The places our retrocomputers lived | Tour of my childhood home

[@michaelcarey]

I know some will thing it's sad, but I still live in my childhood home (I'm 52). I purchased it from my parents around 35 years ago, I just didn't want to move any of my stuff! My original 1983 C64 and Amiga 500 are still set up in the same room. My parents used to run their business from home too, Dad was a professional photographer. What was once his photographic studio is now my home theatre.

[@RetroRecipes]

That’s wonderful!

[@incogneato6725]

In '84 I met a super cute girl at a church dance. I started a conversation and she asked me what my hobbies were. My mind quickly analyzed the possible answers, computers, and D&D. Both were nerdy, I was trapped, but at least computers said I was smart and had potential for a good career as an adult so I went with that and told her I had a C64 as well. She smiled and said she had an Apple II and loved to play this game that was a lot like D&D. Five years later we were married.

[@robactraiser182]

I watched this yesterday and it genuinely made me tearful.. in a good way (sort of)! I was filled with nostalgia for my own computer based childhood, but also given a warm fuzzy feeling inside by your amazing recall of your youth. It seems like you had a hard working father who provided you with a lovely home and a plentiful supply of computers and games to play with. While my own father was financially generous (he bought me most computers I showed an interest in, along with lots of games, extras and upgrades), my home life was not a happy one.. so it felt slightly like living vicariously through your video - to a nicer environment to enjoy all the retro memories! Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, thank you for the lovely video - it had a very strong emotional response from me and I feel better off for having watched it! Keep up the great work!

[@RetroRecipes]

You are very welcome Rob. Thank you for sharing that. It’s why I make these videos. 🙏

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

Well I left behind a continent (From RSA we moved in Europe/Greece), I left behind many homes (change 5 homes in different cities all over this country). There are two things I never left behind. My Atari 800XL and its daughter ....an Amiga 500. Now I call home a small island in a corner of the Aegean Sea where I am currently repairing, retro-bright and restoring both machines to their past glory.

[@_Tritonic_]

You created a 3d rendering of your childhood computer AND your childhood home? The dedication for this channel is remarkable!

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Not all of the house parts that he used regularly were 3D renderings, though.

[@Dethmeister]

Hey yeah, he should recreate the whole house in VR including his old computers that he can actually sit at and use.

[@newYorkStories]

a 3D rendering of my teenage bedroom - where my 64 and later Amiga lived, would break the CPU

[@JeffSmith03]

My first was Atari 800XL that I bought myself from lawn mowing money. Say in the living room the first year but my best memories are the setup in the closet of my bedroom where I really learned to program it and design the expansion board with the RadioShack speech synthesizer chip.

[@deathventure]

This is a little bittersweet for me. It brings memories of the home I spent the first 12 years of my life. I received my first Commodore 64 in the mid 90's, and was on it all the time. That house was torn down recently, no sign of it ever existing, minus pictures my mom has.

[@undergroundbass946fm]

The nostalgia was strong is this episode!

[@Robert08010]

If they ever give black mold an official name, I suspect it will be "Nostalglia" for that pungent odor that feels like home.

[@Jeffrey400]

You're lucky to be able to visit your childhood home and relive such fond memories. I appreciate you allowing us to come along. :-) I wish I had known you when we were kids, we would have had such fun.

[@RetroRecipes]

Undoubtedly! Never say never about visiting your childhood homes though. The two homes we lived in before this, I actually went and knocked on their doors in order to take photographs for a this is your life book that me and my siblings made for our parents. On both occasions they let me in!

[@Rockythefishman]

I only have a few pictures that remind me of my setups as a kids. Its amazing how one picture can bring it all flooding back. Things that were just throw away when I was young have now become very important to me. At least my own children will have thousands of pictures and videos to look back on.

[@jamesbaum4523]

This is the one retro computer channel I keep getting drawn back to watching as it often delves more deeply into the emotions than others we feel as retro enthusiasts and those magical early days of the home computer market and the memories we have with our parents..Awesome vid & awesome channel,long may it continue..!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@the-tree-art]

The best videos and Informationen over old Computer and Commodore Computer came from your Channel. Thank you

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@the-tree-art]

@@RetroRecipes always enjoyed watching your youtube channel ... best regards from lauenförde Germany !!!

[@Pholiage]

When I turned 6 we whent on a trip in the evening. Young as I was I didn't manage to keep awake. Woke up for a breif moment as the car stopped and we where off again. When we came home I was surprised by my father with a Commodore 64 set. The reason behind the trip. But I had no clue what it could do. After my father fired up Bubble Bobble I was hooked. I can still remember the room me and my younger brother shared. The C64 was hooked up to a 14" Salora TV with one of those protective glass panels in front of the main screen. I don't have the TV anymore. But I still own the Commodore 64. And is still working fine. Thanks for sharing your childhood memories.

[@Caseytify]

When I was a kid we still had transistor radios and no personal calculators. A computer that fit into a single room was tiny. When I was a senior in high school, I was introduced to computers via a 300bps TTY machine that hooked up to a university mainframe via acoustic coupler. The 1977 Trinity was released that fall. The prices on those systems were insane for someone in my income bracket.

[@RonLeblanc]

You know, I worry about being too nostalgic some times, but you really put me at ease. I do enjoy strolling down your memory lane. Thanks for the tour.

[@RetroRecipes]

You are so welcome!

[@thenargles]

You've done it again! The perfect amount of nostalgia and humour gently stirred together to bake a wholesome recipode. This must have been a very special visit for you. Thanks so much for taking us along with you.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@RainbowVomit768]

C64, Amiga, Star Wars and Pet Shop Boys. Basically the story of my life!

[@RetroRecipes]

Haha right?

[@Greedygoblingames]

Don't forget the Lego! Huge part of my childhood, especially the original space Lego ❤

[@RoyNeeraye]

You brightened the day of this middle-aged geek. Thanks for this wonderful video

[@RetroRecipes]

Aw cheers!

[@bitset3741]

I have 5 siblings, so I usually shared a bedroom. My old computers and game systems were setup wherever I could find a space. My first computer was an Atari 800XL, followed very shortly by a 400 and a while later by an 800 (yeah weird order) I set them up on card tables or on the floor in front of the TV. Same thing with the pong machine I had years earlier, a Coleco Telstar 6040 that I had to strip wires and splice stuff to get to work, and then a 2600 a little later. Good times. I ran most of that on a 18" black and white tv until I got a 13" color with the 800XL.

[@SirGalahard]

My Commodore Plus/4, together with its small TV monitor lived in a cupboard, that my father customized so that there was a sliding pad that slid out of the cupboard with the little Plus/4 on it. Thinking back, it was amazing design and craftsmanship! Thanks dad, love you!

[@Landrew0]

There's no use hiding it anymore, I'm addicted to that music.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yes!

[@Retrocatone]

Same! Added in few playlist on Spotify

[@MC001ful]

He does knock out some ear worms 🪱 I have also discovered Anders Enger Jensen via the 9 bit guv , loving it 😀

[@TimmyJoe633]

That was great to see. Part of nostalgia is not just fixing up old machines, but sharing the storys that made these machines so iconic and loved by us all. I had to share a room with my brother growing up, so alot of my retro consols had to be set up on the end of my bed by where the telly was, then packed away after so I could actually get into bed 😄 a computer table in the dining room was a very welcomed birthday present eventually 🤣.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks for sharing Tim. Say hi to the pup for us!

[@TimmyJoe633]

@@RetroRecipes will do, he's using his sister as a pillow at the moment 😄

[@heathwellsNZ]

I've posted a pic of my 1983 computer setup on your FB post Christian... My dad was a mechanic all his life (now retired) and was never interested in my childhood love of computers. The family's very first computer was an Atari 400 and that lived in my parents bedroom as that was the only location of a second TV in the house. My sister and I were only allowed to use it at certain times. As it transpired I was the only one with any real interest and after much nagging the computer was moved to my bedroom and upgraded to a 600XL with a memory expansion module (to this day I never found out why they didn't get an 800XL...). My childhood bedroom remained mostly the same and was used as a bedroom for when my own kids, and my sisters kids, came to stay with them... but once they were older my dad decided to get into the hobby of flight simulation on the PC... and boy did he get into it in a big way. I was highly amused as my techno-luddite (until then) Dad learning how to install and set up PC's and become quite the PC whizz... My poor mum to this day jokes about being a "computer widow" given the amount of time he spends on his PC. So yeah... the exact location where my childhood computer setup was... is now my Dad's computer setup area. I kinda think that's neat!

[@RetroRecipes]

Great photo. Very of the time. 👍🕹️

[@Greedygoblingames]

I remember managing to blow up my Speak & Spell by wiring it up to my ZX Spectrum when I was a kid. Not quite sure what I was expecting to happen. 🤣

[@RetroRecipes]

Nice idea though!

[@Gazzapa57]

Beautiful - I found it moving - I am often at loss to explain why some people like myself feel nostagia and others not much or at all. Nostalgia has an unusual quality of feeling in the body - a wonderful soup mixed of happiness, fondness, sadness and longing.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you. It may depend on the intensity of the source moment. You might like my Nostrilgia episode if you haven’t seen it too.

[@richpickings2845]

I had a section of the dining room in various forms for C64. The best being a crescent shaped couch in a corner with a makeshift desk. It kept the dreams alive through the Zzap days, playing Paradroid, running the audio through a stereo for super kickass SID action, onto the megadrive days playing SF II and Mortal Kombat till the sun went down.......the Amiga was in my brother's bedroom and that's another story. Happy days !!

[@pharone1]

I miss my Commodore 64, 64c, 128d, 128, and Amiga 500. I ran BBSes back in the day, and miss all of that a ton. I've looked many times at buying some of my childhood back, but in the end, I know it will never be the same as when I owned them back in the day. Love your videos.

[@pknaack1]

I grew up on a farm in northwest Iowa. My parents lived there from 1951 until Dad's death in 2015. Had the entire upstairs (dormer ceiling) to myself. I lived there from 1973 until 1992. As a young kid I played in the large grove of trees out back and disassembled and reassembled an old Alice Chalmers lawn mower dozens of times. First computer: SWTPC 6800; second computer: Radio Shack TRS80 Model III. Sitting in that upstairs room, I wrote hundreds of programs in assembly code, Pascal, and BASIC. Between 92 and 97 I spent summers there with various x86 machines learning C. When Dad died, the farm was sold and the buyer knocked all the buildings over, took out all the trees, and plowed it all under. It's now a cornfield. I don't even know where the computers went.... The last time I saw it was the day of Dad's funeral. Now that I know it's all gone, I won't even go there, I don't want to see it as a cornfield. I want to remember it the way it was.

[@RetroRecipes]

Sorry to hear that. May your memories endure forever.

[@perihelion7445]

I'm 47 and had to come home to my childhood home for 8 months here in Australia, had not been back here for at least 25 years. As with you I didn't really get any photo's (well a couple but nothing that really shows much), so I thought .. hmmm I'll try and set things up with my C64 and Amiga as best as I can but my old bedroom in the end got stored with moving boxes ☹☹ I used an Apple IIe but we had them in High School, I made a text Adventure on one, it's the machine that lit my imagination up but opted in the end for those wonderful Commodore Computers ✊✊ Awesome video mate 🤗🤗

[@shaynes.9773]

This video was outstanding. It was really cool to see digital recreations of your computer setups as a kid and a young adult. If money was no object, I probably would have bought each of the two family homes that I lived in over my life time, especially the one where I was in my teen years. I also wish I would have taken more pictures too-- especially when I was in my 20s and gigging in my first band. Not so much wanting pictures of people, but more the places I used to live and hang out at. When you are living it, a person thinks those places will be there forever. I am very glad you got to do this video and see your family home again. It is a wonderful way to pay tribute to someplace that is so special to you and have a video that you can look back on. Thank you for sharing these memories with us all.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you.

[@stargazersfield]

What an awesome video!!! Totally can relate to this. I WISH I could find the desk I had as a kid where my Commodore 64 sat. It was a GIANT wood desk my Dad bought when his employer was purging furniture. Nostalgia for the past really helps us reflect on where we came from and how we became the people we are. Loved this recipode

[@darkphotons101]

I love the ‘American’ to English translations, not only funny but surprisingly helpful. Say hi to Seven from me, lol

[@appliedengineering4001]

Ya, that definitely helps. Most people don't know that the brits call an apartment a "flat" or "pad". Also, instead of saying "for rent", they say "to let" as well. Another thing that was helpful to learn was the fact that the brits call cigarettes, "fags". I'm glad that I learned that before my trip to London because I had a guy on the streets there come up to be and ask for one. Had I not known what that meant over there. I would've took off running.

[@005AGIMA]

I love what you've done in this video so much mate. I miss my parents house in the UK. They still live there but...Covid and all that. Can't visit from Australia yet :( Very emotional at the end of this video as I know one day, that will be me saying goodbye to the place I grew up :( My memories.... 1) Playing Philips G7000 Video Pack at the bottom of the stairs (yes that's right) as there was no room anywhere else. And later, on a dodgy conservatory (lean to) that my dad built. Freezing but I stayed out there playing. 2) Playing electron in the living room when allowed, or sitting on the corner of mum and dads bed, using their little portable. 3) Spectrum +3: Same as above but eventually in my room shared with my brother. Tiny box room with bunks but we made it work. 4) Amiga as with 2 and 3. 5) PC's x2, SNES and Jaguar (not all at the same time but there was cross over) in my own room, the larger room, once my sisters moved out. As with you, pretty much zero photos from back then :( But we didn't have digital camera's remember. You had max 32 photos per film so they were saved for special occasions. We just didn't know how to define that back then ;)

[@RetroRecipes]

Nice! Hope you get home soon… but not too soon.

[@flash_bowski]

Been sat binging a lot of this channel last couple of days. I too wish I'd not only kept my old gear (but no one ever even thought retro would be a thing) and also wish I'd had some photos of my old setups over the years. It's all quite emotional.

[@GeirEivindMork]

I used three different rooms as bedrooms in our homes during the years. fun to see I wasn't the only one being moved around depending on needs.

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

Well... I teared up at the end when he was saying goodbye to the house. Reminds me of my childhood home which was completely destroyed by a hurricane. Toys, photographs, school papers, mementos, etc gone in a space of a few minutes. I remember coming from the shelter and looking at my block as if a giant broom had swept all the houses away only leaving the foundations. All I had left were my memories... and those are starting to go as well. Here's some advice... take pictures of everything and upload them to a safe location. You never know but they might one day be the only record you'll have of your life.

[@gazorbo.]

Damn... right in the feels. You've made me think back about my VCS, then ZX81, then C64, then A500, then A1200, about my friends and their Videopac, Intellevision, Collecovision, Vectrex, Apple IIe, ZX Spectrum, CPC464. Such a diverse bunch of kids and hardware. Not enough photos taken that's for sure ... sigh.

[@DrTofu83]

I too didn't take pictures of stuff. Luckily, my parents dumped all my old gear in a dusty, damp holiday's house (my grandpa's former house, long story there too). So I managed to reverse most of the damage done (I had just to replace/upgrade the lost 1541-II with a 1571 clone), get a new monitor and VCR (I had a monochrome one and had to bargain access to the VCR with the rest of my family) and rebuilt everything on the desk my father had in the office. I gave him the desk I used back then to keep a typewriter and I managed to rebuild everything else. Still, I miss having not taken pictures back then

[@RetroRecipes]

That’s great though!

[@DrTofu83]

@@RetroRecipes I spent two days cleaning and looking at why the power switch on that Master System II jammed despite some contact grease, before I found a big fat cobweb in the crevice of the switch itself :P Still, I remembered the same exact "relative position" regarding to the monitor of both and with some trickery and added switchers because also the original RF switch was lost in the ravages of times, I moved on S-Video and CVBS, I managed to do mostly everything as it was then. Save for a color monitor and a rotative switch instead of a lever one. Fun fact: As a kid, I would have found a color monitor an a rocker switch "really cool", so my inner child didn't really miss the original switch. Sometimes he misses the Philetta Royal I used the replace the green monochrome Philips CM80, but I wouldn't really use it as a monitor anymore. Just keep around and remember it

[@mrjsv4935]

Very nice and nostalgic video, really cool that you were able to visit the house from your childhood :) My parents have moved quite often, but there's one house I have the fondest memories myself, where we lived from December 1982 to March 1992, I was 8 to 17 years old during this period, I guess the "golden years". Got my first computer while living there, watched all those cool 80's tv-shows, like Knight Rider there, listened the cool 80's music, etc. The house still exists, but of course is owned by somebody else these days. I sometimes drive around in my childhood neighbourhood and nice memories keep coming to my mind :) Some things have changed, but in the big picture, the area still is largely the same as it was in the 80's. Good thing my dad took at least one pic of me as a kid using my first computer and one pic + vhs video about me using my second computer, the Commodore 64 C in summer of 1989, when I was 14. Sadly I sold my Commodore 64 in 1991, but still have my first computer, which is a Finnish brand Salora Manager, elsewhere known as a Vtech Laser 2001 ;) I even bought just for nostalgia a used Aiwa CS-250 cassette-radio in 2017, as we used to have it in the 80's :D Used to record music to tapes from radio programmes with it. Some of those cassettes were later re-used for my Commodore 64, but one or two cassettes still have some music recorded with our original 80's Aiwa :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Yes it’s all about those golden years. I do the drive by thing too! I actually knocked on the door of the house I grew up in before this one from age 1-10 and they let me in AND let me take photos!

[@garthhowe297]

Christmas morning, Dad tells me to burn the wrapping paper in the fireplace...so I toss it in, all at once, and start a chimney fire! Christmas is more exciting when the fire department shows up! Enjoyed the episode.

[@RetroRecipes]

Poor Santa !

[@michaelandrews4783]

The music editing and just enough gaps left in the visuals for your imagination NAILED Nostalgia, rename this show the nostalgia experience.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@RetroRepairGuy]

Fires, no, electrocution, check. A 9x10 bedroom with a nook. In the nook, a large Yamaha Keyboard elevated at an angle so as to fit a chair. Another desk along the wall where I should have had a dresser but instead a Commodore 64, two 1541, a 1530 cassette, and Commodore monitor. I don't remember where I put my clothes but then again I think I just wore the same thing every day as I sat in front of my C64. My wife would say nothing has changed then. BTW are you seriously 48? You look much younger! Cheers! Love the nostalgia and the quality videos; keep bringing it!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you! Playing with childhood nostalgia keeps me young!

[@McFluchtfahrer]

The first computer that I played on was my brother’s C64 Aldi Germany edition. After he didn’t want it anymore, my dad helped me set it up in my bedroom, hooking it up to my tiny tv. I Alexa had to turn my head to the left when I was typing 😅 But playing Ghostbusters and Donald Duck was more important than typing back then 😁

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

Back in the late 70's I lived in the family home in Essex. I had a small room but managed to have a Commodore PET and a huge GE Terminet 300 teleprinter that I interfaced to the PET and used as a printer. It remained there until I went to University (bit big to fit into student halls!) and after I graduated and moved around through several jobs I took it with me. I still have the PET in storage but the Terminet failed and was irrepairable (chips no longer available, and no internet to find them abroad...) so got dismantled and thrown away. Its a shame because nowadays I could probably get it working! While at university I bought an Atari 400 and wrote lots of programs for it, upgrading to an 800XL when they started being sold off cheap. A couple of years after that I bought a PC and have since been "PC all the wayyyyyy!" I still play with various retro computers and hope soon to start on restoring the old PET to relive the good old days!

[@RetroRecipes]

I see what you did there

[@JeffSmith03]

"Door broken do not close," but only written on the side you can't see until it is closed. Clever

[@DataWorldTV]

Ah, how I wish I'd taken more photos of various computer set-ups. Fortunately, I still own a number of my early computers including my VIC-20, Atari 800xl, and my Amiga 1500. I'm now extending my collection with the machines I wanted but didn't have back in the day, and documenting in my own video series #RetroNow. As for fires, my friend Chris and I managed to burn his kitchen down by leaving a chip pan on whilst engrossed in a game on his ZX81.

[@RetroRecipes]

Wow, so it was real chips not computer chips that dunnit!

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

Very cool. Not long ago, I went back home and found a lot of my STAR WARS toys (and toys from other genres) and gave them to my two young nephews. Even though part of me wanted to keep them on a display in my computer room, I take a bit of joy that my nephews are finding as much enjoyment from them as I did. That said: I didn't give them my old computers...or a few of the more collectible SW or Transformers toys.

[@eskey691]

Loving the dad jokes as always and the dogs face when you all went off camera was priceless. Watching this video has made me wish i had all the computers i had as a kid still my atari 2600, C16, C64, A500, A600 and my fav the A1200 but i still have that tbf (man i miss them days). Loved all your setups from back in the day and man you had far to many bedrooms lol, on a side note my desk lamp was red. As for your computer trolley you could always make one yourself for a bit of fun. As for the end of the video it took me right back when i left the family home for the last time it wasn't a nice feeling. Keep up the great work guys and roll on the next video, take care.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks! I do have recreating that trolley on the videos list 👍🕹️

[@JustinCardiff]

I live near my childhood home, in an identical type of house. I (not too seriously) thought about recreating the decoration from the old house when I was a kid, but wisely decided against it!

[@raymitchell9736]

Hey, I visited "Ore-eee-Gone" a few times. I'm glad I came along on your nostalgic journey back to your childhood home... I could feel your emotional attachments to that place and how it made you feel. I am still living in my childhood home, I inherited it in 2019 when my mom passed away. I can only imagine what it feels like to say "I will never be able to see inside of it anymore" and "you were a good home" Yes it was, always... but the magic is what we make of the house that really makes it a home. Cheers!

[@bigrichc8265]

48 years old!? I thought you were in the 30s atleast. Great video

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you! Good jeans. Or something like that.

[@RonHelton]

@@RetroRecipes LOL

[@JeffSmith03]

Closer to my age than I thought

[@madcommodore]

If you could recreate the world you inhabited in 1983 say in a POV VR setup or Holodeck type technology in the future it would go a long way to helping those of our generation who suffer with early onset Alzheimer's today. Half the beauty of retrogaming is your own memories and experiences of the unique viewpoint from when this was all cutting edge a couple of years at a time.

[@atomsbudgetreviews8713]

You've made my day! Seeing Lady Fractic in the bath!! OMG love =) And your 3 inch floppy.. and "organ trail" .. oh my.. i'm going to loose my mind! LOL

[@RetroRecipes]

Hahaha

[@phillow7749]

As much as I want to enjoy this i. The back of my mind is the reason for the move out of his childhood home. His parents are either going into a retirement house or have passed on. I recently cleared out my own childhood home. He’s handling it better than I did.

[@RetroRecipes]

My dad passed away a few years ago and at the time of filming this my mum was selling the house to downsize. Filmed the day I was leaving back for the USA. Thanks for your concern.

[@phillow7749]

@@RetroRecipes the clear out is very bittersweet. You can't keep the house and even if you could it's not 1985, but still you want to be able to walk into that house at any time and see it as you remembered it.

[@Robert08010]

When I was around 26, I remember buying a used mother board and 25mHz 286 processor from a guy and shortly after I arrived home, my dad told me to bring it downstairs. His ham-shack was in the basement. I was just chompin' at the bit to rip out my PC-XT mobo so I could install this one. But he was being adamant. So I brought it downstairs. He started taking it out of the box as if he was going to install it in his machine. And when I protested, he pointed to a box behind me. He had bought another mobo with a 33mHz 386 processor and gave that to me. I was about to move to Florida to attend Full Sail and he wanted me to have the best machine he could afford.

[@pda1799]

I have that Lego space station too - with monorail and craters… good stuff!!!!

[@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores]

The Beta 1 Command Base. I had it too.

[@_GeekyDad_]

I can remember my old box bedroom, it was only just big enough for a single bed and wardrobe so my dad had the C64 and TV on a metal desk that I would wheel into my room.

[@RonHelton]

You had a room? So many rich people on here. ; )

[@jameslangridge5878]

That ending was very sad 😢. My parents moved out from the family home t’up north about four years back; it was there that I had my spectrum, SNES and eventually first PC. Like you, I didn’t have photos of my retro setups, only one of my first self built PC. So wish we could travel in time….

[@stevesretroloft]

It reminded my of the last walk around mom and dads house, I was hoping to spend a bit more time but the buyers/solictor exchanged and completed on the same day with very little notice so I had a quick walk around with my Go-Pro to capture my memories (my retro stuff had long since been removed!)

[@Retrocatone]

We can feel the nostagia in this one. Thanks for bring us in our last tour in it, bring back to me some memories too of my childhood computers, houses and computer classes. All the fun stuff! Probably why I still today tinkering old computers, principally Apple ones

[@knightcrusader]

This makes me wish I had taken pictures of our family's first computer, it was in the back of my uncle's business he built into an old mobile home on my family's property. IBM PS/1 486 system. I remember spending many hot days and cold nights in that room just to play around with Windows 3.1 and DOS games. We didn't have the internet but I still learned to script HTML on that machine with Notepad and Internet Explorer 3.0 (back when we had to pay for browsers!). Oh and it got struck by lightning one night and the mouse port got fried, and our family couldn't afford to buy a new mouse, so I learned to operate Windows with just the keyboard - something I still do a lot to this day. Spent many days looking at magazines wishing for a CD-ROM or a sound card. Ah the nostalgia. I would do anything to be able to relive one of those days.

[@manuell3505]

This was where I found out how to play Doom against a friend with a analog phone link. Local calls were cheap but I still generated some impressive phone bills...

[@stephenbruce8320]

Worcester is an odd name for a cat. I am from Worcester MA and it was refreshing to hear it pronounced properly but many places in MA are difficult for most to pronounce properly. Thanks for sharing I think we all can think back to the time when we first started using computers with great fondness. I only have one picture myself and its was my nephew near a VIC20 setup on a B&W TV. That thing had so much RF problems we could not use it when the people in the next door apartment were home because it really messed up their TV Reception.

[@RetroRecipes]

It was actually Wooster after Jeeves & Wooster, the P G Wodehouse books and later Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry TV series. Yes the other cat was Jeeves 😊

[@stephenbruce8320]

@@RetroRecipes some write it that way and some write it WOOSTA. For me it's just home.

[@saxtonclassic4566]

The Compiler?

[@alextirrellRI]

They build a new high school behind my old one so they'll be knocking the old one down soon. Alumni were allowed to tour it a few weekends ago. I'll be a bit sad to see it go, but it's not in great shape so they really needed to replace it.

[@stephanepiquemal8297]

That reminds me of my parent's house as well with my room where I got my Amiga 500 on a wooden desk.

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

Aaaah nostalgia lane. Watching your episodes always gets me to tracking down the hardware I got, the games I played,....And they make me spend money again :) Thx for the tour around your house!

[@sofascialistadankulamegado1781]

So you also came downstairs to play with your 3 inch floppy? Lol! 😄 So relatable.

[@carriageofnoreturn.1881]

Regarding the Olympia typewriter repair - first thing to try is a little sewing machine/general purpose oil on the bar that the printing mechanism runs along, and to then gently push the mechanism along to spread the oil... it's the part that often dries out and then seizes up. Good luck with it. And another good video by the way!

[@RetroRecipes]

Great tip thanks!

[@Eos_Galvus]

Memories? Well, I remember my first computer. My parents had bought a house the year before and used their tax return the year after to but a shiny new Packard Bell PC with Windows 95, and set it up in the spare bedroom. I spent hours with the internet and chart, and my favorite game for it was Sim City. My parents ended up giving me the machine when they got a Dell when I was 16 and despite his problems, I loved that PC and used it heartily until I was21, when thje old hard disk finally just gave up the ghost and began throwing write errors. I ended up with the poor thing in the bin when a friend gave me a new one for my 21-22nd birthday, an old E-Machine. I still miss that old Packard Bell and the accompanying monitor, speakers, and things. It had a CD-r with something like 6-8x speed, a floppy drive, and a massive 2 gig hard drive! Before my Packard I only had access to school computers: Macs, Apple IIes, and, in middle school, in art? My first access to a microcomputer in the 90s, at age 11-12? A Commodore 64 in my Art Classroom for post-project fun. Good times.

Lovely video, thank you so much to share your memories with us.

[@RetroRecipes]

It's my pleasure

[@craftsman123456]

So true. We just didn't take photo that much back then. Just cost too much. I still have a few of the posters but wish I had photos of both bedrooms.

[@00Skyfox]

That typewriter might be the same model I learned to type on in high school, or at least is very similar. Anyway, if I wanted to recreate my childhood C64 setup, all I'd have to do is swap the Commodore 1702 color monitor for a 9" Zenith B&W TV, _which I still have._ Still have the original 1541 drive we got in the 80s, and all my old disks. The only thing that's missing is our original C64 that we bought brand new when the VIC-20 died. I still have that C64, but it's been scrapped for parts. And I have plenty of other breadbins to take its place. (Still have the original box, too! I'm a packrat for stuff.)

[@koztech]

"Organ Trail" - Ha ha! This is an actual game. Zombie horror-survival game in the style of Oregon Trail.

[@GeeFunk84]

Sounds like a GTA side mission.

[@razorrs25]

Back then I had a Spectrum and my friend just bought an Atari ST with Carrier Command. I could not believe how good that was, the feeling of flying for the first time.

[@RetrogradeScene]

Great video! Amazing to be able to capture your childhood home. You really did have so many great machines growing up.

[@PaulinesPastimes]

I probably had more different bedrooms than you but they were in different houses! Did you have bedroom envy back then? 😄 The 3D recreations are great and something you can look back on in future times. I used to drive around Sydney (where I grew up) to all the houses we lived in. Some are still there with alterations and others gone. The feeling of driving down a street to see a familiar house and seeing a completely different house is quite unbalancing. In the end, it became too depressing so I stopped it. You grew up in a beautiful house and you are fortunate to be able to capture it in images and video. 😊❤

[@cutter6900]

Go to Retro Recipes to see a new video about childhood computers... go away excited for the Olympia typewriter restoration! ;) Great episode - loved how you integrated the CGI and photos with your childhood house.

[@garyl5128]

I love nostalgia and know exactly where you're coming from! I get nostalgia from the same things, like Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga, amongst others (and why I love your chip tunes so much), and grew up reading The Mighty World of Marvel etc so get a huge nostalgia kick when I read the very early 60s comics. I have some similar memories with friends back then as you do. Great days...

[@GeorgesChannel]

Great nostalgic episode. I can relate to your feelings!

[@UnholyTriforceDelenn]

This was in the late 90s, but when I was a preteen, I spent countless hours in my bedroom at my old house, recording songs off the radio onto cassette tapes in my room using my mom's old boombox. It was a dual cassette machine, so I could easily create mixtapes of all the music I loved. By 2000, I had a PlayStation (PS1) in there, and my first TV (a 12" Orion model that I still own and use today for retro games), and I would play games in my bedroom while playing back those mixtapes on that lovely old boombox. Unfortunately, I don't have any computer memories from that time, because I didn't get my first computer until 2005, and I was living in a completely different house by then. However, my first computer was a Compaq (a mini desktop model that lay flat on the desk with the monitor stood on top of it) that originally came with Windows 98, that I eventually upgraded to first ME (hated that) and ultimately to Windows 2000 before maxing out its capabilities as far as OS. I even downgraded it back to Windows 98 during the later part of the time I had it because I loved that OS the most out of the 3 I'd experienced. Sadly, when I got a new computer running Windows XP (and it's only just occurred to me that it was less than a year later that this happened), I felt I had no use for the Compaq and since no one would buy it I donated it to PCs for Kids. It's funny, but the new computer I bought has less memories overall for me, and one really horrible one. It was an eMachine (those who remember them probably know why I have a horrible memory of this computer) and looking back, even though I had them both for roughly the same amount of time, I have many more memories of the Compaq (all of them very fond), including the time I spent importing my music CDs on it and listening to Enya whilst I did my college prep homework. I had always wanted to get into older computers (such as those featured in the 1983 film "WarGames") and I love that my first computer, while not of the same era, was at least a retro computer at the time that I owned it.

[@backinthegame34]

Great video ! I have kept all my old computers. Carrier Command was very addictive on the Amiga. Elite on the 64. Karateka on the Apple IIe.

[@rylar717]

Nursery School - fancy word for Pre-school :-) Love your videos with your family - you spend a lot of time editing I can tell!

[@RetroRecipes]

Oh boy you’re not wrong!!

[@GHickling]

wow I owned an Hinari sunrise, thats a blast from the past............. Love your content RR

[@RetroRecipes]

Haha did you get it at Boots? We did.

[@jenshaberkorn7777]

Such a good video! I love it! Keep on going!

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks Jens! We shall!

[@GeeFunk84]

Partly because of my love of this channel; I bought a C64 for my 37th birthday some time ago. The one I used to have has been gone for some reason and I thought it was time to reconnect with those memories; the SID-chip is busted on this one, but nevertheless I'm still having a ton of fun.

[@RetroRecipes]

That’s great! Keep an eye out on fleaBay for a new SID chip!

[@GeeFunk84]

@@RetroRecipes been religiously watching Adrian's Digital Basement for tips if it comes to fixing it on my own :D

[@neophytealpha]

When you said recreating your old setup using a modern computer, that was not the direction I was thinking. Thought you were going to have a modern computer that looked like your old setup.

[@squirlmy]

I'm older than Perifractic, but I'd still worry about my mum seeing such nostalgia and saying, "See! You didn't get out enough, you were cooped up in there with your computer and not playing outside! You probably don't even remember what the back yard looked like!" And considering how much more my humble social skills served me in employment than my actual computer skills, she may be right!"

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Video FANTASTICO!,complimenti.

[@fulviosilvanofontana]

I'm leaving the apartment (and the town) where I've lived this past six years. It's not easy. I'm taking picture of everything... and now I'm thinking to recreate the apartment in VR! 🤔

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Thanks for sharing, Chris! But sad story at the end. Why won't you be able to see the inside of that house ever again in this life (at least as far as you suppose now)?

[@RetroRecipes]

My mother was in the process of selling it when this was filmed and I was flying back to America

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@RetroRecipes: Oh, I'm sorry, how sad. In case you don't mind my butting in, why does she feel the want or need to sell it after all ths time? And what would she do instead?

[@kcharles8857]

Watching 'Retro Recipes', cold beer in hand.....aaah must be Sunday afternoon in Adelaide SA. :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Have a nice lunch!

[@pnvgordinho]

Wasn't the Microsoft Sidewinder the first joypad to bring the phrase "plug and pray"?. :)

[@andydurbin8309]

That was a very good stroll down memory lane. And it appears a very emotional one also. 😔 I have some good memories of my childhood home and mine has been totally redesigned. it got sold and remodeled. I send my good vibes and care to you and your family, and perifratics Mum. Mommafratic.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you Andy. Remodelled or not may they forever stay standing.

[@8bitsinthebasement]

Another great video, but man, the ending's sad. Always hard to say good bye... especially when it's to a place that had such an impact on you. But great video ;)

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Lovely video, really liked the 3d renders.

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you like them!

[@mark12358]

What a GREAT idea! Your channel is an invaluable source of beauties! Cheers, M

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@mark12358]

@@RetroRecipes Thanks for sharing this passion! Looking forward for the next Lego video!

[@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio]

Wow, that bedroom would be like Buckingham Palace if you're living in London! I bet it's worth over a million pounds by now.

[@RetroRecipes]

Well, outskirts of London...

[@Dethmeister]

Those 3d renderings look so real.

[@anakondase]

My gawd, I have probably talked to you then. I remember calling once to UK when I had an issue with B&P that I just couldn't get sorted. Don't remember what it was about though, it's been a while! And I wrote this earlier from my own channel instead of my browsing account... :P

[@markyboy7618]

Come on you guys and people. You should be on TV. With your direction. It's brilliant. Kids would love this it's like Blue Peter. But better. I just hope this is paying for you lot. Puppy kids and all.

[@Reed-Publications]

That was a very cool trip down nostalgia lane! 👍

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you liked it fellow ЯR !