Haha I remember that! And Pac-Man, space invaders and asteroids on the same sit on either side of the table machines!
On fairness though they had been out a little while before I seen them!
Sounds like you have her next birthday pressie picked…!!
Cheaper than buying and running a .50 cal…!!
( at least you can tell her that…!!)
Hate to think how many hours my friends and I spent playing multiplayer GoldenEye.
Original Warcraft on PC was another classic midnight burner
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I have horrid memories of sleeping on my sister’s couch in the late 90s being kept awake half the night with my nephew playing Banjo Kazooie…
That fucking bird’s squawk!! 
Ha dad used to set up pong with a console on the TV!
Had a light gun too for shooting a dot moving on the screen.
That would be my first gaming experience.
I followed all of what Rok said above a bit. Got a bit more serious in BF2 days playing in a clan having weekly competitions.
Not so much these days just have a look now and then at new stuff for a bit of R&R when the outdoors are unfavourable.
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Burk Burk Burk Burk…Yo-whee…!!
PSTD, much.?.?
The final boss battle is quite hard…!!
The incredible machine was another cool game back in the day that made you use your brain, absolute classic
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I remember that!! Lunchtime TIM sessions at Boeing.
Great game for developing mechanical aptitude. 
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When I was kept in detention in year 7, the teacher would make me stay in the classroom “at my desk” doing math problems, I hacked the computer and sat there playing the incredible machine all lunch break.
I’m not hacker by a long shot, but when his password was his first name 
Not the best password, Frank 
Is it just me, or do we need to Start a “Gaming” thread?
Apart from that old 1970’s ATARI Pong/Tennis TV Console, Space Invaders and 1942, I have absolutely NO IDEA what the rest of this conversation is about!
We are derailing Rok’s thread somewhat 
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it, a bit of housekeeping!
Commodore 64 was probably my first gaming experience on the old big flat four and 1/4" floppy disc drives and tape deck
Games like batman, ghostbusters, Michael Jackson moonwalk
Pretty sure the old boys still got it in the shed somewhere up north, no idea if it still works tho
Sorry Rok
emulators…
resurrect all the old games…
laying around for free, in internet land…
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It’s just my nonsense corner… and I am a self professed PC nerd from about age 6… grew up building and repairing PCs for my dad’s after hours computer business!
But there’s a dedicated thread now… I’ll get into that.
The soldering and DC electronics stuff I learnt from that hobby and business definitely came in handy for the blasters!
Indeed I like that aspect of it. Been building and fixing my own and families for 30yrs. Quite fun
That’s what my 2 young Cousins have been very good at for many years, repairing and rebuilding the old Tower Computers that we used to have.
Way beyond my pay grade, but they were born into it and used to collect old 2nd hand towers, gut them out and make their own computers from all the different aftermarket components.
At their age I was putting together BMX bikes, and here they were building computers!
I used to buy, refurbish and resell desktops and laptops I bought cheap at auctions when I was up north, had a lot of competing auction house attendee’s in the same market back then, but that was just before computers started getting cheaper to buy from shops like Harvey Norman and the good guys, Joyce Mayne etc
I had to keep my prices competitive although most of the time my prices were well below everyone else that was doing it at the time because I knew I could undercut them and still turn a considerable profit
Started with $200 at the first auction I attended, $500 the second and by the end I was spending $2000 to $3000 each auction buying and reselling mostly ex government desktops and laptops. I had a massive stockpile up the back wide hallway/room of the house I had at the time and one side had about 8 - 10 PC’s with windows and software installing and on the other side was stacks of PC’s ready to go all labelled with their specs, stacks of PC’s cleaned up ready for installations, a stack waiting to be cleaned, a stack of laptops, and piles of bagged up keyboards, mice and cables ready to go with a desktop/laptop’s being sold
Was a good gig and I was making bulk coin for a couple of years as I was unemployed doing my IT certificates studies, but then the Market crashed when major retailers started selling cheap computer’s and I had to adjust my prices to stay in the game. Then I started working in traffic management and had to scale right back and slowly ended up stopping.
It was fun while it lasted
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I did similar things, along with building brand new, repairs and upgrades. Then the bulk of laptops and even desktops from big brands wankers like Harvey Norman sell started making proprietary boards and parts, soldering components in that are simple plug and play for a normal actual PC… gluing laptops together and doing away with screws etc…
It became a throw away market. Get what you get. Bin it and get the next one. And it’s shit it really is.
I got out of it altogether around then, got so tired of telling people that I can’t fix something that was no issue in older models.
But I still build repair upgrade and maintain my, me wife’s, and my two kids computers.
The gaming/custom PC builder is a parts only market these days. Still enjoyable to do it yourself.
Bought a couple of ex-govt laptops for use in the shed - about $250 each. They are great with the only problem being failed keyboards, which are easily repaired with a $10 external keyboard.
Price for a 16G/512G Sssd has risen to $375. Lots out there with 256 ssd for under $300. They tend to be more rugged than the latest ultra-thin tablet wanna-be’s
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