Crikey... Brings it all flooding back!
My own highlights of the 80s were:
Christmas 1986 - Unwrapping the Speccy +2 my parents bought me to "help me with my homework".
Autumn 1987 - Seeing Outrun at a local arcade for the first time and dreaming of the day when all computer games would be as detailed and realistic.
September 1987 - Arriving in Cape Town, SA for a nine month stay as Dad had got a new job there.
May 1988 - Returning to the UK thoroughly homesick. I damn near kissed the Heathrow tarmac on that soggy May morning!
Winter 1988 - Losing hours playing Elite 128 on my speccy.
Summer / Autumn 1989 - Discovering the delights (and consequences) of alcohol, all night parties and looking older than my fifteen years.
Oh, and I didn't mention getting an Amiga... That would have to wait until February 1990!
