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  1. Albert's Chip Shop

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    Can anyone remember these? And what was your favourite game? Mine was manic miner.... Addictive as fook
     
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    i 'remember' them as my mates had them

    I didnt so BOOOOOOO
     
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  3. Hash.

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    Dizzy ... hours of fun

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  4. BH1972RFC

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    Manic Miner <laugh>

    Wasn't there a game called Jet Set Willy too?
     
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  5. Jip Jaap Stam

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    I ****ing loved those games. Finished every last one.

    Yeah, very similar to MM but you had more freedom, it wasn't level-based.
     
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  6. Albert's Chip Shop

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    Load ""
     
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    Damn you beat me too it!!

    Also C64 ftw
     
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    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.
     
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    Jet-Pac was good too, as was Monty Mole, Jungle Fever etc
     
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    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    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?
     
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    It was called Hunchback.
     
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  13. Otto Flayshow

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    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]
     
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    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.
     
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    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
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    Jet Set Willy
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    (the soundtrack was fiddler on the roof)

    Trashman
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    sabre wulf
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    Made by the brilliant Ultimate developer

    Lotus Esprit
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    A brilliant game where you had to chase drug runners and force them off the road

    and Skool days
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    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 <laugh>
     
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    Have to give a special mention to the keyboard smashing antics of Daley Thompson's Decathlon <laugh>

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  18. Hash.

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    holy **** ..how did i forget this
     
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    They should've called it 'Daley Thompson's RSI'.
     
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    Excellent preparation for ****ing <ok>
     
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