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30 years old today. Some great games - Manic Miner probably the best IMO.
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Did you ever see my link for a perfect PC copy of Manic Miner, sir?
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Here it is again:
http://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/ |
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Exolon, Elite and Head over Heels.
three titles which pushed the hardware to its absolute limits but still provide exceptionally good, playable games. there was a lot of stuff released in its last few years that was hugely over ambitious and massively disappointing. |
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I got to level 16 on Manic Miner - wasted much of my life when I was 15.
Elite and Jet Set Willy was another that wasted many hours. I also liked 3D Ant Attack, I think it was the first game I ever completed. I started into programming machine code but left the computer scene when I discovered females which were much more fun to play with. Really wish I'd have stuck to it. I've since tried to learn to program on C+ and Android but can't really get into it. I bought the newer version of the ZX Spectrum in the early 90's for nostalgia but it just wasn't the same as when I was 15. I moved onto the Amiga and then a Pentium 90 with a massive 40MB hard drive. I think the processor in my phone has now more power than these  |
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Still got my Speccy in a box somewhere. Occasionally waste a few minutes playing the old games online
http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/ |
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I still have my ZX Spectrum+. I didn't use it for ages, it's probably not working anymore, but strangely i can never bring myself to put it in garbage
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Cleaned my Post Office savings account out to buy one.Addicted to the Grand National game-think that was the start of the journey down the slippery slope
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True story - We actually won the Pools in the mid 80's thanks to a Pools Prediction Program that was doing the rounds. You had to manually update every football result every week and the computer would spit out the 8 results that were most likely to draw. After 4 weeks I got fed up and stopped updating it but my dad kept the same numbers and 3 weeks later we hit £1,500
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I loved Minder and Football Director
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Oh the days of being able to buy your new computer games in the newsagents. Market stalls filled with racks of tapes at a nicker each and games where you feel like you have won just because you got it to load.
I used to love the football manager games on spectrum. Nice and simple. I still play FM on PC occasionally, but's it so damn complicated and in depth now. |
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I use this now and then when feeling nostalgic http://www.zxspectrum.net/
it's a free emulator and some popular games |
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and games where you feel like you have won just because you got it to load
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Oh the days of being able to buy your new computer games in the newsagents. Market stalls filled with racks of tapes at a nicker each and games where you feel like you have won just because you got it to load.
Better yet were the C90 tapes going round school with about 30 games on, admittedly only about 4 or 5 ever worked, but still remember being amazed with Frank Bruno's Boxing. There was a pop band manager game which I've tried to track down, I was obsessed with it. You started out busking then progressed to bigger venues and bought status symbols etc. It was all just text and very simple but I loved it, it always seemed to randomly end with your band splitting up for no reason no matter how 'happy' they were   |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OszbHJZrb0w
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"There was a pop band manager game which I've tried to track down, I was obsessed with it."
that game was called The Biz and you can still play it if you go to a site called the world of spectrum. You will find emulators to download plus the game. |
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One game which nearly drove me crazy at that time is Underwurlde. I tried hard to finish it but never succeeded. Painful failure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eUP54r5pkc |
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Amstrad CPC for me.
youtube has a ton of classic games on video... |
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I also had a ZX81.
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Burton, hmmm... seems very similar but not sure that's the actual one
 I never got close to finishing any speccy game, remember buying Rambo for £8.50, so excited and couldn't get past the first level I don't think I finished a game till I played the SNES generation consoles. |
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Bruce Lee was easy to finish, you just kick all over the place and it's done
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creatureinthesky -
do you mean "rockstar ate my hamster"??? |
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I had that game on the atari st
Wild Bunch my fav on the spectrum, go to the main bloke once and the thing crashed |
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Me too C-C.
The good thing about the ZX81 was there was feck all else to do with it bar learn to program. Our school had one and I had to teach our teacher to program. I saved and paid for the ZX81 out of my pocket money, I think it cost me £40. |
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What's that in todays money?
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Do any of you still play computer games or have you all packed up now?
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I more or less continued, had Atari ST, Nintendo 64, PS2 and now PS3, but i can't play now, it's really too time consuming and i have more important things to do
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one thing for sure all those who replies to this fred are near 40 or over
 time flies yeah spectrum 48k fan here  |
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oh yes time flies
. Well at least we stayed young in our heads to still speak about video games |
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never seem to have the time to play games much now, and I never buy the magazines anymore so I don't know what's out there.
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getstokedonit 23 Apr 12 17:20
creatureinthesky - do you mean "rockstar ate my hamster"??? That looks more like it but I remember the charts always had DR Hook, so I think it used real names and I think you played as if you were in the band rather than being a manager. Also you had to busk before getting a proper gig. My Spectrum + was £125 from Dixons in 1985 ish, computer, tape recorder and games including Chequered Flag, Chess and this . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Horizons_Survival |
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Oh, and a Quickshot 2
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And nobodies mentioned the Hobbit
It took 10 mins to draw each scene, couldn't understand the words you typed but it was revolutionary. I never got very far in it but you can find solutions on the net and it wasn't that hard to complete when you knew what words to use. |
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A few favs
Footballer of the year, Football director II & Sport of kings. Used to love Elite as well, all that intergalactic trading |
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I remember everyone got stuck in The Hobbit at a bit where you had to climb inside a barrel and go down a waterfall or something, but you had to get the exact wording to get into the bloody barrel.
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Sounds like this...
. http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rete/dont****-your-pants |
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Copy address and replace **** with sh1t
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Oh yes time does fly! 39 so yeah your right about the age...most friends at the time had a Spectrum and yeah they were good but the Commodore 64 was much better, and the sound/music etc was amazing at the time...some arcade conversions like Commando and Hyper Sports were nearly identical. Yeah im bored of games nowadays too in depth and nearly all first person shooters...
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Does anyone remember the name of that adventure game that if you were the first to finish it you got a holiday to Hungary?
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I had an Amstrad CPC464 (with colour monitor
of course!)I loved Manic Miner, Football Director (miles better than FM), Ghouls, Steve Davis snooker, Test match cricket, & the ultimate...........CLASSIC RACING. Used to have a stable of horses and try and get the most prize money. Many a time pocket money won or lost v my brother. That was the slippery slope for us........!!!! Any Amstrad games online anywhere? P.S The Grand National game used to take forever to complete, with no pictures and only horses name moving up & down the field before falling some 38 minutes into the race  |