A long time ago
There are two things I miss when afflicted by nostalgia, for two very different reasons… I miss my Amiga because I knew it so well, I knew the names of its chips – Paula, Denise and Fat Angus – I miss it because it was the first real outlet for my digital creativity and I miss it for the games.
The other thing I miss… The Star Wars figures – some were mine from the start, but I amassed a fair collection as my older cousins out-grew them. Alas, I too passed them on when the time was right… a giant snowballing mass of action figures rolling down the generations… I miss them for their worth, monetarily. I reckon if I still had that collection, in the same condition it was then, there is a strong chance that my man servant would be typing this post.
I miss my Amiga too. Also my Star Wars action figures. I was thinking about Star Wars figures the other day- back in an era where toys were still primarily marketed to children, they made action figures of everything. Medical droid who appeared for about five seconds in one movie? Check. Background character from the Death Star? Check.
I used to love the backing card that the figures arrived on, where you could see all the other characters in that particular series. Nothing was more exciting for me as a young child than picking through the Star Wars action figure display rack looking for figures I had never seen before.
Indeed, I think I had that medical droid…
For me, the wonder was in looking at my cousin’s Millenium Falcon, one piece of kit I didn’t inherit from him.
I’m not familiar with the Amiga. I vaguely remember the Atari. But the first game system I was old enough to really get into was the Nintendo.
I wasn’t much into toys when I was a kid. More of an outdoors/tomboy type. It wasn’t unusual for me to come home covered in mud and bleeding from a full contact American football game in the rain. Now I’m all about the toys and games and less about the outdoors.
I also switched to toys and games as I got older, tho I think we may talking about different toys and games…
Well, now I want to know what toys and games you have.
erm….
*points*
Hey look, stuff.
Share your toys with the class, Ben.
The Amigas were SO AHEAD OF THEIR TIME it was no wonder they were forcibly closed down by the IBM & Macintosh paranoids. It was full colour when everything else was b & W – could MULTITASK when other PCs pretended to. It had a processor 4 times the size & speed of its rivals.
Of COURSE it was killed off.
But then – so are most great ideas, including FREE ENERGY
Where is energy free?
Do you mean over unity or just free electricity?
I’m not sure where FREE ENERGY comes into it, but the Amigas really were ahead of their time. I miss my old Amiga 1000. Such a great machine.
The only thing I miss about the old tech is that it worked.
Adam, your email subscription thingy is broked.
Kinda like me english.
*blush*
I think I will blame the misplaced “n” in my hotmail address on the dodgy wireless ergnomic keyboard.
I think that is a great excuse…..
That’ll teach me for being a smart arse.
Smooth, Ben. Real smooooth.
oh shush.
We all make mistakes, I just choose to make mine public.
And we all enjoy the benefits of that… life would be much less funny without Ben’s mistakes, don’t y’all agree?
I agree, Roo.
lol
Thanks you lot.
Always happy to entertain at your expense… *koff* on your behalf. I meant behalf. Yeah.
I mistyped my email address too. Serves me right for mocking Ben, I suppose. (Well, I really only encouraged Roo’s mocking).
I lost the cape from my Darth Vader figure almost immediately after receiving it. My mum made me a new one out of black cloth and the wire from a twist-tie that was infinitely superior. That’s my best memory of my childhood toys.
Funnily enough I was just rereading the archive and came across this today,
Yesterday we were just given an Amiga 500 and a week ago we were given a 1200 as well to replace our existing one which has a broken disc drive.
I still think that most of the best games ever made are 2D platformers, so getting those two machines is of course great.