Wow.... I read this whole thread and feel like I'm some kind of weirdo.... Most of them would have been awesome presents.... I remember the rattle me bones advert... Never got anything that up market... We were never a poor family... But everyone else seemed to think buying utter shit in the January sales was the way to go.... I remember being 14 and getting an echo mike... This shitty plastic microphone thing with a spring inside to have a echo effect... Bear in mind at 14 I could get served for booze in a pub getting a luminous pink microphone was a bit of a kick in the balls... Specially as the gran who got me it for some reason gave me a video of a lingere catwalk show.... Wow... On writing that I realize my family is a bunch of f*cking retards and perverts... Explains a lot really.. Lol... Not long after I requested money to but my own shit..... Probably not better as I always managed to wait to buy the latest console 2-3 hrs before they gave it a 50% reduction.... Happened with ps2, n64 Dreamcast and PS3,... Twats...
P.s. the zx spectrum was amazing!!! That's why I still have 3!!! And have just built one from a board... Lol!!
