b3ta.com board
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Messageboard » If America Were Still British » Message 9739277

[challenge entry] although poo..
I just can't stop.


From the If America Were Still British challenge. See all 482 entries (closed)

(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:13, archived)
# hahahah
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:14, archived)
# Did anyone else watch Micro Men? It was pretty okay.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:15, archived)
# Was it anything to do with Micro Machines?
(I helped save b3ta! JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:17, archived)
# No, but damn that was a good game, though, wasn't it, hmmm?
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:27, archived)
# It was

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:28, archived)
# I always played as Spider.
(I helped save b3ta! JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:32, archived)
# I thought
it was excellent. I've been chatting to someone in off-topic who's friend supplied the fake electronics for it.

The 'woman' behind the bar in the pub was actually Sophie Wilson who designed the RISC chip and worked on the Acorn boards at the time that Micro Men was set.

She was a man then though.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:17, archived)
# Trivia'd!
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:23, archived)
# Indeed.
I wanted to find out who did the music for the bit when Acorn get the BBC contract and have a pissup.

It was "A Fifth of Beethoven" apparently. I also saw it the next night on Family Guy when they go ice skating.

Turns out the bloke who recorded it also wrote the Family Guy theme tune.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:27, archived)
# Loved it
It was a bit of a nostalgia fest.
I actually went to an Earl's Court computer show in the early 80s and visited the Acorn stand.
I bought Defender, before they had to change its name to Planetoid.
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:30, archived)
# Surely
Stargate?

I too used to go to lots of those sorts of things. I was (am) a proper geek.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:32, archived)
# scanned it the other day, was thinking of ebaying it
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:35, archived)
# Ahhh
Defender.

I had most of my youth wasted on that game, and I only 'clocked' it once.

It actually prompted me to make a MAME machine, which sadly I had to break up when I moved house. I did a 'Frank Spencer' and made it too big to get out of the bloody door.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:37, archived)
# I still have my original BBC model B, but I don't play it on it any more
(it eventually fucks up the return key and has to be repaired)

I was rubbish at the Williams arcade version. Marble Madness was my arcade machine of choice.
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:39, archived)
# I
was pretty good at the arcade version.

My game of choice on the home-computers was "Wheelie".

Watching that show the other night prompted me to write this:

(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:48, archived)
# Weeble!
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:51, archived)
# have a repoast
(I helped save b3ta! sof sof, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 0:39, archived)
# Was a bit drawn out at 1.5 hrs
but otherwise good.
(JoBrand'sFatTwat, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 9:44, archived)
# I
didn't even notice it was that long.
(dchurch bah, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:14, archived)
# I maybe having daja vu
but I think someone bin and dun it already.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:18, archived)
# shite
really? Bugger it, I thought I'd been through all the posts too :-(
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:19, archived)
# yep, sorry to say...
www.b3ta.com/board/9732660
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:22, archived)
#
10 PRINT "Bollocks, missed that one!"
20 GOTO 10
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:23, archived)
# also
www.b3ta.com/board/6303847
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:27, archived)
# ooh,
nicely done. Does that have a song by MJ Hibbett on it? (hey hey 15k)
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:32, archived)
# 16.
that is all.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:33, archived)
# although
that did bring a tear to my eye when I saw it.

Still love it.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:34, archived)
# d'oh
I'd checked as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:35, archived)
# Sod.
I was thinking of doing i the other way around, i.e. "Sinclair" in the Microsoft font, but it just didn't sound as good in my head.
(dchurch bah, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:30, archived)
# I did this one, a bit on the same line
if you squint.
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 0:01, archived)
# hahahah
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:21, archived)