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  1. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    Yeah want to see that and heard good things about it.
     
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  2. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Me too. Same actor that was in "The Serpent". He was excellent in that.
     
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  3. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    He was indeed. He also plays the lead in A Prophet which is an incredible film and He is brilliant in it.
     
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  4. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I was unaware of "A Prophet". Just looked on IMDB. This guy seems to be getting typecast.
     
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  5. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Well he does play a FBI agent investigating Islamic terrorists in the Looming tower.
     
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  6. rogueleader

    rogueleader suave gringo

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    My name is Jack Bauer and I am watching 24.
     
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  7. Easter Road 1980

    Easter Road 1980 Well-Known Member

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    Was that the one with Keefer Sunderland?

    I never saw one single episode. I'm going to have that inscribed on my tombstone. Unless I'm cremated obviously.
     
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  8. GroveRanger

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    You should give it a go and count the number of times they say "on American soil". It's a lot.
     
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  9. Erik

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  10. GroveRanger

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    I got all nostalgic and looked at these







    Phoenix was my best game, I'd spend hours on it. Defender was awesome but I had pudgy sausage fingers and was never any good at mastering the multiple control buttons it but even the sounds bring back memories of holidays on the Isle of Wight. Dragons Lair was impossible, I never got far and certainly didn't get anywhere near rescuing the horny princess. I remember standing in amazement watching an older kid beat the game.

    Other honorable mentions;

    Space Invaders
    Asteroids
    Galaxian
     
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  11. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    I was teaching my elder boy how to play Frogger a couple of months ago.
     
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  12. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    Frogger was a masterpiece of a video game.
     
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  13. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Centipede and Donkey Kong, oodles of fun.
     
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  14. Erik

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  15. GroveRanger

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    What was the one where the controller was a spinning ball and you had to shoot just ahead of bombs dropping? I was useless at it whatever it was called.

    Same with pinball machines, I absolutely loved the idea of pinball but it was always more expensive and sure as sh.it the first ball would always roll straight down the middle between the paddles. The original KISS pinball machine is worth a few quid nowadays.

    I also liked the sit-in Star Wars game where you were in an X-Wing shooting up the Death Star.
     
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  16. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    ^^^^was violently bullied at school
     
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  17. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Speaking of bombs, can you remember Bomb Jack for the spectrum.
     
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  18. GroveRanger

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    Too poor to own a home computer when they came out. My mate had the one where you loaded the games with a cassette tape, was that a Spectrum? Played Manic Miner and Jet Pack Willy (?) Others around the same time were the Commodore 64, Vic 20, BBC etc. When everyone was starting out on Nintendo we still couldn't afford an Atari ffs!

    Grove Junior (Junior) has got an X-Box and the sort of games he plays make what I used to pay 10p for in the arcades look like cave paintings by comparison. The level of affordable tech these days is incredible and, as usual, totally taken for granted by ingrate children.
     
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  19. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Spectrum? Commodore 64? What are these strange things of which you speak?
     
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  20. GroveRanger

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    Dunno, read about it in a book about the olden days :bandit:
     
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