Horace Goes Skiing was the first game I remember playing on the Speccy! 💕

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Nice. My first games on Speccy were Manic Miner and Aquaplane. :)

@skum73

9 ай бұрын

Horace goes skiing for me too. I wonder if it came with the package.

Great to see so many early classics in one video.

Humble and basic beginnings for the might Speccy!

What a fantastic compilation! So many fond memories! Ground Zero was actually one of the first games I ever played at home on a computer, being a 16K Speccy back then. And Ground Force Zero, how well I remember that one! My granddaddy was determined to learned programming back then in the eigthies and he started with typing down the BASIC program of this game and analyzing it. Big thanks to the uploader, that's a great work!

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

You are more than welcome! Thank you for watching the video! I'm glad it brought back some nice memories.

The Hobbit was a fantastic game. Lost many, many hours in that world, trying to get Bard to shoot the Red Golden Dragon 🙈

Fascinating seeing such early games. Many of these, especially the very playable ones, would have been extremely exciting to kids back then. I can't recall when I bought my Spectrum but I'd had a VCS and a ZX81 before then. Some of these arcade conversions are pretty good for their time. Great memories again!

Thanks for the wave of nostalgia!

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I'm glad you liked the video.

Amazing series of videos: thank you !!!

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, for your kind words and for watching the videos.

Nice list, I had most of these back in the day, by the way, your entry for Space Invaders (6:23) is actually called Spectral Invaders :)

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. And yes, I checked and you are correct! It's Spectral Invaders indeed.

I remember many of this games. I played a lot with the chess game, and I was totally unable to beat it. I am a very bad chess player, but I am able to win some other programs or persons, except this little program from 1982. Many of the games of this list were able to run in the Spectrum 16 Kb, it was an achievement because very few kilobytes were actually free in the 16 Kb model.

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

I was (and still am) a bad chess player, so I could never win against Speccy :)

4 space invaders on the same year

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, very popular genre in 1982 :)

@mixal31

2 жыл бұрын

Many many more in fact

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@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like the video. Thanks for watching!

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Wow, those Basic drawn sprites...

What about spanish Spectrum games?

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Selection is based on the games I personally played and know about. So it's possible I missed a few. If you know of any Spanish games I missed, please let me know. I'll be glad to check them out.

@josem6796

2 жыл бұрын

@@retrononame There were many spanish developers companies in those wonderful years, Opera, Made in Spain, Dinamic, Toposoft. In Spain, where I live, oldest titles are very expensive in second hand market.

@josem6796

2 жыл бұрын

In any case, my favorite ones of all times are Dizzy and Dragontorc, english games which are in higher level.

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

I covered quite a few games from Dinamic, Topo ... in later episodes (1985, 1986 and beyond). I don't really know many older games from Spain (which is a shame). Will do a bit more research though. I'm just in the process of making a list for 1990 and there are a lot of good games from Spain made on the list. Stay tuned for it as it will be uploaded soon.

@josemigarrido

2 жыл бұрын

Take into account that we are talking about year 82, the first spanish "A-grade game" was La Pulga (Bugaboo in UK), and it was in 83. Dinamic started in 84, other companies even later.

So many Pac-Man clones...

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

They were popular in 82 weren't they? :)

@edgepixel8467

2 жыл бұрын

@@retrononame I didn't mean "Why did you pick so many Pac-Man clones?" I was meaning: "Gee, they sure did make a fuckton of Pac-Man clones back then. Holy Shit!"

@howardjones543

2 жыл бұрын

There must have been at least 10 invaders/galaxian/phoenix clones in there, too.

Yeah, about "Lynch Mob" - Not a good name.

Worst games was in 1982 year. But in USSR/Russia this was in ~1989-1993. Vector-06c, BK and etc. Very poor programs and bad games was written in this time.

@retrononame

2 жыл бұрын

Well it does make sense. Spectrum was released in 1982 and it would take a bit of time for programmers to get used to the machine and its capabilities. I don't really know when the Spectrum was introduced in USSR. Was it in later years? And is this the reason for bad software in the 89-93 period?

This is why gamers were just uncool nerds

@Darwinion

2 жыл бұрын

Yet 30 years later when similar games came to mobiles they were suddenly cool. Why?! Just because women started playing angry birds?

@HiNRGboy

9 ай бұрын

weird comment....nothing wrong with these games or gamers lol

@Avrelivs_Gold

9 ай бұрын

@@Darwinion profits from mobile gaming made investors push mobile gaming as cool and normal same for other games, as budgets and profits exceeded movie budgets, it became obligatory to make everyone play and bring their money

@Hologhoul

6 ай бұрын

No, they were just normal kids who enjoyed gaming. I don't recall any of my friends fitting the "nerd" cliched description (quite the opposite) but we all enjoyed computer games.