Comments on: Spec-chums unite!

By: dantheman

dantheman — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:14:39 +0000

I had the 48K spectrum… it was the worst computer I ever owned, never bothered after that and got me a NES console some years later.

By: Glissando

Glissando — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:21:36 +0000

8/10 for Manic Miner? lol wut?

Somebody’s getting jacked up on the Commodore payola.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:56:13 +0000

One of my fondest memories is poring over the review section of the Your Spectrum magazine – my mind was blown by Skooldaze and its colourful masks and when I got it one xmas (complete with invisible ink “microsphere” logo over the inlay I was one happy bunny.

There is an embarrassment of classics on the Spectrum so I will say: Amaurote, Dynamite Dan, Bruce Lee, Target Renegade, Valhalla (just for old times sake) and the inevitable Manic Miner.

By: H

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:27 +0000

Oh Jesus, Way of the Exploding Fist!

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:19:49 +0000

Nice to see 3D Deathchase at the head of the list (even if it is only alphabetically), but some of the choices are a little curious.

Cyclone was better than Tornado Low Level, Doomdark’s Revenge was superior to Lords of Midnight, and Bak 2 Skool was a heck of a lot more fun than Skool Daze…

Also, where are games like Combat Lynx, Target: Renegade, Glider Rider, Way of the Exploding Fist, Everyone’s A Wally, Turbo Esprit, Dark Star and Driller? (To name but a few, and that’s not even mentioning multi-platform classics like Elite, Tetris and Gauntlet)

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:10:53 +0000

I had a spectrum 128k +2, with built in tape drive.
Check it out!

I had two mates, one with the 48k rubber keyboard classic, one with a shiny +3 with built in disc drive.

Most weekends were spent hiking to the local library to borrow speccy games, which we then copied and returned. If I am in any way responsible for the demise of the spectrum, I apologise profusely.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:35:07 +0000

Compared to today, I just never finished any of these games… I finish everything today, but other than text adventures, where I managed a few, I really didn’t get far with a lot of these.

By: Matthew Craig

Matthew Craig — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:28:52 +0000

Gauntlet! Hold Shift, walk through walls!

Zoids! Isometric shapeless war-toys! ONLY POLYGONAL WAR.

Transformers! Fly, Jazz, fly!

STOP MAKING ME OLD.

I would kill all your demons for the chance to remake Horace and the Spiders, though.

(I should put that Horace gravytar in there, shouldn’t I)

//\Oo/\\

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:46:52 +0000

My first computer was a Commodore 16, Hobbes, so you know you win.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:51:52 +0000

I had a Commodore +4.

The moral of that story? Don’t let you’re Mum make the decisions when buying a computer.

By: Lu-Tze

Lu-Tze — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:55:47 +0000

Oh and Smuggler’s Cove! I had a map covering about 5 sheets of A4 on my wall for that one!

By: H

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:53:49 +0000

My all time favourite computer game is a Speccy game – Panzadrome – but most people either didn’t like it or didn’t try it. Well worth digging up.