Quote Originally Posted by Bubba View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
Putting a disk into the Commodore 64, telling it to load the game, and then going outside to play for twenty minutes while it loaded
I remember Spectrum games taking about 20 minutes to load. I wasn't as clever as you though, Pike. I used to sit there and listen to the God-awful loading noise. On my favourite games though I'd know the loading noises so well I used 'sing' along to them.

"Duuuuuur dit Duuuuuur dililililililillilil. Duuuuuur dit Duuuuuur didlidlidlidlidlidlidlidlidlidlidldlidlidli"

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That is really sad.

I'll tell them how some of the games I played needed multiple floppy discs which meant extra load time because the game was sooooo big! And I mean the old ones. I had a few that were the 8 inch floppies and the rest were mostly 5 1/4 inch. I remember when the 3 1/4 inch floppies arrived. It's like the future was in my hands!!!!11!!1

I'll also tell them about the legend of text based adventures! It's like a book, but on a monochrome white or green screen!! It was a really cool thing when some of them started adding pictures!!!

EDIT: I just remembered getting excited when one of the computers we had got upgraded with the Game Blaster sound car from Sound Blaster. It almost had music!