Amstrad CPC464 (with green screen) (Other Sports) - Karnivore, Jan 7, 14:37:52
- YES (n/m) (Other Sports) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 7, 13:10:14
- We got a Commodore PET at school... (Other Sports) - Worthing Yellow, Jan 7, 12:10:15
- Spectrum 48k. (Other Sports) - Garry Brooke, Jan 7, 11:40:36
  - WOTEF was awesome (n/m) (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 13:20:17
  - How many quickshot joysticks died from Daley Thomson? (Other Sports) - megson, Jan 7, 12:04:45
- Amstrad CPC128, ugraded to Amiga 500 then 1200 (Other Sports) - megson, Jan 7, 11:38:28
- Yeah and had Emlyn Hughes soccer on it. (Other Sports) - I Am Hoot, Jan 7, 11:14:45
  - 15 a side?! (n/m) (Other Sports) - DH Yellow, Jan 7, 11:39:57
- Never had a computer at the family home! Only a Grandstand video console, (n/m) (Other Sports) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 7, 10:54:10
- I didn't but my best mate did and we played *a lot* of Track and Field* 😊 (Other Sports) - norway, Jan 7, 10:27:05
- Track and field and Hyper sports available on nintendo switch (n/m) (Other Sports) - littletinyphil, Jan 7, 10:16:31
- On a related note (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jan 7, 10:15:02
  - i still play Worms on the Xbox with the Scrampton Jnrs (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 7, 10:19:56
- Teacher family, we had the mighty BBC 32k. Hours playing Elite. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Jan 7, 10:13:36
- Commodore 16 (n/m) (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 7, 09:22:06
- Yep had my brothers old hand me down original 64 (Other Sports) - eddie, Jan 7, 09:08:54
  - That’s a lot of tuck money. I had an amiga too. Was my final one of the old school (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 09:12:49
    - Yeah actualy think I managed to save about half (Other Sports) - eddie, Jan 7, 09:22:55
    - 30. Although I’m pretty sure it will be at least 39 (n/m) (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 09:13:10
- Yes!! Loved it. Krazy Car and Blagger were awesome! (n/m) (Other Sports) - admckechnie, Jan 7, 09:08:31
- Dragon 32. Down with the cool kids. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 7, 08:49:46
  - Ah, The Dragon 32... (Other Sports) - Martin Peters, Jan 7, 09:16:22
  - Made in Wales' tech heartland of Port Talbot (Other Sports) - APB, Jan 7, 08:53:29
- Yes. Favourite game, kick off 2. Always played World Cup, as Italy I think. (Other Sports) - DH Yellow, Jan 7, 08:48:40
  - The above was the Amiga not Commodore wasn’t it. Rambo was a great game for the C64 (n/m) (Other Sports) - DH Yellow, Jan 7, 11:41:32
- I didn't but a friend did and we often played Impossible Mission (Other Sports) - APB, Jan 7, 08:48:31
- I had a ZX81 then a Spectrum. I pretended I thought it was better than a C64 which of (Other Sports) - Adster, Jan 7, 08:41:17
  - It was if you were coding. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 09:08:29
    - Not with those rubber keys (Other Sports) - Adster, Jan 7, 09:42:45
      - They saw the future... (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 09:47:26
- I was born in 1982 but we had one in our house until we replaced it with an Atari. (n/m) (Other Sports) - tim berry, Jan 7, 08:41:03
- Eventually. Had a ZX81 and then a spectrum 48k first. (Other Sports) - Steve in Holland, Jan 7, 08:39:23
  - I had a 48k as a hand-me-down from my cousin's when they upgraded (Other Sports) - city_lad, Jan 7, 10:41:57
  - I did the ZX81, Spectrum 48 then Acorn Electron. (n/m) (Other Sports) - avenging canary, Jan 7, 08:55:08
  - my best mate had a BBC. I ended up with a 16k spectrum. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jan 7, 08:46:19

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