I turn 50 in January so I've shared your journey and I'm glad you got some nostalgia goodness from this. Tons more Speccy on the channel if you're so inclined to drop back in 😎👍
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52 here and started out with the Speccy too (Timex Computer 2048 to be honest). Cheers!
Only had this morning to put it together, one liners were all I had time for 🤣 Glad you liked it though, because there will like be some similar C64 content on the horizon 😉
Awesome vid here more games than I can shake a stick at never heard of the last two games but a Defender clone you can spot that a mile away nicely done my mate have a very Merry Christmas
I'm a year late to this, but thanks for listing these games! I've been wanting to set up a sample of the ZX Spectrum's library, and this looks like a pretty good selection of both the bad and good.
There was no way in hell I was going to be able to sift through this system's library on my own. It just wasn't happening. But one of my goals has been to set up a 'sample library' of every meaningful system in gaming history, so friends can learn from any platform they get curious about! Suffice to say, hearing about the ZX Spectrum from someone who was there for the whole thing is a big help.
Yes!!! More A-ZX Spectrum videos!!! I wanna check out Quartet! I mean it’s SEGA 🤷🏻♂️ Knightmare looks phenomenal as well! Xevious looks like it plays so smoothly on Speccy! As someone who hasn’t had the opportunity to play a ZX-Spectrum, I could go on all day about many of these games I’d like to try! Even my beloved SEGA had wonderful games on the Speccy. 2022 might see SegaBlocks have to add this to my gameroom!!! Thanks so much for these videos GP!, and thanks for making me get interested in a new gaming system/computer! Cheers my friend! Stay awesome!
I am merely a conduit spreading the Holy word of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, praise be to our Lord Sir Clive Sinclair and may the games never end. 🤣 Thanks for dropping in buddy, hope your Christmas is a good one full of love and good food 😎👍
Brilliant video, the admiration & love for the system really shines through. Interesting seeing how you rank these after bingeing all of the A to Z of the Spectrum series, Fair play buddy.☘️🖖
Merry Christmas bro!🎄Wow this is such an impressive video, fantastic editing and great commentary! We're trying to get into Spectrum more and this will definitely be our guidebook!🍺
I miss my +2. I'm currently using a + with a composite mod, and it's pretty cool playing Speccy games on a 55" TV 🤣 I'd live to get a +3 back into my collection, maybe some day 😎👍
Very enjoyable video this mate, like the style and the commentary is great - I wish I could put my thoughts about things as concisely and as well as you do. Hope to see the results of the C64 disc that handsome fellow sent you 😂😂 Great stuff mate, thanks for sharing that with us and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours 😁🐻👍
I didn't play Scuba Diver that year, or have I ever played Stonkers, so thanks for reminding me of one and recommending another. I'll get back to you on Stonkers 👍
For 1983 Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, the hours I put into it as a kid was unreal, but so many great developers pushed the Speccy to its limits later on, and are still doing so today. Antiriad is a fantastic early Metroidvainian 😎👍
Well to be fair, Hypersports is my favourite and most nostalgic of all the Speccy "Track and Fields". So I understand why it's been at the front of my mind 🤣 Thanks for dropping in bud 😎👍
Well, to be fair, I have never played Arcadia or Penetrator, to the best of my recollection 🤔 I'll add those to my list 😉 And yes, for 1983, Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, and I love it dearly, but so many other games really pushed the Speccy. Thanks for dropping in and giving me a couple of games to look at 😎👍
Emlyn hughes international soccer, scooby doo, bubble bobble, new zealand story, skool daze, back to skool and treasure island dizzy should surely be on this list. Were my favourite games when i had my spectrum
These were just the games I played through that year, I'm surprised that New Zealand Story and Bubble Bobble didn't make my playlist that year 🤷♂️ Both of which I've played recently, you'll be glad to hear 😉
@@GenerationPixel skool daze and back to skool are classic spectrum games. The only game ive played since that is similar is bully on the ps2. And loved all dizzy games as well. The problem is there are so many games for the spectrum its hard to remember all of them from back then.
@@GenerationPixel Cool as. What about 'Laser Squad' ? I bought it for £2.99 when I was about 11 years old. The shop put the wrong price on- it was meant to be £9.99. I took it home and wet my pants at how good it was.
@@GenerationPixel You must Sir. It was the sequel to Rebelstar, by Julian Gollop, who was a visionary of his time. Laser Squad even had an expansion cassette, with 4 more levels that you could buy on mail order from a page in the back of the manual. Julian Gollop also wrote 'Chaos' and 'Lords of Chaos'. All excellent games way ahead of their time. Heady days. Misty eyed memories 👍
These were selected from the games I'd played that year, unfortunately I didn't get around to Head over Heels, and Fairlight is a game I haven't heard of, at least as I can recollect. I'll definitely look it up, just in case it sparks a memory. And if not, I'll take a run at it at some point. Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
The Speccy still has 100 decent classics imo (so you don't need weak games), it is hard to discover them all though... they seem to take longer to get into these days than back in the day.
The Speccy library is mind-blowing when you try to comprehend its scope. As is the scope of the whole 8Bit Microcomputer era. I managed to play 120 games that year and wish I could have played more. So, some less than great games made it on to this list. What's a few of your top Speccy game? And thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
It's still Manic Miner I expect. It can only really be the speed it is, and fortunately that isn't too slow these days. The other ones I seem to come back to every now and again are Arcadia and Atic Atac, for the exact same reason I expect. Of course there are many more in that exact vein that I either never played or simply never heard of. The golden era for me was its first few years. @@GenerationPixel
Kung-Fu Master in the top 100 ZX Spectrum games? Well, that's daring for a change! 😎 This is generally considered to be a dud. Thus a way superior version, Mister Kung-Fu, was homebrewed. But individual mileages may vary. Great video by the way! And I will have to check out some games on your list which I never even noticed back in those glory days.
I do so enjoy highlighting games that people may have missed back kn the day 😁 The current Homebrew scene us something I haven't dabbled with yet, though I've been blown away by some of the videos I've seen on RU-vid. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
I gotta admit I had to tap out at 95, I might tray again later, but proper explanations for your choices would be great! RotJ is better than Alchemist?
Video games can be a very subjective experience. This was my personal ranking of the games I played that year based on the fun I had with them. If you do drop back in, don't stress too much about my ranking, or have fun shouting at the screen, berating my decisions 😉 Oh, and on the subjectivity, I'm a massive Star Wars geek (Original Trilogy that is), so even I am willing to accept I can be a little biased 🤣 And thanks for dropping in, especially to tell me why you were less than impressed, I love hearing opposing viewpoints. So many people don't bother to be honest 🫡
Hahahah. On Vigilante it's funny seeing the building colours becoming the main characters colours as he moves by. Is that something to do with transparency/Spectrum limitations?
It's definitely due to the Spectrum's graphical limitations. It wasn't designed with games in mind, as Sir Clive Sinclair's vision was to produce a purely business machine. Of course, the gaming community had other plans 😉 It's quite remarkable what some developers managed to squeeze out of that little computer. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
Android 2 and Halls of the Thing, two games I don't think I've ever heard of. I'll need to check those out. Thanks for dropping in and pointing me in the direction of a couple of new experiences 😎👍
They're from the same era, and some are older than the NES, so game developers for the early Microcomputers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 started with simple one screen games akin to the Game and Watch, but played on a TV screen. Of course, as time went on, they soon got to grips with the system and produced more complex games. And new games are still being developed 2020s and they are quite mind-blowing feats of technical achievement. Thanks for dropping in, my friend, and thanks for the great question 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel The Speccy is where all that began - it even hosts the very first in that lineage: Rebelstar Raiders (the great-grandaddy) which Rebelstar (and Rebelstar 2) were buffed sequels to. And then came Laser Squad (which I played on the Amiga but also had a Speccy version) and then X-COM (which I had on PC and PS1).
@@GenerationPixel You'll feel right at home with Laser Squad, with the Marsec hardware and familiar names like Corporal Jonlan, plus 5 different scenarios to play (7 with the expansion). It's the pinnacle of the top-down games, before it all went isometric with X-COM. If you want to "play 'em all" there was a Gameboy Advance "Rebelstar" game as well, by the original author, which was surprisingly decent. It uses an isometric view, like X-COM, but plays more like Rebelstar except with a proper campaign story mode to work your way through. Enjoy 😃
Hard Driving and Kung Fu Master are daring choices for the top 100 ZX Spectrum games. The former is more a technical achievement but lacks severely in the gameplay department. The latter is generally considered a flawed arcade port. Orbiter seems an odd choice for a Defender type of game. There are better Defender clones on the ZX Spectrum. Many of the best games ever are missing. Lords of Midnight, Midnight Resistance, Dragontorc, R-Type, Zynaps, Cabal, Commando, Trap Door, Sim City, Carrier Command, Starglider, Starstrike (both games), Dun Darach, Heavy on the Magick, Space Gun, Ant Attack, Elite, Where Time stood still, The Great Escape are just the ones that come to mind instantaneously. So its an excellent video but the omissions are very obvious.
These were the Top 100 games that I'd played that year. So the missing games from your picks were all games I hadn't played. As for Orbiter, it was the second game I played on the Speccy, and Defender was my current go to arcade cab, so it has an extra-special place in my hard, so even makes it on to my favourite games of all time.
So, Panzadrome, interesting little game. I'll need to set up a joystick because the keyboard controls are wacky 🤣 I can see me getting into this. It's very much an evolution of Combat on the Atari 2600, or at least that's my first impression 😎👍
This was just a best of from the games I played that year 😉 but thanks for bringing up Bubble Bobble, do you know how hard it is to get that theme out of your head, I'll be humming it all day now 🤣
@generationpixel thanks for the reply! Was great to re-live some games from my first experiences of gaming (I would have been around 6-8 mid to late 80s when we had one) bubble bobble 2 player with my dad on a Saturday is a great memory for me - but still today this game is hugely popular. Have subscribed to you channel keep up the good work 👍
I love nothing more than interacting with people in the comments, so thank you for taking the time to chat, I hope I can nudge your nostalgia in future videos 😉
Target Renegade way down at no. 47.. I have to take issue with that, it made a recent top 10 video so at the least it belongs in the top 20 for me. Also where is Head over Heels, the isometric 3D masterpiece and made by the same team that did the Batman game you referenced? It’s a far superior game, and builds on that but improves so much it clearly deserves to be included (potentially in place of Batman).
I'm afraid m, Head Over Heels didn't make the list because I've never played it. And this list was my personal ranking of the games I had played that year. But just for you, I get around to Head Over Heels and get back to you 😉 As for Target Renegade, yes, it's a fantastic game. I'm personally not a big Brawler or One on One Fighter fan, so any beat em up that makes any of my lists is an indication of how special they are. Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
Enjoyed this, you've played a lot of classics this year, some personal favourites and a few I've not played. I hate Ghostbusters 😆 Look forward to more speccy videos in the new year 🥰. C64 😲😲😲, unsubbed immediately 🤮💩
I am totally unaware of Chaos 😮 so n9t 9nly did I not play it that year, I've never played it. But thanks to you, I have a new Speccy game to hunt down and discover 😎👍 A quick Google search later, is it Lords of Chaos or Chaos Battle of Wizards?
Lunar jetman (sequel to jetman), "a little too difficult" ?! Hame is brocken in a halfs, it is just unplayable, and you cant pass any bumps on road, so you just stuck.
