I’ve loaded from tape a few times in recent years, but prefer quick loads when playing and recording. For me retrogaming has always been a thing for me. It was a sad day for me when old games started to become more popular and prices rise through the roof. Thank goodness I was able to collect early on before the insane price increases.
@@ClassicReplay yeah it’s also tough when you see prices now but remember the same games at a fraction of the cost not that long ago. I’m lucky in that I don’t desire a big collection, maybe just my top 5 to 10 games on each system and the rest from everdrive. I also have a Div Mmc, but amy top few Speccy games are always loaded from tape for the full experience 😁
Another superb video all about a superb games developer. Oh what a wonderful world we live in to have access to all these retro classics. Having to save all your pennies back in the day, just to buy a couple of games a year, was crazy.
100% people have quickly forgotten how hard to come by these games actually was. We now live in a world of “I want it now”. In some ways that’s a great thing, but is it good for society, our children or your soul 😉
Fantastic memories. So glad the game that got No.1 got No. 1, easily my absolute favourite. And Jetpac is still brilliant. Like you I will be on my PS5 one minute and be on my speccy emulator the next. Thank you.
Great memories! It's only in the last 6 months or so that I've finally been playing Jetpac with a controller (gamepad in my case). Finally, I can clear a few levels!
Man, I spent so much of my childhood playing on the ZX Spectrum! The most upsetting thing, waiting 5 minutes with the loading sounds, only for it not to work!
@@ClassicReplay Good point! But man could you get an epic game library with a twin deck cassette recorder. The amount of games swapped and passed around was crazy, and if you didn't like the game, ya just went over the same cassette again!
For me, Alien 8 was the last great Ultimate game. I never cared much for anything after that. But from their first game, the utterly superb Jetpac, to Alien 8, the entire run of games were brilliant. My favourite ever is probably Underwurlde, closely followed by Atic Atac, Jetpac, and Lunar Jetman.
As I've said in the video, I loved all the Ultimate games. Each brings something new and you can tell they spent a lot of time crafting them together. I do like Alien 8 as well though. As for Jet Pac, say no more.
The humble 16K Cookie is the best of them imo, and the one I fire up the most now. It's a proper arcade game, unlike most of the others. Would have liked 48K versions of Cookie and Jetpac. 48K Cookie could have had more ingredients to blast into the mixing bowl and different cakes rising. Lunar Jetman plays a lot better with a gamepad than it ever did with a single button joystick. Still a damned tough game, though! Never thought Tranz Am or Underwurlde were any good.
Another great video. Underwurlde! Obsessed. By crickey it's hella hard now though. I was way better at games when I was 12 :) Any Codey people here know if these games could run on the Playdate (sorry, but I have a vested interest) - The spectrum will always be my first love :) Plus does anyone else think attic attack - good choice! inspired Binding of Isaac clearly. And some one please put it on the PD !!
If SEGA would have partnered with RARE... Nintendo would have sued lol! While I think Nintendo has some brilliant programmers and game design, their legal team was and is a bunch of Richard Craniums.
For me personally I never tired of the isometric formula and on the GBA and PC e.g. later games it has evolved into something quite special especially with added scroll.
