big_wig_074

im trying to remember the name of a tv i used to LOVE as a child,im sure it was called run the gauntlet or something?it had pro motocross riders and jetski riders in it competing against each other doing jetskiing and motocross etc and the last challenge ended in them climbing a net over a lake and setting off fireworks at the top.does anyone else remember this program?and any links to it?id love to see it again!!!

philram

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http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/inde...n_the_Gauntlet

dazoriginal

i remember a similar programme being named. kickstart
mainly motorbikes it was good though

big_wig_074

awesome!!!!!now to find some footage!
kickstart was just trials riding wasnt it?run the gauntlet was amazing!

dazoriginal

trials trails yes was great

rs shawn

Remeber both of those.
Kickstart music was class Dougie Lampkin was the "junior" star at that time. Still a champion rider I believe nowadays.

Smiggy

Another one was Superchamps

Used to be teams from Scotland, England, Wales & NI. Racing against each other on quads, hovercraft etc

I auditioned for this when I was younger and got through only for Channel 4 to pull the plug on the series. Wankers!! - was my dream to be on that show when I was a kid.

philram

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superchamps... thats the one i really remember, gary crowley hosting it

Chip

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I had the kickstart computer game in about 1987, it was the business

big_wig_074

spectrum or commodore?

Chip

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I cant remember if it was on my spectrum 48 or my mates commodore 64, as it was 20 years ago now, can just remember playing it a lot!

Stavros

I had the Run The Gauntlet computer game on the C64 i think.



Used to love the TV prog too.

Dont remember anything about it barring it was good. Forgot it even existed till this thread.

Graceland

We had Kickstart on the C64 - what an awesome game, a regular cunting tape loading error used to piss me off big time tho

Stavros

I remember I had a 5.25inch floppy drive for my C64.

It was HUGE, i mean bigger than a fucking shoebox

Games loaded quick, but had even more fucking loading errors than the tapes

philram

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tapes.. remember them on my zx81, 17min to load a game in black and white with no sound and full of errors, .. wasn't it 3/4 bass, full treble on the cassette player?

Porkie

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RichardPON

Run the Gauntlet was class!

Almost as good as the go-karts at the end of Pat Sharp's Fun House!

big_wig_074

i never had a c64 i had a vic20 instead that i had to write my own games for (you bought a book of games then you wrote the codes onto the pc and recorded them onto blank tapes!!!!it took AGES!! )
then i got a spectrum 128,which was awesome,but by that time the amiga 500 was out which blew my mind!

Chip

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I progressed from my spectrum onto a 1024 Atari ST, which I talked my parents into buying me to "do my homework on"

My mum pulled the master stroke of saying it was no use for homework unless I could type, passed me a manual type writer and said "when you can do 40 words a minute let me know and I will buy you one"

Aged 12 I think I was, and I spent 16 hours a day for 10 days in the holidays practicing and she was true to her word (if a little surprised it only took me 10 days, lol) and bought me it.

COMEDY DAN

I had cartridges in my atari 2600.

What a pile of shite that was, but good fun in the 80's.

Stu.H

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Graham S1

I'll see your 64's, and lower it... I had Kickstart on a Commodore 16! Some of the later levels (13 and up?) were a RIGHT bitch.

16k of ram...... My watch probably has more than that these days.

Stu.H

try using a zx81 graham

1K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



oh and the zx80 had 512 BYTES of RAM, but that is a bit old even for me

Stavros

Even one of them cry icons is nearly 2k

and some of the more complex are 10 or so

Computers have moved on a little

Chip

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I remember the ZX81, my mates dad had one, but it was a 48K that I first started programming on.

That seemed like plenty of memory then too!
(mind you, I was only about 8, lol)

Stu.H

I used to program on the ZX81, only copying from books, was about 6 or 7 I think.

I remember trying to set up a super small dimension array, and it used all the memory. Then when you pressed a key, you had to wait about 5 seconds for it to come on the screen.

Oh, and what was that keyboard about??

philram

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i've still got my zx81... you had to make sure you didn't press the buttons to hard or it would crash and you'd loose everything you programmed in.

the best game for it was '3d monster maze' but you needed the 16k ram pack for that

Paddy

Christ that's brought some memories back!

Run the Gauntlet was made in Hawley woods that backs onto my parents house. I remember cycling over on my BMX [raleigh burner with yellow mag wheels ] to watch them make it.

It was a shit show though

rs shawn

We had both. Felt so post having a commodore 64
Think it was around the £200 mark at the time. Quite expensive.
Next time I go to my bids house I'll get a photo of Kickstart on tape.