When I was home sick from school - my Mum would bring me soup and occasionally buy me a £1.99 budget game to cheer me up. I wish I was a kid again, life was all downhill from there ;)
Everyone from this era will know about imagination with these games. We used to look at the covers before playing the games and the pleasure we got from our imagination was just as good as playing the games. Cover art was everything. I was allowed one year to look at my atari boxes that were put away for Xmas and the pure enjoyment from this was indescribable. Atari 2600.zx81.spectrum.amiga.was my progression with other oddities between and lots of handheld tabletop arcade games and of course nintendo game and watch (and before that the 70s Tomy plastic wind up games)
Yes I so know what you mean. The cases looked amazing haha. My best Christmas was a new commadore 64 with 2 cartridge games. Just the thought of instant loading games made me too excited to sleep haha, happy old days.
Oh, the nostalgia! I grew up in the 80s in Brazil with a Brazilian knock off called TK90. It was a ZX Spectrum manufactured locally. My brother would buy British magazines that came with cassette tapes full of games. Good old times!
Same here, but it was in Portugal with a Timex Computer 2048, a Portuguese official ZX Spectrum clone. I moved to Brazil and I still have it here, live and kicking!
Super Stuntman, Curse of Sherwood, Oh mummy, Fast Food, Chronos (especially the music), Head over Heels, Renegade, Batman Movie, Jetpac, Manic Miner, Green Beret. Thank you for these amazing memories
It literally baffles me that you only have like, 55k subscribers. Your work is top notch and I've been watching for a long time now. Keep up the amazing work. P. S- Can you please do a top 100 ps1. :)
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That was amazing. It's great to see someone else's top 100 - let's be honest 100 isn't enough on the Speccy :) If it was 150 you might have included Thrust, Bruce Lee, 3D Ant Attack, Glass, The Way Of The Exploding Fist, all the Wally games, Scuba Dive, The Hobbit, Transam, Pssst, Elite, Starion, Cyclone, the Monty games, Fairlight - my god....I'll stop there because the list is huge. That's why I still play Speccy games - there's soooo many and the addiction to primary imbalance(Brian Bloodaxe too!) never goes away.
I think the people complaining that certain games didn't make the list should realise that this is a list of the games YOU played and have special meaning to YOU. I have fond memories of Out of the Shadows, a dungeon crawling game, Mountains of Ket, the first adventure game I managed to complete, and Codename Mat, a space game that I put hours into. These would be games at the top of MY list.
I think a lot of it comes from the way the title is worded - "Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games of All-Time" is a bit of a bold phrase if you're just going to list a bunch of games you personally like (especially when Kim herself admits that some entries aren't particularly good)
It's _Kim's_ top 100, not *_THE_* top 100. This list has games in it that hold special memories for her, even if the games haven't held up as well today.
@@abadenoughdude300 I agree, I'm sick of received wisdom/focus grouped best of lists that throw up the same games in the same order. Personal picks, good and bad, are actually interesting.
I greatly enjoy these "top 100" videos, especially for a home computer that I never saw or played, as I grew up in Minnesota. I find the Spectrum to be very fascinating, with its unique visual style and compact design. There were a few games from that computer that were ported to the Atari 8-bit, such as Starquake, which I really loved. Question: did you ever have any experience with the Atari 8-bit home computers? I'm assuming that most UK kids grew up with Spectrum or Commodore 64, but I grew up with Atari and just loved it to death. I'd still have one if I only had the extra space and time to goof around. As always, this is a terrific video that's well worth watching and listening to. I'm always looking forward to the next episode.
In answer to your question, yes we did indeed have the Atari system here at the same time as spectrum/commodore, but it was more a lot more niche. It’s appeal was actually that it felt very ‘American’ and closer to an ‘arcade’ experience. But there just weren’t many kids at school that had the atari, compared to the main two systems.
As long as he doesn't do a top 100 games for the Amstrad PCW, I don't think that many existed, maybe even that many programs. But, that monochrome green screen was pretty nice. :)
You know we missed out. When the Amiga was rumoured to be coming, that was it, 8 bits wasn't good enough. They didn't release 8 bits main home machines with QVGA+ 4 and 8 bit mode. Only a few companies, like Fran, MSX3/R, that NEC computer, or something, went to the next level. They should have all had super NES like graphics after the commodore 64.. The MSX, had strange sprite graphic limitations (and scrolling) Even the mega drive, was a lightly upgraded msx graphics, without the 8 bit modes and no 512/640/720 pixel across hires mode, which I would have bought and as a computer conversion. The Amiga was way better than this, with its graphics coprocessing hardware. Then there was the Acorn Arm computers,and that was that. A good April 1st video, was to advocate making a 32 bit z80 Durban new Spectrum, then add, "with an Arm processor for on it, for comparability with modern day software!". Then question why have two different processors, and suggest that the Arm could run the z80 code, as the 32 bit cpu. (Which is basically just an Arm machine running a spectrum emulator, and wait to see how long it takes people to realise). 😁
Really enjoying this (i'm still watching as I write ) I remember if you enter your name as "Shit" into the high score table on Chronos,your name appears as "urrgh....plop" I'm off to play it again lol 😆
I love your enthusiasm for the old speccy and thanks compiling, this is your personal list and all good. Some very important titles missing including Doomdark's Revenge, Nightshade, Avalon, Dragontorc, Sacred Armour of Antirad, Marsport, Astroclone, Shadowfire, Enigma Force, Swords & Sorcery, Winter Games, Academy (Tay Ceti), Elite Way of Exploding Fist
The ZX was the first computer I used around 1985 when visiting a friend in London. From the moment he started loading his games (many games - not sure how he had hundreds of games all on the same tape *cough*), I knew I wanted one. The games that I could not stop playing? Commando ... and One Day Cricket. Great list. 👍
I'm sure there are a few 128K titles here but to my mind, the 16K titles were true achievements. Cookie, Chequered Flag, Death Chase, Harrier Attack, Jetpac, Jungle Trouble, Pssst! and Tranz Am to name a few. Best thing about them was how quickly and reliably they loaded.
A top 100 list, prefacing each of the first few games at least with "this one is a bit shit". Is this like an honest appraisal of children? "This one's a bit ugly and a cheeky cow but I love her anyway"?
hmmmm, where are Zombie Zombie, Ant Attack, Fairlight, Underwurlde, Elite, The Hobbit, Lunar Jetman, TLL, Scuba Dive, Worse Things Happen at Sea, Match Point, Cyclone, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Stop the Express, Pyjamarama, Popeye, Tir Na Nog, etc etc. I am Disappointed eeee a bit.
Well done, a good video and your passion for gaming shines through. My personal list would have had many of those but also Wriggler, Pyramid, Turbo Esprit, Turmoil, Roller Coaster, Jumping Jack, Nightshade...the list goes on really. One note though, I think Mr Withit was wearing a blazer, not an untucked t-shirt.
I see you haven't played many great Speccy games - Gunfright, Hobbit, Laser Squad, Aufwiedersehen Monty, Rex, Chaos, Enigma Force, Legions of Death, Rebel Star, Nether Earth, Zynaps, Myth, Marsport, Robin of the Wood, Fairlight, Rick Dangerous, Thanatos, Elite, Starglider II, Movie, Firelord, Barbarian, Great Escape etc...
26:48 Finally, someone else who remembers Saint Dragon! They had the arcade version in the local rec center that I played to death, then I found out it had a home computer port and played it even more. Never finished it though because I was, and always will be, crap at shoot em ups. Still, its a forgotten gem of a shooter, and the arcade versions music was amazing.
I almost cried with the great memories i got from my childhood seeing these games again!! Reheat,Dizzy games ,Death Chase and loads more where my favourite l! I will watch this again! What a great channel this isso much good stuff you put out mate. Thank you!!
Thank you Kim - I have journeyed through your Top 100 with great delight! I had a short but fairly intense Speccy gaming career (1985-1986) so any personal list would fail to incorporate the sweep of time that is captured here. A really balanced and considered assessment! A few little observations along the way - #92 (Booty) was another budget release and certainly one of the best. The Wild Bunch, Pyjamarama, Moon Alert, Urban Upstart, Starstrike, Cyclone, Avalon, Airwolf, Automania, Nodes of Yesod, Wizard's Lair, Starquake, Wheelie, Fairlight, Wriggler, Tapper and Worse Things Happen at Sea all deserve a shout out and the highly addictive Gilligan's Gold would have scraped into my list too if it wasn't for the bugs. And despite its really cool synthesised intros it was Gyroscope which finally and fatally forced my fist through the keyboard.
Excellent video, some proper winners in there For me my personal top 10 would certainly have featured most of the 'Wally' series of games with my all time favourite being 'Everyone's a Wally' the use of colour and the brain taxing 'solve the puzzle' element to the game kept me hooked for hours
My top: The Trap Door, Renegade, Target Renegade, Combat School, Rastan, Dynamite Dan I & II, Chuckie Egg (the TRUE original version), Manic Miner, Dung Darach (favourite homebrew), Wriggler, B.C. Bill (Imagine version), Impossaball.
Well done for compiling this looooong and interesting list, some rare choices add to the interest (my 100 features Grumpy Gumphrey so I can't talk!) Deathchase is a great #1, mine would be JSW :)
Great video! Thanks. We all have our own favourites and games that are special to us due to memories. You included most of my favourites but I'd def include Uridium, LED Storm, Afterburner, 3D Stock Car (Budget game with simple graphics but was awesome with friends), Underwurlde, Turbo Esprit, IK+, Gun Runner was fun too, just really hard! Did you mention Bruce Lee and The Way Of The Exploding Fist?! Can't remember, so many games and good memories.
Hi Kim. Great vid. There were a few in your list, like Gryzor, and Ping Pong, I both adored and had completely forgotten about. And just for that I say THANK YOU. But you also reminded me about renegade 3 😂😂, so some points off 😊. I have no idea how old you are. I’m 44 and all my peer group were obsessed with preymuch anything by MicroProse: Gunship, F15 Strike Eagle et al, so I was surprised you never got to play them....I refuse to believe you did but they ranked outside the top C. Keep up the good work.
I'd just like to say...I really needed to start work now, not in 1 hours 40 minutes as is now inevitable. Admittedly, I would have found another reason anyway, but that's beside the point.
Fantastic video! Love and had forgotten about Booty. Too many thoughts but I'll say this: I'd love to see Ant Attack on Playdate which has a community that feels very early speccy :)
Where are all the spanish hits? Like Freddy Hardest Games, Astro Marine corps and After The war - the first ones comes to mind. Where is "Myth - history in the making?" this game just amazed us. Where is "Soldier of fortune" - the game we were playing a lot and it's hard and addictive to complete. Where are Zeppelin games ? Zybex version were not as good as Atari xe's , but Ninja Commando - I skipped almost a quarter of 9th grade to complete this bastard.
My first PC - Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K after that comes Commodore C64C and my neighbor had Amstrad CPC 464 (664 maybe) and I've always heard how these machines are better (and they are, at least on paper) but always like Speccy's games the most... ;-)
Chaos was my number one game. I also recommend trying The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Spitting Images Kim. Props for including Cobra, great game that even had a countdown timer in the loading screen!
I never owned a Speccy, so I really enjoyed this as a catchup on everything I missed. I really enjoyed your personal take on all the games, except for the parts where you said the Speccy version was better than the C64 one. In those cases, you are clearly delusional ;-) EDIT 2 YEARS LATER: I was of course being tongue-in-cheek, but I've really developed a great appreciation for the Speccy over the last couple of years. Some of the games really were clearly better than the Commie versions. Really wish I'd got a Spectrum Next when the kickstarter was running. Emulators are great, but having a dedicated piece of hardware is way more fun.
Fantastic work Kim - thank you! Some heavy nostalgia here for me, especially Highway Encounter and Professional Ski Simulator. Those games both played SO well. Manic Miner is still my favourite game ever. The main thing not on the list that comes to mind is Tornado Low Level - loved that game!
I'm coming into this rather late in the day, but can't help but find myself agreeing with the vast majority of your choices here... BUT, one game that I loved back in the day was notably absent, codename Mat by Derek Brewster. As a spectrum take on Star Raiders I don't think it can be beat.
Have you ever played Laser Squad? Really awesome strategy game which eventually led to X-Com. You can just replay it over and over again. I also want to mention the game Nebula. It's an very simple strategy game with in BASIC but it's so addictive.
Awesome and amazing video. I am about to watch your Amiga A-Z. My favorite was Rambo II. But I have to mention my late brothers favorite well two. Centipede and River Rescue!
Great video Kim, just love the Spectrum. I believe the Spectrum was the best all-round 8-bit computer and it always will be to me. Commodore not in the same Class as the Spectrum!
I feel as though Jet Set Willy II deserved a place here, since it was a lot faster than the first game, and the additional rooms added a lot to the experience. Great list though!
Nice one mate ive just managed to download a spectrum emulator and was trying to remember the games I liked from my childhood and you had two of them on here being Miky and Technician Ted so thanks for that,another fav game of mine was one called Colin the cleaner..
Americans are probably agog at the basic graphics but gaming at 3 dollars a pop? That's what made the British gaming scene so great and got so many interested in coding.
if that was you playing 720, then I am truly impressed. I was dreadful at it at the time - I sold it to the 2nd hand games shop after a week of trying.
I remember Shockway Rider! In fact, I think I still have the cover tape it came on Looks like Sinclair User, January '92, "The GREAT 8". I'm old so had a Spectrum from 1982. I put it aside whilst studying CompSci at Uni (1987 to 1990). I think I pulled my Spectrum out of a cupboard in 1992 to play on for a bit. There was a playable demo of Lemmings on this tape but by this time I had already seen it on an Amiga. I decided the Spectrum's time was past and it was time to get an Amiga... (Still got it though. I wonder if it will still boot up.)
Loving this I must have watched about 35+ hours watching your channel over the last week love all the retro stuff I first got a spectrum in the midd 80s but then it broke sometime in the late 80s.Then my mum brought me the James Bond action pack from a shop in Southend’s Victoria shopping centre I remember seeing it in the window and ever time I went into town with my mum I would go in the shop and beg my mum lol did I get it yes about 2 mouths later for Christmas with a mega drive as well so happy gaming.Great channel
What I love about these lists is how personal they are, especially when they have commentary like this so you can understand the reasoning behind the selections. I think my own Top 100 would swap at least 60 of these out, things like Death Chase did nothing for me even back in the day, and my favourite Batman game was the one not featured here (The Caped Crusader) but a lot of it is about what left a mark on us. My favourite covertapes were 'A whole new ball game' and 'Earth Shaker', my favourite Dizzy, Magicland. Bomb Fusion I'd play for hours, while Chiller was the first budget game I remember owning that wasn't just a copied cassette and thus holds dear memories. But yes, fascinating to hear some opinions on things, likewise with the MD compilation before.
Most entertaining, thanks Kim. I was a big Speccy fan back in the day (even ran my own fanzine ‘Microchip’ in 1985-6 and don’t remember many of these games but look forward to playing them on my Spectrum Next in 2021!
Enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Thanks. I would have been suprised if Manic Miner hadn't made it in there but was suprised at Deathchase for the top slot. One of my personal favourites on the old speccy was The Sentinel. Brilliant strategy/puzzle game.
Awesome list, really enjoyed that and made me realise I missed out on a lot of good games back in the day as I moved on to an Amiga quite early. Surprised to see no Golden Axe though!
fantastic top 100 and great presentation as always. I think everyone had their top games that spark those fond memories. For me classics were roller coaster, dynamite dan, TLL and my all time favourite starquake.
The Great Escape, Bruce Lee, Last Ninja 2, Myth, Stormlord, Dustin, Three Weeks in Paradise, Goody, Silent Shadow, Fernando Martin Basket Master, Navy Moves, La Abadía del Crimen, The Hobbit, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Nebulus, Barbarian :p
lovely list of games ideed.But you broke my heart with Biggles...i loved that movie so much (still happy it's in your top 100 games though). Recently discovered your channel and i'm really enjoying it, keep the good work :)
What a great list and I loved all your little memories. I remembered so many of those games and had such strong feelings of nostalgia I wasn't sure if I was going to cry or if my chest would burst! I will definitely look for some of these games and replay them. Maybe only for 5 mins each but it will be a real pleasure to revisit some of these timeless classics
Really good commentary dude. I never had a Spectrum (had VIC20, C64 and Amstrad 6128), but I really enjoyed this entire video. I believe I will sub... Yes indeed. Edit: oh well, I am already subbed. Duh. XD
Fantastic videos, I watched your Amiga top 100 in its entirety, a snippet of the megadrive top 100 (purely because that system doesn't particularly scratch my nostalgic itch) and now I'm starting this one. Basically commenting to say thank you and to let you know people do appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work.
