OH WOW ANOTHER THEXDER FAN!!!

My first computer was an Amiga A500. It was a difficult decision for me whether to buy that or the Amstrad. I cant be certain but I think I was swayed by the fact that the Amiga had a disc drive built in whereas the Amstrad still used a tape drive. I remember riding my motorbike from Maidenhead over to Dixons in Windsor to buy it - maybe the one in Maidenhead didnt have it in stock.

My first taste of computing came not from school; in fact the paper strips with funny holes in them had been like Klingon to me, but when my brother in law bought a BBC Micro PC for his kids - my nieces. Even then, the text only games were only of passing interest. it wasnt until they bought Elite that I got hooked. Those wireframe graphics were the dogs whatnots and I jumped at the chance to babysit whenever I could.

After that it was only waiting until I started working part time to be able to afford something myself, and in the intervening time graphics improved in leaps and bounds. So many games so little I remember, except maybe the great ones, like Thexder - oh how I wish I could play that now. I remember I used to subscribe to Amiga Format magazine and in those days you could sometimes get whole games on the discs if they had been out for a long time and a deal was made with the magazine. I got a fair few that way.

Sensible World of Soccer, Monkey Island, Lemmings, Cannon Fodder, Another World, Flashback, Worms, Syndicate, Elite, Chaos Engine, North and South, F1 GP, Milennium 2.2 (twice that disc was corrupted!), and many more.

Cant remember when I got my first PC, but it had the new 386DX chip inside it because previously I had been going to have the SX chip. And all hail Voodoo 3DFx graphics, may they R.I.P.

P.S I think I used to be okay at Thexder. I know I never finished it, but I used to love that game like you wouldnt believe.