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It seems amazing now to think that Boots were - back in the early and mid 80s - a major computer and games retailer in the UK.

I remember first seeing Way of the Exploding Fist running on a C64 in my local Boots!

The arrival of TransFormers!

jawa_ wrote:

It seems amazing now to think that Boots were - back in the early and mid 80s - a major computer and games retailer in the UK.

I remember first seeing Way of the Exploding Fist running on a C64 in my local Boots!

£200 for a C64 in Boots. It's crazy how expensive home computers were in the early '80s. I guess the cost is offset by the games only being £1.99/£2.99 though.

The first Beatles tape my dad gave me was a compliation exclusive to boots. I also got super fantasy zone on the megadrive from boots.

Boots :wub:

Moggy wrote:...£200 for a C64 in Boots. It's crazy how expensive home computers were in the early '80s. I guess the cost is offset by the games only being £1.99/£2.99 though.

Computers sure were expensive, Moggy, although that C64 cost was relatively good at the time! I bought my C64 in 1985 for £200; equivalent to around £588 today. Just a year or so before this, the C64 was £349 (£1000)!

C64 "AAA" games were around £8 to £10 (around £26 today) in '85 and, yeah, budget games were £2 or £3 (£6 to £9 today).

The really expensive games were Atari VCS/2600 carts from the late 70s; their £20 price tag is equivalent to around £90 today :shock:

. This pricing - along with a swathe of poor quality games - helped usher in the "video game crash" in the US, and cart prices quickly fell.

Imagine if games cost £90 today! ... ... Oh... err... ...

Did a few more (i have quite a few comics from that era as every time i stumble across them in collectors markets or random bookshops, i usually end up buying some).

This was also back when you could open a box of cereal and find a cool item inside (there were bike reflectors shaped like the corn flake rooster, and boglins among other odds and sods).

jawa_ wrote:

It seems amazing now to think that Boots were - back in the early and mid 80s - a major computer and games retailer in the UK.

I remember first seeing Way of the Exploding Fist running on a C64 in my local Boots!

Sinclair QL :wub:

the first computer I ever saw, remember being around 4 and playing some Asteroids clone on it.

Ironhide wrote:Sinclair QL the first computer I ever saw, remember being around 4 and playing some Asteroids clone on it.

Wow! It's not often I've heard someone say that the QL was their introduction to computing, Ironhide. I've never used one myself; it was primarily marketed as a "home business" system and wasn't ideally suited to gaming. Some stuff did appear, of course, and it's cool that you recall this!

Ironhide wrote:Sinclair QL the first computer I ever saw, remember being around 4 and playing some Asteroids clone on it.

It's good that someone has fond memories of it.

Considering it launched at over $1000 in the US, £150 for an Atari 800(XL) is an absolute bargain.

Vermilion wrote:Did a few more (i have quite a few comics from that era as every time i stumble across them in collectors markets or random bookshops, i usually end up buying some).

This was also back when you could open a box of cereal and find a cool item inside (there were bike reflectors shaped like the corn flake rooster, and boglins among other odds and sods).

Opening Cereal used to be awesome

You beat me to the punch with the frosties one with the cars was just going to upload that, glad to see this thread getting some action.

kerr9000 wrote:I grabbed a few Old Comics Today and having shared a Picture to Twitter figured id share some here too for the older among us to remember.

A late 80's Early 90's Advert shown in the Beano and the Dandy for Fiendish Feet. Grabbed 10 issues of the #Dandy and 1 of the #Beano from this time period and have photographed a few adverts, I think this is £5.50 well spent

Oh wow, I remember these! Loved them

Here are a few more

No idea where this was

kerr9000 wrote:

Love this, can't remember seeing it at the time but i must have.

Deffo had some of that space Lego back in the day :wub:

Vermilion wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:

Love this, can't remember seeing it at the time but i must have.

I don't remember the advert, but I definitely remember having a few of those eggs.

Vermilion wrote:Did a few more (i have quite a few comics from that era as every time i stumble across them in collectors markets or random bookshops, i usually end up buying some).

This was also back when you could open a box of cereal and find a cool item inside (there were bike reflectors shaped like the corn flake rooster, and boglins among other odds and sods).

Toys in cereal were great, I remember when the Power Rangers movie came out and they had little figures in Kellogg’s :wub:

We were too working class to have brand name cereals. Spokey Dokeys, Cockerel wheel spoke reflectors and Bicarbonate of soda boats were always out of reach to me.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:We were too working class to have brand name cereals. Spokey Dokeys, Cockerel wheel spoke reflectors and Bicarbonate of soda boats were always out of reach to me.

Kaz's house was clearly a boglin free zone.

Vermilion wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:We were too working class to have brand name cereals. Spokey Dokeys, Cockerel wheel spoke reflectors and Bicarbonate of soda boats were always out of reach to me.

Kaz's house was clearly a boglin free zone.

I had a boglin, but I had to share my dinner with it. And it was a small boglin without the fancy bars on the box.

kerr9000 wrote:No idea where this was

God I really miss Metroland. The Metrocentre turned to gooseberry fool after it got closed and replaced with yet more restaurants.

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