Old School Nostalgia Thread

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Ok now these were the sheeeet ;D. And the first books I ever stole on the way to school :p
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My oldest grandson likes to write his own 'Choose your own adventures'. Yesterday though he and his Nana played an interactive Choose your own survival TV show thing with Bear Grylls.

Can remember the very first computer games in the early 1980s were all text based 'Choose your own adventures : like the legendary' Bards Tale'.

Loved the D n D elements of the brilliant 'Stranger Things' on Netflix and the soundtrack which was a nostalgia fest itself.

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Safest way to learn action and consequence early I suppose ;D. Had a shit load of these and the D-D offshoot of their own version. Haven't been to my units in couple years but might still be among the boxes.

Mine was Wizardry for the apple II. Remember washing the cars and lugging up to the hobby shop in 82 to pick it up. I get a kick out of watching the 20ish nephews railing on about Stranger things, watched the first 2 seasons and was like.. WE WERE THERE..they got this right, they got this wrong ;D:-X

https://youtu.be/A7ioBaVl_qM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM8fGBHafs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR3xwENK7Jo&ab_channel=EsbenQuistHenriksen

https://i.imgur.com/Ddum9mb.jpg Remember these things you licked into a Candy-shiv ;D. Tasty but don't stab an eye out.

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Can you name them?

Tucker, Alan Humphries, Benny Green and Tommy Watson the lads (rip George Armstrong and Terry Sue Patt:eek:)

The girls I only really know Trish Yates. Might have been a girl called Carol too but no idea.

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I had this Parker coat but in green which was cheap and a health hazard as the school warned us that we could not see car's crossing the road. :)

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Better times. I still remember the swap shop phone number. Did anyone ever actually swap anything

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Was trying to explain to the grandkids about Blockbuster the other day. How I used to take their Uncle (my stepson) to Blockbusters on a Friday and let him choose a game and a DVD for the weekend and how he would grind all weekend trying to finish the game before having to return it. Of course for many of us here, our youths before Blcokbuster would have been hiring a VHS or Betamax video for the weekend from a local independent video shop. Back in the days when it took years sometimes before films left the cinema and were released on video.