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Gloria
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02/04/2007
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Guess where I am then add yours.
It is the 1960's I am looking at a roundabout, behind me is the local nightspot, to my right is the odeon cinema, across the roundabout is the "skyscraper", as it was likened to when built. Where am I and what is the name of the nightspot?
I'd be dangerous with a brain!!!!!
www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
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panbiker
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Posted - 03/04/2007 : 15:55
Rainhall Rock, used to fish it when I was a lad.
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Posted - 03/04/2007 : 19:26
C'mon nobody's got mine yet. Not the Locarno. Clue - twixt Briefield and Burnley. Nolic
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Flutterby
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Posted - 03/04/2007 : 20:32
I know where you mean Nolic, but cannot remember the name of the club. I never went there but did know the family who owned it and didnt it burn down?its niggling me now not remembering? |
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Posted - 03/04/2007 : 21:01
Naked Eye on Halifax Rd Brierfield. Nolic
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 06:22
Comrade! I am getting worried. It was once pointed out to me as a very dodgy venue!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 07:02
Errrmmm? I only ever walked past. Nolic
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 07:29
Oh good....... I don't know about you, but I have always been surprised when dens of iniquity were pointed out to me. For some reason they never entered my orbit. The classic was when I was living on King Street and the police sergeant asked me whether the knocking shop ever caused me any problems.... I was astounded! I didn't even know we had one! I thought they were just very popular young ladies! I suppose that it's a case of 'to the pure, all things are pure'. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Gloria
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 08:17
Wasn't the Naked Eye up King's Causeway ????? Vague recollections somewhere in the dark recesses of my head.
I'd be dangerous with a brain!!!!!
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 08:30
Halifax Road - its now a care home. Nolic
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Flutterby
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 12:08
tThat wasnt the one i was thinking of ? |
belle
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 12:13
Ian , was that a game on Spectrum zx? I used to play one with my son, but we always got stuck in a railway carriage, never could find hoe to get to our destination!
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Ringo
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 12:39
This sounds like the game 'The Hobbit' which was released in the early 1980's.
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panbiker
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 14:07
Belle & Ringo, most of the early text based adventure games were based on the matrix created on a mainframe by Scott Adams and ported to various personal computer platforms such as the the Commodore Pet, Spectrum, ZX80, Amiga, BBC Micro, and many others.
All of the early games were based on the same 2 dimensional matrix, only the text changed to give different scenario's and games, they were sold many times over on all popular platforms.
Later developments in adventure gaming came along as computers became more powerful and a 3D matrix was developed. This led to more complex plots where the player could be led underground and into multi-storey buildings as well as to all points of the compass.
If you search on the Web you can find many online versions of the original games such as "Colossal Cave" or "Philosophers Quest" etc... "The Hobbit" would almost certainly have been based on one of these early generation matrixes. Have a search around if you want a "blast from the past", dont forget to pick up the lantern, torch or key though or we may never see you again!
I never had a Spectrum, went from 6502 project board to Acorn Atom, Commodore Pet, ZX80 then BBC's and Masters, Acorn Archimedes then PC's when they eventualy caught up.
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Ringo
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Posted - 05/04/2007 : 09:51
My computer route went ZX81,Oric, Commodore 128, Amiga then onto a PC.
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Sue
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Posted - 05/04/2007 : 18:33
I can't play this game I didn't live locally in 1960s. For the less local amongst you. Where am i , I big monument on a hill that looks like a Greek Temple? Now that was my childhood
Sue
Although I did go to the Cats Whiskers before it was the Cats Whiskers, I would be about 19, and my parents had just moved back to Burnley. By the way when was the Thompson centre built. I see they are knocking it down...
Sue
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