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My fave footy game was/is FIFA 98.

This vid has brought back some great memories, from Turrican 2, to Rainbow Islands, to Dizzy, to Operation Wold (early FPS), Final Fight, Continental Racing, Bombjack, Paperboy, Robocop, Yi Ar Kung Fu... Amstrad was often dissed as beneath the C64 / Speccy, but I loved it. Oooo, Chase HQ was another one. Okay, so after you'd started playing Megadrive / SNES, the 8bit stuff looked shit, but I loved this stuff as a kid and thought the graphics were amazing!

Ooooo, Barbarian, where you could actually behead people Check it out at about 0:58.

Aw New Zealand Story. You were a little yellow kiwi bird.

Although the new releases were ?9.99 and came in a bigger cardboard box rather than normal cassette box. Someone mentioned Ocean earlier. I remember getting their gamne of Batman the movie, that was a cool game.

One that I remember well was called (I'm 99% sure) Terminus (not the 2000 game). You basically had to make your way through this space station/ship through crushers and lasers and stuff, It was just one long (for those days) game with no levels. What was cool about it especially back then was that you had 4 different robots you could be (and you'd work your way through them til all 4 were dead and it was GAME OVER) they all had different abilities. Can find absolutely no mention of it anywhere, but I played that a fair bit when I was probably about 8. It was so cool being able to go to the local newsagent and buy a game on cassette for ?1.99 or ?2.99.

Sooo many memories!!! Double Dragon was great, got that on my phone.

First Golden Axe was amazing, me and my mate played that so much. Used to pick the woman for her dragon magic.

And never heard of those Nija games, but shall check them out. Are they on 360 or are you talking original gangsta xbox? Another Megadrive classic which I really enjoyed replaying was Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > really? you look down on people rather than just > not like those sorts of games? I think that's the > difference. Music can be about posturing, but in > gaming you either enjoy the experience or not I'd > have thunk. No not REALLY. But maybe a tiny bit.

If they had shopping trollies it's more likely they were looking for anything with scrap value.

I dunno, I'm a bit snobby towards people that play Call of Duty and various other FPS games.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not just create a Singles thread to start off > with gertie, to guage whether it would indeed be > popular enough to warrant it's own section... I suspect it would just get people taking the piss. Which is a shame.

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not quite as old but anyone remember this game on > the Spectrum? > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/4 > /44/20130614135449!Treasure_Island_Dizzy.png Oh my God I loved Dizzy games! That screenshot is from the opening screen of Treasure Island Dizzy (the second one) which was the hardest because you had only one life and no save points. Remember playing the first 3 on my Amstrad "Dizzy", "Treasure Island Dizzy" and "Fantasy World Dizzy". It was only last year when I discovered there had been several others and I managed to play one on my phone via an emulator. Bloody brilliant games, really charming and with some good puzzles. A couple of years back I was using Roms4droid and playing loads and loads of old skool games on my phone. I loved it. Revenge of Shinobi on megadrive = Awesome!!!

My favourite recent(ish) "pop" album is "King Con" by Alex Winstone. Bloody catchy as hell.

Think this guy could be the one. He'll play positive football which is what they want and need. Roy Keane to Celtic would help to feed his ego I suppose. Couple of guaranteed titles to make him look good before coming back and failing in England again.

I'm surprised Sainsbury's don't. They paid well back when I did my stint as a teenager in 96. Even back then I could earn ?8 an hour for working a Sunday.

buddug Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are many small businesses locally paying it (let's hear it for the Ivy House, who are actually accredited!). Who else makes up this many?

Like most businesses care about ideal.

To be fair, I don't know how many jobs, if any, are actually paid at that low scale, but the fact it's on their pay scales at all is a bit of a surprise.

I don't disagree.

And for a bit more detail, Bottom of the scale @ 7.9078 = 14844.00 a year, 1237.00 a month Top of the scale @ 8.8683 = 16647.00 per year, 1387.25 a month Based on full time

Penguin68, Looking down the list to my own scale, it seems these figures include any london weighting. Edit to add, just noticed that these are April 2013 figures, but given that there has been a pay freeze, I doubt they'll have gone up by more than 1% if that.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I may have to fork out for it on Virgin as I've > just found out I can do this - if I do, you're > welcome to pop over. If that's what you end up doing I may take you up on that...

Even more worryingly, in said local authority it is thought that 1 in 5 people are not even being paid the minimum wage, so frankly there are bigger issues to worry about than a cinema which isn't breaking any laws.