You know you're nearing 50 in Adelaide, when you remember...

[FlyingHigh]

I had these:

We had one of those machines. The only game I remember attempting to play on it though was Burger Time.

Burger Time was my favourite too. Great stuff GP.

[Leaping Lindner]

The hole proof "no knickers" commercial which created a bit of controversy.

I'm honestly wearing no knickers, no knickers at all.

Ah Rosemary Paul......she was also one of the early Australian Playboy centrefolds. Made many a teenage boy happy in the late 70's. Okay, again it's probably a closer to 50 thing.
Her husband, Jeremy Paul, was in Air Supply , and then formed The Divinyls

[Leaping Lindner]

The hole proof "no knickers" commercial which created a bit of controversy.

I'm honestly wearing no knickers, no knickers at all.

Ah Rosemary Paul......she was also one of the early Australian Playboy centrefolds. Made many a teenage boy happy in the late 70's. Okay, again it's probably a closer to 50 thing.
Her husband, Jeremy Paul, was in Air Supply , and then formed The Divinyls

It was actually the first edition of Australian Playboy. That's her on the cover as well.

[the reflex]

Had these 2 games CK.



Galaxy Invader1000

Ive still got 4 of those game & watch babies, wonder if theyre worth anything, they still work!

[CK]

Had these 2 games CK.

[Ive still got 4 of those game & watch babies, wonder if theyre worth anything, they still work!

In their original boxes, they are worth pretty good money. I see these at markets for $140+ quite regularly. Even out of their boxes, in good condition, they fetch a good price. EBAY has a fair few on there now around the $60 mark, all at auction and with time left.

[locky801]

Ernie Sigley sang Hay PAula live on Adelaide Tonight

[Thiele]

Slip and Side

[Magpiespower]

The only game to have in 1983...

[Footy Chick]

The only game to have in 1983...

Agreed.

Isn't it funny though how technology has done a full turn? That's almost 30 years old and since then we've had gameboys etc and now we have the DS, which isn't unlike the game above in terms of size and looks...

[Magpiespower]

First VCR we owned.

Sanyo Beta VTC9300PN.

BETA IS THE BETTER FORMAT!

Although we bought it 1982, it was released in the UK four years earlier!

First time my brother rented a video from the John Martin's library we had to send him back.

He got out a VHS.

[GWW]

I remember our family bought our first VCR in 1982. I think we got it for $699 but would normally be sold for $799 due to being a display unit or something like that. Amazing the cost for VCRs back then, obviously its a normal situation though when a product first hits the market.

[CK]

It took our family until about 1986 to enter the world of video recorders. Dad was, shall we say, slow to embrace new technology, although when we finally did, he was the most prolific hirer of videos.

- Teletext on televisions
- When Channel 7 used to show the SA Top 40 videos each Saturday morning, sourced from SA-FM - which produced a Top 20 Compact Disc chart for a fair time
- Supermarkets like Big Heart, Half Case and Cheap Foods
- Putting a playing card in the spokes of your bicycle to produce a motorbike sound.
- When cassettes were the first choice of music portability, and making your own compilation tapes.
- When it was possible for a bloke to have a pie and coke either before or during a SANFL game, and still playing top football. Darrell Cahill comes to mind here.
- Collecting cricket stickers each summer to put in the Scanlens album

[Jase]

It took our family until about 1986 to enter the world of video recorders. Dad was, shall we say, slow to embrace new technology, although when we finally did, he was the most prolific hirer of videos.

- Teletext on televisions
- When Channel 7 used to show the SA Top 40 videos each Saturday morning, sourced from SA-FM - which produced a Top 20 Compact Disc chart for a fair time
- Supermarkets like Big Heart, Half Case and Cheap Foods
- Putting a playing card in the spokes of your bicycle to produce a motorbike sound.
- When cassettes were the first choice of music portability, and making your own compilation tapes.
- When it was possible for a bloke to have a pie and coke either before or during a SANFL game, and still playing top football. Darrell Cahill comes to mind here.
- Collecting cricket stickers each summer to put in the Scanlens album

This was one of the highlights of my primary school summer holidays...

The special GOLD stickers being the highlight of course...

[A Mum]

I remember those stickers as well !

Another thing I remember was how coke'a'cola had their 'winning cans' where they would write 'winner' in the bottom of the can and you would take it to the local shop and get another one...lol - or something similar.

We moved from the country to the city in 1986 (yep - true culture shock for a 15 year old) and I think part of the 'bribery' was we bought a VCR and a microwave...lol.

However - I do remember mum then cooking every single meal for the next 3 months in the microwave - I think we were fair over it after that and just used it for heating things up..lol.

Around the same time we bought an Atari and my favourite game was 10 pin bowling
Oh and space invaders of course !! I rocked at space invaders...lol

[Footy Chick]

- Supermarkets like Big Heart, Half Case and Cheap Foods
- When it was possible for a bloke to have a pie and coke either before or during a SANFL game, and still playing top football. Darrell Cahill comes to mind here.
- Collecting cricket stickers each summer to put in the Scanlens album

1) Don't forget the 4 square store around the corner!

2) don't forget that half time smoke too!

3) Even I used to do this, despite not being that much of a cricket fan

[trev]

Another thing I remember was how coke'a'cola had their 'winning cans' where they would write 'winner' in the bottom of the can and you would take it to the local shop and get another one...lol - or something similar.

I still have three or four of those cans. They say "Coke" on the bottom.
Wonder if they are worth more than 10 cents now?

[CK]

- Supermarkets like Big Heart, Half Case and Cheap Foods
- When it was possible for a bloke to have a pie and coke either before or during a SANFL game, and still playing top football. Darrell Cahill comes to mind here.
- Collecting cricket stickers each summer to put in the Scanlens album

1) Don't forget the 4 square store around the corner!
Haha, had forgotten that jingle..."There's a 4 Square store around the corner". Used to be one just near my nanna's - to this day, the old wooden floors and smells of camphor in the antique store that is there now, takes me back to being a kid again.

2) don't forget that half time smoke too! Legendary footage exists somewhere in the SA TV archives of Grenville Dietrich on the bench in a Match Of The Day. The camera cuts to him as Peter Marker comments about him...and then see Dietrich bring a cigarette to his lips. One of the few times that Marker appeared thrown in a telecast

3) Even I used to do this, despite not being that much of a cricket fan One of the highlights of the summer as a kid, although finishing one year, one sticker short was hard to recover from

[A Mum]

Another thing I remember was how coke'a'cola had their 'winning cans' where they would write 'winner' in the bottom of the can and you would take it to the local shop and get another one...lol - or something similar.

I still have three or four of those cans. They say "Coke" on the bottom.
Wonder if they are worth more than 10 cents now?

That's right 'coke'
Yes I wonder if they would be worth something.

When my grandmother died in 2001 - we cleaned out her house and I found original paper straws from years, and years earlier - I remember her giving them to us when we were like 5 - so they are pretty old..lol. - I often wonder if they are worth anything too.

[Magpiespower]

3) Even I used to do this, despite not being that much of a cricket fan One of the highlights of the summer as a kid, although finishing one year, one sticker short was hard to recover from

That's when you had to send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Scanlen's in NSW to get the stickers (ten max) you needed...

[Footy Chick]

Whatever happened to Scanlens?

They don't make gum anymore, do they?