| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| pot |
Posted - 06/02/2012 : 09:46:20
Saw the CD at a jumble sale today, just COP not with Surfer Rosa. £3. Didn't buy it. Should I have done? probably not eh.
Oh and p.s. I had a Commodore 64 computer when I was a pubescent teenager. I still have it to this day. |
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| pot |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 13:13:45
I think this was the first edition that I ever bought actually. Got all thereafter until up it went a bit crap but was still worthy buying because it came with a cassette with some classic old games on it. I order a few copies of older editions, but a lot of them were sold out. I think the 2nd or 3rd one is the earliest. Those boys in the background I think are the editorial team, and the lollipop girl, not sure. It's quite bling I think, she wouldn't look out of place in today's modern world of retro clothing. Never played Sentinel, but I loved Boulderdash! I have that on my iPod Touch, although I don't really play it much because the controls are a bit naff really and I'm not a grown up. The little cartoon character which appeared throughout the magazines is actually the character from boulderdash, I think.. |
| teenager94 |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 12:43:01
Ah, well dug out!!! Just recalling what 'budget bonanza' was? I'm sure the budget ones were mostly 1.99 or 2.99, and there were some gems to be sought!! Full price was more like 9.99. I also remember most of the games advertised on that cover. Sentinel was regarded as a classic and the boulderdash series was very popular on the commy. Was the gold medal in Zzap!! above 95%? Not quite sure. Ah, Leaderboard was pure class, a great challenge!! |
| pot |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 12:31:50
Ah Leaderboard. That was a pretty slick golf game for it's time. I still have the Zzap! 64 they made for it.
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| teenager94 |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 12:20:56
Yeah, I remember winter games..... In general I loved a lot of the sporty ones. If you were into golf, you just had to have Leaderboard. For it's time, amazing!!! I also played a good bit of Match of the day 2 on the Speccy. Also, a few years later got addicted to Pete Sampras Tennis on the Playstation. Good times!!quote:
Originally posted by pot
Yeah I remember the Games series, they were quite fun to play, like simple flash games you get these days. I also liked Winter Games. I'm totally addicted to Angry Birds just now, it's so much fun blowing shit up!
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| pot |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 11:39:07
Yeah I remember the Games series, they were quite fun to play, like simple flash games you get these days. I also liked Winter Games. I'm totally addicted to Angry Birds just now, it's so much fun blowing shit up! |
| teenager94 |
Posted - 08/27/2012 : 11:06:10
Emlyn Hughes International soccer was my fave game on the Commodore 64. I also loved California Games, especially the surfing event. I also loved World Games with Sumo Wrestling. I also recall summer games, but think that it may have been for my zx spectrum which I had previously..... I also looked forward to Zzap! and enjoyed reading the reviews. |
| pot |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 11:52:55
I think we should start a C64 Appreciation thread in general... |
| darwin |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 06:43:51
Seven Cities of Gold wsa my favorite and many of the SSI games. |
| Stevio10 |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 04:23:05
But in Buggy Boy you could hit that football/beach ball thing that came on the road in random places...and although it gave you no bonus whatsoever I always got a feeling of satisfaction from the sound it made when I managed to hit it. |
| pot |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 03:39:07
Don't actually recall those names. I recently played Buggy Boy on the C64 app for my iPod. Seemed really crap in comparison to a lot of the racing games coming out these days. |
| Stevio10 |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 01:26:47
I had a C64 too pot, I remember the days of Buggy Boy, International Karate and Combat School amongst many other gems! I remember my brother was quite into Zzap! Magazine at the time...I was at an age where the magazines didnt interest me as much as the games, but I do recall Andrew Breybrook and David Braben being the equivalent to gods in that magazine. |
| pot |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 19:44:10
Well done. I tried that but failed. got every edition of INPUT the alleged computer magazine that was supposed to teach you how to program, only every time I went to the trouble of typing in the code and then running it it never worked! Still have all the magazines though, hope they are worth millions one day. + my computer science teachers at school were rubbish so I failed. Me=computer science 1 computer science A meaningless numbers and letters...
one of the computer science teachers at my school at that time back in 88-90 was also called Miss Webb, about a decade before the term world wide web came into common language. Weird for me to think about that though, no idea if she is still teaching |
| darwin |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 18:33:29
I learned how to program on a C64 when I was a kid. Has served me well in my career. |
| pot |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 15:38:22
My mate had a Vic 20. We used to try loading each others games to see if they worked. They never did, and then his dad bought him a 64 and then they did work, most of the time anyway...
Remember lots of C64 fondly, however I can never put aside in my mind the fact it was still a poor substitute for an otherwise lonely childhood. I had a dog though, but one of it's legs was fucked from being hit by a car when it was young, and walking it was less fun than this- my daily reward for letting it out the house for up to 1 hour per day, endless hours of fun playing thing ons spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPBZd8wknA
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| fbc |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 15:27:07
It sure is. To think some of todays products we regard as cutting edge may well be nostalgia items in the future...wow.
How far can the smart ones push things forward.
I remember Chucky Egg. I had a VIC 20 ha. Then Amiga took over. |
| pot |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 14:56:07
Yes! Commodore 64. I still have my old console, although they never called them that in those days. All my old games including some of the cassette copies of games (I think)
Could never part with it I think. Zzap! was a very polished mag that reviewed new games in around perhaps the entire duration of my puberty. It was famous for it's covers which were all hand painted representations of the latest in new games coming out by some artist around then who was a bit handy. The highlight of each edition was always what the front cover would look like + inside it was a fun read and had reviews and previews of all the latest games and stuff.
Now, some 25 years later I have a pocket hand held touch screen everything console that has a Commodore 64 app with a few of my favourite games from back then, and I never play then. I just carry it around in my pocket for the novelty, because I remember back in those days when I was 16 about how I used to dream about having things like this, a watch that is a television, being able to record all your albums on one thing that you could fit into your pocket, virtual reality... and now it's all here! |
| fbc |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 14:37:15
Sounds like you realised that long before death's door.
What's Zzap? And are we talking Commodore 64? |
| pot |
Posted - 07/06/2012 : 08:13:16
Ah well, it'd just be another thing to clutter up my house, something else to possess for the next up to thirty years of my life before I am about to die and realise that things don't really matter. It's love and happiness that matter, and I can achieve at least half of that by simply getting drunk and listening to all my CDs on mp3.
I have a collection or rare Zzap! 64 computer magazines which I could sell and make up to £200 for but I don't want to because they have 'sentimental value'. So I would rather be £200 out of pocket so that I can have them in my cupboard and occasionally take them out every few years to have a flick through them until I find the one that has my name in it (2nd highest score on Buggy Boy, got beaten by the editorial team)
And the film? yes and no, mostly yes. See my thread on in in general discussions... |
| fbc |
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 14:34:55
I see the odd copy here and there. There was a time I could only see Trompe and the others. 1 or 2 copies of each always in stock.
Was the film good, pot? You missed out on not only another cd for the collection but a mirror and a frisbee all in one. |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 14:16:11
as a US dweller, this convo strikes me as odd. i didn't know it was rare elsewhere. i have it on its own, which seems to be the norm over here.
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they were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
| fbc |
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 14:15:35
"Is it a US only release?"
Just read this on wiki: The original 1987 UK release entered the UK indie album chart on October 24, 1987, spending 29 weeks on the chart and peaking at number 5.[5] Come On Pilgrim failed to secure distribution in the United States when it was first released.
I reckon what you just asked was a band camp in-joke back in the day :) I wonder if it was released in Belgium. If not, I blame Kim. |
| Discoking |
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 04:12:51
I think the separate Come On Pilgrim cd is cool.
Is it a US only release? Or was it ever released on a separate cd in the UK/Europe as well?
 it's educational |
| pot |
Posted - 06/04/2012 : 00:57:21
Ah well it's too late now. It was only £3 but the money I saved from not buying it means I can afford to go and see Prometheus tomorrow night in 3D IMAX :-o |
| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 06/03/2012 : 15:23:31
I first heard it on its own; I like the idea of the two albums being separate from each other. Surfer is its own work of beauty. Pilgrim's great too though, but as a more succinct example of the Pixies brilliance. |
| ccuadros |
Posted - 06/03/2012 : 15:03:57
You should, i have alone and with surfer rosa, the art is better in come on pilgrim |
| pixiestu |
Posted - 06/03/2012 : 14:18:50
I've never seen it on it's own actually, it seems to always be with Surfer Rosa on CD whenever I see it in music shops.
"The arc of triumph" |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 06/03/2012 : 10:42:09
How do you listen to the one without the other, now? |
| Idalgo Clandestino |
Posted - 06/03/2012 : 02:28:55
should
you probably thought i'm a shy guy |
