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Just wondering, for those of you who owned a Sinclair Spectrum, what games did you have?
If anyone had Snowball in Hell, Death, Ruff n Ready or Batman, please tell me. I'm on a bit of a retro hunt and the few games i really want for a Spectrum are those games.
Thanks in advance :-)
If anyone had Snowball in Hell, Death, Ruff n Ready or Batman, please tell me. I'm on a bit of a retro hunt and the few games i really want for a Spectrum are those games.
Thanks in advance :-)
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Man I had a load, still upstairs somewhere.
Pedro The Gardener (pc be damned), Jetpack, Tornado Low Level,Yi-Ar Kung Fu, Way of The Exploding Fist, Combat School (9 mins to load), Beach-head, Ghostbusters (actual speech on this one!), Spy Hunter, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Frank Bruno's Boxing, Eddie Kidd's Stunt Challenge, Gremlins (txt based adventure), Barbarian (best beat'em EVAH and needs to be updated for this generations computers)...loads and loads
And they suck in this day an age. Retro is all very well and good, but the Spectrum (I had a 128k+2 with built-in tape deck) is like trying to punch your nan in the baps. Pointless and embarassing
Pedro The Gardener (pc be damned), Jetpack, Tornado Low Level,Yi-Ar Kung Fu, Way of The Exploding Fist, Combat School (9 mins to load), Beach-head, Ghostbusters (actual speech on this one!), Spy Hunter, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Frank Bruno's Boxing, Eddie Kidd's Stunt Challenge, Gremlins (txt based adventure), Barbarian (best beat'em EVAH and needs to be updated for this generations computers)...loads and loads
And they suck in this day an age. Retro is all very well and good, but the Spectrum (I had a 128k+2 with built-in tape deck) is like trying to punch your nan in the baps. Pointless and embarassing
Why on earth would you choose to play a spectrum game nowadays?
It was okay back in the day because that was the only thing you could play, but nowadays, why put yourself through the shear crappyness of a tape loading computer?
It was okay back in the day because that was the only thing you could play, but nowadays, why put yourself through the shear crappyness of a tape loading computer?
Unbeliever wrote:
> How long is a piece of string? I've got hundreds, nay thousands of
> Speccy games sitting in the loft...
I'm sure you won't mind having a look ;-)
One of the main reasons I want a spectrum is to see if you actually can't get past the second level of Ruff 'n' Ready, or if i just hadn't found a way. Oh, that and the fact the Snowball in Hell is the best game I've ever played :-P
> How long is a piece of string? I've got hundreds, nay thousands of
> Speccy games sitting in the loft...
I'm sure you won't mind having a look ;-)
One of the main reasons I want a spectrum is to see if you actually can't get past the second level of Ruff 'n' Ready, or if i just hadn't found a way. Oh, that and the fact the Snowball in Hell is the best game I've ever played :-P
You summed up the whole experience excellently. Good work, chief!
Unbeliever wrote:
> How long is a piece of string? I've got hundreds, nay thousands of
> Speccy games sitting in the loft...
Me too. Well actually most of them are my dads.
Some of my favourites were Movie, Marsport, Everyone's a Wally, Matchday, Transformers, Graham Gooch's Cricket, Knightlore, Jack the Nipper and one were you played a newspaper photographer, though the name escapes me at this moment in time.
The Spectrum seemed so great all those years ago, my dad used to set it up in the evening and play it on a small black & white TV, whilst I watched. The anticipation as the tape went in and the loading screen came up was second to none. You'd wait about 5 minutes and more often than not the stupid game would crash and you'd have to wait another 5 minutes for the game to load again.
Plus the sound and background pattern of the game loading was rather intoxicating, kinda like what I'd imagine a bad acid trip would be like.
> How long is a piece of string? I've got hundreds, nay thousands of
> Speccy games sitting in the loft...
Me too. Well actually most of them are my dads.
Some of my favourites were Movie, Marsport, Everyone's a Wally, Matchday, Transformers, Graham Gooch's Cricket, Knightlore, Jack the Nipper and one were you played a newspaper photographer, though the name escapes me at this moment in time.
The Spectrum seemed so great all those years ago, my dad used to set it up in the evening and play it on a small black & white TV, whilst I watched. The anticipation as the tape went in and the loading screen came up was second to none. You'd wait about 5 minutes and more often than not the stupid game would crash and you'd have to wait another 5 minutes for the game to load again.
Plus the sound and background pattern of the game loading was rather intoxicating, kinda like what I'd imagine a bad acid trip would be like.
How long is a piece of string? I've got hundreds, nay thousands of Speccy games sitting in the loft...
Heh, just use a car ;-)
Well don't hold your breath. Going into the loft involves organising a full blown expedition including huskies, sleds and supplies to last for a month.
I would swap Smuggler Run and Turok Evolution for the GameCube for a couple of thsoe Spectrum games :-)
With the gremlins, goblins and tramps?
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