Favourite ZX Spectrum games

Used to love my Spectrum, wasted so many hours playing games on it and used to look forward each month to picking up Crash magazine.

Probably enjoyed too many games to pick favourites but loved Sabre Wulf, They stole a million, The Wally games such as Everyones a Wally, Pyjamarama, 3 Weeks in Paradise etc.. The list could go on.

Hear so much of piracy now but God bless the twin cassette deck.:D:D
 
Jono said:
You couldn't, without a PEEK and a POKE, could you? Due to some bug about the conservatory?

I never completed it. Maybe managed about 50% but then always seemed to die on a screen that wiped out all your lives all in one. Spawn > Die > Spawn > Die > Spawn Die. Stupid game.
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Wasn't it the C64 version which had a game breaking bug? You jumped further going one way (right/left) than the other, which meant some sections were impossible.

Maybe the Speccy version was buggered too.
 
Blimey too many to list.. Here's a few of the alternative ones I liked.

Skool Daze
Fantastic Voyage
Cavelon
Codename Mat
Automania
Technician Ted
TT Racer
Brian Bloodaxe

I have 3-4 box loads of original (and copied, tut tut) games in the attic, & I still have my original 48k rubber keyed wonder that my parents bought from Rumbelows in '84.

Oh and I still have a boxed Multiface One I bought via postal orders in '85, I didn't have a clue what I was doing with hexadecimal at 14 either!


It was the infamous 'Attic bug' that stopped you from completing the released version of Jet Set Willy, it had to be poked to be able to finish. I remember the poke for infinite lives on that game 35899,0. Oh dear.. :o
 
cheesyboy said:
Wasn't it the C64 version which had a game breaking bug? You jumped further going one way (right/left) than the other, which meant some sections were impossible.

Maybe the Speccy version was buggered too.
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Don't know about the C64 but it was definitely in the Spectrum version. Here's the Your Spectrum article from June 1984 were they phone the devs to ask what is going on & they claim it's a feature not a bug! :) >>
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr04/yr04_60.htm#JSW1

It is one of the first recorded instances of a buffer overflow iirc.
 
My mate who lived next door owned a couple of ZX Spectrum's. Even at the time it always seemed a bit naff from the technical side, but the sheer variety of games was great. They were dirt cheap and kept us amused for many hours. My faves were Gauntlet, Head over Heels, Carrier Command and Skool Daze.


Just to rake over the long dead embers of the 8bit wars, eventually he saw the light and got a CPC 464 like me. :D
 
The ones that I think I got the most gameplay out of, and I don't think any of them have been mentioned yet:

Lunar Jetman
Trashman
Scuba Dive
Dark Star

I would put certain albums on for each game so it became an AV experience. Even now whenever I think of Scuba Dive, Philip Glass's The Photographer pops into my head.
 
SickAsAParrot said:
The ones that I think I got the most gameplay out of, and I don't think any of them have been mentioned yet:

Lunar Jetman
Trashman
Scuba Dive
Dark Star

I would put certain albums on for each game so it became an AV experience. Even now whenever I think of Scuba Dive, Philip Glass's The Photographer pops into my head.
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Forgot about scuba dive many hours spent playing that.
 
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