Feeding your habit as a youngster

[Vyothric]

Lovely place to be fair, Solihull is in general.

Seems to be where most of the good stuff near me on eBay is.

[noobish hat]

I've got to ask again though, because it's common enough to really confuse me, not just a typo: WHAT is with people saying 'mom'? You can't ALL be American...

I'm South African. We say mom or ma, mum isn't that common.

I have to say, even after I got a job and started buying my own games, I didn't have much money to spend on games! Consequently my Playstation and N64 collections only had like 5 games each. Actually, I did get my Playstation chipped too - to play PAL games!

I always have and always will use mom rather than mum. After all, mother is not spelt with a U in it.

That's genuinely demented.

[Jonboy1977]

I've got to ask again though, because it's common enough to really confuse me, not just a typo: WHAT is with people saying 'mom'? You can't ALL be American...

I'm South African. We say mom or ma, mum isn't that common.

I have to say, even after I got a job and started buying my own games, I didn't have much money to spend on games! Consequently my Playstation and N64 collections only had like 5 games each. Actually, I did get my Playstation chipped too - to play PAL games!

I always have and always will use mom rather than mum. After all, mother is not spelt with a U in it.

That would be fine, if not for the fact thast mom, and mum are short for mommy and mummy not mother.

Mom, mum, and mam are all acceptable. The UK is one of the only countries that uses all 3. Mum is actually the most common worldwide and is the reason that greeting cards traditionally have it on them.

Just to point out another little flaw in your argument, do you call your Father, DAD, because Father is not spelt with a D.

[theantmeister]

Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh.
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Camp is very
entertaining.
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I sense this thread is deviating wildly off course now...

[noobish hat]

Mom, mum, and mam are all acceptable. The UK is one of the only countries that uses all 3.

Since when? I've literally never seen a British person use 'mom' except on this forum.

[crusto]

That would be fine, if not for the fact thast mom, and mum are short for mommy and mummy not mother.

Mom, mum, and mam are all acceptable. The UK is one of the only countries that uses all 3. Mum is actually the most common worldwide and is the reason that greeting cards traditionally have it on them.

Just to point out another little flaw in your argument, do you call your Father, DAD, because Father is not spelt with a D.

Firstly, tbh I couldnt really give 2 hoots wether my argument is flawed or not, because 'mom' is what I deem is right for me to say. And after all, this is just a forum. So its not really that important in the grand scheme of things. And secondly, the word 'that' does not contain a letter s

[crusto]

That's genuinely demented.

Why?

[noobish hat]

Because of what Jonboy said ^

[Megamixer]

I was a 90's kid so I only ever had Gameboy Colour to begin with and games only came along at Christmas or for birthdays so I didn't have a lot. Then again, I tended to get Pokemon games so they lasted me ages .

In a way, I miss having only a few games because you always got the most out of them. I remember completing some pretty crappy Gameboy games and really persevering with them because that was all there was. I couldn't afford to bin them and buy something else so I had to make do. Contrast that to today where I have stacks of unplayed/sealed games across loads of formats. I also find little incentive to stick with a game that is irritating or disappointing me so a disposable income definitely spoils me.

[crusto]

Because of what Jonboy said ^

well if the spelling of a simple word such mom/mum/mummy gets your goat that much then thats up to you. Im not gonna say/type another word about it. Its just plain crackers if you ask me.

[noobish hat]

:lol: Well, if the spelling of a simple word such mom/mum/mummy gets your goat that much then that's up to you. I'm not going to say/type another word about it. It's just plain crackers if you ask me.

*aaaand calm*

[crusto]

[learnedrobb]

During my C16 and Speccy years, it was mostly copied games courtesy of my local library.

Once I got my MD, I used to go to a local shop called MegaMania. All the games were preowned, and you could swap yours for another game of the same price for £2.50. I probably went through 70 or 80 games in the space of 12 months.

[shiftytigger]

Family was'nt the richest in the area, but as a kid, folks always managed to find the money to see my sister and i ok.

Recal the 2600 and LCD Game+watch games would come via mail order firms, like Freemans, Kays etc, mum would pay via instalments and games reserved for birthday/Xmas etc or odd treat if money was there.

I bought a few speccy games from Great Universal - paid em off quicker than the standard terms. just made it easier for me - the bonus was some of those games got to me before the shops. I was playing Midnight Resistance , Shadow Warriors and a few others (not all at the same time) sometimes two weeks before they appeared elsewhere. Great being the first in school to play a game. got to be quite fun saying 'i played .... last night' only to be told 'no way its not out yet' - their faces would change when i take the game box out of my bag.

We had a family speccy , with a little pocket money I would buy budget stuff from the newsagents or even back in the early days of them , getting games from bootsales. Had quite a selection.

as I got old enough to do paper rounds (at one point doing 4-5 rounds a day) the money got better so along with a mega year for tips , I bought a megadrive for myself. Had a few games as gifts - Castle of Illlusion,Streets of rage,Afterburner etc but the games were still quite expensive and money limited,so I saved my own usually. Merry Hill in the midlands used to have a Woolworths Audio Visual type store where i stocked up the next xmas - with a combination of tips / wages and spending money. Most of the games were pretty low in price so I filled my boots - introducing myself to Wonderboy in Monsterworld + mercs for £5 each , Spiderman and quite a few others too at similarly price slashed prices. I did well but I was lucky to have had the paper rounds I did. I remember my mother paying £70 for Strider - i felt really guilty because I could have got it cheaper and she didnt need to buy it for me - I accepted it partially from guilt as well as gratitude. I paid her back by dropping £40 in her purse over the course of some weeks (in instalments!) - hated the thought of her going short on stuff to buy me something that was a 'luxury'. It didnt teach me to be ready to give money away freely and easily , it just taught me that sometimes people will buy something because they want to. I dont make a habit of buying people off,I just know how much they struggled when we were younger.

[TheNewMonkey]

i got my fix from the local pawn shop, it was basically you give him any game & a fiver and he gives you any game off the shelf, looking back now that was a really good deal, i wish it was still like that!

i went through tons of GB, SNES & MD games because of that little shop, good times