Top 50 ZX Spectrum games of 1985 - in under 10 minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of TOP 50 games in under 10 minutes.
We go back to 1985 today to check what kind of games we played on our beloved ZX Spectrum back then and to see the games that we think are the top 50 games for ZX Spectrum in that year.
Looking back, the 1985 was a year that shown us what can be done with the little old "Speccy".
The graphics and animations in Robin of The Wood, Nodes of Yesod, Mikie and Way of The Exploding Fist were really first class. And we can't forget the 3d masterpiece that was Elite from Firebird Software. We also got some fantastic shooters that year, like Commando and Rambo.
Games are, as always, presented in no particular order.
Have fun and let us know in the comments if you agree with our choices (and if we missed a title that should be on the list), and see you in the next one! - เกม
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I want to go back to these times and stay there.
Remember getting the 5 game pack with my spectrum. I think the games were. Zx Chess, Survival, Scrabble, Horace goes sking, and Chequered Flag.
I got a Spectrum for Xmas in 1985. I remember ripping off the wrapping paper and seeing the rainbow Spectrum logo and I was delirious. The graphics are amazing for their time and the games were so playable. The Spectrum changed my life as I am now a graphic designer. I was always blown away by the colour magenta - a colour you very rarely ever see in real life. Another notable thing is that it never had the colour orange, which I always thought was strange.
Nice
I also got mine in 1985 and it changed my life as well, as I'm a full time developer for more than 25 years now. Started with BASIC, then Assembler (both on ZX)... and voila, here we are :)
Got mine around 1983 or 1984, my Mum didn't have much money after my Dad died in 1982, don't know how she managed to get me one
The ZX spectrum can only hold 8 colors total which was atypical compared to other pieces of hardware at the time, even the atari 2600 had a much bigger color pallete, at least it's better than just having a black and white color range.
Orange can be achieved on a ZX Spectrum 128 by placing yellow and red in the same place on two screen areas in memory and then switching quickly between them.
I got a ZX Spectrum 48k about 1985 and I was over the moon. My dad who had little money managed to surprise us with a 50 game cassette, wow it kept us going for years. Amazing how little dots on a screen made us think it was state of the art.
He also got a cartridge called currah speech that worked with a selection of games, we had snooker and every now and again the spectrum would try to sound like a commentator lol
Some of the games in your video have brought back some fantastic memories, commando, hypersports, dinamite dan, spy hunter. Just brilliant.
We also had a game called fruit machine, that had me and my mate laughing our heads off trying to win the jackpot.
Also, Bover Bear where you had to climb ladders and walk past a battery to drop it down to your car to make it to the next level, I remember getting all excited spending hours making it to level 3, being excited to see what the level was like only to accidentally pull the power cable out of the back of the spectrum while trying to get comfy, never seen that level to this day.
Thanks for the video 😁👍
When I got my ZX Spectrum 48+ for Christmas I was over the moon with excitement. Little did I know the ZX Spectrum would shape my entire childhood, teenage years and get me into programming and P.C.'s. Cauldron and Saboteur were two games I loved playing. All the games though look brilliant!!
It's incredible to watch how much Zx Spectrum games changed from 1982 to 1985. Just three years but they seems two platform generations.It's not only the graphic but also the pacing and the gameplay
Agreed. Programmers really were getting better and better every year.
Thanks for watching!
We didn’t have this system in the US but some of these games really look like fun. Also, given the limitations of the system the graphics and animation are impressive.
What an unbelievable year for games, so many classics there. Amazing. Thanks.
Agreed.
Thank you for watching the video!
That has to be the best year ever for Spectrum games, so many amazing titles
A lot of classic games here. Spectrum at its best!👌🏻
Agreed. For me 85/86 for sure the best years for Speccy gaming.
Thanks for watching!
Happy days - remember a lot of these plus some I never saw
My first micro was a ZX Speccy 48K back in 1985. The games & colors were amazing for that time...Still enjoy playing those unique original games.
Nostalgia overload! I remember getting Starquake and Fairlight for Christmas that year. But 85 was a great year for Speccy games. I had most of these ones, tape to tape copies from mates at school mostly 😊
Ahhhh. . .
My wasted youth !
Such good memories.
Thank you 😊👍
Renegade,Rampage,spikey Harold,plunder,Ghosts n Goblins,Olympics Winter Games,The Eagle has landed to name, but a few of my childhood favourites! It was a glorious time for computer games!
Great selection of games. 82-86 were the golden years for the spectrum I feel. 87-88 had some great arcade conversions but the computer had been pushed to its processing limits by then.
For me, 85/86 were the best (overall) years for Spectrum gaming. I agree that in later years (88+) it was obvious the machine has been pushed to its limits - though there were still some great games released up until 1991.
Thanks for watching the video!
I just wish it had that bit more processing power. Looking back even the colour scheme and graphics had its charm that made it stand out.
What a huge wave of nostalgia watching these clips. Spy Hunter, Commando, Saboteur, Gunfright and West Bank my favorites.
So many great memories. Wow!
I loved the ZX Spectrum. Those days were the only time I played computer games regularly. Fond memories. Glad of these videos. Thanks for uploading.
Thanks for some fantastic memories, when I see those games in 1985 I honestly think it was the best year for gaming there has been relative to the level of machine.
and we are still alive to talk about it! great! cool! - remembrances hiden very hiden into our brain. ;)
My friend and I spent an eternity playing "Saboteur" Loved it!
Wonderful nostalgia! I remember having a blast with my friends on the Speccy with almost all of those games. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to upload this collection.
It was a special machine wasn't it?
Thank you for watching the video!
Awesome video - thank you for putting so much time and effort into it! I've learned two things today; a) 1985 was a bonanza for the ZX Spectrum, and b) Ultimate Play The Game *really* like isometric adventure games. And now... back to 1983, to check out what people were playing when I was but a sprog! :)
Thank you very much!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. And, yes, 1985 was a fantastic year for ZX Spectrum.
Starfield just got released to huge acclaim on XBOX and I'm sitting there thinking....this is just a knock off of Elite! Great list and I had most of these back in the day. I still think Starquake is one of the best speccy games of all time. Just superb for its time. Saboteur was an unsung hero too. Thanks for the memories!
Starquake was fantastic! Played it a lot as a kid :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
Gunfright!!! How did I forget that one?!?!?
Some awesome memories here! A fine year for games.
It was a fine year indeed.
Thanks for watching!
great memories and games! thanks!
I'm glad you liked the video!
Thanks for watching!
Another classic year for spectrum games here. Nice one, and still have a lot of these games too!🙂
You know, I think it is likely that many of us have used a Spectrum emulator of some sort. They can easily be downloaded together with most games. But, what surprised me most that SOME of the best games we had on Spectrum in their concept and premise do stand the test of time as far as the playability. Of course today's graphics are incomparable to graphics back then but we can also see that fun gameplay transcends graphics. For example the various puzzle games work regardless of graphics. The same way chess remains fun (for the initiated) despite not having changed for almost 200 years. And not just puzzle games. For example I think Quazatron, Boulder Dash type of games. Probably most of the most successful games
Thank you! I was glad to see this! I've played many of these, but many of them I've never encountered).
Благодарю! Я был счастлив увидеть это! Во многие играл, но многие даже и не встречал)
Thank you for watching the video!
I'm glad you liked it!
Fairlight .. was magnificent
Thanks for creating & upload, enjoyed. Looking forward to catching the rest. ♥ I've subbed.
Thank you for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. More coming soon...
What is great about these old games for such limited hardware is that people had imagination to come with even most absurd ideas for a game with really outlandish characters and could achieve something atmospheric and interesting. It's great that there are so many indie developers that still create games for these old platforms (and modern too) trying to revive that artistic trend in gaming. I'm not into modern games with super realistic graphics and sophisticated gameplay. I want to see what people can do with simple graphics and sound. It's fascinating.
Agreed 100%
Hard to believe now that Ultimate pushed out Alien 8, Gunfright and Nightshade all in the same year. I could have sworn Gunfright and Nightshade were much later. Enjoyed the vid, thanks for the memories.
I'm glad you liked the video.
Thanks for watching!
Aww I loved Daley Thompsons supertest! Was always trying to beat 'Gus'
Same here. Fantastic game that (unfortunately) ruined many a keyboard/joystick :)
Interesting, also useful when seeking new ones to try on emulation. Nice vid!
i like many of these
wow, as an owner of a C64, I must say it was pure art what they did on the ZX considering the restrictions, amazing
I agree, there are a couple of great titles in Speccy library of games.
@@retrononame a lot more than a couple 😁
This brings very happy memories back . remember spending hours with my mate trying to copy each other games some worked some didn't very happy days .
*Saludos desde Chile... Yo tuve ese compu, luego de la consola Atari, y del Atari 800-XL donde en los juegos manejabas " monos" cuadrados con sonidos enloquecedores... El Spectrum traía juegos con pixeles más finos, monos más detallados, mejor sonido y me hizo gran parte de mi niñez... En esa época tuve la oportunidad de viajar a Cochabamba, Bolivia y de verdad allá nadie conocía el Spectrum (tampoco el Atari y ni siquiera el concepto de videojuegos), los chicos de mi edad jugaban con tierra, palos o piedras (por ejemplo un juego que se llamaba "la payaya")... Esto fue una locura... En Chile estaba el Commodore, el Atari y el Talent... Tuve cientos de juegos, algunos originales, hasta otros pirateados (de cassette a cassette)...Incluso, era tan fácil programar en basic, que logré hacer unos 4 o 5 juegos "caseros" en los cuales había movimiento, explosiones, etc... al estilo "space invaders" o "frog"... Lo malo es que al desear desarrollar otras pantallas, o enriquecer el juego, siempre aparecía el mensaje "Out of memory"... Como sea, con el Spectrum FUI FELIZ!!!*
'85 was a great year, Starquake & Barry McGuigan's boxing, my personal favourites!
This was actually the year I got my Spectrum, so I have very fond memories of 1985.
Thanks for watching!
That was most of the games I had apart from the odd 1 or 2. I only got a spectrum in 1984 so had a lot of catching up to do. There were 2 shops who sold the games for next to nothing, a sort of clearance idea.
6:12 - That's crazy that the developer really used up that whole bottom portion of the screen, just to constantly display the name of the game, company and developer. It's like a permanent credit screen on display, not at the end of the game, but throughout the entire playthrough. 😂
I don't know if it's the case here, but many times, in 8-bit computers, this "technique" was used to "shrink playfield" and reduce the amount of graphics needed to update on the screen.
I used to play on my Spectrum 48k to: 'Spiky Harold' 'Sir Sigfrid' and 'Conquestador - Las Tres Luces de Glaurung'
i saw avgn/cinemassacre mention a doom port in his latest video and thought wow the thing looks really cool.
and im really interested in this old stuff (especially when it has a pixel style to it)
i love this stuff and this video is really interesting in some way i cant describe lol
So many of these games are like Manic Miner & Atic Atac clones. One of my fave games on Spectrum was Ant Attack, small enough graphics to look polished, & addictive, & even scary game play.
Interesting video, never owned one or played the games. One thing I noticed is how poor the sound is.
Sadly, no dedicated sound chip on Spectrum 48k.
Later Spectrum versions did have a sound chip though, so that improved the sound quality in games as well.
Saboteur.....loved that game!
Me too :)
Saboteur, and Spy Vs Spy were favourites of mine. Then Thrust came along (and Thrust II) maybe the following year, which my school mates and I all raved about.
🥇Wonderful🥇
That was interesting time
Possibly the best year for the speccy.Too many good games to mention.
Agreed. Fantastic year (and year that I personally got my first Speccy - so fond memories :) )
@@retrononame me too
And me. One of my aunts had a friend who's family "upgraded" to a C64 and we got their old Speccy 48k. I remember getting a US Gold compilation for Christmas 1985 that included Spy Hunter and Tapper, two of my favourite games. The other two games on the compilation; Buck Rogers and Xenon were cack.
I was addicted to Spy Hunter as a kid :)
The best Year for ZX Spectrum.
Nodes of yesod, fairlight, alien 8, spindizzy and chaos 👍
How did they program NOMAD without the colours clashing?
Elite - That is all :)
i got my old speccy from the atic and played with my children for days nodes of yesod on and on.. with the kempston interface - and my son used to get calm by playing with his switch console. seems im getting old...
Ok. Bombjack, 3D Starstrike and Elite. Case closed.
I love retrogaming, I started with a Commodore PC10 / NES >>> Amiga 2000 >>> all console SEGA / Nintendo + PC
I liked Buck Rogers...
Bom dia meu amigo.
Sou seguidor do seu canal.
Meu nome é Roberto, sou do Brasil.
Tenho um TK90X 48Kb.
Você teria o jogo pra eu baixar "Ground Attack" ?
u seen the enterprise at 8mhz? has to b the second most powerful 8bit after msx turboR not including pcw16
Hmmm, not sure why you added so many games from 1984 and 1986 too.
Elite was best cosmic game !
man these are so BASIC!! 😂
Zx had really good grafix but lack of colours and sound.
Commando without the c64 music just isnt the same to me :(
Hypersports and dailey thompsons decathlon wrecked so many quickshot 2s
Me gustaría ver un Spectrum 48GB 🤣😎
Did you see the ZX Spectrum Next? I own one (from second Kickstarter) and it's really a fantastic machine that I use a lot!
Not exactly 48Gb, but it does have 1 or 2Mb of Ram with capabilities of 256 color graphics, hardware sprites, great sound, runs with 3.5, 7, 14 or 28Mhz, fully compatible with practically all Spectrum computers from the 80s (I used it a lot to play 48k/128k games)...
It's really what Sinclair (or Amstrad) should have done in the late 80s in order to stay relevant and compete with Amigas and (later) VGA PCs.
And no, I'm not sponsored by the guys who made it ;)
It's just a great machine and if there is a another Kickstarter, I can't recommend it enough (I will get another one as backup for sure!) :)
@@retrononame ZX Spectrum next is a good machine...and beautiful
I would like to see the evolutions of the ZX Spectrum 48,128k, 48 Mb, 48 Gb and 48 Tb, but I'm 50 years old and time is running out, 😱😂😂
You aren't much older than I am ;)
But, yes, I agree that it would be nice to see Spectrum evolving even further. And I do have hope that the team behind Spectrum Next will do just that.
Jetpac & manic miner ?
This is a video about Top 50 ZX Spectrum games released in 1985 ;)
Jet pac and Manic Miner are games from 1983
You can find the list for 1983 here: th-cam.com/video/CqFFIuvaipI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching!
A very nice game set. There is Robin, there is Gunfright, there is Marsport, Highway Encounter, Cyclone, Chaos ...
If you had added Laser Squad, Rebel Star, Aufwiedersehen Monty and some Dizzy, I would consider this set to be mine: D
ps.Only now I saw that this only 1985 :)
Yep, this episode covers year of 1985. All other mentioned games are found in other episodes ;)
Thanks for watching!
all with 48k
atic atak?
This video covers ZX Spectrum released in 1985. Atic Atac was released in 1983 and you can find it in this video : th-cam.com/video/CqFFIuvaipI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching!
@@retrononame TY. I thought it was a little later than 83 due to how well it played along with smoother animation & mutli-level map & game style - i did watch 81- through to 86, i must have blinked (for 15 seconds or more) :)
Elite. Saboteur....
Sabotrur should have been number 1
As I wrote in the video description - games are presented in no particular order (so the first game shown doesn't mean it's the best in 1985). It's just a list of 50 games that I think are top games released in 1985 on Speccy ;)
Thanks for watching!
@@retrononame Yeah, I know how to read, thanks 😁
I understand your point but still mine remains.
Fair play :)
I just mentioned the description because, let's face it, the majority of YT users doesn't read them (I'm often guilty of that as well).
Agree though. Saboteur was a great game and I have great memories "cursing bloody dogs" as a kid :)
@@retrononame 😊
Not the best year for spectrum...I belive...
games were never this badly pixelated
please do not stretch the picture it looks horrible
The c64 was another planet!
Formula one was the best !!!!!!
I played it for countless hours when I was a kid :)
Elite - best of the best game
Brainstorm
wow...
this is shit! 😃