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@Voltan Many happy returns for yesterday! Did you have a good day?

@RogerRoger A pretty regular one but I guess that's alright

@Voltan Better than a disaster, that's for sure!

@sanderson72 He's older than me. He's older than me-e. Oh check out old Sandy. He's older than me! Ok guess I just figured out the 72 on your username, maths innit. Someone randomly said to me a few weeks back 'well you'll be heading towards 50 now', I replied 'yeah but so is everyone who is not yet 50!'

Yeah never had a speccy myself (though most of my friends did!) Personally went from Vic-20 to C64 to Amiga500. My first console was something that played a bunch of pong like games — no idea what it was called. Do remember having something called a Vectrex (check it out, it was awesome) it had transparent coloured cards that your click to the monitor for faux colour games and a built in joypad. Then onto Master System to MegaDrive, random SNES before settling on my PS fanboyism. (Maybe an occasional foray onto the greenteam rival consoles — but I don't talk about those dark days much!!)

@Voltan I will also wish you many belated happy returns. However I'm not entirely sure what is meant by returns in this sense or how they would be happy or how that would impact someone. But there you are. And yeah you should buy yourself a game.

@Sorteddan Ha ha! Yep, at the end of May I hit the big 5-0 (not Hawaii)

My brother and I had one of the those 'pong' consoles too, played tennis, football (all looked the bloody same) and had a hard wired light gun thing that rarely worked!

After that it was a 48K Spectrum, C64, Amiga 600 (the little portable one) and then the A1200 which I wrote my university thesis on (using Wordsworth!) The A1200 got expanded with a