No almighty ZX Spectrum thread?

Zeetroyman · 10 May 2018 at 09:20

man I loved my numerous speccy's! Games, Lazer Squad and rebelstar / rebelstar 2 where awesome games. top down turn based combat

also loved bruce lee, attic attack and manic miner. Ohh and I don't think anyone got through Shooldayz

I just used to sit at my desk and catapult the teacher on the back of the heed when he turned around

Soooo many awesome games on the speccy.

vanpeebles · 10 May 2018 at 09:51

All top games there! Julian Gollop is a legend

Zeetroyman · 10 May 2018 at 14:43

vanpeebles said:
All top games there! Julian Gollop is a legend

Ahh just wiki'd him, didn't know he done laser squad and rebelstar, and now I know why I loved x-com... 2 player laser squad, ahh, your mate had to leave the room whilst you completed your turn so he didn't see the tv screen. had to keep an eye on what round you where on incase some cheeky punk (usually me!) pulled a double move to see where is squad was.

vanpeebles · 10 May 2018 at 15:02

Don't forget Chaos and Lords of Chaos

Housey · 10 May 2018 at 19:46

Lords of Midnight was good too but for me the providers of excellence were Ultimate Play The Game

Rannoch · 10 May 2018 at 19:48

Skooldaze.

I have a couple of boxed spectrum 48k in very good condition.

Pure retro.

vanpeebles · 10 May 2018 at 21:03

Gunfright was my fave Ultimate game, I think the Western setting just clicked with me

I should really take some pics of my stuff, I have all the speccies, including most of the disk drive interfaces too. +d, disciple, opus discovery, beta and mb02.

x-st · 10 May 2018 at 21:22

Housey said:
Ultimate Play The Game

Underwurlde was my personal favourite from them, but just looking at their catalogue it's no surprise that they went on to greatness with Nintendo.

I have a whole host of Spectrum regrets but one in particular was not trying harder with Head over Heels. I think I just got stuck and moved on....it's funny, the isometric perspective seems to be a very UK centric thing in gaming of that era.

ZXSpectrum · 11 May 2018 at 11:20

As you can guess from my username i loved the Speccy as well.. I loved the Ocean games..

There is actually a remake of HoH..

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/ as well as plenty of other classics..

MrWhippy · 11 May 2018 at 13:26

The usual suspects aside, I have fond memories of:-

Scuba Dive
Valhalla
Penetrator
And some version of the Forth programming language (might have been White Lightening)

MrWhippy · 11 May 2018 at 17:53

Oh, and Adventure D: Espionage Island.

I seem to remember playing this when I was about 12 and trying to do, ahem, something, to a native woman which always resulted in a native man turning up and killing me with his pointy stick.

SkeeterUK · 11 May 2018 at 22:29

Did any of you try the How to be a complete b*****d game, that was kinda fun.

jsmoke · 12 May 2018 at 07:32

I haven't heard of most of these games posted. There was a lot of games made however. I remember the horace series, commando, outrun, beach head, chuckie egg, donkey kong, spellbound, hyper sports, ant attack, harrier attack, paper boy, sweevos's world. And many more. Most memorable of all still manic minor and JSW.

SkeeterUK · 12 May 2018 at 12:35

Sabatour 2
Trap door
Grand Prix
Cookie
Strip poker

Few more games to add to the played category.

jsmoke · 12 May 2018 at 12:41

I remember strip poker, I think.

DEL 707 · 12 May 2018 at 19:15

Been going crazy trying to remember an old bike game, but I finally found it!

It looked a lot better in my head...

Rannoch · 12 May 2018 at 19:17

C64 version was much better.

Not starting a flame war lol

vanpeebles · 13 May 2018 at 15:17

I liked the speccy version, you started on the BMX, and had to peddle like mad

opethdisciple · 13 May 2018 at 15:29

DEL 707 said:
Been going crazy trying to remember an old bike game, but I finally found it!

It looked a lot better in my head...

jsmoke · 14 May 2018 at 08:04

There was also BMX simulator.