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mjmooney Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 You have no idea the amount of self-control it's taking me not to turn this thread into the Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch (itself a subject for nostalgia, incidentally).Aah **** it, I give in. Some of these blatantly lifted from here. Pirate radio Jubblies Tetra Pak milk vending machines The Beeching railway cuts Butlin's holiday camps Harold Macmillan as SuperMac Bubble Cars "1001, cleans a big big carpet,for less than half a crown!" Wooden pencil cases with sliding top that held surprisingly few pencils Fruit Salad and Black Jack sweets sold at 4 per (old) penny. Threepenny bits and Half Crowns Aztec chocolate bars Radio 1 on 247 metres Dixon of Dock Green Slide-Rules The start of BBC2 Z-CARS and Softly! Softly! Dickie Davies "World of Sport" Stingray, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 Four Feather Falls Watch with Mother Cadbury's Smash adverts Deetime (Simon Dee) BEA and BOAC Vickers Viscounts The Beatles Swinging Sixties Carnaby Street Home, Light, Third Pete Murray Stanley Matthews Mods and Rockers "This is luxury you can afford by Cyril Lord" ITN Green Shield Stamps Bubble Cars Ford Anglia Hillman Minx Hillman Imp Cambridge A55 Morris Minor Post Office Tower Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) Free school milk Grosvenor Square riots Magical Mystery Tour Paisley cravats Mr Pastry Zoo Time The "real" Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg Go to work on an egg! Jamboree bags Foot X-RAY machines in Dolcis shops Top of the Form Ask the Family Torchy the Battery Boy 5 Boys chocolate Twizzle Swingometer Juke Box Jury Thank Your Lucky Stars Music While You Work Two-Way Family Favourites Housewives' Choice The Clitheroe Kid The Navy Lark The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Airfix kits TV Westerns (Bronco, Cheyenne, Rawhide, etc., etc.) Platform-at-the-back buses, with conductors and smoking upstairs M&B Brew XI Chocolate "smokers's sets" and sweet cigarettes Beech Nuts chewing gum The Kingsway cinema (recently burned down, I understand) Cinerama Schools that smelled of chalk and parquet floors Logarithms Superballs Silly putty Sekiden guns "Look at Life" and "Pathe News" The Eleven Plus Meccano "U", "A" and "X" films Steam powered trains Railway compartments Signs on the bus reading: "Spitting strictly prohibited - offenders will be prosecuted" (as immortalised by the mighty Steve Gibbons) Steve Gibbons Band at the Hare and Hounds Hula hoops (not the crisps - actual hula hoops) Schoolgirls in navy blue knickers Karate chopping pencils Biafra jokes Not Only... But Also Elmdon Airport The smell of grocers' shops (cheese, coffee and bacon) Balaclava helmets Gloves on string Dog licences Radiograms Imperial/avoirdupois measurement tables on the backs of exercise books Lyons Corner House (top of New Street) Big Fry Twisted blue bag of salt in crisps (only potato flavour available) Top Deck Shandy Players Number Six and Embassy Standing on the Holte End The Birmingham Planet (colour newspaper!) Crushed velvet loons Melody Maker, Disc & Music Echo and Sounds Listening booths in record shops "Clapton is God" "Can you tell Stork from Butter?" MAD magazine Spirograph Escalado Waddingtons games: Totopoly, Careers, Scoop, Spy Ring, Formula One Hornby Dublo train sets and Scalextric Lord of the Rings when nobody had ever heard of it Alpine pop "Beer at home means Davenports" Routinely carrying a sheath knife as an under-11 year old Chinese burns The bumps on your birthday Pre-decimal currency Putting a lollipop stick in your bike wheel to make an "engine" sound Roller skates (4 x 4, not in-line or boards) British Bulldog and Hot Rice Leather lace-up footballs 78s, 45s, EPs and 33s - and flexi-discs The Sports Argus (I'm adding to this as I think of them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 You forgot "The Industrial Revolution". :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Playing on my mates pc Sensible Soccer with a Konix Speedking and playing Supercars on my Amiga for hours and hours and hours...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Supercars... amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Is it possible to play supercars on a pc in any way? I miss Nigel Mainssail and Crashhard Banger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 No, but it is possible to play it on my Atari ST. Might have a bang on it tonight. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Seriously though, I'm sure you could just download an Amiga emulator and find a ROM file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 No, but it is possible to play it on my Atari ST. Might have a bang on it tonight. 8) Quite tempted to buy an Amiga/Atari just for this privilege. Although I still have a pc to bang on tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Well, here's an emulator and here's a Supercars Amiga ROM. Happy driving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Cheers Gareth, I'm gonna have a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Amiga Atari till I die Supercars is ace though. I use STeem btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Anyone recall when M&B pubs had off licences attached to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 3, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2011 Anyone recall when M&B pubs had off licences attached to themYes. I guess that means they don't anymore, shows how out of touch I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 3, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2011 You know that bit in Austin Powers where he's first unfrozen in the present day and so he has no idea of any modern culture since about the 70's? That's how I imagine Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 3, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2011 You know that bit in Austin Powers where he's first unfrozen in the present day and so he has no idea of any modern culture since about the 70's? That's how I imagine Mike You joke, but that's actually quite accurate. I'm generally just not very interested in any new "cultural" developments that have come along since about 1975. The exception is probably technology - the internet is great because gives me lots of access to the "old stuff"! My favourite books were written in the 20s and 30s, my favorite films were made in the 40s and 50s, and my favourite (pop/rock) music was made in the 60s and 70s. There are exceptions, but I could happily dispense with the vast majority of post '75 stuff without shedding a tear. EDIT: Re. the M&B pubs thing, bear in mind I haven't lived in Birmingham for nearly 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b6bloke Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Well, here's an emulator and here's a Supercars Amiga ROM. Happy driving! Some spectrum, commador and sega games you can play here http://www.classiconlinegames.nl/zx-spectrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingysilvers Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Starburst Joosters Nostalgia fail. Opal Fruits Joosters were the jelly beans that they did after the brand name change, sadly not been available for years despite being the high point of human (jelly bean related) achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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