What's your hardware gaming history?

[baboon]

Well I guess you've got to start somewhere. 

At the time (I was v young then) I thought it was an excellent machine. The basic games that I had kept me quite amused.

I tried the Plus4 emulator that came out on the psp a while ago thinking it would relight my fond memories... unfortunetly it did the opposite as all the games really did seem and play awful (well apart from a treasure island adventure game). lol

I'm glad my follow up machine was the specky though... many happy times on that old machine. Its funny though cause I remember that at the time (around xmas) I originally wanted a C64. All my mates had them and they just seemed to be excellent machines.

Games like Zaxon, Street Fighter 1, Creatures,  Emlyn Hughes, Barbarian etc just looked and played amazing on the C64. When I went with my parents to get one they had for some reason all been recalled from all the shops in my area so I couldnt get one. I ended up getting my trusty ZX+2 instead and thankfully it worked out and I realised that it was the better of the two.

I used to love getting new specky games on tape for around £1.99 back in the day. I remember the only misleading thing on the games covers though was that most of the time the screen shots were taking from either PC's or Amigas or something as the monochrome style graphics never did look as good. lol

How things have changed now a days. Ahhhh the memories. 

[EmuChicken]

did the same with my amstrad cpc464 :>

...  it prolly wasnt the most fluid of the machines at the time, but it looked the best - lol :> ..  and theres a damn good emulator on the psp now, caprice32 thingy on the psp- briilliant... was playing beach head yesterday ... got further than I ever have... and uh, its not as good as i remember it!