30th anniversary of the sinclair zx spectrum apparently

10 print "g00gle informs me it's the 30th anniversary of the zx spectrum."
20 goto 10

bloody hell. how to make you feel old

commence nostalgic mode /

them were the days tho..

Atic Atac
Baron
Cavelon
Football Manager
Harrier Attack
Manic Miner
Pacman
Penetrator
Rambo
Saboteur
SpaceRaiders
The Way Of The Exploding Fist
Tornado Low Level
Wheelie
Wimpy

god i'm struggling to remember there were loads more brilliant ones. There was a game where you built a rocket each level. And what was that one where you watered plants and fought off bees hmmm

Aye games were hard as nails back in the day. real games i'm talking about not like the flowery puff pastry you get now.

DS9 wrote:There was a game where you built a rocket each level.

Wasn't that JetPack?
It's now on xbox arcade Bri's a bit good at it.

Off the top of my head:

Atic atac
Lords of Midnight
The Hobbit
Manic Miner
Jet set Willy
Boulder dash
Back to School
Ant Attack
Knight Lore
Starglider

Oh the joys of waiting 5 minutes watching flashing lines only to get a load error then adjusting the volume on the external tape deck a smidge and trying again.

Still got a rubber keyed 48K specky in the attic complete with ZX Miocrodrives and ZX printer + silver paper.
And more games than I care to remember.

That was the start of my addiction.

Ah the old bzzzzshhhhkreeee loading technicolour screen spectrum. I used to get a shot of our family's when I was a kid, loved Manic Miner and Wheelie

Also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666

Came across mine the other week when I was in the attic, was sorely tempted to bring them down and have a play

mm yeah that sounds right jetpac well done Vis !

think the one with plants and bees was Pssst ??

aye Ant Attack was quite scary i think the sound was what got you
good call with back to skool lol

Battle of Britain was great too

yeah the loading games was a cross between torture and psychadelic trip outs

nowadays you can just use an emulator on the pc for instant loads

the hours I spent playing those games, happy days.


actually, when I say playing, I mean watching a colourful loading screen take shape before the thing just crashed.

Ah old games, they taught you the value of patience, kids these days expact everything to happen right now and then get bored with it before our old games had even had chance to load.

This is a new site to me and everything appears playable, check out "Halls of the Things" under the 1983 tab I used to spend hours on that.

http://www.zxspectrum.net/

checked out that link vis

great site cheers for posting it

today i played Dictator and escaped in the helicopter hurrah!

played football manager easy to lose track of time playing this, changed some team names to scottish clubs played for one season and got promoted
ive just recalled one time 1 changed all the team names to smurfton smurfers smurfilla smurf utd smurf city etc lol oh dear

had a shot of Fred on that site and got to the second level.

just remembered another one i used to play was Manic Mechanic where you had to build up a car to the sound of laurel and hardy style music