Classic ZX Spectrum Games

[FlyingPig]

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.......

[sledge13]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AndrewT]

The Commodore 64 was king, many arguments at school...speccy vs c64, they all got a commodore in the end.

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*

[sledge13]

Lol the graphics and sound were in a different league!

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

[Acidmouse]

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

[thetank]

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.

[fearisthekey]

Quality's sadly lacking in today's hang outside the off licence, spectrumless youth.

 

Blonde quote of the year.

[happybhoy]

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.

[brummieboy]

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.

[Bongo]

Play in your browser

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

[brummieboy]

Cheers Bongo

[I, Zimbra]

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...

[brummieboy]

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

[melikepoker]

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

Nice video for Speccy diehards:

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

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

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

[cambo]

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