That 80s style is so evocative. Britain looked permanently overcast and slightly damp.
@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын
It still is! 😭😭 lol
@AndySmallbone Жыл бұрын
Can tell people who didn’t live in the 80s.. it was awesome time sadly never to be repeated. The world is heading to imploding up its own arse thanks to work rubbish 😵💫
@markdillon5494 Жыл бұрын
@@project-95 I would. In a heartbeat.
@vaseofflowers4619 Жыл бұрын
@@markdillon5494 Me too
@TheStevenWhiting Жыл бұрын
Very funny because growing up in the late 70s and 80s that is exactly what all the British shows looked like which is why I and I assume most of us, fell in love with all the American shows. They always looked so much more colourful and warmer.
@jimbo32234 Жыл бұрын
Bear Bovver was way ahead of its time. Its a portrayal of the struggles of modern EV owners trying to access recharge points.
@skynetintex5878 Жыл бұрын
LOL
@PoshLifeforME Жыл бұрын
For some reason I imagined myself popping into existence next to Sarah as a fourth guest, 54 years old, still playing games
@DemonetisedZone Жыл бұрын
I didn't agree with your score for Atic Atac and did you really have to have a stroke in front of those |(ids and Sarah Greene? Come on time travelling commenter pull your socks up!☝️😩
@TCR_PILOT Жыл бұрын
Me too, 59 and still playing video games too. How things have improved graphically
@PoshLifeforME Жыл бұрын
@@DemonetisedZone haha, there's a lot of comedy in the imagery!
@adamkane7513 Жыл бұрын
I'm 48 and still remember old Atari 2600 games! Sarah G was eminently shaggable, back in the day.
@PoshLifeforME Жыл бұрын
@@adamkane7513 She sure was
@spectrumdays Жыл бұрын
Blooming awesome to see footage like this from the real `Spectrum Days`, ah the memories, going into a shop and being able to try out the games...take me back!!!
@RUSH2112RUSH Жыл бұрын
I remember how exciting it was to go upstairs in our local Woolworths, in Peterborough, and play on the game systems they had set up to demo, the only specific system I can remember is the Atari VCS but I'm sure there were others.
@spectrumdays Жыл бұрын
@@RUSH2112RUSH Yes, I even remember going into Boots and playing games whilst my mum bought whatever mums buy in a chemist!
@mattffolliott-powell5105 Жыл бұрын
Super Drug was my fave place to go and play and buy Mastertronic games - what was it with drug stores and computer games?!
@retrogenius8397 Жыл бұрын
this clip has been up on madcommodore's channel for over a year lol
@bigbabatunde1218 Жыл бұрын
@@spectrumdays Boots were even selling Megadrive games and Playstation games in the 90's.
@Regaljester75 Жыл бұрын
Someone give these poor kids a Kempston joystick 🕹️
@tricky778 Жыл бұрын
qaopm!
@CricketEngland7 ай бұрын
Multiface II
@krashd5 ай бұрын
Oculus Quest 2
@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty13 күн бұрын
classic
@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty13 күн бұрын
cheetah 125 plus
@Wellibob68 Жыл бұрын
Sarah Green was a true gem back then.
@RUSH2112RUSH Жыл бұрын
Sarah Greene and Atic Atac in the same video, sometimes life can be so good...
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@michaelx9079 Жыл бұрын
I heard she preffered pool to computer games
@bennyhill8679 Жыл бұрын
She is still fit today
@pem... Жыл бұрын
@@bennyhill8679 no! But you chase owt ay benny?!
@bennyhill8679 Жыл бұрын
@@pem...apart from your mum
@danellis-jones1591 Жыл бұрын
Sarah Greene is gorgeous. I think I was in love with her all my teenage years!
@Aerojet01 Жыл бұрын
She's aged well.
@duncanledsham3279 Жыл бұрын
Me too!
@spider-ham7140 Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful woman
@anonymous..- Жыл бұрын
The first documented simp.
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@darrelltregear756 Жыл бұрын
I wish I could go back to that time again.
@jinxterx Жыл бұрын
Me too.
@steveclark.. Жыл бұрын
@@jinxterx And me, none of this woke/gender nonesense back then, no threat of this Great Reset agenda that's being pushed now either.
@nelliedownsouth2316 Жыл бұрын
I started gaming on the Atari 2600 in the late 1970's.. By 1984 i was12 years old and loved the ZX Spectrum back then, the games look laughable now, but it was nearly 40 years ago, and the memories of loading up those games still bring a smile to my face to this day..
@GJ-mn9ly Жыл бұрын
Cool to think how games have improved over the decades. And this was the start of the gaming revolution, long live Speccy and C64! 👍👍.
@anthonybradley1555 Жыл бұрын
the era in which one person in their bedroom or basement could learn to program, make a game and if they were talented enough get it published and sold in retail stores! the true first indie game makers, im more familiar with the 16 bit machines such as the Amiga and ST but even with them people who were in the demoscene such as the guys from travellers tales and DMA design went on to great things.
@RUSH2112RUSH Жыл бұрын
That's all well and good but I seem to remember an American kid, I think his name was/is David Lightman, finding a backdoor into what he thought was a new game being developed but it was actually a system for automating the American response to a nuclear attack. He started playing Global Thermonuclear War not realising that the military thought they were under attack for real and when he did, with the help of the creator of Joshua the computer running the programme, he narrowly avoided starting WW3 for real. So it wasn't always great to have that one computer genius alone in his bedroom with just his computer for company.
@noompsieOG Жыл бұрын
See now you can learn to do this from your mobile device , would have been hard back in these days
@northernsnow6982 Жыл бұрын
@@RUSH2112RUSH that's not the kids problem. It was the government that was stupid enough to allow access to their nuclear weapons, over the internet. You'd think they'd learn their lesson. Yet they still get hacked, because they think their floppydisk system is too hard to hack.😂
@DukeOfKidderminster Жыл бұрын
@@RUSH2112RUSH 😂 Yeah, I think they made a documentary about that. 😂
@ch33rfulness Жыл бұрын
@@noompsieOG actually, nowadays you won’t be doing it at all. AI would do it for us and we could all just sit and watch.
@abrokenframe82 Жыл бұрын
Shame they didn't realize you could turn the music off on Manic Miner....this also made the game run faster as there wasn't as much load on that massive cpu😂..My fav ZX game ever.
@spectrumdays Жыл бұрын
Its funny but I only realised when we did our review of Miner the other day that you could turn it off!!!
@abrokenframe82 Жыл бұрын
@@spectrumdays Kudos to Matthew Smith for this game. I think he inspired future generations of programmers with this game. Funnily enough he wrote this on a Tandy III computer and then ported it over to the Spectrum.
@squirrel7t7 Жыл бұрын
@@abrokenframe82 Ported? He called it squirting lol. He had a speccy open with wires coming from the cpu to his Tandy.
@Heliophanus Жыл бұрын
But why would you want to make it run faster? That made it harder...
@abrokenframe82 Жыл бұрын
@@squirrel7t7 ha! Yes...those were his exact words👍
@scottw.3258 Жыл бұрын
Ah, Sarah Greene. I had a major crush on her through the 80's (let's face it, who didn't?).
@paulpatrick885 Жыл бұрын
3 great games and Bear Bovver. Atic Atac was very advanced for such an early Spectrum game with multiple playable characters thateach had their own strengths and shortcuts. Apparently, you can complete it in less than 5 minutes if you know the game which is something I could never do as back in the day.
@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that Ultimate already had KnightLore ready for release at this point. They held it back a year because they didn't think the market was ready and knew they could still sell less advanced games.
@Dunbar0740 Жыл бұрын
I didn't know the ACG key had to be arranged in the right order in the inventory. I "guessed", wrongly, it had to be assembled on the floor. Oh, the hours wasted by that front door...
@trevorbrown6654 Жыл бұрын
Dominic must be in his late forties by now and Duncan and Cassie will be in their 50s. I wonder how they feel looking back on themselves 39 years ago with the gorgeous Sarah Greene! I had a Vic 20 back in 84. It was old hat by then and the majority of the kids I was at school with had Spectrums or C64s. So we had a little clique of us who used to lend each other games as we were in the minority (same went for those kids who owned a BBC or an Atari). Some games forNonetheless this brings back memories of some great games like Gridrunner, Choplifter, Ganymede and of course the classic Elite. And some of the companies that made games like Bug Byte, Llamasoft (Jeff Winter was a programming genius), Ocean, Imagine and even Thorn EMI and Virgin had a go at knocking out games for the markets. I remember one of the computer magazines (might have been Popular Computing Weekly) ran a top ten selling games of about six different computers. There were some really interesting machines back in those days (who remembers the Oric-1, The Dragon 32, Jupiter Ace, Tandy , Sord M5, named after a computer in an episode of Star Trek apparently, and the TI44/A?).
@fruitking6916 Жыл бұрын
Yes I remember all of those I actually had a TI99/4a as my first computer back in 1985 but nobody else at school had one so I couldn’t swap games with anybody, anyway i rectified this the following year when Father Christmas brought me and amstrad cpc464 with a green screen monitor 😊 it was my pride and joy for the rest of my school years until i left in 1990, got a job and bought myself a sega megadrive, happy days..
@zigzagtoes Жыл бұрын
Had an oric-1 (2nd system), felt more like a toy, and most games were typed in from mag listings. It took a tumble down stairs and is now in silicon heaven. Edit: did want a dragon, purely for the name. Which is the system that had a portrait monitor in the adverts? Think I trashed all my early 80's mags due to them falling apart when a teen.
@seraphinberktold70873 ай бұрын
In Germany Stiftung Warentest (institution for testing consumer goods) compared home computers in October 1984. Contestants were Atari 600 XL, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, EACA Colour Genie, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tandy TRS-80 und Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. The TI-99/4A Was the winner! But they had to acknowledge that this system was already 1 year out of production back then. 😅
@trevorbrown66543 ай бұрын
@@fruitking6916 I remember the green screen computers! II must be a couple of years older than you as I was working when I bought myself a mega drive around 1991. Lots of crap games for it but some great ones too. It came with Sonic who was a brilliant one to bundle with it. You were either a SNES kid or a Sega kid in those days. I was very much a Sega fan although I was a little jealous of some of the SNES games. Also had an Atari Lynx that was brilliant fun but it never achieved the popularity of the game boy
@fruitking69163 ай бұрын
@@trevorbrown6654 I was 16 in 1991 and I also bought a megadrive when I started work in late 91, one system I didn’t know about at the time was the pc engine or turbografx, I defo would of had one of those if I’d of known!
@morbidsnails1913 Жыл бұрын
Just brilliant, I remember going skiing and fighting spiders with Horace as a 12 year old on Xmas day 1983. Also.....Sarah Greene was never far from my adolescent "thoughts" 😁
@matthewlawrenson3628 Жыл бұрын
The good old 48k Spectrum in all it's rubber keyed glory. Every kid who had one and used the keyboard control for games probably has carpal tunnel syndrome now.
@scottishwildcat Жыл бұрын
I don't!
@paulcooper1223 Жыл бұрын
Kempston joystick interface was a must! My dad also had a C64 at the same time so had the joysticks already. Can remember us huddled around the C64 playing Summer Games.
@zetametallic Жыл бұрын
I did and yes both hands done! Although I preferred my Atari 2600.
@paulcooper1223 Жыл бұрын
@@luminousfractal420 Sounds like an absolute bargain. I'll look into that. Thanks for the heads up! I remember playing Paperboy in the arcades and it had handlebars for controlling the bike.
@paulmcdonough1093 Жыл бұрын
i had a quckshot joystick
@Larry Жыл бұрын
Saddest thing about the BBC is that they've NEVER had a dedicated video game show. Sure, they've had shows with gaming elements in it like First Class, Total Reality, Fight Box, and that VR thing Craig Charles presented, but they've all been aimed at kids. And for an industry bigger than the movie and music's combined, it's a huge shame that the Beeb has never had a proper mature series. More so when the TV license is required to show all interests. yet one of the most popular hobbies in the UK for four decades has nothing.
@colinr0380 Жыл бұрын
Probably because they would have had to focus exclusively on the BBC Micro as *the only true home computer*
@insomnijack7528 Жыл бұрын
Hey it's that guy.
@TangoBunnie Жыл бұрын
On a similar thought, I always found it strange that quiz shows always had hundreds of questions about movies, sports, and bands, but almost never any questions about video games - and when they do, it's something like "what company created Mario?" or "what popular battle royale game has players drop in from a Battle Bus?"
@NeverStopRolling Жыл бұрын
That 3d vr thing with Craig Charles was such a NARROW era in graphics, the birth of 3d polygons, and utterly the most ugly of all stages along the video game evolutionary tree. Also, it means a lot to know you like this channel too! It's actually the best thing about the BBC xD
@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503 Жыл бұрын
It's TV licence (ce), not 'license' (se). Licence is the noun, whereas license is the verb only, unless you're American. Therefore you license (verb) someone by issuing them a licence (noun), hence TV licence, driving licence, etc. Please use and preserve our English language and avoid adopting unnecessary Americanisms. xx
@hoisin75 Жыл бұрын
Still in love with Sarah Green...and computer games
@BitsBytesBobs Жыл бұрын
Who remembers the collection of games that came with the ZX Spectrum. There was various Horace goes type games, but there was Grand Prix I think it was called. It was the first game to try and emulate a steering wheel. You had the option of taking a biscuit tin lid and placing it in the middle of the number keys. Then moving it left and right, pressed on the lower and higher number keys, turning the car. I remember thinking that one day, we would have much better graphics and real steering wheels. Now I play GT on my PSVR2 using a Fanatec wheel. I still think back to my playstation days back then.
@Inaflap Жыл бұрын
Chequered Flag.
@oddsandwindsocks5905 Жыл бұрын
Christ, love this blast from the past, and the bonus of seeing the lovely Sarah to .
@CABJ007 Жыл бұрын
Those were the days!!
@KGMDMusic Жыл бұрын
Such nostalgia. Feels a lifetime ago.
@jonh404 Жыл бұрын
I live in Australia, I got an Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer at 17. I spent more time cracking game protection systems than playing games (inspired by War Games till I realised it wasn't realistic 😂) .. 80's games were just too hard for me. After I'd crack the game I'd donate the games to my Amstrad User group I belonged to, we had a library where you could pay to borrow the game for a month... It helped pay the rent on the hall, pay for biscuits and coffee. I probably bought 500 games and donated them all.. The library was pretty much my contributions. Of those 500 or so games (not including adventure games), I finished 2 games without cheating.. N. O. M. A. D & Fireant. A gaming prodigy I was not 😂 I don't think I ever got past the second screen of Manic Miner. 55 and still playing games, but actually able to finish them since they're so much easier nowadays.
@MrFaceHead Жыл бұрын
‘The colours are too bright’. Sounds like the C64 would be more your speed… earthtones.
@andyukmonkey Жыл бұрын
heh, yeah you can't do much to change the bright colours on a spectrum
@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 Жыл бұрын
@@andyukmonkey Actually you could, there was a brightness level to each colour - well 2 of them dim or bright.
@andyukmonkey Жыл бұрын
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 yeah, fair point
@Alan..W Жыл бұрын
1st game i played on my ZX Spectrum was Beach Head by US Gold. Happy days, and Sarah Greene was and still is bloody gorgeous...
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@pickerim Жыл бұрын
Bear Bovver is the only one I’ve never heard of, lost hours of my early teens to the other three. Think I bought Manic Miner but used my tape-to-tape recorder to make copies of the other two off boys from school. As long as you had, or knew someone with, a tape-to-tape recorder only one person in class actually bought the game. £5.99 was a massive amount of money in those days and you could get loads of games on a blank C90 tape (make sure you note down the tape counter number for where the games start and end!)
@Darwinion Жыл бұрын
I played them all. Bear Bovver was rubbish.
@jamesfx2 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the old Griffithiffs Games Megamart in my town. Have some fun memories of working up some suds playing the original version of Window Cleaner.
@Inaflap Жыл бұрын
Computers aren't just for boring things like writing poetry or organising a funeral. "Look Around You : Special Report on Computer Games"
@leftmono1016 Жыл бұрын
I had a Vic 20 and still vividly remember unboxing it and loading up Blitz 😀
@Sr19769p Жыл бұрын
Same! I can still smell the smell of the box. Psycho Shopper was a good one and The Perils Of Miner Willy. Dodo Lair was - not easy (ahem!)
@zigzagtoes Жыл бұрын
If thats the city bomber game, I remember it well as the game type with huge graphics.
@leftmono1016 Жыл бұрын
@@zigzagtoes - that’s the one, fly over the city bombing sky scrapers before you drop low enough to hit them.
@isthatujeebus Жыл бұрын
"Makes too much noise and the colours are too bright". Boy, are you in for a shock! 😂
@MrAndroidData Жыл бұрын
i was just thinking the same, now its "i need more noise and brightness......keeps tapping"
@repboy1 Жыл бұрын
How I miss recording games and swapping them at school.
@jamesadcock5235 Жыл бұрын
She gave me special feelings as a teenage boy
@ukusanz Жыл бұрын
That host was 80s hot 🔥
@metalmickey Жыл бұрын
Sarah Green gets 10 out of 10
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@rosstee Жыл бұрын
I would "award her 1" or something like that, though not when this programme came out; I would have been a similar age to the youngest boy.
@Matty112uk Жыл бұрын
I love these old computer videos. Keep'em coming Aunty Beeb!
@simmadpaul2880 Жыл бұрын
The fabulously lovely Sarah Greene. So 80s.
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@colinr0380 Жыл бұрын
If you asked my mother at the time (she kind of appropriated the ZX Spectrum for a couple of years in the mid 1980s!) her top three were: 3. Attic Atac 2. Jet Pak 1. Transylvanian Tower (she spent hours on that one!)
@hamsterclamper Жыл бұрын
I had such a crush on Sarah Green at this time
@RUSH2112RUSH Жыл бұрын
You and just about every other British male between the ages of 12 and 80... edit: and a few females did as well I'd imagine.
@scottishwildcat Жыл бұрын
And yet don't know how to spell her name.
@speedbird737 Жыл бұрын
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@Jodoi1 Жыл бұрын
@@scottishwildcat We've all dropped an "e" at some point.
@total_betty4 ай бұрын
I still know Sarah Greene now and she's just as lovely as you'd imagine. A real gem of a person.
@jacksonmiked Жыл бұрын
The Ultimate Play the Game titles were my favourites too. Sabre Wulf, Jet Pac and Knight Lore kept me entertained for days on my BBC Model B.
@mport343 Жыл бұрын
My childhood right there, those many, many minutes spent waiting to see if it would load, only to get to where the music and menu should pop up and it would crash! Those rubber keys! Awesome!
@grizzlygrizzler8594 Жыл бұрын
You ALWAYS went out the room to let it load! Only rookies stayed and watched it fail after 6 minutes of bleeping and coloured lines! 😂
@inesis Жыл бұрын
Those were the days!! When game reviews had no Nord-VPN and War Thunder sponsoring!!
@LaatiMafia Жыл бұрын
Those were the dark days. Back then, even garbage published by LJN could be marketed as good.
@TecraX2 Жыл бұрын
"Today I'll be reviewing Read Dead Redemption 2, but first I'd like to tell you about another game which simply blows RDR2 out of the water on every front - It's called Raid Shadow..."
@ktsmells Жыл бұрын
Hello boomers
@Lbf5677 Жыл бұрын
@@ktsmells a boomer would have been 40 when this video came out
@YG-uz2vi Жыл бұрын
Not necessarily, a baby boomer is someone who was born in the twenty years that followed WWII. Youngest boomer would be about 18 at the time of this video.
@alanjones7040 Жыл бұрын
The amount of hours spent on Saturdays in the 80s playing manic miner and jet set Willy with friends was worth it !
@pic101 Жыл бұрын
Looking at these charts, this was the best week of my life so far.
@jonathancauldwell9822 Жыл бұрын
Still lots of love for the Spectrum. Dozens of new games are released for the machine every year.
@Dolphination Жыл бұрын
You would know :)
@KRAFTWERK2K6 Жыл бұрын
The Speccy is an amazing platform. From limitations comes great creativity. And i gotta say, even though the C64 was my first love for Home computers, i LOOOVE the Spectrum because of its quirks and surprisingly fast CPU. Even the limited sound capabilities are surprisingly worked around with by so many developers.
@Daeva23 Жыл бұрын
I was working at a local bargain brand battery plant, and some of my coworkers were talking about playing "Oregon Trail". I lived in the town of Oregon and thought they were talking about a local school. I thought their comments about running out of food or drinking contaminated water were taken from the numerous plaques that would adorn such a school. (We love our plaques around here) Little did I know they were talking about a computer game of some popularity.
@samk2266 Жыл бұрын
i remember when i was in the 8th grade and I overheard 1 of my classmates talking about the pole vault, i chimed in assuming he was talking about the Commodore 64 game 'Summer Games'; then to my surprise he was talking about the actual pole vault! I could not believe that an 8th grader could do that! that kid was quite an athlete.
@VeteranHedonist Жыл бұрын
I loved Manic Miner. It was one of the only mainstream games I could get for the Toshiba MSX. My dad was told it was going to be the next big thing, but unfortunately never took off. However I loved it. You got a monthly magazine where you could program your own simple games and a cartridge slot. You could get really good cartridge games for the time from Konamai.
@matt.baller Жыл бұрын
Just a couple of years away from Zelda being released. Must have blown their minds. I was born in 85 so I was more a mega drive / snes generation kid, but seeing the progression from manic miner onwards must have been an incredible experience for these kids.
@beyond72deepsoulfulhousemixes Жыл бұрын
It was really the arcade games that blew your mind at the time, at least for me.
@DingKong Жыл бұрын
It was the Amiga for me. The progression with a 16 bit machine like that compared to an 8 bit machine was mind blowing. A great era.
@matt.baller Жыл бұрын
@@DingKong I have very fond memories of my Amiga 500 - I got it from a friend in exchange for my gameboy. I knew sod all about computers or what to do with this massive collection of copied games and software... Had no computer of our own, no Internet, and no computer savvy friends to help. So I have some very happy memories of working out how to fire up Desert Strike, Hudson Hawk, Rainbow Islands and many others! I still get a shiver now when I see James Pond appear somewhere. Nostalgia is a funny feeling isn't it!
@slavaukraini1991 Жыл бұрын
I started with a Spectrum in 1986 and my brother got a NES in 87 I think with the first Zelda game not long behind Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. After that the Spectrum wasnt played so much but it had such a huge catalogue of games made by homebrew programmers 😊
@Ash_18037 Жыл бұрын
You're not understanding that the home computer world is almost a different universe to the console world. No minds were blown by Zelda, it made little or no impression on people in 1986 with a C64, Spectrum, Amstrad, BBC, Apple, Amiga, Atari ST etc who were probably playing Bards Tale, Ultima, Sword of Fargoal etc if they liked rpgs. Even Super Mario brothers was barely noticed, and that was only because of the controversy around Great Giana sisters. It regularly amazes me how clueless people who grew up with a nintendo, sega etc are to the non-console world.
@randomscandinavian6094 Жыл бұрын
I was deeply into computer gaming around the same time as this. Had a huge game collection on my C64 but Manic Miner is the only title of these that I have heard of. The Bear one looks like a ripoff of Burger Time, which I have played a lot. Still do from time to time on emulators. Like these kids, I still think of some of these games as having great graphics.
@LordNimonYT Жыл бұрын
@@chaosflower4892 Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy were published by Software Creations, not Ultimate
@scottishwildcat Жыл бұрын
@@LordNimonYT Software Projects, not Creations. (Manic Miner was published by Bug Byte first, before Matthew Smith started Software Projects and took it with him.)
@grizzlygrizzler8594 Жыл бұрын
Ghetto blaster. Check. Connect ear socket cable on 48k Speccy to mic socket on ghetto blaster. Check. Play Winter Games by Epyx. Groove out at the apparent 3 channel sound! Check!!!
@RUSH2112RUSH Жыл бұрын
£6 from 1984, equates to about £25 today, I know this is a boring comment but I thought it may be useful to some...or maybe not?
@SpeccyHorace Жыл бұрын
I thought it was quite interesting, thanks.
@lilacfloyd Жыл бұрын
Thank god for Mastertronic.
@leftmono1016 Жыл бұрын
@@lilacfloyd - it was always an exciting trip to the shops when Mastertronic had a new release! Kick Start was fantastic at the time.
@danielnewton7357 Жыл бұрын
I had a crush on this posh totty as a kid!
@Xenc5 Жыл бұрын
Back in my day we teleported everywhere 😅
@craigcharlesworth15387 ай бұрын
Matthew Smith sweats blood to get actual music out of the Spectrum beeper. Some kid: "It makes too much noise"
@melthebell33 Жыл бұрын
Manic Miner and Atic atac are both in my top 3 speccy games, along with Chuckie egg. Ant attack would be in my top 10
@davidmoore2308 Жыл бұрын
Chuckle egg was my favourite also ghostbusters would be up in my top 10
@melthebell33 Жыл бұрын
@@davidmoore2308 yup enjoyed playing that a lot too
@Sighman Жыл бұрын
Lords of Midnight/Doomdark's Revenge, Elite, Psytron, Combat Lynx, Tau Ceti/Academy, Arnhem, Halls of the Things, Worm in Paradise ... those are the ones I spent all my time on.
@robotmad Жыл бұрын
5:23 I'm feeling their neck strain looking up at those monitors
@wildwine6400 Жыл бұрын
"It makes too much noise" - if only he heard the Spectrum starting up 😅
@lovejoy3347 Жыл бұрын
Jet Set Willy is still amazing to this day. Matthew Smith is an absolute Genius, as were the Oliver Twins.
@CS-mo7xp5 ай бұрын
yeah JSW is legendary. at the foot of the megatree!
@turrican4d599 Жыл бұрын
Somebody give those poor souls a Commodore 64 and a Joystick!
@colinr0380 Жыл бұрын
@3:05 "If you found new rooms all the time, it could last forever" And that kid went on to make The Binding of Isaac. 😉
@rosstee Жыл бұрын
I played Atic Atac back when I was a similar age to the kids in this video and was just thinking how Binding of Isaac is like a twisted modern update!
@darrenwendell1723 Жыл бұрын
And then Alan Sugar came along and ruined everything.
@schadenfreude6274 Жыл бұрын
Imagine 40 years from now, we're all gonna see a same video talking about Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War and Elden Ring. :)
@michaelpegasiou4531 Жыл бұрын
Loved Tottenham Court Road back then for tech,it’s crap now they have all gone apart from Cex near the top end,that was the first Cex I’ve still got my original membership card 😊
@SingaporeSkaterSam Жыл бұрын
Atic Atac was great but I could finish it too quickly eventually. The one I really liked was the Defender clone - Invasion of the Bodysnatchas (I think) with back door loading hacks and weird Ulysses references.
@mikeb2575 Жыл бұрын
Ah before the days of 'Not actual game play' where you got what you see. Fantastic games and fantastic days of wonderment and excitement... LOL the kids face at 4:05 🤣🤣🤣
@adamweishaupt2846 Жыл бұрын
Though the cheeky rascals did used to put screen shots from different systems on the back of the cassette to make you think you're getting a graphically better game.
@mikeb2575 Жыл бұрын
@@adamweishaupt2846 I know but you could easily tell by the colours used, nowadays they render complete scenes and try to make us think that it's gameplay. Can you imagine a car advert where it shows a Ferrari driving around and when you order it you get a Skoda instead 🤣🤣
@beyond72deepsoulfulhousemixes Жыл бұрын
And when loading times where actual loading times, not this "Xbox is slower, taking 10 secs longer than the PlayStation" 😂
@krashd Жыл бұрын
Seeing an Amiga screenshot on the back of a Spectrum game would make me drool. Robocop 2 in 16bit colour? That was the stuff of legends that only the older kids had. I adored the Spectrum but my first Amiga is probably the gaming love of my life - The Blues Brothers, Toki, Titus the Fox, etc.
@missionpassed4584 Жыл бұрын
As a child of the 80s and having to deal with the games back then was really frustrating, each game would promise a lot more than it would deliver, the images on the front and back of the tape boxes plus the text made the game seem amazing, but once you started to play, most of the games not only looked bad also were hard to control and would get very repetitive, although some would actually be really good some effort was actually put into them.
@Sighman Жыл бұрын
I skipped all the arcade games and went straight for the more involved stuff - text & graphic adventures, strategy, Elite, that kind of thing. The sort of games where home computers really came into their own.
@PaulTaylor1 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, but I think this is why games like Atic Atac and Manic Miner (even more so Jet Set Willy) were such game changers (pun intended). For the first time since the original text adventures, you had the sense that you could discover secret things that no one knew were even there. The hidden depths were actually *more* than what the cassette artwork claimed. Edit: and Lords of Midnight, of course! Pretty much the fantasy equivalent of Elite in its approach to a true explorable universe.
@BrayTube Жыл бұрын
Talk about failed promise, my C64 came with a game compendium tape. The first one I loaded was called North Sea Rescue; the blurb told me I was a helicopter pilot trying to land on an oil rig at night during a thunder storm. The game was a black screen and you only got a glimpse of your situation whenever there was a 'lightning strike', when for a split second an 'X' (your chopper) and a 'H' (the landing pad on the oil rig) appeared on screen. In the ensuing darkness you could make a few U,D,L or R moves and wait for the next lightning strike to see where you had gotten to. Christ, I'd love a game of it now!
@missionpassed4584 Жыл бұрын
@@Sighman Yea very true, but I did find some text adventure games really tough as just trying to find the right words to get going was sometimes impossible in my young mind at the time, one had a section where you would get on a train but all I remember is it said something like 'clunk click or you will be dead or sick or something' i would get to that point every time and had no idea how to get beyond
@vkobevk7 ай бұрын
yeah, but when i was kid i was impressed by cheap game, it is how i enjoyed atari game for 2 or 3 years until i got my nintendo 😋 so on pc i enjoyed chess game and on atari wathever bad game 😅
@mrfrisky6501 Жыл бұрын
Sarah Green was very fit in her day❤
@DemonetisedZone Жыл бұрын
4:07 Wee guy looks like he's having a fit 😂
@ispi_video_photo Жыл бұрын
The joy of modifying that DEC B to NOP in Manic Miner, so you wouldn't lose any lives.. Changing it to INC B was rather interesting...
@magnump.i.5894 Жыл бұрын
They were saying most of the games are too large, I wonder what they think of games like red dead redemption as adult players
@MattSwain1 Жыл бұрын
I would prefer a game that offered less value for money, stupid kids 😂
@Andrew-ck1ob Жыл бұрын
The posh kids had either a spectrum plus 2 or Commodore 64 or really posh ones a BBC micro with the game elite
@krashd Жыл бұрын
The kid who smelled of onions and sat on his own at lunchtime would have an Amstrad CPC with the tiny green monitor.
@cellgfx Жыл бұрын
Sarah Greene flexing those pre-Ghostwatch acting chops 😄
@eonetim Жыл бұрын
What's also amazing is the staff you can see here, young men with neat hair, in jacket and tie with name badge. The polo shirt wearer would be the person loading things round the back. Now it's polo shirts up front and often no badge. And all the goods people wear dinner suits 😉
@zigzagtoes Жыл бұрын
This comment appears just a day after a meme i saw yester, showing then and now.. jumber jack in dungerees, beard, checkered bobble hat, and tech guys in shirt & tie (then), and the now being tech guys in lumberjack clobber with beards, while lumberjacks are in the office attire and clean shaven 😂
@eonetim Жыл бұрын
@@zigzagtoes 👌
@mantovannni Жыл бұрын
I love how a lot of the early games were a character in some semblance of a room having to avoid whacky objects and collect stuff.
@Mindsi Жыл бұрын
Like Chucky egg!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂
@pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591 Жыл бұрын
Atic Atac was my favourite. I played it for hours, and programmed my own version.
@tyronenelson9124 Жыл бұрын
This type of nostalgic technology is coming back.
@brutonstreettailor4570 Жыл бұрын
I Remember playing “knobber” on an Apple IIe green screen only back in 1983/84.
@1969gawa Жыл бұрын
Good to hear the word 'sheets' being used,instead of 'levels' or 'screens' and the like.
@positivelynegative9149 Жыл бұрын
That 3-D! 🤣
@danyoutube7491 Жыл бұрын
Pretty good for 1984!
@damianbutterworth2434 Жыл бұрын
I wrote a program using Jaws 3D glasses. Was just some blue and red stars coming towards you but was 3D. I might of been the first 3D programmer lol.
@beyond72deepsoulfulhousemixes Жыл бұрын
@@damianbutterworth2434 I saw JAWS 3-D three times but really wanted to see Friday the 13th Part III 3-D. Would have to wait a couple of decades but the 3-D was worth the wait and miles better than JAWS'.
@bardo0007 Жыл бұрын
I remember Ant Attack , I was amazed by the 3D graphics on my Spectrum LOL Very difficult to complete, I don't think I did.
@badgerboy4448 Жыл бұрын
A tic attack was the first toreuettes themed video game
@justinkeenan1598 Жыл бұрын
The golden age of video games
@Speccymemories Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@safirahmed5 ай бұрын
Later in the year 1984 there was Jet Set Willy, Sabre Wulf, Star Quake, Knight Lore and many, many other games.
@CS-mo7xp5 ай бұрын
JSW and Sabre Wulf are/were awesome. probably spent entire days playing those.
@johnbailey5616 Жыл бұрын
Use a Joystick 🕹 Ant Attack was a great game.😅
@bandybushido Жыл бұрын
Elite, Castle Quest, Sabre Wulf, Yie Ar Kung-Fu and Knight Lore on the BBC, *Chef kiss*.
@kacodemonio Жыл бұрын
Oustanding review. Today's gamers have a lot to learn from these chaps.
@tryingmybest9819 Жыл бұрын
@@luminousfractal420 try dark souls
@kevinmichael2538 Жыл бұрын
The 80's were crazy this interview is great
@mrpositronia Жыл бұрын
Great video from the vaults. I'd happily show Sarah how to play each of these games, except for Bear Bovver.
@Frostie3672 Жыл бұрын
They should have used the C64 instead of the rubbish speccy lol Great times though, I'm not bothered being nearly 51 as it means I was old enough to grow up through the 80s & 90s & seeing how much home computers & gaming evolved. Still got all my commodore gear, couple of C64s with 1541 drives, action replay cartridges & loads of amiga stuff, A600, few A1200s & associated hardware.
@leftmono1016 Жыл бұрын
Being old certainly makes you appreciate modern games so much more.
@krashd Жыл бұрын
Most of us wanted to support British companies like Sinclair and Acorn.
@digitalmediafan Жыл бұрын
I had a zx spectrum 128k though sold it a few years later for £140. Now you can barely tell computer game graphics from reality. So much wrong with the world now but the technology is quite mind blowing
@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Жыл бұрын
I think a game should be blatantly a game - they're almost interactive live-action movies these days.
@rosstee Жыл бұрын
@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch I love many games from the 80's and 90's but there have also been some excellent graphically impressive games in recent years. If I hear "interactive live-action movie" I think of the horrible FMV-based CD-ROM titles from the mid 90's where you had barely any control.
@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Жыл бұрын
@@rosstee Graphics indistinguishable from reality (it's coming) turn a game into something else, at least for me.
@rosstee Жыл бұрын
@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Yes, especially with VR these will eventually become "experiences" or "worlds" more than games. I meant that good-looking modern games such The Last of Us, Dark Souls or God of War can still be very enjoyable, but I do prefer older stuff (the 16 and 32 bit eras in particular).
@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Жыл бұрын
@@rosstee Sure, they can be enjoyable.
@Darwinion Жыл бұрын
That kid saying Manic Miner had 20 sheets. Proper retro gaming language there. Clearing screens in arcades was always termed as "sheets". Don't hear it any more. I mastered Manic Miner back in the day to the point I could go round the 20 sheets over and over collecting extra life every 10K points. Just couldn't die off then. Had to eventually switch the computer off.
@welshlad6427 Жыл бұрын
Manic Miner. Great game for its time. Spent many an hour playing that.
@peterwright6721 Жыл бұрын
I still love my Spectrum.
@gmf121266 Жыл бұрын
My fave speccy game was Jet Pack.
@MrAndroidData Жыл бұрын
"pac" was my fav aswell, tried jetman, just wasnt the same
@gmf121266 Жыл бұрын
@@MrAndroidData Cool....yeah I forgot it was Pac not pack. Great graphics for the speccy.
@Sighman Жыл бұрын
I was just playing that last week on my speccy, having set it all up after 30-40 years after I last used it. Back in the 80's I stayed with a family friend, and for years later their budgie made the noises from Jetpac and Lunar Jetman...
@gmf121266 Жыл бұрын
@@Sighman 😂
@user-ve3gh5xg9q3 ай бұрын
She is so full of enthusiasm❤️
@Morthwyl Жыл бұрын
Manic Miner - press keys H, J, K, L to toggle sound on/off
@the_once-and-future_king. Жыл бұрын
Her 80s hair is on _point!_
@merlin5476 Жыл бұрын
CHAOS... the board game for up to 8 players by the amazing Julien Gollop... still played after 40 yrs 👍 especially the upgraded Chaos groove version with monty python samples.
@gamevidsnstuff5805 Жыл бұрын
Dude. I used to love that game. Classic stuff. I used to set all different games up with 7 computer players and never got bored of it. Different every time.