It's amazing what they managed to do with the Spectrum with such limited hardware and the processor doing all the work, more recently they've amazingly even got multicolour engines to work around the colour clash problem.

F1 mgmt was incredible fun

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Orion Software must've had a magic wand of sorts (or mad machine code skills). PC-Man and Paratrooper are playable to this very day. the rest...

Fancy the spectrum not having the colour brown back then

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Galaxy, boulderdash, pacman, donkey kong, International soccer, river raid These are some of my favorites that I can remember.

Writing on the wall for the Amiga by this time.

H.E.R.O. was such a nice game. Ahead of its time.

Ramsak!

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The Amiga punched up! 3 years after its release and 7 years after the PC's. (With the PC at 3 times the price.) In 1988, the Amiga actually started getting a few *new* games, written for it. Those games and those from 1989 on show better what the Amiga could do; the major 8-bits actually already got good conversions rather than ports, changed to fit the 64K or less limit etc. The Amiga never really got that, except in a very few games that are cherished. <3 They got ports of Atari ST ports of 8-bit ports of the arcade. (Sounds silly, but it's what happened in most cases.) I'm not all over the porting frenzy of arcade games. Some were not so good or too hard, and that gets attached with the impressions of the port. But I always like it when I see someone understood the Amiga hardware and arcade game really well, threw out everything, and simply wrote the game for the platform. That's what happened for many C64 games e.g. Gyruss, Salamander, Commando, Green Beret, that's why they can sometimes be better than the ST->Amiga port. R-Type Spectrum is also one of those. :O

I played Test Drive all the time, karate game and ghost busters. I also wrote programs and made a weather prediction program. Back in the good Ole days!

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How can you even list Commando as just one of the games of whatever? It was The Game and deserves to be mentioned with the same amount of respect as a joint meeting of the US President, an alien envoy and Zeus.

I remember those days. I exactly remember the day I played Wing Commander back then on a fast PC with a good sound card at a friend's place for the first time. I had an Amiga 500 but I wanted to be able to play this this game so badly for years. On the other hand most Action and Sports games and especially music/sound effects and 2D scrolling for the most part still were much better on an Amiga. And my friend was lucky because his father was a PC freak. For teenagers a fast PC in 1990 wouldn't had been affordable.

ZX Spectrum graphics needs scanlines for optimal experience.

I used to play a ZX spectrum game, that was a man walking on a yellow grid and they would walk away from me. Add the other end of the grid where the man was walking to. There are numbered doors. When you died a wizard brought you back. All he was was a drawing of a round face, with spiky hair all over his head. Does anyone know the name of this game?

Haha, when i first saw avenger advertised, I presumed it was based on the hillman avenger :)

In Jetpac, 3D death chase and manic miner, you've got 3 of the all time speccie top 10

Star Control 2! That game was so awesome!

cosmic gueria,ant atack,tranyam,alchemist,jumping jask(ta je posvoje zanimiva pa živcera te,mi ni ratak pridit tm nekja do 3 jem razredu naprej to je bilo t, nekje med 84 innekaj)3d dethcase,mazniacs,stop the express,whellie(mislemda sem ga obrnu),atac atic,aquaokane,jet pac,scuba dive,manic mainer te sem igral takrat,delam paseznamtistih iger ta specija k me zanimajo,sam trenutno mal stoji,drgač pa zanimiv kanal

I cant remember anyone buying a C64 game😂

these videos should really always be displaying what it is and not just when it begins.

Beautiful! Thank you! You are a connoisseur, sir!

Muy buena selección!! Pero mi favorito de esta selección es Atic Atac!!

Маник минер !! Топ игра zx spectrum

There once was a ZX spectrum game that had a yellow grid flooring with three number doors at the end of the room. When you died once, a wizard would come and resurrect you. He would tell you what to do from then on. The goal was to get through door 100. Does anyone know the name of this game? It is not wizards warrior or wizards layer.

The C64's VIC-II graphics chip really made a difference. The scrolling, in most instances, was lovely and smooth. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, had to have scrolling routines in the coding. So, a lot of the C64 games have a nice professional sheen, whereas the Speccy games all look home-coded. And that's even before you start discussions about the colour and sound.

Stonkers always crashed after you'd spent about an hour building your troops up😢

Iron Lord was a very nice game. But only the first part with the beautiful drawn map. Very good graphics and music, great atmosphere. But after that part it seems like the developers had used some unfinished completely different games which didn't fit to the rest. But thanks to the Arm Wrestling I only once got that far.

The irony is that most games from the 80's on the Amiga were either bad ports or ports from the Atari ST version, not many actually took advantage of the Amiga hardware like we started to see in the early 90's and even with that, the Amiga is still ahead of the PC, that started to change in the early 90's as the PC moved forward but the Amiga didn't and when the A1200 was released, it was an upgrade but nowhere near enough, it should have been better than the SNES in every way and probably in-between the SNES and PS1 in capabilities, Commodore really dropped the ball in not moving forward enough, especially when they had such an advantage with the A1000 in 85.

Proof visuals don't always make for a better game. Can't say that (aside from the explore/ RPG types) that these late 80's are more intriguing than many earlier games.

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Giana Sisters and Maniac Mansion, my two favourite C64 games at that time and they aged incredibly well!

Omg! Pitstop 2! Wow….yeah, I remember those tracks

tud cpc ma kr dobre edin grafike se je ne morem navadit

Ah! Que tiempos! Yo tenía un ZX Spectrum en aquella época. La mayoría de juegos del Amstrad CPC eran conversiones 1:1 del Spectrum que no aprovechaban al 100% sus capacidades.

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Great video ! Thanks

Wow and now harrier attack !!!!!

Jet pack one of the best

How could i forget! fighter pilot !

Почти все эти игры играли на zx spectrum!!!Приятно вспомнить!

1986 was indeed a brilliant year for the CPC.

some are clearly spectrum ports that brought the colour issues with them

"Extreme" is probably the only game that looks better and sounds okay on the Specy. Guessing these are all Specy 128k games because of the sound. But the C64 kills it for a computer unchanged since 1982. IMO a 7 Goals to 1 result. I had a 48k Specy.

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The problem is the games are emulated and without interpolation, as in the CRT TV. It's better on a CRT or in a secam system TV. But for History, it's no price. 1987 is the beginning of lower production of games. two years later, 90% of those games will be bad, because they will attempt to make adaptations of arcade games made by machines far superior (CPS1 from Capcom or Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and eventhe powerful 2D Capcom CPS2!). The programmers and graphists are not to blame, but the producer or the editor, surely, because they have not given money to creativity, and because C64 is antique. The lack of 32 colours on C64 was a problem which was not one in my... Green small screen: the games were superb on it, because of that! And this period with one guy making alone a game distributed by an editor has ended. Exit Karateka or Beach Head!

crazy how you have some great games that still quite hold up today next to tired manic miner clones and questionable arcade ports