Nostalgia - Back in the day...

Opal fruits! * yer starburst

 

Oh. And they had pictures of players on the back too

 

Snowball sweeties. 2 for £15.

 

Recently found a wee traditional sweet shop up the Trongate quite close to that tiny arcade pub called Super Bario. They have this for £4 a tin and they have a few non original flavours like iron brew and cola. I played it safe and went for orange and it was lovely. I've tried a few Creamola Foam variants over the years and the Krakatoa Fizz from that wee sweetie shop is about the closest to the real thing I've came across since it was discontinued. The modern stuff is granules, I'm sure it was originally a powder.

 

No one really bought these back in the day because they were quite pricey but check out what people are wanting on Ebay these days for a Type 4 blank tape. £10+ for one 60 minute tape. I was always quite happy with the quality of a Type 2 TDK Chrome tape. Apparently Type 4 is as close to CD quality as you can get but I'll take people's word for it, don't fancy paying a tenner for 1 tape to find out, even though I have quite a decent Kenwood tape deck that hasn't chewed a tape in it's 21 years. It's one of those ones that has bunches of meaningless letters on it, it's got a CCRS button, * knows what that's for.

 

2 for 15?

I was 15 for 1.

Lasted about 12 hours though.

 

Depends who you knew, and how many you were shifting.

 

Oooooh, sorry about that Tony.

 

Came across my wee coca cola italia 90 football this afternoon in my mums loft

Like one of these -


My friend had one at the time that got launched through a neighbours greenhouse and was never seen again

 

Yaaaaaassss!!!!

Many's a game played at break with those bad boys. My mate has a slightly bigger one too that had green panels as well.

Good old mini-mitres, cheers for the reminisce

 

Na mate sold a few for a guy I knew and in turn got mines cheaper, a small cog in a massive engine so to speak. And * knows where that wee pointy * came from.

 

From Shoot magazine

 

Can remember how excited I was when I got one of these bad boys.

 

They were the * business.

I looked them up recently, was talking to an old mate and it got me thinking about them and I wondered why they were so good.

I think they were loaded with MDA, not MDMA. Apparently MDA is much more hallucinogenic than MDMA and was a key reason why they were so powerful. Think they were cooked in Eastern Europe pre Berlin Wall.

They were * crazy though, I took them like sweeties for over a year. I was wandering about Ruchill cuddling utter strangers who probably wanted to rip my jaw but I was gone before they processed what was going on.

 

Used to build all these when i was a kid.


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I remember how excited I was when I got one of these bad boys...

I'm so * old.

 

I bet some of the games on that were still decent.

My first console was
I've still got it and play it now and again.