High street game shops coming to an end?

[Lurch]

Wow I thought everyone just purchased 200 floppies and go to Computer Swap meets for their game fulfillment like alot of others in the day..  those are my memories  Up until 4am on school nights playing the new games..

This is what I remember, think I went into a shop once and bought some games from the junk bin. But was more fun and more social to buy boxes of blank disks and hang out with a group of friends.

Use to have a usual run that we did during the week going around peoples houses. I miss having that, met so many people. Even a dude that had dial up internet and a room full of disks :-)

The BBS scene filled the gap for awhile after that and PC LAN gatherings but still wasn't the same as the C64/Amiga days :-)

[Lurch]

Hi,

I will miss them, basically I like having discs for my computer. Just think as the old CD's and DVD's go away and more people start downloading their games, music, and movies, the internet compainies are going to start modding the bandwidth, allowing you just so much and then charging you for the extra bandwidth that you need. Don't say it isn't going to happen , just 2 years ago I had unlimited bandwidth, then they cut it down to 500 gigabyte, then just last month it was cut in half again down to 250 gigabyte plus they .....smerf

Just read this and had to reply a little OT but I'd kill for a 250GB cap. Try living in NZ for awhile. LOL :-)

[Lurch]

We have a 250/250 HGB cap, 250,GB peak, 250 GB off peak....

60GB cap here no off peak/on peak, $55 NZD a month for naked ADSL2 and $11.50 NZD for a VOIP phone. Can double to 120GB for an extra $30 NZD :-) Then that's it dial up internet for me :-)


Download linux iso's, stream tv, os/software updates (5 odd pcs and server)... still somehow on 60GB have managed to still have 15GB left each month.