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Title: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 13:49
According to MSN the ZX Spectrum is 30 years old  :laugh:

Any one remember these? Check out the loading in the first link  :grin: :grin: :grin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4hn1gavGR4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjTspLbdQ5Y&feature=relmfu

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



Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: topher on 23 April 2012, 13:56
still got a rubber keyed 48k and a 128k with built in cassette player :nerd:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 14:08
still got a rubber keyed 48k and a 128k with built in cassette player :nerd:

lol 48k rubber keypad  :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 14:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNg8hrGsP6M  :shocked:  :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: clipperjay on 23 April 2012, 18:35
Was you poor or did you have 128K  :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 23 April 2012, 18:46
My oldman used to have both a 48k and 128k. Played games on it all day long when I was little.....My favourite game on the 128 was ''How To Be A Complete fatherless son'', it was a game based on the chatachter Ade Edminson played in Bottom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEcgLlf_9iA
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 19:14
Was you poor or did you have 128K  :grin:

Had the 48k rubber key then upgraded to 128k when that came out  :smug:  :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: bobbarley on 23 April 2012, 19:17
I had a Spectrum ZX 128k when I was a young lad.  It came with James Bond and the light gun  :cool:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 19:19
I had a Spectrum ZX 128k when I was a young lad.  It came with James Bond and the light gun  :cool:

Yes I had that game and gun too  :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: bobbarley on 23 April 2012, 19:22
Other classics included Gauntlet, Andy Capp, Batman and Moonwalker!

The good old days when you could copy a game using a stereo  :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: richw911 on 23 April 2012, 19:25
Other classics included Gauntlet, Andy Capp, Batman and Moonwalker!

The good old days when you could copy a game using a stereo  :grin:

High speed dubbing?  :grin:
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: stealthwolf on 23 April 2012, 22:21
We had the 48K and then the 128K. Both had plastic keys. I remember waiting for a game to load and then there would be an error! I also remember the break key which stopped the program and allowed me to change the program to my benefit!
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 25 April 2012, 22:20
i remember the cassette games took an eternity to load!
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: gibby on 10 July 2012, 23:05
I had a 48k back in the day. :cool: I remember trying to load games in and they would fail to load if the casette volume was too high. :huh: Took someone I know ages to copy Daley Thompsons Decathlon because it was written in machine code and was supposed to load faster so was harder to copy by tape to tape.

Have a look at this website for a bit of nostalgic game play. www.zxspectrum.net Showed my son Match Day and told him that was the quality of football game we played, he just laughed. Used to love skooldaze.
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: DOA on 11 July 2012, 23:51
Strange how everyone remembers the Sinclairs and yet no-one remembers the Commadores and Amstrads :huh:. On reflection, we must have been seriously bored to wait for tapes to load (unless you had the game on cartridge) but by christ they had gameplay down to a tee! Football manager was THE sh!t and yet all it consisted of was stick men beeping around a green background while you sat on the edge of your seat transfixed by the little blob of ball and hours and hours of trying to get your hometown to the top of the 1st division. Manic miner, jetset willie, chuckie egg, gauntlet, and the ultimate joystick destroyer, Daley Thompsons decathalon were all awesome games! I lost a considerable number of days a couple of years ago (as did a friend who wasnt even born when the Amiga came out!) playing a few of these on an emulator, something I just wouldnt bother to do with most modern games  :undecided:.
Title: Re: ZX spectrum 30th
Post by: stealthwolf on 12 July 2012, 20:11
The graphics were sh!t so gameplay is what sold games. These days, graphics have become uber realistic but gameplay can still be shockingly poor.