ZX Spectrum - Your memories

[GoNz0]

manic miner FTW http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/

[dangel]

i never had a spectrum

we had a dragon 32, which was like a tandy trs-80, but welsher

Still got one in my garage, along with my first gaming system the Atari 2600 (and a B2000.. and a CD32..). Of course back then there were other wonderfully weird computers - the commodore PET springs to mind (the 'scientific' keyboard needed a stylus to operate the tiny keys) as well as the ZX80 and 81. My first (own) computer was an Amstrad CPC - to which I owe a lot as having a full sized keyboard and a _decent_ version of BASIC probably got me into computing and science in general.

Surprised you can remember the speccy or the dragon given your diminutive years God I feel old
I've got a Dragon 32 game with SPEECH

[mycarsavw]

I've still got my Spectrum +3 (with disk drive!). No idea whether it works though.

I remember breaking many a kempston compatible joystick playing Super Test (and Hyper Sports).

I snapped loads of those little, what we'd now call OEM, joysticks clean off playing Sports games.

Remember Daley Thompson's Decathalon.

JKJKJKJKJKJKJKJKJK just to make him run.

Or Ninja something where you had to break the wood by powering up the Ninja with ASASASASASAS.

I also remember copying out the 8 or so pages of code in the back of the user manual to make the Union Jack. It took close to a whole day and when I went to save it (play & record on the inbuilt tape deck) my little sister hurled something which popped the aerial connection out the back of the Spectrum, wiping everything.

<happy content sigh>

I may have to break the Speccy out again soon, show the kids what real computing was all about.

[GoNz0]

I may have to break the Speccy out again soon, show the kids what real computing was all about.

10 print "dad is cool"
20 goto 10

[directhex]

Still got one in my garage, along with my first gaming system the Atari 2600 (and a B2000.. and a CD32..). Of course back then there were other wonderfully weird computers - the commodore PET springs to mind (the 'scientific' keyboard needed a stylus to operate the tiny keys) as well as the ZX80 and 81. My first (own) computer was an Amstrad CPC - to which I owe a lot as having a full sized keyboard and a _decent_ version of BASIC probably got me into computing and science in general.

Surprised you can remember the speccy or the dragon given your diminutive years God I feel old
I've got a Dragon 32 game with SPEECH

think my dad still has about 100 copies of Dragon User in a cupboard, complete with typo'd program listings

[UpTheToon]

I remember playing "sweevo's world" for hours and not knowing what the hell was going on...

...playing all the dizzy egg games and never quite getting to the end of any of them.

[Dareos]

Underwurlde, SabreWulf, Rick Dangerous, Chaos, Lords of Chaos, and whatever the predecessors to Laser Squad were, i remember they had names like Vasquez and Dan Dare in them.

Head over Heels, Batman 3d and Movie, Chase HQ was particularly good too, Power drift

Wizball? (may have been amiga, but sure it was speccy) Afterburner, Full Throttle, Checquered flag, Pole Position

Wheelie, Robocop, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Renegade, Target Renegade, Double Dragon, Outrun, Star Wars.


and who could forget Ant Attack!!!!

[g8ina]

Attic Attack

don't go down to the cellars !!

[LunarJetman]

..... R Tape loading error, 0:1.



Joking aside, I have loads of great memories with my speccy. What a great machine.

Atic Atac was the first game I ever completed. Lunar Jetman was the game I KNEW I would never complete lol ..... How tough was that!

Starquake... Thats another one I used to love... Soooo many great games

[LWA]

Manic Miner! This thread brought back a lot of memories so I thought I'd dig this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRviXqHL2pM

Genius.

[Vowo]

I was jealous of me mate as he had ZX Spectrum and I only a ZX 81.

However, I took my revenge by being headboy in Skool Daze.

[Ciber]

I spent many a happy hour with my speccy 48k, many of them playing knight lore. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...84507023050970

[Ferral]

Well, I've been tinkering with the Speccy Emulator and te C64 Emulator the past few days. Been playing loads of the old classics.

Think this thread needs a few screenies. Will get some later if I can put Guild Wars Nightfall down!

[Steven W]

I was jealous of me mate as he had ZX Spectrum and I only a ZX 81.

However, I took my revenge by being headboy in Skool Daze.

Loved that game, although I could never complete it.

[Stewart]

I remember playing "sweevo's world" for hours and not knowing what the hell was going on...

...playing all the dizzy egg games and never quite getting to the end of any of them.

You never got to the end of any games back then. Nobody has ever got to the end of any Specturm game, ever.

Being able to get to the end of games was only introduced during the 8bit era.

[DavidM]

You never got to the end of any games back then. Nobody has ever got to the end of any Specturm game, ever.

From memory - I remember completing the Hobbit, Lords of Midnight, JSW 1 + 2, more text adventures then I could ever remember, Knight Lore, Alien 8, Attic Attac, Sabre Wulf and Chase HQ (although admittedly I also found a cheat mode published in a few places for that one)