ZX SPECTRUM CHEQUERED FLAG

[63chicago6]

this was THE SHIT in the 80's!

[EgoShredder]

I got this game for Xmas 1983 aged 12 and my mate's sister asked me for a copy, after I had taken it to show him. The problem was she was only 8 and was quite hot looking for 8! So I just forgot about it.....until the next day at school where she was very upset and angry I had not done the tape for her. She never spoke to me again!

Anyway great game from the master of Spectrum simulation games.

[ShizuokaDolphin]

Used to have this. :) Loads of memories. Thanks for the upload.

[KeredDrahcir]

Great game. It was and still is one if my favourites. It would have been so much easier it you could use a joystick.

My sister could never understand why her car overheated but she never changed gear. Neither did I but we used different cars and mine being the McFaster Special had an automatic gear box.

[daystate12345678]

I used to have this, but it used to give an 'r tape load error' all the time....not happy lol

[spideyzx6r]

and you would be steering with the keyboard

[HanSolosWookie]

Hahaha, love your description of the game, No way will Gran Turismo 5 be able to compete with this for realism ;)

[DaveJP1973]

I got this, Horace Goes Skiing, and a couple of other games, they came free with the computer I think in a Psion cardboard case. I also got Hunchback II. I was a year behind, got the ZX81 for Christmas in '83 and didn't graduate to the Speccy 'til '84. I still can't get past level 3 on Hunchback II and still can't finish Jet Set Willy. Compared to the ZX81, this was the absolute bollocks back in 84. Kids these days, don't know they're born!

[DaveJP1973]

I got this for my Zx Spectrum when I was 9 - it was state of the art then! Got to love the sound fx! Needs oiling .

[SPINNYFUCK]

@DaveJP1973 It was a big improvement on Night Driver for the Atari 2600. Played this loads trying to beat my mates records.

[jedimaster303]

"This simulator continues to be used for training modern Formula one drivers." LMFAO........

[1971APC]

SpinnyF*ck - you had a flat tyre which is why it's all over the place. God this takes me back. Sound was awful so used to have music playing in the background.

[ianwilson1978]

Remember this well. Laughed at your video description! :-D

[stuartblows]

check the speed, at one point he gets up to 11!?!

[SPINNYFUCK]

The speedometer has x10 beneath it although it's hard to see.

[chindleymuffin]

I can't believe that at one point this was the height of sophistication games wise! lol I think its because nobody had seen a car simulator game before and for many this was the start of their fascination with Spectrum gaming. Ah it brings back memories! :) 48K is nothing these days, I have a 4GB flash drive in my pocket. lol

[essjayar]

I remember this as part of the Psion software package with my first ever computer - a ZX Spectrum 48K. Other games in the same package included a version of Space Invaders, Chess, Horace Goes Skiing, Make A Chip (my first introduction to Nand Gates!) and Scrabble. Psion, of course, went on to some success in early PDA's.

[XboxGamer64]

wooooooooo, techno revs 8)

[wubble78]

For sure, it is great for the team to win, for sure they have been working very hard. We had a problem with the car in the middle stint and For Sure it was hard to defend. Tyre graining was a problem. For sure.

[SPINNYFUCK]

The FIA would like to see you for illegal use of a joystick.

[wubble78]

First game I played on a Spectrum. Some of my friends hated it but i thought it was genius.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Every speccy fan knows this as one of their earliest memories. Mine was attic atac. Wasn't easy to control at first but a little practice and it was like riding a bike.

[stevenkp]

What about that breakout game on the Horizon tape that was bundled with the speccy? I think that's what the tape was called.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Thro' the wall is the game. Already put that up. Just search ZX SPECTRUM HORIZONS.

[stevenkp]

thanks!

Yeah, that's it. Good times hey! I use to play that a lot before I got hooked on (as every kid did) Ocean, Imagine and Ultimate games.

[SPINNYFUCK]

No bother mate. Spent a few hours playing it myself.

[Andrewshadowy]

Yes! that was simply called the Wall!

[coolasshole23]

man this brings back soooo many memories, you see, sinclair ZX, was my first gaming machine ever, my first computer game as well. This is the first game that I have ever played. I remember it was my two older brothers, and my cousins were playing this. I think I was around 4 years old, and I asked if I can play, they were like no you will break it, I said please! they let me and got surprised of how well I played. I picked it up immediately. thats when i fell in love with video games.

[BilloRaptor]

This was the first game I ever owned along with Nightfight 2. Proper gaming.

[SPINNYFUCK]

This was state-of-the-art at the time. It's got a fair bit of speed to it considering it was an early game. After playing night driver on the atari 2600 this was a different class.

[BilloRaptor]

Agreed. I used to spend HOURS on it, and it was the best thing I owned. It was rock hard with the gears too. I only had this, The Hobbit (awesome) and NightFlight2 when I started. That was it, the addiction had begun. I still rate the speccy as the greatest games machine ever. From those humble beginnings to things like R-Type was a hyperspace jump across the universe in usage of technology.

Keep the speccy alive my friend.

[DingKong]

I LOVED this game. Must have spent hours, days even weeks on it.

[420pixel]

it still has that realistic feeling...no?

[SPINNYFUCK]

Yes...well not really...well kind of!

[vizeeee]

"This simulator continues to be used for training modern Formula one drivers." ahahahahah cool comment

and about the mirrors? two great cyan mirrors...how could I play that for long hours?? nice one!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Aero-dynamically, the mirrors are not needed in this game and just slow you down. You can't see anything in them!

[mathowlett]

Wasn't the *easy* car called the McFaster Special?? If my brain was free of such trivia I might be able to remember important things, like putting my trousers on or how old I am. This was actually not that bad a game !! Certainly better than the rest of the crappy bundle that it came with.... VU3D for god's sake... Make A Chip.... *shakes head*

[mathowlett]

Hahahaha !! It shows the car selection screen at the beginning of the video !! I was too busy reading the comments.... see what I mean?? This stuff has frazzled my brain.

[SPINNYFUCK]

You're not the only one with brain frazzling! Must put a walkthrough up of Make a Chip, lol!

[madderscientist23]

Ah, go on, I dare you!! ha ha

[SPINNYFUCK]

I haven't played Make A Chip in ages so maybe only get through a couple of levels. Very tough game, lol!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Yep it was! Trying to control the other cars manually with the gears was a nightmare. End up burning the engine out after 10 seconds.

[RoopGB]

This brings back memories - I had this game on my 48k Spectrum. A long time ago now :)

[undocumentedspot]

Too bad that new generations do not know about how great spectrum , MSX, commodore were.

[SPINNYFUCK]

You had too be there. Original games which set the standard for todays games!

[mathowlett]

I agree.... young 'uns today just don't understand man !! My nephew found my old ZX Spectrum + in the loft and had no idea what it was... "Some kind of old console?" pfft !!

[EgoShredder]

@mathowlett

Always gets me annoyed that one; they were not consoles they were micro computers!  The tell tale signs were the keyboard and the fact you could program them yourself!

[solger7]

I haven't played it for over fourteen years, but I do clearly remember that a good time on Cambridge Ring was not far over 50 seconds, and Micro Drive was also a quick circuit. On Paul Ricard a good time was a little under 1:20; this was a nice, easy circuit except towards the end. Monaco was one of the toughest, and Saturn Sands; Psion Park and Osterreichring also quite tough. But to get the best time on each circuit you had to repeatedly practise and memorise the sequence and timing of corners

[solger7]

This was an extremely addictive and challenging game. It wasn't about racing other cars - it was about driving the perfect lap on each of a large range of circuits offered to set and then continually better your personal best lap time for each circuit. This required a mastery of line, steering and timing of acceleration and deceleration. The blind slow corners following hills were to be feared, as were the rocks that damaged the car so it would not run above third gear - did this happen here?

[tigerdraft]

They don't make 'em like they used to - thank God.

[capricious71]

Never really saw the point of the game. No one to race against. Like pulling out of your driveway and hoping not to scratch the door against the hedges.

[twatwatwat]

Sniff - I've become overwhelmed with emotion seeing this again.

The noise it makes when you go off track will stay with me until my dying days...

[SPINNYFUCK]

That screeching was a warning to slow down. Great game in it's day. Played this loads of times back then but always went off the track.

[matjohnroe]

I think chequered flag 2 is a PS3 exclusive. Another fine video. When i was playing this, my cousin was playing the extremely limited Pole Position. I know right?

[SPINNYFUCK]

We can't have you poo pooing the speccy otherwise we'll end up with a pile of poo! You'd almost think you were wearing 3D specs when you play this game.

[keeprighton2007]

is there any truth that drivers Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna used the Chequered Flag Simulator before the 1994 Imola Grand Prix?

[SPINNYFUCK]

They didn't get a chance that weekend. Schumacher went into a huff and fucked the tape up after getting a crappy score.

[Fawltykog]

ok i surrender! i was wallowing in a overhyped up PS3 game and my speccy tinted glasses had slipped a little and it poo pooed this fine game to my eternal shame and i...Ad Nauseam