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Came across a website by a bloke called Andy Noble. He rewrites classic retro games for the PC.
If you had a ZX Spectrum then 2 of the biggest games going were Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy nut then click the links to download the modern versions.

http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=mm (http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=mm)  Manic Miner
http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=jsw (http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=jsw) Jet Set Willy

Just like 1982 again :)

Both great games, mate


Anyone else like Pitman7 for the Spectrum

All of Julian Gollop's games were great, but 'Chaos' was never surpassed in Speccy gaming!

(http://bestofcpc.webcindario.com/imagenes/chaos.png)

Technician Ted was where it was at.

Nice find Gatsby, great games.  I liked Technician Ted too, my dear departed Grandad bought me that from the newly opened Savacentre about 20 years ago (or when it first came out)

Ah the half hour of loading games by tape only for it to have a drop out on.  Happy memories :D

Awesome, they've put some cheats in too!

I wonder if it poke or peek or whatever it was on the speccy :D

Break?

i used to go into john menzies on our high street


and used to put a poke code into the speccy on display which caused it to freeze up,,with a multitude of colours and beeps

much to the consternation of the staff who had to unplug the power lead when they eventually realised it was buggered up

as we hid sniggerring behind the jigsaw stand...



i used to play the fall guy and of course football manager with its matchstick footballers...peter crouch was motivated by this game i hear

Are you a professional computer hacker now?

If u suddenly find your mouse icon has turned into another symbol and starts wandering around the screen  then u will have your answer

lol

 :D

If you fancy playing the originals then you can get them all (and emulators to play them on) here:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

I love Bongo again  :D

gah, I'm addicted to Manic Miner now!

Could use the infinate life cheat if anyone knows it!  I used to be quite good at this, now I can only get to level 4 :(

I still have my ZX Spectrum.

I forgot about Paperboy.  I loved that game  :D

I still have ALL my ZX Spectrums (went through about four of them :D)

So much fun to wander through 'Target Renegade' after school.

 ;bump;

Anyone else realise that the Spectrum celebrated its 25th Birthday yesterday?

No, me neither... which makes me feel bad. SO, belatedly -

 ;charmaine; ;charmaine; ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;charmaine; ;charmaine;

We will never see the like again; gameplay over graphics, substance over style... and games so tough they made you want to cry. Even when you had seven lives to get it done.


In honor of that, here is a video clip of someone actually COMPLETING Jet Set Willy.....

http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/videos/jsw.php

You rubber-keyed beauty, you stand alone.

Charmaine misses one  :o

 ;charmaine; to the machine.

Jet Set Willy has to be the best.
 ;sark;

that one where you were an explorer dude in 3D going through the dungeons then every ten minutes you would uer uer uer change into a wolf, meet wizards etc. what's the name??? argh. amazing game. more fun than the modern supervisual effects.

the reason games are so easy to beat nowadays is to get people spening more money on the sequal


long live the speccy (can i say that without being accused of bullting)

i personally think it ruled the fact its so fondly remembered by everyone that used it shows its class
the c64 owners all seem ashamed to say they didn own the beast

Knight Lore?


One of many "ultimate - play the game" games that used to waste away many an hour in the monkeyboy treehouse!! :)up

more of a vic 20 man myself but i did like the variety of spectrum games. Loved manic miner mostest.

The Hobbit?

The hobbit used to be an adventure game on the spectrum where you had to actually type in your instructions - getting locked up to get the key off the goblin used to take forever and i was forever being watched by the "big bulbous eyes"! :D

Yeah! The "Bulbous Eyes" drove us mad, then my mam would put the kettle on and it would crash.

Haha my c64 pwned you all!

Although i have to say Head over Heels was a classic speccy game that was ported across unadorned and was very good.

(http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/issue-art/vanlooy/figure2c-full.jpg)

Yeah, that's the one cheers, KNIGHTLORE. Weird how graphics that are basic (pardon the pun) by today's standards still allowed for great gaming, this title really grabbed me. I couldn't find a download emulator that worked, but this nondownload JAVA version is good

http://www.sonic.net/~surdules/projects/jzx/

Controls are z a q  1 to pickup special objects

Addictive!

1986??????????????????????????????? Where the **** did 20 years just go???

They did a similar game not long after which was also just as good called Alien8 - it wasn't long after though that the games took a turn for the worse. I wasnt particularly keen on a game Underwurld that came out at the same time as Knight Lore but then a few of the titles like Gunfright and Pentagram that were based on similar concepts weren't that good.

Chuckie Egg and JetPack where my ifrst games. I got it for xmas in the early 80's and they were the only 2 games I had for ages......

Oh such fun times.......

The Commodore 64 was king, many arguments at school...speccy vs c64, they all got a commodore in the end. The sound was amazing for its time. Both had great games though when playability was the main thing and many original games.

Thing on a spring, Gribblys day out, Paradroid....nowadays all first person shooters.

Yeah 25 years gone quick, crikey 60 will come fast then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You must have went to a lame school if you were all C64. Speccies were the shizzle.

*draws line down centre of forum - hangs 'C64 people smell' banner*

Lol the graphics and sound were in a different league!

Beep beep speccie.....oops this turning into the playground arguments again...lol.

Everyone had speccie's just like everyone has tomtom sat's. Funny how the really shitty brands become market leaders :P

Speccy had soul.

Speccy games were oftentimes made by one person, so they were a claritive vision.

Tough to complete games coz you couldn't save. You stuck at it though, as you didn't want to sacrifice all that loading time. It taught us all patience and perseverence. Quality's sadly lacking in today's hang outside the off licence, spectrumless youth.

Why stay in school when you have cheat modes? We had to work for it my day, pressing break and changing the code to give you more money in football management games was my personal fave.

To hell with the transit van, the spectrum built this nation.

 rotflmfao

Blonde quote of the year.

Sad story.

I was meant to be getting a speccy for Christmas and some barsteward of a salesman convinced my parents that the Atari 130XE was a far better computer.

Man it sucked.

My favourite speccy game was Sabrewulf however all of the the Ultimate games were great.

Talking of retro gaming as anyone found a working emulator for the BBC B.
Love to see if I could complete a level of Frak.

Play in your browser

http://www.drobe.co.uk/micro/

Cheers Bongo

We could play Jetpac and Chuckie Egg for hours; every level was basically the same, but did we care?

Ultimate Play The Game were superb as well; they had a distinctive style that carried over their whole output; back in the day you saw the brand name and knew you were getting quality. Most of these games were for all intents and purposes uncompleteable, but that didn't stop me cheering if I ever got lucky enough to pick up a piece of the amulet in SabreWulf...

Oh no, i'm going to spend hours on that BBC emulator. Loads of old favourites i'd forgotten about like Repton.

This thread has got me all nostalgic about Sir Clive and his electronic beermat!

Nice video for Speccy diehards:

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/ (http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/)

and enormous quantities of old-skool Your Sinclair nostalgia here:

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ (http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/)

spectrum is king, i remember my dad saying when i got my +3 that this is future of computers! lol disk drive no more loading a game for 20mins then for it to crash.

games i remember -operation wolf, dizzy the we egg bouncing around diff levels collecting stuff that was cool, gauntlet. double dragon, tank, air raid, 1942, thundercats, arkanoid, laods more ill need to have a think

I don't remember Double Dragon as a Spectrum game, mainly because (I guess) that was such a late-era coin-op, the Speccy couldn't really handle it. (Multiple loads for each level... :( )

God knows how many 10p pieces got eaten by DD machines down at the arcades though...

Gauntlet was a classic, one of the first games I recall that you could play with a mate at the same time instead of taking turns.

I'm pretty sure I had double dragon on the speccy.

Of course it looked a lot worse on that than on a friends Atari ST!

It came out right at the end of the Spectrum-era.

I was saying that I didn't ever play it on the Spectrum because by then other computers had taken over (like the ST and the Amiga), and all the reviews I read said that DD on the Speccy wasn't worth it because it wouldn't replicate the coin-op experience (which was really what we wanted), i.e. it would be slowed up and with long breaks for loading new levels.

I had DD on the Sega Master System I think, which was a lot closer to what we wanted to see.

daily tompsons dicathlon button bashing at its finest!

yeah i remember buying loads of games on the strengh of the pics on the back of the box for the 64 just hoping and praying they would nearly be as good, oh and afterburner that was quite good

just to change the subject a little does anyone remember a coin op called bad dudes? was in the arcades around 89/90 that was top class

Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja...

we generally called it "Dragon Ninja", for the obvious reason :D

yeah thats the one  ;ashamed;

Was that that one where you were a caveman with a yoyo?

Exile was a classic beeb game that was ridiculously big for a comp with 32k to handle. All in one load. An amazing work of programming...

The playground battles were funny. Anytime a speccy owner would try and claim it had dominion over the c64, I would just fall over laughing saying "rubber keys rubber keys" relentlessly.

Then the 16 bits came and the amiga/ st fans went to war!

BUBBLE BOBBLE WAS THE BESTEST EVER :D

I seem to recall a great multiplayer game called Rampage where you played as a monster: godzilla, female godzilla or mateymonster  ;whistle; were their names if i recall! You basically all had a skyscraper to knock down by punching it and windows would open up with people and other things in them which you could grab for bonus points. Anyone else remember this game or am I thinking of an amiga game??

Apart from that all I used to do was play Football manger games on the speccy. Footballer of The Year, Football Manager and Tracksuit Manager being the pre-eminant games, although to be fair I'd buy anything with football in the title.

edit: forgot about M.A.S.K and Run the Gauntlet, both great games.

Does anyone remember a game where you could design a car(with weapons) and then take it to a track and race a mate or go to an arena and just slug it out? May have been a specy or Amiga game.

Do you mean SuperCars/Supercars 2? Where you could fir missles and stuff to your cars, which you paid for through prize money you won from races? You also did interviews etc which got you money. That game was on the amiga i think.

caves of doom, booty, and chuckie egg were kept me up all nite, gr8 games

Bongo - Thanks great thread great link.

For me http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue22/Pages/Crash2200028.jpg

Happy days - I got JSW out of my system last time the retro gaming thread came round, 3 months I will never see again.

nope, not super cars, fairly sure it was earlier and prob on the speccy. Super cars two was awesome.

"have you gat a Police record?"

"No but ive got a Sting album"

great stuff

Did anyone ever think that you could try to record your voice on to a tape by copying the noises it made when loading, and hope that you would somehow create a program??? doooooooooooode doooooooooooodededadededalalalslo. ,, stop recording rewind and see if anything loaded.... Haha... great days......

I must of went through 10 of them mats that sat under the rubber keys. N and M were always breaking on mine...I think they cost about a tenner to get, which was a lot of money to my old fella..He used to moan like crazy. I would put a new one in then 10 minutes later bashing hell out of it playing daley thompsons decathlon......Or Hypersports........ With the vaulting... and the archery....Cant remember any other events from Hypersports....

Swimming was event one, then there was clay pigeon shooting, then vaulting (that one used to screw me over), then archery, then i think weight lifting after that not sure, but wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Sports

lol i used to play this all the time. You forgot the triple jump!

Rose tinted days. TBh good in the day but most games don't stand up these days, some are just impossibbly difficult, there was a game called 'pyramid' that claimed 365 levels, but they couldnt make enough levels in time, so they made level 32 impossibble to finish.

The arcade remakes were rubbish outrun etc.

The best games were the early ones'horace goes sking' 'underwurld' 'sabrewulf'



XBOX360 market place you can download a new remake of speccy classic JETPAC, by a company called ultimate play the game (now called RARE).

I remember a great game - Turbo Esprit.

You drove round a 3D city (complete with other cars, pedestrians, traffic lights, roadworks etc) hunting down drug dealers.

Was awesome, I never really played the game, just hooned round!

Was it Rock n Roll racing, cant remember what format it wqas on, but that rocked.

On a side note any one used to play Speedball/Speedball2 ? On the Amiga?

Speedball 2 was brilliant. Great feeling with full 2x multiplier on, an electrified ball(!), shipping it down the wing, lighting all the stars for 40pts then pinging it off the dome for another 4, bouncing it into the goal on the angle. SCHOOLED FOOLS!

Turbo Esprit was made by Durell, the same guys that did Saboteur.

It was sort of like GTA before GTA; the plot had something to do with a drug bust (there were meant to be two other cars meeting with an armored van and you had to get them all before they made it out of the city limits), but like with GTA us kids figured it was more fun to mostly just tool around the city.

I don't think I ever managed to get more than two of them before the third one got to the border...

On a side note any one used to play Speedball/Speedball2 ? On the Amiga?
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Speedball 2 was brilliant. Great feeling with full 2x multiplier on, an electrified ball(!), shipping it down the wing, lighting all the stars for 40pts then pinging it off the dome for another 4, bouncing it into the goal on the angle. SCHOOLED FOOLS!
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Ah Brutal Deluxe, what a franchise! Always a decision whether to bring in a big money signing or develop your exisiting team. Do you go for the pacey black spikey haired winger? Or the tattoed midfield hardman?

My favourite move was electrfying the ball, bouncing it off the point just in front of the 'penalty area' see it loop towards the oppisite goalie, pound the defenders in the way, then just as the goalie catches the ball beat him to a pulp and score.

I can remember that there were nine players on the pitch, i think my record was injuring 14 in one game lol

Anyone know of any amiga emulators?

WinUAE is a  good stable amiga emulator.
http://www.winuae.net/

You need to setup a kickstart rom in its configuration.

PM me if u need a link...google is your buddy though as usual....


It's slightly fiddly and you need to adjust the configuration to work different games but i think most amiga roms should work with some messing about. Not sure about speedball 2.

If you have any probs, pm me and I'll see if I can help!

(Never got kick off 2 to work well sadly :( )

I also had Speedball 2 on the ST... agree it was loads of fun.

Xenon 2 was a good one as well for that era, great soundtrack by Bomb The Bass (basically a reworking of John Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13" score), and at the time, groundbreakingly good graphics...

Any one play Project X by Team 17 on the Amiga, it was a tough shootem up.
i loved that game.

Yeah I remember that game fondly, it was kind of like cannon fodder but before cannon fodder was released right? You had to do different missions and select which soldiers to use and kit them out with guns/supplies etc. The more supplies etc they had the less moves they had each turn.