Topic: Welcome/Introduction Thread

@Dimey That is an illustrious gaming history and one that suggests an age range close to my own 🙂I started out with the Commodore 64 back in the day, moved on to the Amiga 500, then to various PC builds, the OG Xbox, the Xbox 360, jumped the green ship around the time Don Mattrick did his infamous "TV TV TV" thing at E3, grabbed a PS4 and then a PS5 and never regretted "going blue".

Welcome to the Push Square forums, hope you'll have as good a time with these people as I have 🙂

Hi all, thanks for the kind words. Sorry I have been so slow to respond! Been working away a bit (geology on the road!).

... however, in the 3 weeks since my post, I have devoured Expedition 33 and spent a frankly silly amount of time in GT7. The PS5 adventure continues

thanks fella... in a moment of madness earlier this week I ordered a steam deck OLED, after seeing how amazing the emulation was... and have a whole bunch of Amiga ROMs downloaded ready to play when it arrives. Been great looking into best of Amiga lists, and finding games that I totally forgot about (pipe mania, pinball dreams, etc!!)

@Dimey
Welcome to PushSq, another old timer I see.
My first home computer was a zx81 (my mate had a zx80 which looked more sleeker than the zx81 imo), 3D monster maze was the highlight on the machine even with 16k (via a wobbly RAM pack) it still managed a far few jump scares. Following that was a Spectrum but the Commodore 64 was my real joy, such an amazing machine and I still listen to SID tunes on YouTube to this day.
(Eg Airwolf ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LsnW8XhoFwQ )
I did have a day one Amiga 500 but didn’t really have the time to devote to it that the C64 got.

Anyway enough rambling, enjoy the PS5 as it has a bumper library.

cheers pal. I had the 48k spectrum, and my younger brother got a 128k with in built tape recorded a year or two later. as you couldn't adjust the volume on it, he couldn't play all the copied games I had, haha, older brother wins again

only game I truly remember on it was chuckie egg though!! one thing I do remember about the spectrum... on Saturdays my mum would give me a pound, and I'd ride the free bus to the huge new Tesco across Bristol. they had a shelf full of 99p games, so I'd grab one, get the bus home and fire it up... they were mostly pretty rubbish haha...

something magical about amiga music mind, turrican soundtrack is an all timer...

@Dimey Don't take this the wrong way but do you mean new games were £1? as in brand new? Did you keep all of your old games or are you rebuilding your childhood like a lot of others? Any memorable random buys?

@GirlVersusGame not all games, obviously, but yes, some spectrum games on tape were 99p. as I said, they were mostly appalling!! trying to track them down via the net (ROMS), out of curiosity really!

@Dimey I'm going to Youtube the Spectrum, I need to see what a game on tape looks like. I do have some cassettes but they are mostly soundtracks from movies, I collected them for a while. I like to preserve physical media, books and things.

haha, yes, playing these as an 8 or 9 year old means I have quite the appreciation of games today!!

some magazines would print the code for games back in the 80s, so you would type the game out yourself on the spectrum and then play it. With games on tape, you would easily copy the games from your mates, but it was tricky having to play them at the right volume for the spectrum to load them. Games took several minutes to load!

hi,im a new member here,ive read the rules ,im new to the PS4 (ive just bought a PS4 pro in the past couple of weeks) and i hope you both dont mind me comenting on the game tapes.
i had a comodore 64 shared with my sister in the late eighties. it not only had a posh cartrige port in the back of the keyboard (we were definitly not posh,we only had one cart that was gifted to us -ie the terminator,which weirdly had a piano game on it i think? its either that or we had a seprate useless piano game cart-i have severe memory damage so i apologise for rubbish recall) the tape deck was rubbish but my dad constantly fixed the 2 'heads' on the tape deck with tiny screw drivers he got out of a christmas cracker to make it carry on working.and it took a minimum of 5 minutes to load each game.

sometimes theyd cracsh in the middle of loading and youd think it was all just part of the comodore experience.
i had alot of games that were also on the spectrum afaik including kik start (i have a mint copy of this to this day) bart simpson vs the space mutants (i had a mint boxed and bagged copy of this up until a few years ago,one of my suport staff was a simpsons fanatic and i gave it him for nothing to be part of his colection) ,all the 'dizzy' games,street fighter 1,and double dragon 2 etc.

i am a pasonate 41 yr old gamer even though i struggle with a lot of different parts of it and i campain to make gaming more acessible to more needs. i am severely classic autistic,mild learning (intelectual) disability,lifelong severe epileptic, have spinal and spinal nerve injurys from over restraint that afects my hands and legs so im in a bespoke made active wheelchair (or as i call mine,my wheelie). i make videos on how games ive bought are like for adults with varying levels of learning disability,but being non verbal im unable to talk over them.
my hobbies are cats!! my rabbit;luna,gaming,tech stuff,DJing (only do digital now as i live in a care home and id have to have all my vinyl and equipment in the same one room), going clubbing all over the UK with my suport staff and i am a profesional artist.i have a gaming PC (masive step down from the gaming laptop i used to have till the motherboard went),and loads of retro consoles and a PS4 pro now.
anyway,if you got this far,thankyou,hope you all are having a great day.

Welcome @Wheelie-Gamer, your into brought back some memories for me in regards to the Commodore 64 and Spectrum. I had a few carts for the C64 too… some really obscure ones and also Shadow of the Beast which was insanely difficult but I felt that I had to keep playing it as it cost my parents so much money at the time 😅. I also remember Kick Start on the Spectrum, loved that game. Anyway welcome aboard.

@Wheelie-Gamer Welcome! Enjoy gaming, there are so many gems on the '4'. I'm not too up to date on what games are accessible, so I won't risk recommending you games that are hard to play for you. Do wonder what games you are planning on playing!

@Wheelie-Gamer Welcome aboard the boards!

@Wheelie-Gamer Welcome, and question. Do rabbits and cats socialize? You mentioned both, so I thought maybe you mean you have both at the same time. PS4 is a great time, I'm still catching up on a lot of that generation. There's a lot to see and do there, you'll be entertained for years.