ZX SPECTRUM CHEQUERED FLAG

Released by Sinclair Research Ltd in 1983. It is still light years ahead of anything nowadays. This simulator continues to be used for training modern Formula one drivers.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ZX
• SPECTRUM
• CHEQUERED
• FLAG
• SINCLAIR
• SPECCY

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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!