LOL, how very true! 

Classic fella..

I was only telling my lad about this the other day.. guess what lol.

I looked at my as if i was mad..lmfao

Going into Dixons and heading straight for the Spectrum that was on display:

10 PRINT "Dixons are shit!!!!!!"
20 GOTO 10

RUN

Leave the store 

Do you need a pencil for this as well? 

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You could get a new game just by typing in 3,457 lines of code on a rubbery keyboard, then spending a scant 3 days finding and fixing errors in the typing or original listing. Instant gratification in less than a week all for free. 

Type ins were legendary.

My first experience of those were Apple II game listing in early editions of C&VG...

Got Jet Set Willy for the 464 for 1.99 in the supermarket. Great times.

The first you saw of a new game was on the pages of a magazine and drooled over the pages with your friends at school.

I do miss that excitement that built from seeing the game to the next month when it was for sale. There were no trailers to watch online or review sites to read, Zzap!64 told me all I would ever (need to) know prior to buying.

Oh and ...you could spend the entire day in your local games shop playing games with the owner who you knew by name and loved gaming as much as you.

Oh and ...you could spend the entire day in your local games shop playing games with the owner who you knew by name and loved gaming as much as you.

Another great one! So true!

I still remember Chris from Software Plus and John from Software Cellar!

I was probably as young as 8 I reckon.. And once per month, on a Saturday I would be up at the crack of dawn, whatever the weather. And on my bike down to the shops (probably a mile round trip) to pick up my monthly subs of computing with the Amstrad CPC and C+VG. He'll, I even used to make the trip even in full knowledge that they wouldn't be in yet lol.

I'd then pedal home and furiously type in the latest pokes, try out the newest cheats etc etc. If I wanted games that was more tricky as they generally didn't do them in our village. I used to have to hope for a cover tape. Eventually, I used to get them free  courtesy of John Menzies when I got to the age I could travel to Solihull on my own.

Nowadays my nipper would be lucky to get a 100 yards from me at the age of 15, such is the state of the country we live in.

Going down to the local arcade with a pocket full of change.
Good luck finding an arcade these days 

. . . . . printer paper had holes in it to line it up!

I miss those old game CDs that had names like '100 GREAT GAMES!!!' or what have you. Basically, you'd have some company slap whatever games they could gather up from a shareware site and put them all on one CD. You got a name, sometimes a paragraph worth of information if you were lucky, and that was pretty much it. Sometimes, you got something cool, like a Snake clone that took place in full 3D, and sometimes...

Sometimes, you got stuff like this.

90's kid. Deal with it.

I miss those old game CDs that had names like '100 GREAT GAMES!!!' or what have you. Basically, you'd have some company slap whatever games they could gather up from a shareware site and put them all on one CD. You got a name, sometimes a paragraph worth of information if you were lucky, and that was pretty much it. Sometimes, you got something cool, like a Snake clone that took place in full 3D, and sometimes...

Sometimes, you got stuff like this.

90's kid. Deal with it.

I had several of those cd's, I just never learnt. Even now if I go into a PC shop and browse the cheapy racks I have to stop myself, if it looks too good to be true (100 greatest arcade games, 70 classic games for your PC etc.) then it probably is too good to be true.

It all started with this!