Oh My God! Watching the end of this is exactly the same as what's going on with PC gaming today! Most PC games magazines have gone. Pretty much all the PC game sites are now multi-format. Gamespot only reviewed 52 PC games in the whole of 2008. I have a PC Zone for December 2000 talking of 48 reviews in ONE MONTH! The number of PC game releases has declined for the last 3 years too! It's just like the Spectrum!!!!
Yes I too have noticed this sad decline of games on the PC. I fear it's going the same way as the Amiga as people are just downloading games and copying them. The industry knows the money is in the console market. Shame, because for me the console will never out-do the pc for quality high-end gameplay. Especially strategy games, where the pc really excels. In the stores, the stock of pc games has been utterly reduced, from 3 shelves, to 2, then to 1, and 0 in some stores!!! O_o
i think 1989 was best year of Spectrum: many many games and almost really good: Forgotten Worlds, ChaseHQ, Batman, Carrier Command(incredible strategy game for my 128k speccy)
the speccy may have been in decline in 89 but that was when i was getting into both 8bit and 16bit machines and still enjoyed both equally. and there were still some good new games released, i would say 1992 was when it was well and truly over.
i look forward to 1990 and 1991 editions, keep it up!
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I'm amazed that people were still buying spectrum games in this year when the commodore 64 had better colours etc and by 1990 most had switched to an amiga the colours in this years games were woeful and terrible clunky graphics ok in 1984 but they out stayed their welcome.
the c64 may of had more colors but the graphics were better on the spectrum, renegade for example was the best conversion of the lot on the speccy, the 16bit conversions were terrible, vigilante was another example, outrun was another, not saying all games on the speccy were better though
Wec Le mans,Stunt car racer and Hard Drivin I loved those games so much, I still believe that speccy games (and SWOS on Amiga) were better than anything around today..So playable.
I remember '89 very well, the market was flooded with arcade conversions and licenced movie games. The quality of gameplay at this time was good though.
Oh look - Billy Joel didnt start the audio...
Grrrrr
EEWW2006 1 year ago
jesus H crist
The memories,i miss those days!!!
With my friends,playing,everything was perfect.
I wouldn`t change a thing.
Sinclair will always live in my memories,and in my hard disks also,ehehhe!!!
Long live to the memories.
carrapiceman 2 years ago
Oh My God! Watching the end of this is exactly the same as what's going on with PC gaming today! Most PC games magazines have gone. Pretty much all the PC game sites are now multi-format. Gamespot only reviewed 52 PC games in the whole of 2008. I have a PC Zone for December 2000 talking of 48 reviews in ONE MONTH! The number of PC game releases has declined for the last 3 years too! It's just like the Spectrum!!!!
HardWarUK 2 years ago
Yes I too have noticed this sad decline of games on the PC. I fear it's going the same way as the Amiga as people are just downloading games and copying them. The industry knows the money is in the console market. Shame, because for me the console will never out-do the pc for quality high-end gameplay. Especially strategy games, where the pc really excels. In the stores, the stock of pc games has been utterly reduced, from 3 shelves, to 2, then to 1, and 0 in some stores!!! O_o
Jeet27 2 years ago
Top stuff as always Nick, looking forward to more
UKArchiveTV 3 years ago
i think 1989 was best year of Spectrum: many many games and almost really good: Forgotten Worlds, ChaseHQ, Batman, Carrier Command(incredible strategy game for my 128k speccy)
kalateur 3 years ago
the speccy may have been in decline in 89 but that was when i was getting into both 8bit and 16bit machines and still enjoyed both equally. and there were still some good new games released, i would say 1992 was when it was well and truly over.
i look forward to 1990 and 1991 editions, keep it up!
JMR83 3 years ago
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I'm amazed that people were still buying spectrum games in this year when the commodore 64 had better colours etc and by 1990 most had switched to an amiga the colours in this years games were woeful and terrible clunky graphics ok in 1984 but they out stayed their welcome.
metaltron88 3 years ago
the c64 may of had more colors but the graphics were better on the spectrum, renegade for example was the best conversion of the lot on the speccy, the 16bit conversions were terrible, vigilante was another example, outrun was another, not saying all games on the speccy were better though
rainxxxx 3 years ago
Are you also amazed that people buy games for the Wii or DS when the X-Box 360 etc have better colours/graphics ?
Its all about GAMEPLAY, doesnt matter if a game has great sound or graphics.
psj3809 3 years ago
very good mate.thanks very much
airlegend82 3 years ago
roll on 1990
Firelance31 3 years ago
By the way thanks very much for putting this on...Fantastic job and brings back so many happy memories.
rob1969in 3 years ago
Wec Le mans,Stunt car racer and Hard Drivin I loved those games so much, I still believe that speccy games (and SWOS on Amiga) were better than anything around today..So playable.
rob1969in 3 years ago
Fantastic! I was 19 at the time - it all comes flooding back to me now :-)
mack89464 3 years ago
I remember '89 very well, the market was flooded with arcade conversions and licenced movie games. The quality of gameplay at this time was good though.
minijimi 3 years ago