ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64? - Page 2

genovese · #31 11th March 2018, 22:57

MSX --> Amiga --> PC --> N64

The msx had a CARTRIDGE SLOT. Woo.
Konami cartridges were worth their weight in gold. But were £15 each in 1986. Freakin' scandalous.

flumpsy · #32 11th March 2018, 22:58

I convinced my local corner shop to lend me games for free (to copy) so that I could bring them back with a little written review that he could use when trying to sell them to folks. As I am sure we all remember the covers bared very little resemblance to the actual game. Its crazy when I think back to the crap I used to manage back in those days.

Mastertronic mainly, I guess I would have been around 12 or 13.

flumpsy · #33 11th March 2018, 22:59

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Originally Posted by genovese

MSX --> Amiga --> PC --> N64

The msx had a CARTRIDGE SLOT. Woo.
Konami cartridges were worth their weight in gold. But were £15 each in 1986. Freakin' scandalous.

The best version of nemesis was on the msx, my mate had it we would get lost in it for hours.

Kevin Hodge · #34 11th March 2018, 23:03

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Originally Posted by flumpsy

I convinced my local corner shop to lend me games for free (to copy) so that I could bring them back with a little written review that he could use when trying to sell them to folks. As I am sure we all remember the covers bared very little resemblance to the actual game. Its crazy when I think back to the crap I used to manage back in those days.

Mastertronic mainly, I guess I would have been around 12 or 13.

thats a cracking scam you enterprising individual

hmm, the mastertronic games i remember best were the last v8, hero of the golden talisman, and 180 (a darts game)

Kevin Hodge · #35 11th March 2018, 23:08

i love old games covers, i was just watching a review for this game, and the cover seems appropriately homo-erotic

Oddity · #36 11th March 2018, 23:10

^

I didn't even know about the MSX!

flumpsy · #37 11th March 2018, 23:11

All I can remember from mastertronic is chronos and kikstart. Chronos had what was considered stunning music at the time, by tim follin who did all the greats

genovese · #38 11th March 2018, 23:12

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Originally Posted by flumpsy

I convinced my local corner shop to lend me games for free (to copy) so that I could bring them back with a little written review that he could use when trying to sell them to folks.

whoa absolute genius shennanigans

Ghost Viking · #39 11th March 2018, 23:12

Didnt they do a snooker game?

SpaceMonkey · #40 11th March 2018, 23:15

I never really got into consoles as a kid. Although as an adult I <3 my PS4 now

I was lucky that I had access to computers from a pretty young age. My route was Vic 20 --> Spectrum (the one with the attached tape drive, not the smaller one with rubber keys) --> C64 --> Amiga 500

(my all time fav, as I had that around the teenage years of my life when I really got into gaming) --> and finally various PCs.

genovese · #41 11th March 2018, 23:16

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Originally Posted by flumpsy

The best version of nemesis was on the msx

And yet had the worst version of peter beardsley's international football.

What's a boy to do in these unregulated situations.

flumpsy · #42 11th March 2018, 23:20

^ I literally only ever played nemesis/gradius on it, I think that is all that he had. I mean, once you get that why would you bother getting another cart and risk being disappointed ? Its also the only reason I got a gameboy.

Oddity · #43 11th March 2018, 23:40

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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Spectrum (the one with the attached tape drive, not the smaller one with rubber keys)

That'll be one of the later +2/3 Amstrad models

flumpsy · #44 11th March 2018, 23:50

Tape was the +2. The +3 had a totally non-standard 3 inch disk drive.

Oddity · #45 11th March 2018, 23:54

I didn't know there even was a floppy disk version

flumpsy · #46 12th March 2018, 00:00

^ Yep, it was handy if you were programming, tape was a pain for saving files but for gaming it was pathetic.

Oddity · #47 12th March 2018, 01:06

Makes me wonder if perhaps they'd used standard 3.5 it might have been more popular. It's not like Amstrad ever made a bad decision though

flumpsy · #48 12th March 2018, 01:12

I am not sure I ever saw a game for sale on disk come to think of it, I am sure it was a great idea its just the fact the world wasnt ready for a 5 year old computer bolted to an unreliable non standard media format that you couldnt find disks for

It did have a quite nice keyboard but so did the +2.

Sent from an amstrad E-mailer.

Oddity · #49 12th March 2018, 01:14

Just ahead of their time I guess

SpaceMonkey · #50 12th March 2018, 05:19

I always knew I liked Lord Sugar for some reason

I remember the arguments between Amiga owners and Atari ST owners. Yeah the ST did midi stuff but it was no match for the good old Amiga

Oddity · #51 12th March 2018, 06:03

I was envious of my friend's and cousins' Amigas

Really impressive graphics and speed in the games I played

anewyear · #52 12th March 2018, 08:17

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Originally Posted by flumpsy

Sent from an amstrad E-mailer.

I am so changing my iPhone signature to say that..!!

Oddity · #53 12th March 2018, 12:09

^

Sunshine Recorder · #54 12th March 2018, 20:08

C64 kid here. Loved games like Turrican, Dizzy, Midnight Resistance and CJ's Elephant Antics.

anewyear · #55 12th March 2018, 20:20

Woah, I didn***8217;t have a c64 so wasn***8217;t familiar with their games. But that one ^ is a lot more akin to an amiga game than a spectrum game. Yet I thought c64 was a contemporary of spectrum rather than amiga, release date and spec for example. Impressive.

anewyear · #56 12th March 2018, 20:23

Although... I think I***8217;m doing down my old rubber keyed friend. Just remembered that Pyjamarama, Everyone***8217;s a Wally etc had similar quality graphics to ^^ and they were spectrum releases

Oddity · #57 13th March 2018, 00:41

C64 was capable of much better graphics and of course sound, but was much more expensive

Now I wait to inevitably be proven wrong

genovese · #58 13th March 2018, 14:06

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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I remember the arguments between Amiga owners and Atari ST owners.

Ahh the 16-bit wars of the late 1980s...

The spectrum & commodore - not as clumsy or random as a vic20. Elegant machines, for a more civilised age.
For many years the 8-bit machines were guardians of peace and justice in the playground.
Before the dark times. Before the 16-bit.

Toxic · #59 18th March 2018, 16:56

^

I've come in here purely to say Dizzy gives me god damn nightmares

The stupid bloody egg and his stupid bloody music..oh god its stuck in my head now.

Kevin Hodge · #60 18th March 2018, 21:05

for anyone interested, this is my favourite retro gaming channel, covering loads of commodore 64 and spectrum topics, games, music etc. their mini-docus about some of the more prominent software houses of the time, such as ocean, imagine, psygnosis and all the rest of the usual suspects, are particularly enjoyable. have watched many hours of their content, recommended ^-^

here's their ocean vid