Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/03 – Back to the 80s

[biggabum 4565xp 3]

on to the questions:

1) I don’t. I am terrible when I get a cold, moody, snappy and a down right pain in the rear end, and, according to me, my cold is always much worse than anyone elses. Woe betide anyone that forgets to tell me when i’m due a Lemsip (I cant look at the clock myself because i’m too ill)…. and thats just a cold, i’m even worse with the flu.

2) I don’t think so. I think if your attempting the creative side of things, you need to be 100% alert or you run the risk of losing concentration and making silly mistakes that could ruin a project you’ve spent hours on. Gaming wise, I think if youre not with it you can make the game unenjoyable for your opponent and yourself.

3) I love the 80’s. Music had more of an edge and in my opinion had a lot more variety. People were more sociable and not always staring at their bloody phone. If you wanted something you went to a store had a look at the actual item you wanted and then bought it, unllike todays game of chance that your shiny looks as good in real life as it does on the net. Ok there are a good few things that are better today, but some things have just made us lazy.

4) oooh theres a few I loved. Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones (the western), Time Tunnel, Colditz, Monty Python, I could go on forever.

5) I suppose the little Airfix figures were the earliest thing I had that came close to wargaming. A mate had some Greeks (I think) and I had some Romans and we used to set them up on the yard and roll marbles at them.