Remember These Crash Smashes? I Don't!

Remember These Crash Smashes? I Don't! | ZX SPECTRUM

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I thought I had played pretty much all the good games on the Speccy but clearly I was wrong. Join me as we look at some Crash Smash award winners that I had no clue about!!
Games Featured:
Gregory Loses His Clock
Buggy Blast
Critical Mass
Mickey Mouse
Shadowfire
Stiff Lip & Co.
Worse Things Happen At Sea

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@geoffneil5073 Ай бұрын

"... because I helped my classroom mates out quite a bit back in the day by keeping backups of their games for them..." I've never heard it put like that before 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I was a good friend 😂

@marcraygun6290 Ай бұрын

Its a selflessness sadly missing from this generation...

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😁😁

@terryheenan2633 Ай бұрын

I also stepped up to help out my school mates in this way. We were all good friends back in the day. The current RTX4090's don't do the colour bleed that the Spectrum perfected over 40 years ago and they call that progress?

@rhayadercomputers6468 Ай бұрын

Heart of gold :)

@f1nkangel Ай бұрын

Loved Worse things happen at sea...my Speccie was literally bought off a man in a pub, came complete with three large carrier bags full of C90s, with zero labelling. Took *months* for me to go through them all and figure out everything there. Had to use a special pen with an ultra small nib to fit everything on each label. It was someone's absolute passion.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ha! Love this. Must of been great going through the games and finding the good ones. Happy days!

@bezenby9804 Ай бұрын

Man, I had completely forgotten about Worse Things Happen At Sea - that was a great game. A proper nostalgia trip there!

@neunadi5147 Ай бұрын

I remember Shadowfire as I was my favourite game ever. Red computers for combat , green for movement. Severina , Zahn , and Maul to name afew , it sold well and spawned a follow-up called Enigma Force

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah it was the most interesting title here I think. Definitely will play it some more.

@marshalsea000 Ай бұрын

Enigma Force! Was scratching my brain. Both were great, completely diffferent to all the platformers.

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

Dont forget Torik the Bird Man!!! That name always made me laugh for some reason...it sounded like a comedy pinching sound effect...TORIK!!! Etc...

@neunadi5147 Ай бұрын

@@Simon-xc5oy Ah Beyond software couldn't put a foot wrong in those days, don't know whether I was just naive youngster or nostalgic now.

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

@@neunadi5147 Yes there were a lot of software houses that just made great games over and over. You could trust the brand as they did not make bad games. Palace Software, Quicksilver, Hewson, Durell and Gremlin Graphics...all hit after hit...

@Malcx1 Ай бұрын

Buggy Blast was an absolute classic! Childhood memory unlocked.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah great little game! Pony controls though.

@Grump_Bender Ай бұрын

Shadow Fire...............hit of nostalgia.........loved this.

@SweetStevieAaron Ай бұрын

I bought Gregory. Never thought it was as great as Crash said. But it is really out there and imaginative so I can understand their excitement.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

£3 quid too! Bargain!

@sunteam Ай бұрын

I love Buggy Blast. One of those simple but addictive games I can always come back to. There's something I like about the careful and precise positioning of your shots without an on-screen cursor.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@user-px4zg3lk3q Ай бұрын

Honestly, your videos are brilliant! They take me back to my childhood back in the early eighties , well away from the stresses of middle age life! Please do more... ! Cheers😊

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Than you very much for the kind words. Really appreciate it 😊

@blatherskite3009 Ай бұрын

Storing backups of all your friends' games is a lovely way of looking at it, I must say. "Archivist" sounds so more more wholesome than the other word. And the role certainly had its perks, like getting to play and keep pretty much every worthwhile game released. I'm sure that when our U.S. NES-owning chums sneer at Speccy games, they're not taking the ability to "archive" those games into account.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Totally!! Try taking backups of NES cartridges!

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

It was indeed a blast. Get a C90 or C60. Got to school, chat to your mates. Get them to bring in a game on cassette and a blank tape. Take them home with you at night. Copy him a game, stick his game on your C90. Write its name on the label and the tape counter number it starts at. Go back to school the next day with original and the game you did for him. Give him them back. Talk to other mates...Get them to bring in a game and a blank tape...And so on. That was my life from 1982 till about 1989...heh....its probably why I still "Back up" everything now, from films, to tv and music and still games. Once you get into it, you can never leave...its so much cheaper.

@blatherskite3009 Ай бұрын

@@Simon-xc5oy Yep, I carried on doing that for about a decade, early 80s (Beeb and Speccy games) to early 90s (Amiga games). Looking back at old magazines, there weren't many games that we _didn't_ get to "share and enjoy" - nothing notable, anyway. There was some planning to it as well, like organising who was going to buy which games so you didn't waste money by needlessly doubling-up on any purchases within your group. If little Seb was buying Game X then there was no need for anyone else to, because we'd all have it, so what was important was that we spread the buying out and people bought different (but also desirable) games to throw out to the group :) Oh, and sitting there in lessons (or detentions) writing out code-sheets, i.e. turning the Jet Set Willy password colour-codes into plain-text numbers that could be easily photocopied for everyone. All very naughty, really, but at least I did buy my share of genuine games .... even if, ultimately, maybe only 1 game in 10 in my game-library was actually a legitimate tape :) Like I said, I don't think our American friends with their NES cartridges fully understand what the attraction was to owning a humble but popular computer like the Speccy in the 1980s - it was because all of your mates also had one, so you were part of a game-"archiving" pool and everyone had C90s full of copied games, 10 or 20 games to a tape. There seems to be a retrospective move toward claiming that computers like the Amstrad CPC were alright really - and, sure, they _were_ better than a Speccy on an objective technical level. Not difficult, really. But honestly, that wasn't the point. Back then, you felt bad for the kid whose parents got them an Amstrad because they were forced to band together with the 1 other pariah kid in the school who had one. And he liked text adventures.

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

@@blatherskite3009 Yes, exactly...I would still buy originals from time to time but they had to be special, unique, the best the machine could offer or a favourite idea etc. And it helped if it had good packaging as well for display. I had a rule it had to be a Crash Smash and get good reviews in other mags as well. I did the same doubling up with mates to buy a range of games. I tended to buy stuff if no one else had it at all and I could not source it from anyone else, or if it was brand new, so no one had it yet. I still remember Christmas 86, and my friend John buying the Gauntlet arcade conversion for the Spectrum as he loved the game. And so I got Thantos, as who would not want to fly around on a dragon setting stuff on fire? And we did the copy swap thing so we both had each game. Happy days. Now you just go online and go...I will have that, and that, and that, and that film, and that whole series and those two albums etc...Its scary to think how easy it is and how much it would cost legit. I sometimes miss those old days though...the chats over who had what, and which friend of a friend might have a game we were after. You met so many people and got to be friends. And then the trips to across town to new areas and streets to score the game you were after. It got you out and about and seeing and doing other things on the way. And the Spectrum was Number 1. It was not the most advanced and most technically superior. But it was the affordable, and that meant everyone had one. Which meant masses of choice and the games were cheap, and it was British with unique titles. And like everything of that era there were some games that worked and were by far the best on the Spectrum. Same for the C64. You picked a system and stuck with it...probably like Xbox and Playstation these days...

@craigchampagne7797 Ай бұрын

I had Gregory! Had completely forgotten about it for 30 odd years!

@Rustem_A_ Ай бұрын

Oh, I remember Worse Things Happen at Sea😊 I played it once, my mate showed it to me. He was so proud that he worked out the controls and the gameplay all by himself (bearing in mind that no manual or instructions were provided for the pirated copy + he barely knew English - that was quite an achievement). We played the game for many hours as we really enjoyed the process. The next day the cassette was exchanged for something else " just for a while" as we thought, but the tape was lost in the endless process of further exchange operations (of course), then we forgot the title, so I was really surprised to see that in your list!!! Brings back the memories!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ha! Love it! Well done to your mate on working it out. 👏

@pmsrodrigues Ай бұрын

Same here. No manual as well, but got the gist of it and enjoyed it.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Did you play it in the bath though?

@Rustem_A_ Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT Nope, as I never saw that advert:) so my experience was kinda bounded, I suppose...Well its time to catch up

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😂😂

@gordon12082006 Ай бұрын

That's for making this video. It's good to hear someone talking about spectrum games in depth especially in this day and age. I've subscribed so I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

@xenorac Ай бұрын

I played Worst Things Happen At Sea a lot, loved it and that was way back then. Hard to believe it was not well known.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Not well known by me 😁 rest of the world might have heard of it 😂 great little game though. Great fun!

@andrewdunbar828 Ай бұрын

Only one I'd heard of back in the day was Worse Things Happen at Sea, but I wouldn't've remembered it if you hadn't brought it up here.

@GamerbugUK Ай бұрын

I recall Critical Mass, WTHAS and Shadowfire and had no bloody idea what I was doing on any of them really, it's amazing how important instructions were back in the day - but not as important as a C60 or D90 cassette tape.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😂😂 very true!

@monkeymanbob Ай бұрын

I remember all of these, but I never saw Buggy Blast for sale in the wild. Absolutely loved Shadow Fire - the sequel was pants though.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I've heard it's not great, but I haven't played it myself.

@simonbutler-bq8yb Ай бұрын

The sequel was fairly rubbish but nowhere near as bad as the American artwork for the first game. Check it out, but be warned...you can't unsee it.

@johnbishop9188 Ай бұрын

Zero memory of any of these! Good vid Seb, cheers!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😁 You and me both! Thank you 😊

@ezedjay Ай бұрын

I remember them all apart from stiff lip. I actually played worse things happen at sea a few months ago. I'm better at it now than I was in 1984. I made it across lol

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ha, nice!

@Twirlyhead Ай бұрын

I had Shadowfire and admired the packaging, programming, look, concept, everything but the gameplay which I could never get into. There was a time that I was buying almost everything Beyond released due to my love of their Lords of Midnight. Psytron was another sci-fi by Beyond that I admired but struggled to enjoy.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah I think I would have struggled too back in the day. Definitely one I will enjoy more now I think. Lords of Midnight... what a game!

@Franklin.Ellesmere Ай бұрын

What a blast from the past! I always bought that speccy mag

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Best one I reckon!

@Franklin.Ellesmere Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT Agreed, although I did still buy Sinclair User too

@Yesterzine Ай бұрын

Remembered none of them, still, easily in the top 2 Crash videos ever.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I'll take 2nd 😉

@stephenbromley2302 26 күн бұрын

I remember getting Critical Mass for Xmas

@adamfreeman3652 Ай бұрын

Excellent video, more of this please.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@deanskinner1761 Ай бұрын

Yes could you do one on zap 64 games if you hadn't already

@simonbutler-bq8yb Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed Shadowfire. It was touted and advertised as "the textless text adventure."

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Great game

@jaysmith2858 Ай бұрын

Shadowfire was very highly regarded back in the day. I think it was/is more appealing to those into games such as Laser Squad, a game produced by Julian Gollup, he of Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, and X-Com fame. I didn't have the instructions for Shadowfire (why I don't know as it was a legit copy - maybe my relative lost them?) so I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Tough without instructions for sure!!!

@safirahmed Ай бұрын

Magnetic media doesn't last forever...

@SebsPlaceYT 6 күн бұрын

True

@bearcubd3900 Ай бұрын

Hi There,Just found the channel nicely put together and perfect for A Hungover Bingey Sunday “Subbed” 👍

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Haha gotta love a hungover Sunday watching KZfaq 😁 cheers mate 👍

@shamilton2556 Ай бұрын

Due to the nuclear war threat of the time pretty much most of my friends stored each other's backups in case of emergency situations.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 do you remember threads?? That shit me up back in the day!

@shamilton2556 Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT oh yes - to this day i am nervous if i have to go to sheffield- scary film !

@WhatHoSnorkers Ай бұрын

Lovely selection there, and some gorgeous ones. I'd heard of Buggy Blast but assumed it was some kind of dune buggy game! Shadowfire is one I played and found a bit confusing.I did play the sequel, Enigma Force, and managed to complete it as a child!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Cheers Snorkers! I'd love to do a video on games I completed as a kid, but it would be rather short 😁

@WhatHoSnorkers Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT There weren't many on my list either. Great Escape, Where Time Stood Still, Enigma Force, V, Treasure Island I think were it!

@DanBrookes78 Ай бұрын

I like the new format with no logo at the beginning.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah,cheers. A just get on with it approach.

@schneil Ай бұрын

I had critical mass on a compilation. It was a fun game, but felt a little dated by 1989. I was impressed by the ship exploding animation though.

@RedParsley Ай бұрын

Nice idea for a video. I haven't heard of any of these either. I like the look of that Mickey game...

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Cheers

@cameragod1 Ай бұрын

OMG ShadowFire... the hours I spent on that :)

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Great game!

@frankowalker4662 Ай бұрын

Some interesting looking games there.

@TheSudsy Ай бұрын

Worse things happen at sea is the one i remember. WTHAS was the name on the C60 , saw an advert in SU and figured that was what was on the tape.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Great little game

@gamingtonight1526 Ай бұрын

Shadowfire was a huge hit on C64, and had a fantastic SID tune! Stifflip on C64 was a minor hit, but it had lots of digitized speech, so I loved it!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah great SID tune indeed! Didn't know about stifflips digitized speech, cheers!

@fuzzix Ай бұрын

Was expecting to recognise at least one of these from back in the day, but nope! Some of them have become infamous in the intervening years, like Worse Things Happen at Sea. Those Buggy Blast controls gave me a shiver - I was well used to QAOP like everyone else 😁 Critical Mass looks great - the guy being out of the ship seems way ahead of its time! Shadow Fire reminds me of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (I owned this one boxed) - a total mystery, even with the instructions. The graphical adventures generally reminded me of Sidewalk by Infogrames - Spent many hours playing that one ... though looking at the Jan '88 issue it wasn't quite up to Crash Smash standard.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Cheers for the comment, I'm glad someone else didn't know any of these back in the day 😊 critical mass is brilliant, well worth having a go on even now !

@OlliePer Ай бұрын

Some of these really look like they're pushing the Sinclair hardware to the limit... Nice to see. Some reminded me of ant attack... Remember that one?

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I do indeed! If you watch my Ikari Warriors video for example, behind my head is a signed copy of the original ant attack artwork by David Rowe. Probably my all time favourite cassette artwork.

@OlliePer Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYTcouple of questions. Did you do a separate review video of ant attack? And just checking if you received my email. Cheers.

@gdclemo Ай бұрын

Another quality video. I only played Gregory Loses His Clock out of these, back in the day. It's really tough though, with awful control responsiveness. The next stage in the jungle will infuriate you. Crash's choice of Smashes were often very dubious. Remember Zub? In my view a polished but extremely tedious game, not really worth the budget price, but Crash thought it was the bees' knees.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 yeah they didn't always get it right eh! I will persevere with Gregory but I'm not looking forward to the Jungle part now 😂

@Telboy2011 Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed Critical Mass back in the day. Durrell made some of my favourite Speccy games as it goes....Scuba Diver, Combat Lynx, Turbo Esprit and Saboteur.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah 100% I played all of those back in the day, blissfully unaware of critical masses existence!!

@peterpereira3653 Ай бұрын

I liked those games bought them all.

@mlucifersam Ай бұрын

Errrr yeah. I remember them all

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Alright smart arse! 😁

@billybollockhead5628 Ай бұрын

Gregory loses clock, i'd heard of, but not played. I think it was one of those games that I kept seeing on game shelves and immediately scoffing at the name. I *DO* remember looking at the screenshots on the back and scoffing that they definitely were not speccy graphics. I've never heard of any of the others... Buggy blast though - I think young me wouldve loved that!

@nelsonhibbert5267 Ай бұрын

Is your head actually a bollock, Billy?

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah me too. I would have got really into a space simulation like that when I was younger

@MikeY-gr5by Ай бұрын

I had a backup copy of Shadowfire. I had no idea how to play it and still don't nearly 40 years later after watching this video 😂

@gamingtonight1526 Ай бұрын

I think you can get the C64 version manual as a PDF on the web, and the icon controls are the same on both!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I watched a number of longplays and was exactly the same 😁 if you had a copy back in the day, you were screwed 😁

@dennyhaynes3 Ай бұрын

I knew about most of these games. Critical mass was a superb game on the Spectrum and a game you hoped you died to see the brilliant death effect. Not 100% sure but I think the C64 game plays differently though looks the same. Zzap slated it yet crash loved it. Definitely a good choice as an 8 bit battle as there's an Amstrad version. Great video as always mate.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Alright show off 😂 I knew you would know most of them, which one didn't you know? Cheers mate.

@dennyhaynes3 Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT The only one I didn't know was Gregory loses his clock, you must understand I'm an old fart going back as far as the mechanical arcade machines 🤣

@billybollockhead5628 Ай бұрын

@@dennyhaynes3 But GLHC was the most well known game on this list! Noob! :D

@dennyhaynes3 Ай бұрын

@@billybollockhead5628 It is possible for something to bypass you like this did for me so obviously not the most known game 😉

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I'm the noob, I didnt know any 😁😁

@jitmancanth6698 Ай бұрын

Buggy Blast was the first game I ever bought. Well, second game, after I bought FIDO, loaded it, turned off the machine, took it back to WH Smith, and told them the tape was faulty. But Buggy Blast was the first game I ever bought and kept. Never got any good at it though, but I loved the idea of it.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ha - I wonder how many "faulty" tapes were returned for crappy games 😁

@i_hate_this_world Ай бұрын

Ah, the days of actual consumer rights. I fondly remember being able to return a game because it didn't work, even though I'd actually had the gall to open it and (gasp) try to play it for more than 2 hours!!!!

@drvonpinken Ай бұрын

Critical Mass was the only game I remember and played

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Great game 👍

@sashaburrow6186 Ай бұрын

Played a ton of Shadowfire (Think I even had the big box version)... seem to recall eventually completing it. Never got very far with the sequel though. Would actually like to see a remake of the first title - I think it could work well, with you commanding the team via VR controls...

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah that would be cool!

@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533 Ай бұрын

I hadn't played most of these either, although critical mass and mickey mouse were personal favourites. I prefer the title dirty pirate ☠️

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😁😁

@twankistevenson3884 Ай бұрын

I was seriously hooked on Buggy Blast dodgy controls or not.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Great game, just wish controls were better!

@1tantrum2many32 Ай бұрын

I had Critical Mass! Only completed it the once. My copy didnt have a blue tab thing however...

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Naughty! 😊

@marcraygun6290 Ай бұрын

I remember critical mass now but i thought i played it on my neighbours c64

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Have heard it's good on the c64

@andrewgilesrobinson5664 Ай бұрын

Maziacs by far his best

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Maziacs was a huge favourite of mine!

@marshalsea000 Ай бұрын

Couple of these spent ages on these. Shadowfire has a sequel as well. Brilliant early tactical game. I think a whole bunch of gen xers are excellent problem solvers due to working all this crap out without a manual. Ahem.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Haha yes! Very true 😂

@grayjohn6332 Ай бұрын

I thought Shadow fire was based on one of those Imagine Mega games, some of the ideas were used.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Oooh didn't know that. There was one called star traders.... could be!

@unemployablegraduate Ай бұрын

You’re quite right, and you can also get a feel for what Bandersnatch might have looked like from other Denton titles like FGTH or Gift from The Gods too.

@AdrianWoodUK Ай бұрын

5:46 - Remember kiddies: if you're going to bleep over your swearwords, you do have to also remember to mute the swearing itself. ;) 8:08 - Yeah, like that! XD

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I got better as the video went on 😂😂

@gipgap4 Ай бұрын

Yes, I owned an “unofficial” ahem, copy of Critical Mass and enjoyed it. Remembers Dentons games being critically acclaimed at the time. Hadn’t realised that they also converted the brilliant Spy Hunter to the humble Speccy. I think the only game I hadn’t heard of was Buggy Blast. Almost surprised that you didn’t mention Fat Worm blows a sparky which was also a Crash Smash. Perhaps that game isn’t as unknown as it used to be.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ooooh 100 quid bounty on your head 😂 Fat Worm was a game that I knew as a kid just because of the weird name. It was very intriguing although the gameplay is not that memorable in all honesty.

@schneil Ай бұрын

I had Gregory on first release. It was a good but frustrating game. I would have given it 80-90%, not a smash. In crash at the time budget games had one reviewer, and he must have liked the graphics.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah I think the price point tipped it into crash smash territory.

@breaksbassbleeps Ай бұрын

I remember seeing a specie version of the NES classic, Solar Jetman in Sinclair User mag. did that ever get released?

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

According to spectrumcomputing.co.uk: Although the game was reportedly finished, sales of the original (NES) version were so bad that the Spectrum and C64 conversions were never published.

@breaksbassbleeps Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT boooo... That was an amazing game... Surely there's a copy floating about out there

@veritanuda Ай бұрын

I played Antics. It was pretty cool, actually. Bit hard, as I recall, but had acool variety of sprites. Shadowfire was pretty great actually. but I remember buying it review unseen because I was so rad for Psyron which was also a Beyond game. Great Roundup and I'll have to check out Buggy Blast. But can it really beat my beloved Dark Star? I doubt it :P Cheers!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊, I've never played Dark Star but have heard of it. Will check it out, cheers.

@veritanuda Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT Yeah.. Type "Ultimate" and other things into the high score table is hilarious. :) DesignDesign were crazy geeky lads.

@samcadwallader2899 Ай бұрын

I bought 'Worse things happen at sea' and didn't copy it and return it to the shop it was that good compared to most of the dreck available at the time.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

😁

@dasnutnock6408 Ай бұрын

Critical Mass was a big deal, and I'd wanted to play it for ages before I bought a copy at the PCW Show around 1987 from the Durell stand, for a quid. Didn't bloody work, though.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Nooooooo

@dasnutnock6408 Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT Bastards, I'll never forget - or forgive - such a skunk move.

@andrewgoodall2183 Ай бұрын

Had Buggy Blast. Played the s**t out of it. Firebird, wasn't it?

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Was indeed!

@fminns Ай бұрын

I didn't play Shadowforce but I did play (and love), Enigma force which I think was a sequel, but don't quote me on that.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

I've heard shadowfire is better but I've not played the sequel. 👍

@LordmonkeyTRM Ай бұрын

8:16 Minnie games??

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Genius !

@1978mackers Ай бұрын

Had stiff lip & co. Budget release on KIXX label

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Did you like it?

@1978mackers Ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT from what i can remember yeah. Was bizarre tho. Think there ended up being a walk thru guide or some type of cheats for it in a mag.

@johnny5805 Ай бұрын

Some dead famous games in this list.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

and shame on me for not knowing any of them!

@Zhixalom Ай бұрын

@9:22 Uuuh, long before you had even spoken the name "Shadowfire", my inner sadistic DJ had already slammed the C64 theme music onto the turntable of my innermost sacred temple... Being rather uncharacteristically non-sadistic this time, since I actually really love that tune... Hmm, makes me wonder what's going on with him?!? 🤔 - Seb, do stop smashing your C64 about - it sounds like it's loosing kilobytes by the minute... 😝

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

🤣 Is a great tune to be fair to him!

@Vargon7 Ай бұрын

Interesting. Did you ever try a Crash Smash called Blue Thunder? I bought it on the strength of the Crash review, but the game is utter turd. Abysmal controls, a shooter where almost nothing can be shot. Never trusted Crash reviews after that.

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Ah yeah Blue Thunder, there was a TV show right? I've not played it, but I can see if you thought it sucked how it would make you distrust their scoring. I guess it's all subjective really, but it should never be that contrasting.

@Rustem_A_ Ай бұрын

Mickey Mouse sucks😅 Its Ok to play mini games once or twice, but to build up a whole game on a tediuos process of completing the same boring mini games again and again - its bad taste or laziness. Plus this game is impossible to complete (the dreadful forth tower) - and that is bad as well!

@SebsPlaceYT Ай бұрын

Yeah I never got that far in it despite giving it a 7 out of 10 back in the day!!