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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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If you have a fondness for all things specy, check out the below YouTube link where a child born in 1990 gets show a +2 in 2016.
https://youtu.be/0vMXjFdhBr0 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What games did you play Op?"
Probably all of them at some point. Too many to even comprehend.
The main games I always came back to:
Manic Miner
Jetset Willy (first open world?)
Scuba Dive
Knight Lore
Ghosts and Goblins
Trashman
Micronaught One
Jet Pac
Chuckie Egg
Elite
Skool Daze (probably the first stealth game)
Back to Skool
Atic Atac
Bomb Jack
Death Chase
Commando
Still have a shit ton of games in the loft and my old Sam Coupe.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"That reminds me of the days on end I spent playing the dizzy games.
That stupid fucking egg!!
Only one I didn’t finish... Magic land  "
I never liked Dizzy much. Preferred the Wally games and Pyjamarama. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember in early 80s I used to holiday down in Paignton and local radio used to broadcast spectrum games on a Sunday for you to record. Not sure it was legal |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bookmarking! I'll watch later. Loved my Speccy!
You'll love the bit where fantasy world dizzy crashes lol."
Those power sockets were a bitch. One slight Knock and bang, back to the menu screen.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Bookmarking! I'll watch later. Loved my Speccy!
You'll love the bit where fantasy world dizzy crashes lol.
Those power sockets were a bitch. One slight Knock and bang, back to the menu screen.
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I had a ZX81 with the 16k ram pack. That was well known for crashing if a door slammed or you coughed. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games 
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?"
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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There's a cracking Mathew Smith interview on YouTube.
He has a few mental issues now so he not doing so good. He's unable to talk about the 8 months writing Jetset Willy as it messed him up.
He made no money off the back of it.
https://youtu.be/Dss-HZb2YWI
https://youtu.be/ERve4p7Sgw8
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By (user no longer on site)
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Ah yes. I actually have a Zx Spectrum which I bought at a Play Expo event 4 years ago for only £50.
It sure brought back great memories of when I played it when I was a kid |
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"There's a cracking Mathew Smith interview on YouTube.
He has a few mental issues now so he not doing so good. He's unable to talk about the 8 months writing Jetset Willy as it messed him up.
He made no money off the back of it.
https://youtu.be/Dss-HZb2YWI
https://youtu.be/ERve4p7Sgw8
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Will look later. I conversed with him via email about 10 years ago, he seemed quite together then. He was thrilled to learn the kids i worked with at a school thought Manic Miner was great. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file."
I've done an mp3.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file. I've done an mp3. "
Nice  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file. I've done an mp3.
Nice "
If it's a ringtone you might have to convert to wav. Hope it works for you though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How many people destroyed their joysticks and keyboards playing Daley Thompson's decathlon?!...
Yep... Ruined two Kempstons and a Quickshot. "
expensive hardware back in the day lol |
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"How many people destroyed their joysticks and keyboards playing Daley Thompson's decathlon?!...
Yep... Ruined two Kempstons and a Quickshot.
expensive hardware back in the day lol"
15 quid when that was a lot of money. Games were typically 6 or 7 quid.
I could do with a Kempston now for my Spectrum. |
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"Omg loved chucky egg. Don't like to boast but was really good at it "
addicted to that thing we did get to a high level of 70 as it was getting a little fast then
level 9 bird came out of the cage then at a higher level every 8 it changed again then it went faster.
spectrum and commodore was different commodore was the original chuckie egg |
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edited to what ive played added a few more
Manic Miner
Jetset Willy (first open world?)
Knight Lore
Ghosts and Goblins
Jet Pac
Chuckie Egg
Bomb Jack also known as bomberman
Death Chase
Commando
airwolf
bruce lee
underworld
there was mame99 1000 spectrum games and emulator on it  |
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"Omg loved chucky egg. Don't like to boast but was really good at it
addicted to that thing we did get to a high level of 70 as it was getting a little fast then
level 9 bird came out of the cage then at a higher level every 8 it changed again then it went faster.
spectrum and commodore was different commodore was the original chuckie egg"
Oh dear,chuckle egg |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Omg loved chucky egg. Don't like to boast but was really good at it "
Once you knew the levels off by heart and how the flying chicken moved you could rack up a massive score.
I think the version on the Dragon was better. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file. I've done an mp3.
Nice
If it's a ringtone you might have to convert to wav. Hope it works for you though. "
not sure what done type it is, but it works. Even got the boooooo-beep bit as a message tone |
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"How many people destroyed their joysticks and keyboards playing Daley Thompson's decathlon?!... "
Ocean bought the licence for peanuts when Daley Thompson was relatively unknown. Once he blasted the decathlon they made a fortune off the games.
Ocean always bought the licences for Hollywood films way in advance at a risk, but also for cheap. RoboCop was another one they made a mint off doing that. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"48k here with all the screeching! Still got the games
I like the screeching.
Anyone know if you can get it as a ringtone?
Use Audacity and record it. Make a wav file. I've done an mp3.
Nice
If it's a ringtone you might have to convert to wav. Hope it works for you though. not sure what done type it is, but it works. Even got the boooooo-beep bit as a message tone "
Now go record the intro music for Sweevo's World.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"edited to what ive played added a few more
Manic Miner
Jetset Willy (first open world?)
Knight Lore
Ghosts and Goblins
Jet Pac
Chuckie Egg
Bomb Jack also known as bomberman
Death Chase
Commando
airwolf
bruce lee
underworld
there was mame99 1000 spectrum games and emulator on it "
Ah I forgot The Great Escape on my list. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How many people destroyed their joysticks and keyboards playing Daley Thompson's decathlon?!...
Ocean bought the licence for peanuts when Daley Thompson was relatively unknown. Once he blasted the decathlon they made a fortune off the games.
Ocean always bought the licences for Hollywood films way in advance at a risk, but also for cheap. RoboCop was another one they made a mint off doing that."
Ocean always made pretty decent games. And their games came in cool cardboard boxes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone remember 16/48 magazine? A mag on cassette? "
I was a Your Sinclair kind of kid. Scarily I can remember Julian Rignall was the editor  Computer and Video Games too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone remember 16/48 magazine? A mag on cassette?
Don't recall it. With me it was Sinclair Programs, Crash and Your Sinclair."
Don't forget Input, the 52 edition guide to programming. Used to love running down the newsagents each week to get my copy. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Anyone remember 16/48 magazine? A mag on cassette?
Don't recall it. With me it was Sinclair Programs, Crash and Your Sinclair. Don't forget Input, the 52 edition guide to programming. Used to love running down the newsagents each week to get my copy."
I only bought input once on the first release. Don't know why I never bought it again though, I must have been about 11 or 12 at the time. |
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Imagine explaining to kids nowadays that it takes 10 minutes for a game to load.....hopefully - but there's a good chance it will crash 90% of the way through and you will have to start again.
I loved my childhood! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone remember 16/48 magazine? A mag on cassette?
Don't recall it. With me it was Sinclair Programs, Crash and Your Sinclair. Don't forget Input, the 52 edition guide to programming. Used to love running down the newsagents each week to get my copy.
I only bought input once on the first release. Don't know why I never bought it again though, I must have been about 11 or 12 at the time."
I wasn't far off that either. It was so annoying keying in the editions worth of code for a game and it not working. Then you'd get the error list attached to the next edition showing where they'd fucked up. Usually a coma where a dot was needed. Part of the fun was trying to work out out yourself |
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"I loved Sinclair Programs, I'd spend hours typing in the listings
They never fucking worked half the time. Hours wasted "
They worked... But often I'd have to debug mistakes I'd made typing.
C&VG was another great magazine |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Anyone remember 16/48 magazine? A mag on cassette?
Don't recall it. With me it was Sinclair Programs, Crash and Your Sinclair. Don't forget Input, the 52 edition guide to programming. Used to love running down the newsagents each week to get my copy.
I only bought input once on the first release. Don't know why I never bought it again though, I must have been about 11 or 12 at the time. I wasn't far off that either. It was so annoying keying in the editions worth of code for a game and it not working. Then you'd get the error list attached to the next edition showing where they'd fucked up. Usually a coma where a dot was needed. Part of the fun was trying to work out out yourself "
There was a guy called T Sherwood who had published some cracking games in Sinclair Programs. They were very often a good few pages long, took days to get running. |
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"I remember as a child my parents getting a VIC20....too my surprise waking up early for school and my parents still clothed in Sunday best,still playing “BLITz”"
My favourite VIC-20 game was Psycho Shopper |
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