was my first computer, so many memories lol. I 'upgraded' to a c64 but regretted it the spectrum was a all round better machine really. I somewhat naivelly thought that double dragon would be better on the c64 oh dear god how wrong i was, that still ranks as the worst christmas of my life.
I like how the music is obviously chosen for people who would have played spectrum in the eighties then listened to this music when they were teenagers in the 90's. Clever.
can anyone tell me the name of this game i used to play?,
the loading intro screen was a burgler with a big bag i think said swag on it lol.
Anyway its a side scrolling game where you had to steal stuff? and you would get in certain veacles along the way that would takk you to a single screen, like a rocket that would take you to the moon and a hellicopter to some clouds to walk on, i think it was called phantasmaburgler or something lol crap description its all i can remember
That recollections from when i was11 years ... all the evenings I have happened in house of the grandmother of my friend Roger playing at rex, exolon, doubble dragon, saboteur2, jack the nipper, cobra, ram, rastan, lorna, 007, frostbite........... a knot is done to me in the throat by so many nostalgia
Is it me or wasn't it much better when video games were as simple as this? Games are too realistic nowadays. Just because the graphics were simple it didn't mean that they weren't bloody hard to play!
Playing the first song by Prodigy in the context of the ZX Spectrum comes across to me of how a ZX Spectrum would talk if it were alive and in a computer retirement home - a bit like the attitude of the poor gangly teenage chap in Million Dollar Baby who says he will take on anybody.
Great compilation.... Nice to see Heartland in there. Trouble is, there was just so many games. As for the ones not included, i remember playing Uridium to death. Not to mention trying and trying (but never completing) JSW. Also a special mention for one of my favourites.... Fairlight.
I remember we had to hold our breath when loading "hyperloader" games, if you breathed wrong it would crash :( lol the good old days..............did you ever pull out an interface while it was plugged in 0_o
Just bought myself a Spectrum 48K rubber keyboard with joystick and over 100 games off E-Bay. Has brought back so many happy memories :-) Just annoys me when you load'''' and right at the end it crashes lol But thats part of the parcel of the Spectrum ;-)
although my speccy was technically a piece of shit compared to anything else out, bad mono chrome color clash graphic's and poor audio, i still loved it, and its games.
so many good games, even if flawed and limited, after my msx broke, cause my little bro left an easter egg on its air vent .....
after the inital shock of, is that the supposed to be graphics, and dude what happened to the sound, what do you mean it supposed to sound like that..
i owned at various times the speccy amstrad and c64.They were all good machines with each having some superb games.Do the specs of the old dears really matter now?
i just love the memories they all bring back, it was a genuine thrill playing a new game on them for the first time!
I remember when I got my ZX Spectrum as a christmas present, I was overjoyed. Little did I know it would be the demon seed that caused me to become a recluse. I was outplayed from the start. My cunning opponent struck fast, and struck hard. As Kenshiro would say : "You're already dead."
It's amazing to see how far computers really have come, especially in gaming. I can't even imagine how far it will have gone by the day I die, or how far it will go 100 years after i've passed. SCIENCE!
Why not shown in the Top 100 Black Raven (aka warcraft), Black Raven 2 (aka starcraft), ufo (x-com), King's Bounty, Prince of Persia, eclipe, Hard Drivin, Harrier Attack, doom and wolf
R.I.P Jonathan "Joffa" Smith , who sadly died recently at 43.. the person behind the speccy versions of hypersports / cobra / hysteria / hyperactive / green beret and more on speccy..
im glad u played lazer squad and rebelstar - super games. CCS's vulcan was good too - try that (still playable today- im doing a remake of it). What was the us civil war game - johnny red? It looks interesting.
I've always been C64 biased, but now I must admit that every 8bit system was cool just because the developers could create wonderful things with NOTHING. Kudos to everyone of them :)
AWESOME! think i'm going to go and dig out my old 128k ... now, where is it? memories of sneaking up to my brother's room in the early eighties to play manic miner.
Oh the days when classic games didn't rely on having amazing graphics - excellent gameplay at bargain prices then and you saw less crap games then than you do now.
This was when British computers and the British gaming industry dominated.
My two brothers and I owe our careers in IT to ZX Spectrum. I was 12 when my Dad first brought it home. It got me programming and showed me what was possible.
There's a charm that will never die, IMO, the way the speccy displays graphics gives it it's own "style". I still play ZX games, only on an emulator unfortunatly, but I am keeping a lookout for any real speccys out there.
These games, and the ZX Spectrum, revolutionized gaming; the system as well as the games will stick in the memory of a generation for a lifetime; whereas the gaming machines of this and the next generation will only least a tracing thought, simply because gaming has been saturated to such an extent where the machines of today will be obsolite by tomorrow afternoon.
The programmers of the ZX Spectrum games really loved what they did, it shows, and we love them because of it.
Jesus - that was excellent I plyed things like, Horace goes skiing in 1982, even scrabble...no criticism but somekind of 80 s sound track could have been interesting and put the graphics in csome kind of ontext.
you could program the ZX Spectrum in machine code.
You had access to the address and data bus on the rear.
It was more for technicians, but probably it's right. It was less similar to what is today a computer. At that time, we all could program in Basic, and there was no "copy/paste".
I am sure Sir Clive Sinclair is already laughing asking himself how it could be possible to make money out of a computer like this when people could buy C64 for the same price.
@606revo The spectrum could only have 2 colours in a single 8x8 pixel block... and those colour blocks were fixed on the screen, called Attributes. Even if the pixels moved, the colour blocks were tied to a fixed grid. As a result, a lot of the games either went for a block-to-block movement pattern or dumped colour in the sprites almost completely.
amazin man!!! brings back so many memories, i think "dizzy" and "head over heals" were the best 2 games for the spectrum, easy! anyone ever remeber that game on the film "BIG" with tom hanks, im sure i remeber playin that with wizards an stuff!
A tear in the eye. If games were that cool nowadays we won`t go out for a second. Incredible how much they managed to squeeze out of that computer. I still remember the smell and the touch and of those little rubber keys. I think i`m gonna cry.....
I upgraded from a speccy to an Amiga in 1990, and what's really cool, as I look at this, is to see how good lots of the Spectrum conversions of Amiga games are (or perhaps I should say, how good the originals of lots of Amiga conversions are). Not the same of course, but often the graphics look impressively detailed, and the gameplay surprisingly smooth.
i remember buying wec leman 24hour version for 128 k specy,spent days trying to get to night stage then i done it,the night stage lasted half a lap,lol
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Anyone who says this is better then a C64 is letting their own misty nostalgia occlude their common sense. At least the commodore was capable of proper colored sprites, and didn't have to use transparent outlines and color grids.
The music, also, is no contest. I'm not going to say a Speccy was trash but... it's clearly inferior in every measurable sense. To say this is the equal of a C64 is like saying the NES is the equal of the Turbografix.
Seriously, who cares about graphics when you're talking about 8-bit computers from the 80s?!?!!? its about the games available, and both system's had their own distinctive libraries of classics.
Oh Jesus, here we go again with the old Speccy v C64 rubbish. The ZX Spectrum brought home computers to the masses in Europe as it sold for half the price. It was easier to program so, therefore, a lot easier to write games for.
If you want to compare technical specifications, you go right ahead. But, I am one of countless people who owe their careers in IT to starting off programming on the ZX Spectrum. It was a fantastic little machine and took the UK by storm compared to the overpriced C64.
@soheifox It's not all about the graphics, just look at some of today's games, with amazing graphics but zero playability. Yes, the Commodore 64 had better graphics, but the spectrum had fantastic and often better playability. Also, I think the ZX Spectrum is now a considered iconic design classic - much more so than the Commodore ever was/is.
@soheifox I can't believe you're bringing up this old argument? What are you going to be doing in 20 years from now? Arguing about whether the XBox 360 is better than the PS3?
AWESOME! think I'm going to go and dig out my old 128k ... now, where is it?... memories of sneaking up to my brother's room in the early eighties to play manic miner.
@soheifox As i owned both the speccy & c64, i give my perspective on things, the C64 is superior in 2 ways, multicolour graphics and sound, but the downside of the colourfull c64 graphics was low resolution sprites. The Speccy graphics were 90% of the time much sharper and detailed, and games often more playable. Plus, there is something unique on those speccy graphics wich makes them shine in a retrospective. I like both machines, both have their nostalgic value 2 me, but ur point seems biased.
Takes me back to the endless hours I enjoyed with my humble speccy as a 8-9 year old.
I actually passed out in front of the telly once!(due to lack of either sleep or sustanance)My mum thought I may have had an epileptic fit(parents were being warned of such things back then) and she banned me from over usage for a while.
I was always impressed at how well it did arcade conversions and I was addicted to the game Exelon for at least a year.
C64 had good color but spectrum had better grafix!
does anyone know wot the scrappy doo game is called thats on the video???i loved playing it but for the life of me cant remember wot it was called :)
nannamoo65 1 week ago
Finders Keepers with the little Knight LOL
SimonEcco 1 week ago
what game is at 3:27? it looks pretty 3d
madflame991 3 weeks ago
was my first computer, so many memories lol. I 'upgraded' to a c64 but regretted it the spectrum was a all round better machine really. I somewhat naivelly thought that double dragon would be better on the c64 oh dear god how wrong i was, that still ranks as the worst christmas of my life.
aaron9992000 2 months ago
No wonder it was big in the UK and Europe, it had almost the same quality graphics as the NES and it was ten times better than the Atari 2600.
MoonOvIce 5 months ago
Страшно представить, какие игры будут лет через 15
TheNidlz 5 months ago 9
10 people haven´t got childhood.
TheDrowningpool123 5 months ago
Really you should have played spectrum music over the games. But good video.
MikeyHNCC1701D 5 months ago
10 people have a lack of respect for the roots of modern gaming.
mjlambert80 6 months ago
I like how the music is obviously chosen for people who would have played spectrum in the eighties then listened to this music when they were teenagers in the 90's. Clever.
Seladoor 7 months ago
Is it me or was the appeal of a computer game was the primitive graphics? Games nowadays are too realistic.
caxtonman 7 months ago
@clarkydpimp and @23pryan: Target: Renegade, actually. (The original's at 2:10.)
Kinitawowi 7 months ago
Memories.... Starquake,saboteur, ikari warriors.. Wot a machine in it's day. You had to be rich to own one.. Lol
MORFYBOY 8 months ago
@23pryan Renagade!!!
clarkydpimp 8 months ago
Wow! Exolon and Cybernoid were my favorites. Thank you for posting!
arefilk 8 months ago
Omg, they're so beautiful!..
thfFromRussia 9 months ago
Does anybody remember 'Special Operations' and if so, when the hell did the pilot get used? I never found an aeroplane.
mananatoka 9 months ago
what game is that at 2:15 anyone? looks well familiar!!
scuffer1983 9 months ago
@scuffer1983 Knight Lore, probably *the* definitive isometric game (although Alien 8 and Head Over Heels were miles better).
Kinitawowi 7 months ago
great choice of tune fella!!!
scuffer1983 9 months ago
My heart bleeds.
LDAndry 9 months ago
You can play them on a pc, with a spectrum simulator Google it.
hammereng1969 9 months ago
@hammereng1969 zxzpin is a good one, or you can just go to worldofspectrum and play 1000s online ;)
electrickabuki 9 months ago
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Ms3per 9 months ago
can anyone tell me the name of this game i used to play?,
the loading intro screen was a burgler with a big bag i think said swag on it lol.
Anyway its a side scrolling game where you had to steal stuff? and you would get in certain veacles along the way that would takk you to a single screen, like a rocket that would take you to the moon and a hellicopter to some clouds to walk on, i think it was called phantasmaburgler or something lol crap description its all i can remember
dave00dance 10 months ago
@dave00dance was it Sam Stoat
waynenield 9 months ago
@waynenield nope not sam stoat, i found it in the loft it was called Fantomas and didnt have anything to do with burglers in the end lol
dave00dance 6 months ago
@waynenield i mean Phantomas
dave00dance 6 months ago
That recollections from when i was11 years ... all the evenings I have happened in house of the grandmother of my friend Roger playing at rex, exolon, doubble dragon, saboteur2, jack the nipper, cobra, ram, rastan, lorna, 007, frostbite........... a knot is done to me in the throat by so many nostalgia
THEsyntheticFresh 10 months ago
Name of the game in 5:56 to 6:00 ? thanks!
Nombre del juego entre 5:56 y 6:00 Gracias!
ossettcolor 10 months ago
@ossettcolor no lo sé, lo me acuerdo!!! pero yo he jugado a ese juego
THEsyntheticFresh 10 months ago
Through all my console history, my6 biggest soft spot is still for my Spectrum days, good work!
lawnboyspost1975 10 months ago
So many memories. gryzor ikari warriors silkworm chase hq.cheers for putting it on.app on iPhone/pod zx spectrum collection is a must have
DONALDSON51 10 months ago
Is it me or wasn't it much better when video games were as simple as this? Games are too realistic nowadays. Just because the graphics were simple it didn't mean that they weren't bloody hard to play!
caxtonman 10 months ago
I recognise a few but it would have been great if he subtitled each game. Great post though
caxtonman 10 months ago
Playing the first song by Prodigy in the context of the ZX Spectrum comes across to me of how a ZX Spectrum would talk if it were alive and in a computer retirement home - a bit like the attitude of the poor gangly teenage chap in Million Dollar Baby who says he will take on anybody.
BumpyNanorider 10 months ago
spy vs spy?
iainhead 11 months ago
Where is Saboteur 2?))
fadeaway822 11 months ago
Great compilation.... Nice to see Heartland in there. Trouble is, there was just so many games. As for the ones not included, i remember playing Uridium to death. Not to mention trying and trying (but never completing) JSW. Also a special mention for one of my favourites.... Fairlight.
Bellpipe41 11 months ago
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Bellpipe41 11 months ago
life was so easy back then, being 8
RichMansSon92 11 months ago
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Those were the days :-)
peterasimpson 11 months ago
this is where i honed my elite skillz as a 5 year old kid ;P
AndyMcNabStab 11 months ago
Half the game was always getting the tapes to load without crashing!
SafeAzFuck 1 year ago 7
i hear there is a super mario for the spectrum! it would be could if you could get some footage of it (rare)!
lewis95stephen 1 year ago
@lewis95stephen
You may be thinking off The Great Giana Sisters which was a rip off of SMB but nintendo got wind of it and stopped it.
Hamer81 1 year ago
Thanks a bunch for making this mix!!!
Brings back a lot of memories of well spent time. Kids of today can see what we used to play.
Saboteur was my favorite :)))
adedans 1 year ago
loved batman thanks for making this.
karltwigger 1 year ago
ultimate play the game,melbourne house,ocean...great companies great games.
mikkifly 1 year ago
Great compilation.cheers enjoyed it.Where was Firelord too? one of Hewsons great games lol
basscadet007 1 year ago
got 43 out of 100 right.
few of those in there Ive not played like zynaps, heartland etc...in fact Ive never heard of those 2
BucketfulOfFruit 1 year ago
Q,A,O,P SPACE....better than any joystick
expl0ded09 1 year ago
omg. some games here look really fresh and artsy. Seems like I had just the crappy looking games like Boulderdash or Manic Miner back in the day :)
9aus 1 year ago
Guess what i'm getting for Christmas XD
A bike
elfrododo 1 year ago
I remember we had to hold our breath when loading "hyperloader" games, if you breathed wrong it would crash :( lol the good old days..............did you ever pull out an interface while it was plugged in 0_o
electrickabuki 1 year ago
awesome, incredible, masterpiece
Pinkiiiiiiii 1 year ago
C64 kicked Spectrums arse all day long!
tomthumbplum 1 year ago
@tomthumbplum Except the C64 had minimal BASIC and chunky graphics.
Great sound, though.
Technically, it was better but I'll always like the Spectrum much more. :)
herbal1971 1 year ago
People these days would laugh at these games but they were written in just 48 KILOBYTES!
herbal1971 1 year ago
Just bought myself a Spectrum 48K rubber keyboard with joystick and over 100 games off E-Bay. Has brought back so many happy memories :-) Just annoys me when you load'''' and right at the end it crashes lol But thats part of the parcel of the Spectrum ;-)
hisssyffffit 1 year ago
I've watched this video time after time, great stuff.
thanks for the memories
Zxspectrumgamer 1 year ago
talking as an ex speccy owner, it was the worst machine out.
had some good game's though.
well until you played the c64 amstrad or msx equivelent.
where it shone was it was cheep and the sheer number of games.
it had got into the market early and built a strong base before anyone else.
so you knew if a game was release it would nearly always be released on the specturm as well.
liked a good number of speccy games but they couldnt stand up to say a c64's game play, just compare say stuntcar racer
cant1rac 1 year ago
what would happen if anyone got high then play this ????
DarkHalo242 1 year ago 2
@DarkHalo242
Theyd go bonkers in the nut (medical term)
twothirty 7 months ago
@DarkHalo242 he/she would enter a whole new world (:
lk0056 4 months ago
Being able to name most of these is a sure sign of a misspent youth
meilinnaa 1 year ago 2
as a kid in the 90's I was introduced to the spectrum it was a cool console but it could be I have the bad hardware but the loading took forever lol.
Remeber so many games on it but not the names.
xRocketzFighterx 1 year ago
I loved my speccy back in the day. Play them now on the DS using an emulator but it lacks a certain something.
cainedkaty 1 year ago
If only I lived in the UK
Dakkiller1 1 year ago
good to see!
i was a speccy gamer for years in the 80's
it was great how you could just copy them onto a c60 .with a card with the tape counter numbers for easy finding. good days..
parkeyx 1 year ago
Ahh the memories. Some cracking games.
technotoaster 1 year ago
Half the fun of having a home computer was making fun of the machines of other kids :D
tsuihark 1 year ago
Ahhhh, Rastan and New Zealand Story. Great times!
What are the names of the games at 1:54, and the bubble one at 7:45 they're driving me crazy!
What no Ghostbusters or Treasure Island Dizzy?! :O
bradmonk69 1 year ago
@bradmonk69 1:54 is Way Of The Exploding Fist. Hi-yaaa! Buvwww...
DukeFwibble 1 year ago
Wow, this brings back some memories. Midnight Resistance, SWIV, Head Over Heels, Pang, Rick Dangerous, Manic Miner! Great vid
Tynansd 1 year ago
cool vid man, music went well...
damn I new more than half of these I feel old... and god that Turtles game was crappy, used to drive me mad :)
mingtooter 1 year ago
What an excellent video!
You must have gone to so much effort and, like the other guy said, it really is amazing how much people managed to get out of a small computer.
Nowadays, with so much processor power availible, I wonder if there's quite as much ingenuity displayed.
Can only guess at what some of them were!
Bravo
nivencalder 1 year ago
awesome video and FUCKING AWESOME tune, thanks fr sharing my good man!
jammytgee 1 year ago
although my speccy was technically a piece of shit compared to anything else out, bad mono chrome color clash graphic's and poor audio, i still loved it, and its games.
so many good games, even if flawed and limited, after my msx broke, cause my little bro left an easter egg on its air vent .....
after the inital shock of, is that the supposed to be graphics, and dude what happened to the sound, what do you mean it supposed to sound like that..
i loved its flawed little games
cant1rac 1 year ago
Ah man, this was so good! I'm 7 again!
pakula28 1 year ago
7 C64 owners watched this film.
But seriously, what is it with fanboys, they're still getting upset 30 years later.
/facepalm.
DreddDwarf 1 year ago
02:36+ 27.Green Beret/Rush n' Attack
04:18+ 44.Saboteur
06:30+ 65.Nebulus
Tesseract750 1 year ago
wonderful collection, good effort!
Feyd01 1 year ago
У меня сейчас на шкафу лежит запылившийся ZX spectrum 128 и пачка дискет с играми. Около 60-70% всего увиденного в ролике у меня есть =)
IamMoovi 1 year ago
Awesome video, and some of my favourites too; old memories!
Great games indeed.
Cheers buddy!
:)
manolinp 1 year ago
i owned at various times the speccy amstrad and c64.They were all good machines with each having some superb games.Do the specs of the old dears really matter now?
i just love the memories they all bring back, it was a genuine thrill playing a new game on them for the first time!
spec -ikari warriors,cahse hq and arkanoid
amstrad-gryzor and renegade
c64=bombjack and commando
great times-tape loading errors!!!!
MrEmile73 1 year ago
POKE 35136,0
Smockotron 1 year ago
me likeeeeeeeeeeeeeey !!!!
i still have it, but it does not work :(
wladosu 1 year ago
looks cool,i have a zx spectrum+ but it's not working : /
petris101 1 year ago
awesome, a few of my faves missing, Elite, Underworld, Ghostbusters but altogether a great set.
MegaJuju72 1 year ago
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cayden21 1 year ago
super! nostalji :(
cayden21 1 year ago
neat upload, never heard much of the system
Bluewo1f 1 year ago
What's the game at 2:25?
B1ggu5 1 year ago
hello,
Please, the name of the game 9'38''
Thanks
MrSpooner62 1 year ago
@MrSpooner62 heya, it looks like wizards lair. was a big fan of that game.... u had to find pieces of a golden fleece :-)
redcardigan12345 1 year ago
Attic Attack.
B1ggu5 1 year ago
Game Over, Wells&Fargo, Aspar GP master, etc..
nitturo 1 year ago
I remember when I got my ZX Spectrum as a christmas present, I was overjoyed. Little did I know it would be the demon seed that caused me to become a recluse. I was outplayed from the start. My cunning opponent struck fast, and struck hard. As Kenshiro would say : "You're already dead."
It's amazing to see how far computers really have come, especially in gaming. I can't even imagine how far it will have gone by the day I die, or how far it will go 100 years after i've passed. SCIENCE!
Sneakysneaky88 1 year ago
Why not shown in the Top 100 Black Raven (aka warcraft), Black Raven 2 (aka starcraft), ufo (x-com), King's Bounty, Prince of Persia, eclipe, Hard Drivin, Harrier Attack, doom and wolf
iDDMZ 1 year ago
R.I.P Jonathan "Joffa" Smith , who sadly died recently at 43.. the person behind the speccy versions of hypersports / cobra / hysteria / hyperactive / green beret and more on speccy..
cosine303 1 year ago
So what was it? Like a games console? Or a computer? Did it hook up to televisions, or did you have to buy a special monitor?
dogeymon83 1 year ago
One of the great youtube vids, absolutely love it. Happy gaming memories. Thanks
rob191270 1 year ago
Can someone tell me why all spectum games have sprites that look like they were badly cut out of paper?
TheNightWriter101 1 year ago
im glad u played lazer squad and rebelstar - super games. CCS's vulcan was good too - try that (still playable today- im doing a remake of it). What was the us civil war game - johnny red? It looks interesting.
ooeyb 1 year ago
thank you mate. blast from the past! love it
jools3601 1 year ago
Ikari and other games - childhood nostalgy, we had russian clones of ZX spectrum here but ut was worth to go to games parlor and play them!
tigrius 1 year ago
ChaseHQ - I frickin LOVED that game!!
philoniphone 1 year ago
I've always been C64 biased, but now I must admit that every 8bit system was cool just because the developers could create wonderful things with NOTHING. Kudos to everyone of them :)
TyltyI 1 year ago
I miss Ikari Warriors !!!
scorpie2007 1 year ago
AWESOME! think i'm going to go and dig out my old 128k ... now, where is it? memories of sneaking up to my brother's room in the early eighties to play manic miner.
holeintheleg 1 year ago
still some good titles, i dont think theyve aged badly at all
A1260T 1 year ago
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Tape Loading Error
StopFear 1 year ago
To all of you... you can play a ton of these games in your browser now. Just found it myself. Excellent. zxspectrum net
badreaxion 1 year ago
What is the name of the game that starts at 4:43?
vandonridge 1 year ago
@vandonridge Laser Squad. Awesome game :)
tigerbeer34 1 year ago
Laser Squad. Awesome game :)
tigerbeer34 1 year ago
check my tribute to our childhood!!! still love today those days... who don't ;-)
MrDavidserraspereira 1 year ago
Oh the days when classic games didn't rely on having amazing graphics - excellent gameplay at bargain prices then and you saw less crap games then than you do now.
This was when British computers and the British gaming industry dominated.
Thanks for uploading - many happy memories here.
cmdfarsight 1 year ago
My two brothers and I owe our careers in IT to ZX Spectrum. I was 12 when my Dad first brought it home. It got me programming and showed me what was possible.
stokaji 1 year ago
@stokaji Bless ur dad!
SjpelleHelle 1 year ago
2:08 I always found Renegade fucking hard lol.
29Gixxer 1 year ago
At least we didn't have to sit through that GODAWFUL noise the thing makes. 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-_EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEEEEEEE!'
hotelmario510 1 year ago
@hotelmario510 Godawful? GODAWFUL? I FUCKING LOVE THE SOUND OF NOSTALGIA.
Psyence1987 1 year ago
@Psyence1987 OK, OK, don't hurt me *cowers in corner*
hotelmario510 1 year ago
There's a charm that will never die, IMO, the way the speccy displays graphics gives it it's own "style". I still play ZX games, only on an emulator unfortunatly, but I am keeping a lookout for any real speccys out there.
CoolDudeClem 1 year ago
These games, and the ZX Spectrum, revolutionized gaming; the system as well as the games will stick in the memory of a generation for a lifetime; whereas the gaming machines of this and the next generation will only least a tracing thought, simply because gaming has been saturated to such an extent where the machines of today will be obsolite by tomorrow afternoon.
The programmers of the ZX Spectrum games really loved what they did, it shows, and we love them because of it.
Viva ZX Spectrum!
TopherT1979 1 year ago
remember entering the pokes before the screen picture for cheats,so excitng,NERDS UNITE!!!
snotnosedlilkid 1 year ago
sabotage 4:17 love it cost me one pound from local toy shop try buyin a game for a quid nowadays..
squ1d100 1 year ago
I never owned or played a speccy...gonna dload an emulator soon enough....It all looks awesome...fukin psychedelic graphics....
marsiozo 1 year ago
Jesus - that was excellent I plyed things like, Horace goes skiing in 1982, even scrabble...no criticism but somekind of 80 s sound track could have been interesting and put the graphics in csome kind of ontext.
paul06fr 1 year ago
Heh, no two cool games:
black raven - warcraft2 port
UFO2 - UFO connection.
These games were written by Vyacheslav Mednonogov aka Copperfeet in 1997. In Russia.
easyelectronics 1 year ago
Well,
you could program the ZX Spectrum in machine code.
You had access to the address and data bus on the rear.
It was more for technicians, but probably it's right. It was less similar to what is today a computer. At that time, we all could program in Basic, and there was no "copy/paste".
BonnieKids 1 year ago
5:31 what's that game pls help me! it's the best game of my childhood and i cant even remember the title ;(
kungalakatapis 1 year ago 2
@kungalakatapis The game at 5.31 is Dan Dare
milesdavisblackmx5 1 year ago
@milesdavisblackmx5 thanks!
kungalakatapis 1 year ago
@kungalakatapis Astro Marine corps
rafaelbgrbg 1 year ago
I am sure Sir Clive Sinclair is already laughing asking himself how it could be possible to make money out of a computer like this when people could buy C64 for the same price.
xkp68 1 year ago
turtles look like the only game where they bothered to do the colors right
606revo 1 year ago
@606revo The spectrum could only have 2 colours in a single 8x8 pixel block... and those colour blocks were fixed on the screen, called Attributes. Even if the pixels moved, the colour blocks were tied to a fixed grid. As a result, a lot of the games either went for a block-to-block movement pattern or dumped colour in the sprites almost completely.
badreaxion 1 year ago
song is a bit harsh lol
606revo 1 year ago
Forget question about game at 7:53..saw the list and remembered it was Zynaps.
seventiesclassic 1 year ago
What is the game at 7:53..looks like R-Type but it isn't ?
R-Type ruled...best game ever !
BTW am I right in thinking the command prompt was..Chain " "..or something similar ?
seventiesclassic 1 year ago
Freddie Hardest was the first game i ever played
Ingleburt 1 year ago
Ah, nostalgia...
Also, does anyone remember a game called Deja-vu? That weirded the shit out of me when I was a kid.:D
Kainlarsen 1 year ago
I made a zx spetrum loading sound remix video. nice to see a great display of games om here.
FantasyMindedMan 1 year ago
not even pac man xD
notaMONSTERbutaDEVIL 1 year ago
no, im from the early 90s xD
notaMONSTERbutaDEVIL 1 year ago
amazin man!!! brings back so many memories, i think "dizzy" and "head over heals" were the best 2 games for the spectrum, easy! anyone ever remeber that game on the film "BIG" with tom hanks, im sure i remeber playin that with wizards an stuff!
JonnyOneEyes 1 year ago
Split Personalities. Star Quake. Death Chase. Exelon. Chuckie egg. Jack the Nipper. Monty Mole. Quazitron!!!! Knight Time.
boydegg 1 year ago
Some were really perfect and it was like heaven to play some at a friend when you didnt have a PC:)
xlapj001 1 year ago
A tear in the eye. If games were that cool nowadays we won`t go out for a second. Incredible how much they managed to squeeze out of that computer. I still remember the smell and the touch and of those little rubber keys. I think i`m gonna cry.....
POKE 47196, 201
Thanks for THE video
kokopiko 1 year ago 19
@kokopiko
Yep - hour after hour of glorious fun. God bless, Sir Clive Sinclair.
boydegg 1 year ago
@kokopiko R Tape loading error.
TehUberCyberBeast 1 year ago
helll yeah Renegade FTW
bejaises1 1 year ago
I always found renegade too hard man.
29Gixxer 1 year ago
I upgraded from a speccy to an Amiga in 1990, and what's really cool, as I look at this, is to see how good lots of the Spectrum conversions of Amiga games are (or perhaps I should say, how good the originals of lots of Amiga conversions are). Not the same of course, but often the graphics look impressively detailed, and the gameplay surprisingly smooth.
AlephNeil 1 year ago
thats exactly what i did and exactly what i thought when i saw this vid.
calel360 1 year ago
wow - you know , looking back at this the graphics are way better than i thought they'd be - still looks like fun - i thought bombjack was ace
oysterlovers 1 year ago
you forgot transformers
7transformer 1 year ago
i found my ZX spectrum this week in my cupboard... its so weirde saying the words "not as good as DOS"... but still brilliant games.
QullVideo 2 years ago
bad. cobra. ikari warriors. exelon. gauntlet. crash smash
stoot69 2 years ago
Nostalgy got me now :(
Love those days...
Best regards!
Great choice!
dia8el 2 years ago
You chose the greatest hits!
Abrimaal 2 years ago
i remember buying wec leman 24hour version for 128 k specy,spent days trying to get to night stage then i done it,the night stage lasted half a lap,lol
turniptable1 2 years ago 2
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Anyone who says this is better then a C64 is letting their own misty nostalgia occlude their common sense. At least the commodore was capable of proper colored sprites, and didn't have to use transparent outlines and color grids.
The music, also, is no contest. I'm not going to say a Speccy was trash but... it's clearly inferior in every measurable sense. To say this is the equal of a C64 is like saying the NES is the equal of the Turbografix.
You might enjoy one more, but that's only TASTE
soheifox 2 years ago
Seriously, who cares about graphics when you're talking about 8-bit computers from the 80s?!?!!? its about the games available, and both system's had their own distinctive libraries of classics.
jesusarnold 2 years ago 13
Oh Jesus, here we go again with the old Speccy v C64 rubbish. The ZX Spectrum brought home computers to the masses in Europe as it sold for half the price. It was easier to program so, therefore, a lot easier to write games for.
If you want to compare technical specifications, you go right ahead. But, I am one of countless people who owe their careers in IT to starting off programming on the ZX Spectrum. It was a fantastic little machine and took the UK by storm compared to the overpriced C64.
roonsa 2 years ago 18
@soheifox It's not all about the graphics, just look at some of today's games, with amazing graphics but zero playability. Yes, the Commodore 64 had better graphics, but the spectrum had fantastic and often better playability. Also, I think the ZX Spectrum is now a considered iconic design classic - much more so than the Commodore ever was/is.
milesdavisblackmx5 1 year ago 11
@milesdavisblackmx5
I 100% agree, I owned a Zx Speccy and my brother had a Commodore 64, we had waaaaay more fun on the Speccy.
manicminer100 1 year ago 6
@soheifox I can't believe you're bringing up this old argument? What are you going to be doing in 20 years from now? Arguing about whether the XBox 360 is better than the PS3?
cmdfarsight 1 year ago 2
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AWESOME! think I'm going to go and dig out my old 128k ... now, where is it?... memories of sneaking up to my brother's room in the early eighties to play manic miner.
holeintheleg 1 year ago
@soheifox As i owned both the speccy & c64, i give my perspective on things, the C64 is superior in 2 ways, multicolour graphics and sound, but the downside of the colourfull c64 graphics was low resolution sprites. The Speccy graphics were 90% of the time much sharper and detailed, and games often more playable. Plus, there is something unique on those speccy graphics wich makes them shine in a retrospective. I like both machines, both have their nostalgic value 2 me, but ur point seems biased.
SjpelleHelle 1 year ago
When i was fourteen
it was a very good year...
Karargah 2 years ago 4
Takes me back to the endless hours I enjoyed with my humble speccy as a 8-9 year old.
I actually passed out in front of the telly once!(due to lack of either sleep or sustanance)My mum thought I may have had an epileptic fit(parents were being warned of such things back then) and she banned me from over usage for a while.
I was always impressed at how well it did arcade conversions and I was addicted to the game Exelon for at least a year.
C64 had good color but spectrum had better grafix!
DaveODrisc 2 years ago
One of the best ways I have spent 10 minutes in ages, thx for the upload :)
XxooTEMPLARooxX 2 years ago 4
didn't see Manic Miner?...first game i got for my specky! 8)
leonio10 2 years ago
3:38 is Myth - History in the Making. It was a very well designed and played for such a humble system.
5:30 was a good game, but I can't remember its name...
thanks for bringing back memories...
mkaatr 2 years ago
@mkaatr, 5:30 was Dan Dare, my favourite Spectrum game of all time, and Myth was my second. You have good taste sir!
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