Ahoy all Geeky Spectrum Lovers...

pheebs · 14 Dec 2013 at 00:24

randal said:
pheebs, just reading through your blog. Excellent and most enjoyable yomp.

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Website borked in Libya and then webdesigner failed on getting us a new one! Will be an updated one in the new year though!

I LOVED FURY OF FURRIES

Ah man, awesome gaming memories

mmj_uk · 14 Dec 2013 at 00:29

Ahh, the golden age of gaming.

Edrof · 14 Dec 2013 at 03:46

You missed Monkey Island, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, Theme Park. Those were the days!

Kutter · 14 Dec 2013 at 05:40

used to play attic attack for hours

Flukester · 14 Dec 2013 at 05:48

Bah, I started with a vic20.... Then looked with green eyes at all me mates getting spectrums a couple of years later. 3.5k ram lol

Mutt · 14 Dec 2013 at 06:45

I can clearly remember faking illness during school days so I could a) avoid having to go swimming and b) play this:

God how I loved that game.

Malevolence · 14 Dec 2013 at 07:01

Spit said:
48k Rubber Speccy here

She was an awesome computer. Star strike 3d and Schooldaze, ah the memories.

Not to mention squinting and swearing at LensLok whenever you wanted to play Elite! Assuming you hadn't dared to breath anywhere near the tape leads during loading.

Tachyon · 14 Dec 2013 at 09:22

Lol at the lenslok comment, forgot about that. Also there was a coloured piece of card came with Jet Set Willy maybe? that you had to put in the right colour on the grid to start the game.

Still have my 48k Spectrum and an Amiga 500 up in the roof space somewhere. Loved the Wally series on the Spectrum, definitely good memories until they brought out them turbo loaders or whatever they were that gave me some grief trying to load them.

No idea what the games are the OP is looking for, the second one where he said you're in a wheel made me think of The Pyramid where your in a 2d bubble which could look a bit like a wheel maybe.

vanpeebles · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:05

The speccy is still a superb machine. The only speccy game I can think of with fire and burning platforms is piromania/infernal combustion:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003738

Cosimo · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:36

My Ataris and BBC B have all gone but I still have this in a cupboard:

Unluckyalf · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:39

Cosimo said:
My Ataris and BBC B have all gone but I still have this in a cupboard:

I really wish i never sold my ZX81

DXP55 · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:40

Got a almost brand new boxed 48k one in loft - I could just about get my head around skiing down hill. Managed to program it to add 2+2 and my computer period was over.

Dave

zoomee · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:47

Coulda sworn I used to play a game called 'Penetrator' or somat - lol

- my first joystick game (appropriate eh?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2NbkSyv4Mk

My fav though had to be Target Renegade though for sure.

Kutter · 14 Dec 2013 at 11:13

Broke lots of quickshot joysticks playing daley thompson decathlon.

Yamahahahahaha · 14 Dec 2013 at 11:23

I used to have a couple of drawers full of games. Mum gave them away along with the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum to a charity shop without my knowledge.

"Oh they're in the loft somewhere" she'd say. She knew they weren't in the loft.

kthula666 · 14 Dec 2013 at 12:40

doofski said:
Broke lots of quickshot joysticks playing daley thompson decathlon.

Yeah im sure you waggled that stick too much as a kid

The pots in those sticks were very prone to breakage.

#Chri5# · 14 Dec 2013 at 13:05

doofski said:
Broke lots of quickshot joysticks playing daley thompson decathlon.

I remember snapping my mates Cheetah 125 during a frantic DT Decathlon session

My cousin had a Spectrum before me and I loved School Daze. Eventually had +2 and got a Datel +D with a 3.5" floppy disk. Made loading games so much quicker :cool:

Hicks · 14 Dec 2013 at 13:52

Flukester said:
Bah, I started with a vic20.... Then looked with green eyes at all me mates getting spectrums a couple of years later. 3.5k ram lol

Me too. Got a spectrum as well though

Hicks · 14 Dec 2013 at 14:01

holymonk said:
Skool Daze was my favorite along with it came from the desert.

Please sir, I cannot tell a lie, it was Eric!!

Can't forget Horace!!

Angilion · 15 Dec 2013 at 01:32

Spit said:
48k Rubber Speccy here

She was an awesome computer. Star strike 3d and Schooldaze, ah the memories.

I spent 6 weeks picking runner beans at £1 per hour to save up to buy a 48K rubber Spectrum when they were new. £180! But I'd seen one running in Woolworths and was awed. Colour! Hi-res graphics! Sound!

I still have my Lenslok for Elite.