Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum!

UK ILGERS REPRAZENT!

my big cousin had one of these

wasn't long till the megadrive came along and we could play real games

spectrum: 1982

megadrive: 1988 ('89 US)

Bah! BBC Micro 4 LIFE sukaz!!!

wonder if anyone here had an amstrad cpc lol

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/s/SuperHang-On.gif

ARCADE QUALITY GRAPHICS YO!

er...

ja, I ws born in 82 tho innit so didn't get a chance to play the zx spectrum till around 89/90 by which time it wasn't long till we got a megadrive and we could play real games

those arcade quality graphics in full:

http://i33.tinypic.com/258tlye.gif

Come to think of it, Amstrad owners have been very quiet on ILG. There's been plenty of shouts from the Speccy/Beeb/Commie crews (FFS I am turning into Tim Westwood...), but nothing from CPC owners. Maybe they are still getting their crappy tape drives and 3" floppies to work...

(xpost) fear the colour attribute clash...

I remember me and my mate typing in the first program on his new Spectrum, which showed a bus made of lo-res graphics moving from one side of the screen to the other.

And then we played Horace Goes Skiing all day

Super Hang On was a great game on the speccy!

agreed!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Atic_atac_4.gif http://i33.tinypic.com/2j2c28o.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/ZXSpectrum_chuckieegg.gif

http://i37.tinypic.com/xc9oc2.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/3D_Deathchase_screen.gif http://www.crashonline.org.uk/43/images/exolon1.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Gauntlet_Spectrum.png http://i35.tinypic.com/zlsmkm.gif http://i34.tinypic.com/vretfd.gif

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1093997669-00.png http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/arkanoid/screenshots/gameShotId,84250/

http://www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/alien_8_map_zx.gif

http://www.myspeccy.com/files/zynaps.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Trantor_game.GIF http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/dark_side.png

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/last_ninja_2_1.png http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/space_crusade_l.png http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/nebulus.png

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/deflektor.png http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/sabrewulf.png
http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/arkanoid2.png

never played r-type on the speccy but it looks great!

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/rtype_3.png

I thoroughly recommend a game called Rescue, a budget offering iirc (it's the one with the green spaceship graphics).

You run around a spaceship trying to rescue scientists, and their work, take them back to your docked ship, then you have to get all the fuel, all the while avoiding and killing johnny five type robots.

I finished it so many times, but also spent a lot of time constructing 'dens' out of boxes and seeing how long it would be before the robots came and got me.

oh and press 'break' (spacebar?) on the menu screen for something perculiar

ledge, seriously you've never played what was probably *the* best version of R-Type on home computers? It was even better than the amiga translation.

nah it was homegrown speccy shooters only for me. zynaps, lightforce, sidewize, crosswize...

incidentally i found a nice one-page speccy nostalgia archive: http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html

wtf this crazy shit? http://zxds.raxoft.cz/screens/games/extreme_2.png

not sure i ever really played the arcade version of r-type even. hangin' round in arcades was not a big part of my youth.

Lightforce - another great one

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/ZX_Batman.png

no

http://tomheroes.arcadeafterdark.com/images3/RTjet_set_willy_screen6.gif

no credibility.

I once tried to charter every game in the Spectrum archive, attempting to complete them all for my blog. I managed to complete "007: Licence to Kill" and then gave up on "007: Live and Let Die"

and that was the end of that particular project.

trippy grfx man!!

i can't stop clicking the Random button on World Of Spectrum, to perv over old screenshots of speccy games.

Daley Thompson's Olympics, Barry McGuigan's Boxing, Target: Renegade. Yie Aar Kung Fu!

soo many Spanish games, recent ones and they look great too.

anyone help me track a speccy game ?

trying to recall a game that was similar to Alien breed, ie top down space ship corridors exploring shoot aliens type game (eagles nest etc)

i think i got it free with a magazine too, that's not to say it wasn't originally a full priced offering (and i'm sure it was)

ah got it. Denizon

I once tried to charter every game in the Spectrum archive, attempting to complete them all for my blog. I managed to complete "007: Licence to Kill" and then gave up on "007: Live and Let Die"

Feeling this.

We should wrestle with all these horrible unplayable lookalike games some more on here.

I'm game.

i sat and watched youtube vid of a playthrough of Activisions Aliens US, on the C64, last night and half way through I just had a "what the fuck am i doing?" moment.

will be 30 years this april then

my mate texted me this morning, his girlfriend had come across a load more tapes of speccy games in their attic. Gave them to me today.

Lots of gooduns, including skooldaze, paperboy, horace goes skiing, magnificent 7 compilation, and kokotini wilf one of my favourites.