LET'S ALL LAUGH AT FESTER! (A match thread - Shady's Unsafe Space)

I realised that I bought it years ago on a previous laptop and had forgotten about it. So I donwloaded it and played for a while. Found myself watching the stick figures meandering about and muttering 'defends like Morato, finishes like Taiwo'.
We always had computers in the house because of Dad. Being a high school deputy head it was more educational than nerd with him, but I remember having a ZX81, a Spectrum* and then a BBC something or other with the enormous external disc drive and accompanying ribbon. Once Dad spent ages typing in the programming from a computer magazine for a golf game on the Spectrum. He then test played it, pressed <n> when asked if he wanted to play again, then watched the computer wipe his unsaved programming. He worked out that he must've typed something like if <reply>='n' then NEW rather than STOP, as they were the same key differentiated by SHIFT. He didn't bother doing it again.

*old joke alert - at school I used to be on the spectrum, then I bought a better computer.

If we're doing IT related nostalgia....

I still recall my first workplace which had these new fangled Amstrad PCs (Com-pewtus) which ran dBase(?),WordStar and SuperCalc.

Don't get me started on Aldus Pagemaker and scanning shit. Mental.

My folks were teachers too and we got lucky in the summer holidays. I recall one year (circa 1990, from memory) one of them came home with an Acorn Archimedes computer for the six weeks, which seemed space-age at the time. We had an Amstrad CPC6128, I think, and me and my sister already thought we were lucky to have that.

Dad, who was a secondary school PE teacher, used to being home javelins, discuss, shot puts, footballs, cricket pads and bats, etc. Even brought a starter pistol once (no idea why) which he didn't tell us about for obvious reasons. I found it hidden away in the garage and got caught aiming it at my sister's face. Dozy bugger had it still loaded with blanks, I recall, so not sure which of us got into more trouble.

My dad was a headteacher and I can’t remember him ever bringing anything home. I now feel like i missed out.

The downside to Deputy Dad was one time I needed a new tracksuit top and he just went into the school's lost property cupboard and gave me some monstrosity that had probably been in there for years.

My dad taught RAF officers how to change a plug and other bssic electrical engineering principles if that helps the debate at all.

He did not ever bring any home. Plugs or officers. As far as I know.

My dad had a really early apple and a BBC micro computer. I remember playing loads of games on that thing. No idea what else it did but it kept me amused when he was out chasing his mistress. That Bellend.

Chicago: Technological marvel.

My dad brought home old bits of army gear. At one point in the 70s our family car was in the motor pool, so our replacement family “car” was an air-portable Land Rover with the military spec tires that make that noise over about 40mph.
He also brought home weather balloons (they take a long time to fill), drogue parachutes (endless fun until your brother decides to add a weight - a bit of a walkie-talkie, iirc - and smacks you in the face while attempting to swing the drogue around, knocking your tooth out), and used smoke grenades. My brother set them up with trip wires and blanks down the end of the garden and made me run through them.

We did own a Commodore 64 at one point with the tape player so games took anywhere up to 90 minutes for five minutes of actual game time. I’m looking at you Apache Gunship.

My dad wasn’t a teacher, he worked at Raleigh. He never brought me a bike home unfortunately although I did once get a new bell for my chipper.

I seem to remember you could get bikes from the factory for cheaper than in the shops? Either way, I ended up with a Boxer. All the other kids had Grifters but the Boxer was the best for wheelies and jumps, apparently.

I had a purple Raleigh Tomahawk, which was awesome and naff - the central gear shift would never get touched for extreme danger.

Learned to code on a Vic-20 then later played games on a Spectrum. Avoided the nerdy computer kids at school (I was different nerdy) then decided working with a computer was significantly better than talking to people. And that's how you become a moneycop or something.

Ultimate Play the Game were based in Ashby. So I played Spectrum games and went to study computer science in Liverpool. I was shit at it but much less shit at drinking and falling over.
I now talk about computer stuff I'm shit at and then drink and fall over.

I wish people would stop replying to this thread. Even at the time it was a ridiculous title, now it just needles every time I see it.

Of course everyone will now keep it hanging about as long as possible.

Just beg Chich to change the title to "Shady's Unsafe Space"?

I had a Raleigh Banana from the factory. Bright yellow racing bike. Because bananas sponsored the British cycling team at the time... Is that right?

We had a Banana bike as well. Not a mum joke.

C64 - Master System - SNES - PS1 - PS2 - Became an adult (sort of).