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[Richard1978]

I remember Crazy Taxi was one of the first games my friend bought for his Dreamcast.

About 2 years ago I went to a retro gaming event where they had the arcade version of it.

[Richard1978]

William Shatner singing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or Hey Mr Tambourine man.

[Richard1978]

It would have been better if just BBC1 had the coverage & the other programming was moved onto BBC2 for the evening as an alternative.

I can remember my Dad was not impressed when the Queen Mother died & the BBC covered it for hours & hours.

[Richard1978]

I remember my Dad had some Hush Puppies like these in the 1980s.

[Richard1978]

These are some of my collection, since this was taken I've sold 2 of these & bought another....

[Richard1978]

I remember my parents used to have a bottle of Dabitoff for removing stubbon stains like tar spots.

This was probably discontinused because it had something noxious in it.

[Richard1978]

Sad news, I had mixed feelings about him but I would say the good outweighed the bad.

[Richard1978]

Sad news, he was younger than I though he was.

[Richard1978]

I remember my friend used to get ZZap 64 which had a few pages of cheats & hints called PG's Tips as it was compiled by columnist Paul Glancy.

After he left it became Pig In A Poke after the Poke command common in cheats.

[Richard1978]

Gino Ginelli was well timed for the period when all things Italian were trendy in the early 1990s. It had vanished by the end of the decade though as trends moved on.

[Richard1978]

I remember one of my friends had NHS glasses and his family were certainly comfortably well off like my parents.

[Richard1978]

That's very interesting, I did wonder if anyone had ever managed to save up enough stamps to get a car....

[Richard1978]

I had a bike for a late birthday present at Easter 1987. My parents ordered it from a bike shop but had to wait for it to arrive.

[Richard1978]

I thought this might be Potsworth & Company from the title but it doesn't sound like it though.

[Richard1978]

Nigel Mansell winnging the British Grand Prix in 1987 & eventually the world title in 1992.

[Richard1978]

https://www.transdiffusion.org/

This site has a lot of information about the startups.

[Richard1978]

In some ways it was a modern version of the Army Game, which also dealt with national servicemen being assigned to an odd outpost because the MOD had more manpower than it really needed.

[Richard1978]

I remember first seeing footage used on The Rock & Roll Years edition for 1972.

[Richard1978]

In other countries there doesn't seem to be such an issue over home onership, my ex-girlfriend's German Mum mentioned that in Germany it's quite common for middle class people to rent, especially in the cities.

[Richard1978]

I think originally the lottery was offered as a franchise, with different companies bidding to run it.

Had Virgin won they would have used the Stockport Pyramid (just off M60 junction 1, which is why it's mentioned in traffic reports as the Pyramid roundabout) as one of their regional call...