A place in the cosy corner of RU-vid that will tickle your nostalgia bone for all things 8 and 16-Bit related. Mainly ZX Spectrum with a bit of the others chucked in. Some occasional nostalgia hits for toys and board games too.
Loving the 8 bit micro content mate, great idea this is👍 Head Over Heels a classic and worthy champion. I checked how Rainbow Islands was denied a place on the list and Myth beat it to Master Game status in the same Amstrad Action issue......gutted 🌈
Yes!!!! True story. I noticed it after my final edit went up a couple of days ago and I was doing one last check through! How did I not see it! Knobhead!
Interesting. Someone leant me the big box Amstrad cassette North & South at school and yeah, the multi-load is a disaster. It also had only one battlefield, and as I recall, only one of the arcade platform sequences. All of the title sections and animated menus had to be loaded and then the map, make a move, then another ten mins loading some cut down sequence, then rewind the map tape and repeat. It did serve as an expensive demo of the disk version. Being a French game, apparently, disks were standard across the channel. I have no idea how they refactored that mess for the cover tapes when Amstrad Action gave the full game away.
Interesting, cheers for sharing. I suspected it was bad but not that bad!Even late on I only had one mate who had a disk drive. Cassette was king for us council estate kids 😁
I just booted up the c64 version of myth straight away. Using steamdeck emulation station de. Worked off the bat, so not sure why its not loading for you. It is crazy good on c64. Excellent music and visuals
Interesting. I will persevere. I tried 3 different images on two different emulators but they would hang on menu. As I don't need to record it now I'll try the images on my actual c64c, see if they work . Cheers
Your sinclair was my 8bit read of choice, I never fast forward 😮. A list of personal favourites and classics, obviously all far superior on the mighty zx spectrum. Underpowered zx spectrum, how dare you 😮. Huge fan of myth, was the last full price game I bought, used to be able to complete it but it's beyond me these days. Hate spindizzy 💩. Always wanted to like the isometric games, I just find them all a bit meh. Great vid 👌.
I bought all 3 as a kid, Sinclair user was my favourite, then a crash then your Sinclair. I switched my allegiance when Sinclair user introduced Kamikaze Bear in an effort to compete on puerile nonsense! Crash was then in pole position. Stopped buying all magazines when they turned into pamphlets with cassettes on.
It was Zzao64 for me as i was collecting them all and the cover tapes were generally good. I am 50 and been gaming since 1979 its the greatest hobby ever. Nice video my freind.
My mum loves the Death Wish films. Basically any revenge flick see also the Taken series. To be fair to Death Wish and the gangs New York was an incredibly dangerous city in the 70s.
@@SebsPlaceYT read an interview once with Bo Derek that's always stuck in my mind. She said something along the lines of "hate is a very underestimated motivation". And she's dead right. Forget the Star Wars force namby pampyness DO give into your emotions. Gets the adrenaline pumping!!
@@SebsPlaceYT my watch later list is 1,300 videos at the mo, which is about 2 months delay HOWEVER i'll try and remember that when it appears in my subscriptions list i'll add it to the much shorter "Urgent Watch" list 🙂 So odd that "Three Weeks" gets the best marks overall when I don't think it sticks in many peoples memories.
I was an Amstrad kid. Well actually I had a 6128 with the funky little floppy. But really the 464, 664 and 6128 where all variations of a theme. Before that I had a "Dick Smith Wizzard" , a 4k Australian funvision rebrand, though I did learn basic on it, but this was my first "Proper" computer. As for my favorite games. Probably Sorcery+ (I'm mystified this isnt on the list , to be honest), and I guess Jet Set Willy?
I had this one on an Amstrad, and it was pretty close to a direct port. Slightly better music, but the graphics where *very* similar, including the "xor flip" style of monochrome sprite blitting (The amstrad had better ways of doing it, but it was kind of standard with a lot of ZX stuff, and I suspect a lot of ports from ZX to Amstrad just took the code and made the minimum changes needed to get it to work) Whatever the case , I loved this game.
Interesting, do see it a lot with some CPC games and it's such a shame. When they made games actually for the system it knocks the socks off the other 8 bit micros. I was playing smash tv today and it's crazy good on the CPC.
@SebsPlaceYT Do you know if there's the possibility of storing kore games into the internal memory of The Spectrum apart from the 48 games already included or do we have to load them from an USB device directly? If so, how much space it is available on it to add new games? Thanks in advance!
Buzzsaw+ (Foxton Locks Mix) El Stompo Snake Escape Dreamwalker: Alter Ego 2 Valley of Rains Travel Through Time Vol.1: Northern Lights Gluf Ringo Roger the Pangolin in 2020 Knurled Tour The Haunting of Waterbelle End
@@SebsPlaceYT - obviously the top one, since I wrote it! A Tetris / Columns variation with some depth and strategy to getting high bonus scores, if you're patient with it. But you're going to see some pretty amazing things done with the graphics in a lot of them. Dreamwalker is a very good series of puzzles with stylish presentation, and Roger the Pangolin doesn't have much depth (the handful of levels were mostly supplied by volunteers in a rush to a Christmas launch during lockdown), but the scrolling 3D road in full pixel-perfect flowing colour with no clash is something no Speccy owner would ever have thought possible. Compare to the depressing monochrome stippling on the Speccy version of Trailblazer.
1) Gauntlet TDD 2) Green Beret 3) Feud 4) Universal Hero 5) Fantasy World Dizzy 6) Dark Side 7) Rex 8) Captain Blood 9) Renegade 10) Wizball 11) Chuckie Egg
I have to be honest I don't see the point of emulating the rubber key spectrum. When I had a rubber key spectrum I couldn't wait for the Spectrum+ to come out so we could have a decent keyboard. It was almost impossible to play some games on those rubber keys. To be honest with emulators like Spectaculator etc I would rather stick to my laptop keys nowadays.
The +2 is my daily driver for playing speccy games because the keyboard is so nice. The dead flesh keys were awful but ..... I get why they went for that here. It's the iconic model and keys aside. it's a fantastic looking micro.
@@SebsPlaceYT Strangely I own a geniune original rubber keyed spectrum. I have never powered it up. I have it on the shelf cos it looks great, but I remember it wasn't great for playing games heh heh
