I remember loading a game in my Spectrum ZX...
Would wait ten mins, be called for dinner, eat, return, wait for ten mins. The games always turned out to be crap but you felt obliged to play for an hour.

Our Spectrum got broken because we got frustrated and my old brother threw it against a wall.

True fact of nature.
( roaneah the infamous exploding fruitcake, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 17:52, archived)