Can anyone remember these? And what was your favourite game? Mine was manic miner.... Addictive as fook
I ****ing loved those games. Finished every last one. Yeah, very similar to MM but you had more freedom, it wasn't level-based.
There was a Star Trek game which was more a strategy game than shioot them up. One of the screens was a kind of battleships against cloked kilngon ships. It was simple, but totally absorbing. Airwolf was also good fun.
My first PC was a Commodore 64, not a Spectrum. I can't remember the name of the first game I had, but it involved a hunchback running across the top of some battlements dodging arrows. Does anyone know what it was called?
D'oh, I should have read my own description. I've just youtubed it. It looks **** now, but I loved it at the time: [video=youtube;QrGQMQ87a9A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGQMQ87a9A[/video]
I downloaded a Spectrum emulator for my laptop, thinking I'd have great fun playing all the old games. Talk about disappointed. They haven't aged well at all.
My brother had a ZX81 - the first proper home computer. It had 1k of built in memeory! He bought a 16k memory expansion pack and a game called 3D Monster maze. Then came the Spectrum a true classic, the forefather to all modern consoles. My favourite games were: Match Day 2 please log in to view this image Jet Set Willy please log in to view this image (the soundtrack was fiddler on the roof) Trashman please log in to view this image sabre wulf please log in to view this image Made by the brilliant Ultimate developer Lotus Esprit please log in to view this image A brilliant game where you had to chase drug runners and force them off the road and Skool days please log in to view this image A true classic! There were loads of others. The spectrum offered programmers a great opportunity to create really good games, a lot of the companies were British and they came out with some really innovative and wacky games. The likes of which you don't really seem to see in today's console market. Happy days, Happy memories P.S. There are some really good Spectrum emulators on the net - games download in seconds, so none of that frantic anxiety wondering if a 'Tape loading error' might pop up when playing your battered tapes full of pirated games from your mates
Have to give a special mention to the keyboard smashing antics of Daley Thompson's Decathlon please log in to view this image