Favourite ZX Spectrum games
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A lot of good games already mentioned. L
Games were tough back then, didn't complete many of them. One I do remember completing was Herbert's Dummy Run.
First I played would be Horace goes skiing.
One of the last I bought was Uridium.
Games I don't think mentioned previously but I remember fondly.
The monty mole games
Dynamite Dan
Hunchback
Spy Vs Spy
Frank Bruno boxing
The Happiest Days of Your Life, (relatively unknown game on budget Firebird label)
Anyone remember Sweevo's World?
Games were tough back then, didn't complete many of them. One I do remember completing was Herbert's Dummy Run.
First I played would be Horace goes skiing.
One of the last I bought was Uridium.
Games I don't think mentioned previously but I remember fondly.
The monty mole games
Dynamite Dan
Hunchback
Spy Vs Spy
Frank Bruno boxing
The Happiest Days of Your Life, (relatively unknown game on budget Firebird label)
Anyone remember Sweevo's World?
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Elite,Tau Ceti,Pyjamarama, atic atak,ant attack,Football Manager, star glider,ranarama.
(loved Laser squad,Rebelstar 1/2 and later x-com)
Loved elite
Loved atic atak
loved Tau Ceti
Loved ranarama but never finished it I think I came close though.
(loved Laser squad,Rebelstar 1/2 and later x-com)
Loved elite
Loved atic atak
loved Tau Ceti
Loved ranarama but never finished it I think I came close though.
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Turrican, spent hours on this. Ghouls and Ghosts, Last Ninja and my favourite Soul of a Robot, amazing game.
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Manic Miner and the Knightlore games 
Most of the games I used to play were typed in from the magazines. Used to take hours and hours to type them in and frequently wouldn't work because I typed an 'o' rather than a '0' somewhere in the hundreds of lines of code..
Most of the games I used to play were typed in from the magazines. Used to take hours and hours to type them in and frequently wouldn't work because I typed an 'o' rather than a '0' somewhere in the hundreds of lines of code..
Remember that far too often too
Spent hours on My 16k spectrum (and the zx81 before that) and felt so excited when getting the 32k pack upgrade that never quite fitted as it should and would frequently crash the system when you nudged the keyboard slightly in the wrong place
Always remember Manic Miner and JSW but Saboteur was probably my favourite along with the UPTG releases. Still laugh at how often loading from tape always failed about 50% of the time and those squeals etc .
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Haha indeed and the horizontal coloured lines across the screen that accompanied the squeals
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So many memories of my Speccy, most have already been mentioned but the favourites for me were
Bombjack
Dizzy (all of them)
BloodWych
Target Renegade
RoboCop
Most of which were copied from my mate using the tape to tape copying on a Hifi
Bombjack
Dizzy (all of them)
BloodWych
Target Renegade
RoboCop
Most of which were copied from my mate using the tape to tape copying on a Hifi
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First Speccy game that got me hooked was Starquake
Sunk hours into it
Keep an eye out, there's a remake coming.
Being a person of class and taste I owned a C64, but people did do a lot of strong work with the limited capacity of the Spectrum - most of which has already been mentioned. I will put an oar in for Survival, though, which was basic but very fun. The aim was to navigate a grid map as one of six animals, avoiding hazards and eating to stay alive as long as possible. I can't remember all the animals you could play as now, but there was a fly, an eagle and a lion.
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My favourite specy game was Booty, used to connect it to the telly & play it with my dad.
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Absolutely loved the dizzy games and paperboy.