I'm disappointed your PC isn't cheap poundland tat soldered together to create some terrifying Frankenstein's monster computer that runs on Megaduck cartridges and the dust from the tops of years-old Hunger Breaks cans.

"And of course, most importantly, GORF is FROG backwards" Hell yeah it is.

Jesus christ. I was not expecting this.

I take it that your current PC is cooled with liquid filth?

I will cry the happiest tears of joy if Stuart and LGR could do a collab video on classic computers.

Glad you had better luck with Overclockers. I spent over a grand on a pre-built PC in 2008, it died after a week, sent it back, they returned it a month later, hard drive dead. Sent it back again, got it back, graphics cards were hanging off, inner case bent up. They refused to replace it in its entirety, and to add Insult to injury, while they were fucking about with it, the price had gone down to 800 quid, while I couldn't use it, and refused to refund the difference. (I know no one cares, but I felt better for saying that, since their service was atrocious)

Your videos always make me feel homely, although I'm not from the UK my main language isn't English and I can't relate to most of the things you talk about. Quality content, thanks Ashens.

Surprised you don't have a Poundland branded PC.

Love the new PC! Black suit, red tie, and RGB everything else!

Bloody hell, that’s a lovely PC.

Still have my Commodore 64 and Amiga. Great gaming and learning machines. Had a huge Public Domain library with a lot of people making their own games with the likes of AMOS and such.

6:40 I think that mystery key is actually the "Any" key.

have you looked inside the frame of your couch yet? there's a magnavox odyssey in there i just know it

The Gamechild build is incredibly impressive. Massive props.

Does this particular PC say hello when it's turned on?

Oh MAN, the nostalgia with Pinball Fantasies and Legends. Never did play the third game that much, but I remember enjoying the other two on my parents' Amiga. Well, when I wasn't playing Rainbow Islands, anyway. That game was my jam.

Whatever happened to the one Overclockers were sending me? :S

Truly an exciting era to have computed, at home, personally.

When a CPU has been sat in a drawer longer than you've been alive. Oh the times we live in.

Oh, I can get my own Ashens PC minus the logos? "£4,499.99" Yeah... Maybe next lifetime.

That PC deserves a PC master Race salute

This video is the story of my life. 1st computer ZX Spectrum +2 and endless hours of programming on its crappy 48K Basic, until I finally got the courage to turn to its 128K Basic editor. 2nd Computer, my first PC Pentium MMX200 64Mb RAM on a SOYO motherboard, Graphics card the Allmigthy Diamond Viper V330 with the Riva 128 chip, and Quantum Fireball HDD with 3.2 Gb, quickly replaced by the same model, but with 5,1 GB capacity and a 33,6 Kbps analog modem. Thanks man for the memories. Keep up and Stay Safe.

I still have an Amiga games collection and a C64 games collection CD on the shelf And holy cow, your gaming PC is amazing!

1MB!?!, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Nice, a history of Ashens. Thank you.

hey, nice shoutout to the Nostalgia Nerd. He is like a british LGR :)

Last time I was this early Ashens was reviewing the Chiptendo Vii...

This is giving me nostalgic flashbacks to listening to you talk about Spectrum games back when I was still in middle school. I'm old enough to have graduated college now, so, y'know, there's one to grow you up a bit.

How utterly charming. Thanks for sharing, Stuart.

Brilliant video. Thanks

Woo Gorf I was so lucky my parents had a video store with Gorf and Kangaroo arcade machines, the arcade version voice was awesome

That custom backplate on the 1080Ti is awesome! The custom glass panel is, as well, of course. One cool thing about VIC-20 is that it tends to transcend country/continent lines as people's first computer. I've seen plenty of people from the US, the UK, elsewhere in Europe, etc, say that the VIC was their first machine. That's kinda cool when you think about it

Good on you for including the absolute best part of Pinball Illusions in that little clip. *_"IJUSTLOVETHOSEFLAMES!"_*

This one was a lot of fun to watch. And wow, that GORF port does look pretty slick! Its fast and so colorful.

I'm glad you have a new PC and camcorder. When I watch reviews of Poundland air fresheners or whatever, I want them to be in 4k.

I love listening to you Stuart, I find you invigorating Xx

ZX Spectrum +2 was the first gaming system I ever owned, I believe it was Christmas '93. I had the James Bond bundle and a literal box full of games, half of which actually worked.

My first was a ZX 81. I owned lots of books with games in it that you could type over. Oh the tension when you would run it (and it would never run fine the first time of course!) Games were hard to get and quite expensively, so I got creative instead. I still love to fiddle with code and software to this day.

My God, that is an amazing PC. Good luck with it Ashens!

Great video, always interesting to hear people’s computer time line. That PC is just mega, I haven’t had a new PC myself (besides high spec laptops for dev work - but they suck in the graphics department) They did an excellent job with putting it together the attention to detail is fantastic.

Well as stealth adverts go this was very enjoyable. Nice to see a spread of machines across the brands.

The A1200 you described is pretty much the same as mine with the 25mHz accelerator(probably the same one, with the magic co-processor or whatever) with 6mb of RAM and a CD-ROM drive connected to the side via a Squirrel. Just instead of fancy pants video capture, I went for a fancy pants 56k modem and browsed the internet incredibly slowly with a browser I can't remember the name of that looked like Netscape.

Ashens mentioning Quake II is just golden

God DAMN! Your pc is glorious! Nice vid too

I may need a moment alone after seeing that PC.

That pinball table in pinball illusions is more than a little inspired by Appleseed

Gorf was arguably one of the very first arcade games which had an end-boss. Great upload.

I'm kinda disappointed Ashens' current PC isn't a sleeper build. Ya know, those modern PCs in old computer cases.

There is no pain quite like that of loading a Spectrum game from tape for about half an hour only for it to either: 1. Turn out to be utterly unplayable garbage. or 2. It doesn't bloody work.

Respect the nod to Slam Tilt. The 'Ace of Space' music remains etched in my brain - what a table!

I love older computers. They’re just charming in my opinion. Edit: forgot the s at the end of computers.

Hahahah that's UNREAL: Back in 1996 i had my first PC and it was a Pentium 166 (wich later i overclocked at 200Mhz) and the video card was a Matrox Mystique!! :D :D The coincidence is unbelievable. Except I live in Italy and I don't have a brown sofa.

First love these old computer videos keep it up matey

My 1st computer was also a gift from my uncle. A Texas Instrument something that takes cartridges. Used to play Hunt the Wumpus on it. But my favorite thing to do was open up the massive manuals it came with that contained programing code. I would spend hours at just age 7ish putting in code that would allow a ball(black blob really) bounce across the screen once.

that new pc of yours is amazing

Im so glad I've grown up around modern technology, old computers are so clunky! Yet there is something charming about them

I think what we can take from this was "those were the days" great vid 👍

My first computer was a 486 running DOS version 4 back in 94, 95. I attribute my early literacy to having to learn to type in the commands to actually play the games. Jazz Jackrabbit was a favorite, and of course I would sneak in a bit of Doom when my mom wasn't looking.

Your current pc is gorgeous, both in spec and in design!

Ashens, I am genuinely envious of your current PC.

Also got try ZX Spectrum +2 for Christmas ‘86. I was 11 and my sister was 9. Played Tapper, Nomad, Amazon Woman and a Daley Thompson game. Nomad was the favourite.

Take a sip everytime Stuart says "Those were the days". I dare you.

Well, I have or had all these computers, but at the PC-end, I got by then a K6-2 300 and a Voodoo 3 AGP. The first Graphics Card I ever bought. It was a gift from the gods and I still have that card.

I've never really been a PC gamer, being raised on NES and Sega Genesis as a 90s kid from Canada, but this video makes it damnedably tempting to get in on that action.

First Computer: ZX-81 kit. Screwed up the soldering work(bye-bye $50), so my dad bought a TS-1000. Second Computer: C64. Third Computer: TI 99/4A. Fourth Computer: Generic 486. Fifth Computer: Amiga 1200. Sixth Computer: long series of custom-built Pentium and Opteron machines.

The thing I remember most about the Atari ST is the sound, the music on all the Atari ST versions of games is the best, Turrican 2 springs to mind.

Everyone has to do a video like this - great idea! If I think Spectrum I think Monty Mole - Think Amiga and think Speedball 2- there's an App somewhere in this too!

Take a shot every time Stuart says "Those were the days."

Dizzy games were my jam in the 80s, loved my little 48k spectrum

I came to the “gathering of terror” and it was so good seeing all the old computers! Good times (pizza was good too haha)

OMG! I love this!

Advent was PC worlds own line, often made in Germany, which was why I had to learn how to do DOS in German as well as English.

Still got my Commodore 64, had too many games to name but navy seals, Robocop 3 and flimbos quest were some of my favourites

Been waiting for another old computers video. And it wasn't uploaded in the middle of the night!

I remember Gorf! I really liked it because it simulated several of my favorite arcade games

Thumbs up for starting on the Sega Saturn, "the programmer's machine". I also started on a C64. Not a Vic20 but I was aware of them lol

I love the slow pan on Peter's face.

This gave me goosebumbs. My first computer was the spectrum 48k, until my little brother broke it. The we upgraded to the spectrum 128k, this was the one i remember the most. Renegade was so good.

I had a Sinclair Spectrum 128k and I bloody loved it.

Your new pc is gorgeous. They really did a wonderful job. Also, now I really want to play Diablo again.. :)

That's a brick wall of computing power you have there. Should last you about 5 years or more. Hope you enjoy it for years to come!

A nice nostalgia trip

I've got a Vic20, switchable memory expansion, datasette, lots of games, I'd be more than happy to donate it, seriously! I've got a couple of joysticks too. It's just gathering dust really. I met you on the book tour last year. If you're interested, I'll send details

I loved the +2, played that til the 90s

I *loved* Diablo/Hellfire! About a year ago I fired it up again just to see how it held up; you need a few patches to get it to run on a modern machine. It's definitely aged, but assuming you're in the mood for nostalgia, you can pleasantly knock out a few afternoons with it since the dungeons are always randomized and you get new stuff each time. The Hellfire expansion was great and it's a shame it didn't get better reception; I particularly liked the bug alien demons or whatever they were. Surprisingly there is a modern, active modding community for Diablo 1 called "The Hell" where they basically just ramp up the difficulty to 1000. Clicking on skeletons was somehow made much more difficult.

Wow that new PC looks awesome

Gorf was one of my favorites. Pretty sure I had it on my Atari 800xl, but had so many systems it's difficult to remember for sure.

Great what a blast from the past

What if I want an extended docuseries on you computers, Ashens? One hour per computer!

That's the first game I thought of when you said Vic 20 . It was such a good game for its time .

I've still got that exact model of the Spectrum in my loft. Haven't fired it up in over 25 years though.

If you do get round to getting a VIC 20, I highly recommend also getting a Penultimate+ Cartridge from 'The Future Was 8 bit'. I recently bought one (trying not to shamelessly self promote, but I reviewed it on my channel)... and it blew me away. Multiple RAM expansion configurations, file browser for use with SD2IEC storage devices, and around 70 games, all built into one cart.

I had all the Amigas over a number of years... Amiga all the way!! :)

Sticky Keys at 8:05

I used to own both a Vic20 & a Commodore 64. Loved them, especially the latter. I had Gorf as well, but for the Colecovision. A very good port, considering the hardware limitations. Good times.

You had me at Amiga 1200.

I remember my folks purchased me the A600, and then the A1200 came out about 6 months later, so what we had was instantly obsolete.

Brings back memories of when I used to build myself a new PC every year.

Nice computer collection Ashens.

I like the way the Renegade dude does a 'dad run' to get around