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Basic Info| Name: | crazeeal |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1966-07-03 |
| Location: | Coventry, United Kingdom |
BioInto computers and gaming since 1980 atsecondary school. We had a Commodore Pet and it had "golf" - the rest is history!
At my 'peak' I owned the following:
CBM64 with 1541 (complete with Epyx warp cartridge to speed up that drive)
Atari 800XL with 1050 (happy chipped)
Spectrum 48k with classic rubber keys and a posh sharp cassette deck - it could copy ANY tape security system (I remember bragging to anyone who would listen - even gran)
Although I now own a 360 Elite, PS3 60GB and a Wii, I would gladly sometimes give it all up to go back to those heady days of 8-bit computing. I'm not looking through rose-tinted spectacles, they simply were the age of computer gaming at it's best no matter what COD4 or Assassins Creed may throw at me.
Everything was new. Everything was wondorous. Gasping at Farenheit 451 on the C64. Later, being gob-smacked by Colourspace on my 512STFM. Writing a letter to Magnetic Scrolls thanking them for a fantastic game and receving not only a reply from Anita Sinclair herself but a polaroid piccy of them all at work in the MS office - try doing that with Activision today. Ha.
I also want to say a special "thanks" to Jeff for all his hard work over the years. I was subscribed to your original newsletter all them years ago and looked forward to reading it. I remeber it was done on a Mac and the type faces looked so awesome and cool.
You may have took some stick over the years for your style of game design but for many 'true' gamers like myself they were superbly original and satisfyingly playable - and still are.
May your Yaks continue bouncing and your camels never stop shooting - good on yer!!
At my 'peak' I owned the following:
CBM64 with 1541 (complete with Epyx warp cartridge to speed up that drive)
Atari 800XL with 1050 (happy chipped)
Spectrum 48k with classic rubber keys and a posh sharp cassette deck - it could copy ANY tape security system (I remember bragging to anyone who would listen - even gran)
Although I now own a 360 Elite, PS3 60GB and a Wii, I would gladly sometimes give it all up to go back to those heady days of 8-bit computing. I'm not looking through rose-tinted spectacles, they simply were the age of computer gaming at it's best no matter what COD4 or Assassins Creed may throw at me.
Everything was new. Everything was wondorous. Gasping at Farenheit 451 on the C64. Later, being gob-smacked by Colourspace on my 512STFM. Writing a letter to Magnetic Scrolls thanking them for a fantastic game and receving not only a reply from Anita Sinclair herself but a polaroid piccy of them all at work in the MS office - try doing that with Activision today. Ha.
I also want to say a special "thanks" to Jeff for all his hard work over the years. I was subscribed to your original newsletter all them years ago and looked forward to reading it. I remeber it was done on a Mac and the type faces looked so awesome and cool.
You may have took some stick over the years for your style of game design but for many 'true' gamers like myself they were superbly original and satisfyingly playable - and still are.
May your Yaks continue bouncing and your camels never stop shooting - good on yer!!
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