That and taxi offices. They were my local go to when I couldn’t get to the beach to go to the arcades.

Love these write ups. I lived through the platform wars fighting on the side of Light (Spectrum) against the hordes of darkness (C64) and the one grey teary Amstrad user.

Loved Bomb Jack, it’s a great game and I think it’s going into the curriculum for the kids next week to show them a great game with a simple game dynamic compared to them playing tosh on Roblox all of the time.

I remember playing the arcade on a ferry to France as part of a school trip. Best part of the trip was this cab.

Thanks for the memories.

Depending on how far you got, you might not understand it anyway.

Similar issue here, full fibre roll out is estimated to be complete in 2025.

I’m just outside Newcastle on the coast and could get Virgin but my neighbours have had a nightmare with it.

They only rolled out their fibre about three months ago so there might be issues with that

Where the hell in the UK are you? I’m in the North and pay £26 for 60mbps but get more like 70 due to how close I am to the street cabinet though I haven’t even got copper cable here, just crappy aluminium that is so old I think Alexander Graham Bell himself fitted them.

And shouldn’t be so tall that you need a winch to get over them without trashing the bottom of your car like the new ones near to where I live.

Bit late to this party but R-Type was one of favourites at the arcades and back when ther were so many outstanding games.

I occasionally get my kids to try them and despite the fact the controls are so much easier they can’t play them, the games are too hard!!!

I feel the same way about their games or at least the controls, I feel like I need to learn to be a court stenographer to use the controls using multiple combos to do something. Pah I say!

Sorry about that, following so many communities at first after joining Lemmy good stuff dropped off the bottom. Unsubscribed to a few so I can catch what I need.

I’ll look up that R-Type post, I spent a fortune on that cab as a bairn I should have shares in Irem.

I grew up on Sinclair machines and yeah the graphics looked like a ceefax page that had died a horrific death but the gameplay was generally great.

Other classic conversions that actually looked pretty good despite the Spectrum limitations and played great were Karnov and R-Type.

I like it and I also like that you’ve come along to join the Lemmys

Mama!!! Peekaboo is between two and two thirty right after this little piggy, please don’t mess with my schedule!