Its 3:30am... and im playing BBC micro games..

Calin Leafshade · Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29

They are the hardest games in the world. Gamers were tough in 1981.

Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

ThreeOhFour · Mon 19/10/2009 05:41:19

Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

We used to have this on an old Acorn computer at school, with about 8 floppy disks to run it.

I remember it really being rather odd and never getting very far...

Intense Degree · Mon 19/10/2009 10:03:18

Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

Certainly do, also from the old computers we had at school. I can still remember the theme tune now!

Ali · Mon 19/10/2009 11:56:34

Here's the perfect excuse to post this link to BBC4's Micro Men. (I'm afraid it's probably UK only.)

If you missed it, it's a comedy drama about the rival creators of the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro. Now that's entertainment!

Chicky · Mon 19/10/2009 18:12:50

Quote from: Intense Degree on Mon 19/10/2009 10:03:18
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

Certainly do, also from the old computers we had at school. I can still remember the theme tune now!

Seconded! I have all these vague mental pictures of spending lots of time outside and flying on a carpet, but IIRC it was a text adventure so they must've had good writers.

Calin Leafshade · Mon 19/10/2009 18:41:01

Grannys Garden is some scary shit.

Intense Degree · Tue 20/10/2009 10:39:43

@Calin

When someone mentions Granny's Garden that is the first image I think of! I can hardly remember the rest but I remember getting sent home loads, especially by the witch.

Check out a modern version of that funky theme tune here! 8)

Calin Leafshade · Tue 20/10/2009 14:04:49

35 quid for granny's garden... thats just amazing.

Intense Degree · Tue 20/10/2009 16:05:42

I know, I can't believe it is still going at all!

Calin Leafshade · Tue 20/10/2009 16:17:35

we should release kids educational games. granny's garden is hardly the pinnacle of lyrical finesse.

arj0n · Tue 20/10/2009 17:16:05

Well well, all you retro freaks out here. 8)

Since there are a lot peops that have played Granny's Garden some centuries ago,
I packed an Amstrad CPC Emulator Frontend with Built-In Emulator and included "Granny's Garden v3.2".
I also included a short "manual" called "Arj0n_HowTo.txt" so everyone should be able to run it.

Granny says click here! [1.77Mb]

Screenshot from Granny's Garden running on the emu

Calin Leafshade · Tue 20/10/2009 18:04:23

well thats just some new fangled high resolution thingy.

Viva La Original!

arj0n · Tue 20/10/2009 18:11:09

Could be, but it's the only one around...

Khris · Tue 20/10/2009 22:33:36

I found this site while searching for the original game. (Hope posting this is OK, everything on there is like 20 years old.)

paolo · Wed 21/10/2009 14:00:31

Quote from: Ben304 on Mon 19/10/2009 05:41:19
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?
We used to have this on an old Acorn computer at school, with about 8 floppy disks to run it.

We were one of the first schools in the area to have BBC computers. Ben, you're making me feel old!

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Thu 22/10/2009 17:30:43

My God. That's not a witch, it's CTHULHU!

kconan · Thu 22/10/2009 17:39:25

Haha. Yes, I'll take sound just don't slap me.