ZX Spectrum - Your memories

[DavidM]

Attic Attack

don't go down to the cellars !!

Not to be confused with "Trapdoor"

[DavidM]

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.

The PC remake of that was pretty good indeed.

[nope]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...89319143102644

This guy finished atic atac in 5 mins, amazing , video of it on google

[DavidM]

Not impossible

(Just need to be lucky with the starting location of the parts of the ACG key)

[nope]

we went through quite a few zx spectrums , also went through a lot of adapters . The games were cheap , loading times made the game more exiting , today games just dont have the loading times as they use to before. LOL

I played most of the the zx spectrum games , loved them . Its amazing to see how things things has evolved in the past years, the spectrum I remember was for £80 , still remember the coding book with commands in it. like 'go sub'

[spazman]

today games just dont have the loading times as they use to before. LOL

Obviously never played a PSP, 5 mins to get into PE6, PS3 isnt much better mind.

I dont have very good memories im afraid, the only two games i had were a chess game and a flight sim, the fact that i was 5 and the ZX was quite old at the time probably added to it. I got an Amiga 500 not long after so the ZX is still in the loft gathering inches of dust.

[Stewart]

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)

Dunno about the rest, but Jet Set Willy and the follow ups were almost impossible. If you were lucky enough to have a version without bugs so it actually could be finished... it was still next to impossible.

Well done sir.

What about Manic Miner? I've still never finished that. Can get up to about the Warehouse, then I get deaded in the head.

The Dizzy games as well... sooo hard.

[DavidM]

In JSW-1 just needed 3 pokes to get through the Attic... and to fix the little buglet in there... the data in the room table became corrupted otherwise...

The warehouse was a bit cruel

[BazookaJo]

My mate finished both Manic Miner AND Dynamite Dan (who's excellent Rondo Alla Turca intro music got me into playing the piano)!!!!

I used to love Batman! Not the man of course - the game, which was a precursor to the isometric Head Over Heels.

Other favourites included Kung-Fu Master, Rambo, Trapdoor, Ghostbusters and Dan Dare (which I completed BTW) .

I remember Trap Door especially as it was the first game I ever saw on the speccy - the sprites where huge for a spectrum game, and somehow the colour clash had been kept to a minimum. I owned a Commodore 16 at the time, so to me it looked like the darn TV show to me (I had a similar epiphany when I saw the commodore 64 and hear The Last Ninja, and Thing on a Spring).

Also, anyone remember Starstrike on the speccy? It was a complete rip-off of the Atari Starwars arcade game which came out YEARS before the authorised licensed version - man it was like having an arcade machine in the house

[hse180]

manic miner was my fav, booty and most of the codemasters games were cool too. I used to have the rubber keyboard one with interface 1 and 2 with 2 microdrives.
Now that has bought back some great gaming moments

[weegie.geek]

The main thing was Chase HQ taking what felt like 30 minutes to load. Even when I got a +3 and a multiface, it still took an age to load off of the 3" disk.

I had, at various times, a 128k+, a +2, a +2A and a +3. Oh, and a Sam Coupe, if that counts. Never had a QL or a ZX81.

I had a crappy thermal printer for my + though. And a lightpen.

Time with my speccies was mostly spent playing the various Dizzy games. Codemasters stuff in general, actually.

[BazookaJo]

Have ytou guys tried HOB - the online speccie emulator:

http://www.twinbee.org/hob/index.php

It's got Manic Miner ready to rock and roll

[Steven W]

Have ytou guys tried HOB - the online speccie emulator:

http://www.twinbee.org/hob/index.php

It's got Manic Miner ready to rock and roll

Tried an emulator, couldn't believe how hard MAnic Minor is! Think I only got to about 6th level.

[shaithis]

Sabatour was one of my favourites on the speccy (had the 16k, upgraded to 48k)

Does anyone remember the Shakin Stevens game, it was at the end of the B side of "The Bop Won't Stop" album?

[DavidM]

Does anyone remember the Shakin Stevens game,

Only in my very scariest nightmares.

[Vowo]

Does anyone remember the Shakin Stevens game, it was at the end of the B side of "The Bop Won't Stop" album?

fortunately, I don't remember that!!

Only in my very scariest nightmares.

Mine too!



+hums "Green Door"+