I'd just looked up Horace and the Spiders and I have zero memory of that even though I'm positive I had it and played it.
How strange.
Edit: Watched a video, it was what I remembered. Alternate version of Horace and the Spiders deconfirmed.
It's actually amazing what they were doing with the Speccy in later years. One of my favorites has to be Starglider. Sure, the Amiga etc was visually better, but the Spectrum version was phenomenal.
Even more impressive - for me - is that they managed a passable version of Starglider 2, too.
Worst color video chip of any 8bit system?
The 8bit Atari line introduced three years earlier was leagues ahead.
Worst color video chip of any 8bit system?
The 8bit Atari line introduced three years earlier was leagues ahead.
Worst color video chip of any 8bit system?
Renegade
Barbarian
And that loading sound...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtBoRp_cSxQ
PS
Thanks for this thread!
Worst color video chip of any 8bit system?
The 8bit Atari line introduced three years earlier was leagues ahead.
Two best games along with;
Also, another incredible version was R-Type. This actually put the C64 version to shame!
I wonder if you showed a random person that screenshot, they could deduce what movie license it's from. Indeed, that might be a fun quiz to develop.
There's a game my parents and I used to play, but we can't for life of us remember the title, and Googling for what it was like doesn't give any decent results.
It was top down, each screen was seperate with no scrolling, you would have to collect items in a Dizzy stylee to progress, and there were several different coloured dragons blocking paths to new areas. The dragons were fairly big, as I recall.
We loved it, but never beat it, but it must have been fairly unknown or something because it never crops up in lists of Speccy games to play.
I bought this also but on the C64. Cobra and Short Circuit were arse but the rest of the games were great (Can't make out that one on the left, may have gotten a different game on the C64). Wizball was the real gem in that pack.
Did anyone actually play that Frankie goes to Hollywood game? I remember being slightly irritated by the star billing it got on that compilation, with the wonderful Head over Heels and Wizball pushed to the sides. It has the distinction of being the first ever band tie-in game if nothing else.
It's not top-down, but the 'dragons blocking progress' puts me in mind of Slightly Magic:
It's actually amazing what they were doing with the Speccy in later years. One of my favorites has to be Starglider. Sure, the Amiga etc was visually better, but the Spectrum version was phenomenal.
Also, another incredible version was R-Type. This actually put the C64 version to shame!
Chase HQ and R-Type were pretty amazing ports. I thought Target Renegade was amazing at the time too. I used to love the Codies "Simulator" series, especially BMX, ATV and Super Stuntman. It was incredible that you could go to the corner shop and buy a game for under two quid that would last weeks.
Nowdays my original spectrum hardware is long dead, when i'm at home i use the amazing spectaculator emulator as it's pretty much perfect. If i'm out on the move i use my DS and a flash cart to play spectrum as ZXDS is a fantastic emulator that maps spectrum games 1:1 to the DS screen so they are pixel sharp.
Yes you're right with those games. Bubble Bobble was a good port too. New Zealand Story too, I think.
But there was some God-awful ports. Out Run, which seemed to run at about 5fps, was totally monochrome and had multi-load. You had to press play on your cassette to load the next course for 3 minutes when you reached a checkpoint. Also, they supplied the music soundtrack on audio cassette for you to play alongside playing the game.
Must have gone through 3 joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
Ah to be a 7 year old kid during the mid 80's was fucking amazing.
Must have gone through 3 joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
Ah to be a 7 year old kid during the mid 80's was fucking amazing.
The big question is how did play using the keyboard.
QA (up/down) NM/OP (left/right) Space (Jump)
or
ZX (left/right) LP (up/down) Space (Jump)
What joysticks was GAF using for the speccy?
Quickshot II 4lyfe.
Oh Man Daley Thompson decathlon. That brings back some memory's I remember taking my joystick apart and touching the left and right contacts together to cheat.
The big question is how did play using the keyboard.
QA (up/down) NM/OP (left/right) Space (Jump)
or
ZX (left/right) LP (up/down) Space (Jump)
What joysticks was GAF using for the speccy?
Quickshot II 4lyfe.
What joysticks was GAF using for the speccy?
Quickshot II 4lyfe.
Loved for £1.99 or £2.99 you could get a game, the dizzy games provided so much fun for only a couple of quid. Also love dynatron mission, night shift, monty on the run, little puff, and a ton of others.
What joysticks was GAF using for the speccy?
Quickshot II 4lyfe.