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What did gamers and geeks do....

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Old 03-08-2009, 2:31 PM   #1
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What did gamers and geeks do....
....Before computers?

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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
Collecting stamps, anoraks and listening to gramophones.

The super cool geeks of that time had corduroy trousers, patches on their jackets and drank shots of Robinsons Lemon Barley neat.
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
Yeah thats what I thought!
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Old 03-08-2009, 3:15 PM   #4
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
My dad setup Quadraphonic sound, so the family could listen to Dark Side of the Moon swirling around the room. I must add i wasnt born then. Although i think he had a computer. So maybe this didnt count.
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
Watch Spiderman and go fishing.
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
They had to move little lead men around on tables dreaming of the day that someone would invent a device to take away all of the calculations, tables of attack modifiers, morale etc., tape measures and weeks spent building landscapes and painting said lead men.
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Old 03-08-2009, 6:52 PM   #7
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They had to move little lead men around on tables dreaming of the day that someone would invent a device to take away all of the calculations, tables of attack modifiers, morale etc., tape measures and weeks spent building landscapes and painting said lead men.

Yup...... include dungeons and dragons in that too
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Old 04-08-2009, 9:48 AM   #8
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
damn it, Sinzer beat me to it
Since i was 8 i owned a computer of some sort though, it started out with a Vic20, then onto CPC464. Between those came the school cricket team.
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Yup...... include dungeons and dragons in that too
Aye, basically all you had to do was go to a Games Workshop and you would see many would be gamers wandering aimlessly around looking at lead figures and rule books.....all looking for something .....better....to complete their lives .

Then...lo and behold, along came video games!

To be honest, before video games I played football, was out until all hours making dens etc. Then the Dragon 32 arrived and changed everything!
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Then the Dragon 32 arrived and changed everything!
You or your folks must have had a few bob as I seem to recall that being a fairly expensive box for a home computer.

Also from memory it had a strange non centring joystick, which took some getting used to, compared to the likes of the Atari VCS stick or the icon that was the Competition Pro for the Spectrum.
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You or your folks must have had a few bob as I seem to recall that being a fairly expensive box for a home computer.

Also from memory it had a strange non centring joystick, which took some getting used to, compared to the likes of the Atari VCS stick or the icon that was the Competition Pro for the Spectrum.
Aye, my dad came home with it in the Autumn of 1982 and to be honest it was a pretty decent computer. The Joystick was pants though...



That said, it was analogue so in many respects it was ahead of it's time!
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Aye, my dad came home with it in the Autumn of 1982 and to be honest it was a pretty decent computer. The Joystick was pants though...



That said, it was analogue so in many respects it was ahead of it's time and equal in power to a Nintendo Wii.
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Hey come on, the Dragon may not have been the most powerful computer around, but to say that it's equal in power to a Wii is doing it an injustice!
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Hey come on, the Dragon may not have been the most powerful computer around, but to say that it's equal in power to a Wii is doing it an injustice!
Fair comment.
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:49 PM   #15
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I use to go bikeriding alot, that was until we got an amiga
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I use to go bikeriding alot, that was until we got an amiga
Tour De france on the Amiga that was class ..
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Tour De france on the Amiga that was class ..


LOL


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Old 05-09-2009, 8:27 PM   #18
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Re: What did gamers and geeks do....
They had a cup and a ball. The ball was attached to the cup by a piece of string so it wouldn't get lost. No wonder Space Invaders was so popular when it came along
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