User:Border 7

Hello there,

I'm not sure how I ended up joing this site or contributing (games sections only at this stage). But I'm 32, living in Sydney, Australia. I only recently stumbled across all of this stuff...and there I was, transported back to the 80's.

My Dad bought me an Amstrad CPC 464 for xmas 1987 (I think) when we were living in NZ. What a christmas present!!!

It came with the following games:

Into Oblivion, Vampire, The Apprentice, con-quest, Rocky Horrow Show, RadZone & RebelStar (Hence why I started my contributions on those games (and some edits of existing) as those games had a huge impact.

Man, those games kept me busy! The funny thing is, I've only recently finished some of those games! After lots of saving (using WinApe). I never seemed to be able to finish games as a kid - maybe I didnt have enough patience or probably because you couldn't 'Save' your position.

• UPDATE: Still haven't finished Into Oblivion or The Apprentice. Vampire, Streaker, Destructo, Ghostbusters, RebelStar, Con-Quest are completed. Closure.

I remember the anticipation and excitement as those cassette tapes were ever so close to loading and I could start playing!!!

Hello mate, and welcome to the Wiki! I'm very happy that you've found and joined us for a variety of reasons: it's always great to rediscover something and every time someone tells his story I remember mine; you jumped right into it contributing with articles (fantastic, man... just stay away from the CPCGamereviews content!); and, you got Into Oblivion as one of your first games - it was my very first one!

So, once again: welcome :) Gryzor 16:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)

Thanks Gryzor. Glad to be a part of this.

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Actually, come to think of it, I know exactly how I ended up here:

Dad moved houses - So I was forced to go get all my boxed up "junk". I happened to see a few Amstrad magazines in amongst other things (Master of the Universe/Star Wars/Ghostbusters toys! and other assorted 80's goodies. Does anyone remember Garbage Pail Kids?)

So that got me thinking about the Amstrad again.... Thinking I wonder if anyone even cares about them any more these days (most of the guys I work with were born in the late 80's - they don't know what they missed!).... so I did some searching on Google... and wow. So I downloaded and installed Winape and lots of games and started playing again.... I also wondered if there was much info out there about the games from the '85-'89 era... Started the contributions thing on the English wikipedia for Into Oblivion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Oblivion_(video_game)

And was introduced to the world of being a newby and getting smashed by all the Wiki cops about every rule under the sun that I broke... anyway, I graduated to the CPC wiki. So next step was to create Into Oblivion CPC wiki page. I also linked the English wikipedia page to the cpc wiki page - perhaps that's one reason why the CPC wiki page has been accessed over 5600 times? Interesting...

So I moved onto other games and started scanning and the rest is history.

Other

• [1] ACU Issue 5, 1992: Found an 10liner of mine published! That is just neat as.

Done

Pages for following:

• Agent_X_II:_The_Mad_Prof's_Back (cleanup)
• Ghostbusters
• One Man And His Droid (Mastertronic)
• The Island Of Dr. Destructo (Mastertronic)
• Nonterraqueous (Mastertronic)
• Nonterraqueous 2 (Soul of a Robot) (Mastertronic)
• Terra Cognita (Codemasters)
• Questor (Cascade)
• Doppleganger (Aliigata)
• Knightmare (Mastertronic)
• Rasterscan (Mastertronic)
• Streaker (Mastertronic)
• Apprentice (the)
• Vampire
• Radzone (edits)
• Rebelstar (edits)
• The Rocky Horror Show (edits)
• Into Oblivion
• Con-Quest

Scanned and uploaded my:

• TAU (The Amstrad User) & The PC Mag + TAU magazines: http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/The_Amstrad_User
• CWTA - Australian version): http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Computing_With_The_Amstrad_-_Australian_Edition

What next?