It's quite a long story :lol: Originally back in the day my first computer my mum bought me was one that do this day I cannot identify despite my best efforts, it was a console with a few basic games and it had a tank game on with a dedicated tank keypad controller with orange keys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merlin
We happened to go up to visit my brother and discovered my nephews had been bought a light fantastic Commodore 64, they had it set up on the dining room table and they had blaze out running with the light gun, they let me have a go and I was simply blown away, the graphics and sound were so good I had never seen anything like it and I knew from that day I wanted one of those with the light gun.
Fast forward a couple of seemingly long years (and plenty of eager visits to my brothers house) and finally I got my c64, saved and paid for with my pocket money, it came without a datasette and just a football cartridge (international soccer I think) it also had a mini commodore format mag in which my love of the magazine was cemented.
I spent a couple of months playing international soccer and working through the basic programming section of the c64 user manual, and on a weekend visiting my dad who lived away from us, he took me shopping and bought me a brand new datasette and the latest commodore format mag (which came with two cf power packs hurrah) and the most of the rest of my time with my dad was us happily playing all the games on those two powerpacks, I was overjoyed to be able to buy and load tape games at last!
Over the years following my c64 collection grew to include many original tape games and cartridges and eventually a 1541 drive and a dot matrix printer. Despite all my searching though through auction houses and Car boots I never did come across that which I wished for most, a light fantastic pack! Nor did I find a defender light gun, the most I found was some of the toolbox tapes that came in the pack which I eagerly bought.
A year or so later I upgraded to the amiga 1200 using my extensive c64 collection to financed the difference (sadly). My love for the amiga was very great, but still that niggle existed In that, among my missing my old faithful 64, that which I never accomplished stayed in my mind and thoughts, the ownership of that light fantastic pack that I loved and wanted so much as a child.
Fast forward to 2013 and on joining a community called Amibay, I came across the most genuine, friendly and helpful people I have had the pleasure of meeting for many years, and the discovery that there was still people who cared about the 64 :D And it is to these people and community that I give my thanks for making a child's most treasured dream become a reality finally :D
