Spy vs Spy? Great 2 player fun on multi platforms. Also we loved the game whose name eludes me - sci fi setting, turn based, top down maps, control a team of mercenaries, each with differing skills. One was a spherical floating bot called Maul. We often figured out how to turn 1 player games into 2 players by sharing the tiny keyboard 🤓
There are so many 8 bit wonders that are still playable now, to many to list, but be personal faves are Doomdarks Revenge, Neather Earth, Empire, and not forgetting Manic Miner. And also, a big shout out to all those text adventures, truly remarkable, even now tbh.
Yes, nobody ever really celebrates text adventure games. The second point and click hit the scene they were largely forgotten. Rigel's Revenge was great and only £1.99
Not the main reason but I had to subscribe because your mic quality is better than the other speccy nostalgia channels. Also thanks for the excellent rendition in the intro ;)
Great video. 👍👍👍 .......Your first video: Cybernoid (1) is an absolute belter - and it makes a change from playing various Jet Set Willy games/clones. And them pokes for Cybernoid (1) are brilliant. 😁😁😁
I loved Rainbow Islands as a kid. I played all home versions recently and apart from the TGCD arcade perfect one, i genuinely think Spectrum was the best home port of the game. What a great game.
The games I loved on the Speccy (that I also completed): Spellbound, Knight Tyme, Stormbringer; Firefly; Lords of Time, Red Moon, The Price of Magik; Star Paws; Jetpac; Impossible Mission; Brainstorm And the ones I loved that I couldn't beat (or where it's not technically beatable): Spy Hunter; Ghostbusters; Zynaps; Hypersports; Exolon; Head over Heels; Zolyx
I loved all of the David Jones series and i completed all of them apart from finders keepers (which is the easiest one to complete lol). I recal i was learning Binary code at the time which helped during either knight tyme or stormbringer as you needed to understand binary code to complete the tasks, with Spellbound, i had a few friends in school at the time who were all stuck in the lift until one friend figured it out and then it was easy. (i look back at some of the uploads on youtube and wonder to myself how on earth did i complete these things , good times lol)
It's nice how you mention the devs who created some of these, good to see credit given and these peeps still mentioned by name. As for test of time, well I've been playing a lot of Jetpac recently. Back in the day I didn't have a joystick for my Speccy, so these days via emu (Kempston setting) it's actually much more fun than I had back then and I can finally actually clear a few levels!
Perhaps it's just me, but I never see *Exolon* in these Speccy lists. Hands down my favourite speccy game and one of my favourite games of all time. Mayne I had the only copy 🤷♂
As a CPC owner I have mixed feelings about this video... 🤣seriously, what great games the speccy had, always a little faster and smoother than on Amstrad. Great video!
Great list beside merely the usual suspects. Appreciated. I can't explain what it is about the Specci. I still feel the magic when I play certain games. I have this with no other system. Only exception is playing Baldurs Gate 1 on a PC. Crazy, how addictive JETPAC still is. 🎉🎉🎉
Back in the day, when i owned a ZX Spectrum 48k, my favourite games included: Jet Set Willy 3D Death Chase Hyper Sports Jetpac Spy Hunter Tapper Knight Lore Arcadia Skool Daze Scuba Dive Chuckie Egg Ghost Busters ..and then i picked up a Commodore 64 ^_^ (..which blew me away ;D )
Some great picks, as always. I don't think Outrun holds up, personally and didn't like it when it released. Chase HQ, however is an epic programming achievement and still impresses.
2:11 OK! I am SHOCKED that OUT RUN made it on here - But I was a CPC Boy and although my sisters had a Spectrum, We never had Out Run for it... And what I can see of the footage in this video (I suspect that was the 128K version with the music) - DAMN! IT ROCKS! I know the Screenshots on the case were faked, But the Spectrum does at least have a proper CRASH when you hit another vehicle!
@@ClassicReplay I was lucky, I got my copy for 99p from those "Book Club" Adverts in magazines... The game was Awful but You could not complain about the Arcade Soundtrack on an extra Cassette!
I played the tape out of it. I know every nook and cranny of this game on CPC. Yes truly awful in every respects, but she’s all I had at the time, it wasn’t until the plus 3 and later Saturn came along that I got to properly enjoy Outrun
All quality games there. I could never work out what to do in ATF, everything came at you so quickly and by the time I was ready to fire a missile the target had passed me by. Still great times had trying though. Ping Pong is one of the best, hardly ever gets the credit, but it’s a great challenge. Thanks
I look at every ZX top on YT, not a single one is even close to what my brother and I had. I actually haven't even seen some of the games and they are good and quality games: Jet Story, Twilight, F.I.R.E., Tetris 2, Quadrax, Towdie, Commando 2, Bionic Commando, Deliverance: Stormlord II, Thanatos, Laser Squad, Sim City, Ancient Fighters, HeroQuest, Ikari Warriors, Xecutor, Dragon Breed, Astro Marine Corps, Savage, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, Extreme, Dan Dare, Barbarian, Turrican, and probably more.
Even with emulators I struggled with a lot of the games I loved back in the day and most of them just gathered dust until I got my hands on a Kempton joystick and dug them back out because of the awful rubber keyboard, I'd moved on to more powerful machines by the time the newer models with real keyboards start to drop so I never really got to give a games a chance, that said even now a game I still go back to, and even have it installed on my phone, is Lords of Midnight, if one game has stood the test of time to be more than just a nostalgia trip it's this one. Honourable mentions go to Kevin Toms Football Manger, TLL, Ant Attack, and of course Manic Miner. But ultimately Lords of Midnight is the one that stands out, how they managed to fit it onto the 48k speccy still never ceases to amaze me even forty years later. I left school in 83 and got a YTS place between that and doing odd jobs at an allotment I saved and bought a C64 and thought I'd moved on from the Spectrum then Lords of Midnight dropped so I dug it out just to play this game then again when it dropped on the C64 along with the sequels. People talk about Ultimate and Ocean for their games and rightly so but for me Beyond Software with Lords of Midnight is to the Spectrum what Elite was to the BBC micro. RIP Mike Singleton.
Very interesting, I had to read it twice to take it all in. I’m not sure how many people actually knew how to play Lords of Midnight. I think where programmers fell down in the past is that in the beginning of these types of games they should have held the players arm a bit before unleashing them into their fantasy. The original rubber keyed spectrum wasn’t so much a pain to use, the keyboard layout and combination of keys you had to use didn’t always make sense. Try playing Jetpac without a joystick, almost impossible as things ramp up. But I’m with you, if you give LOM the time and can get your head around what you need to do, it’s a real sight for sore eyes.
Very good video of a lot of the best Speccy games from back in the day. Agree with your choice of games here. I loved playing 'The Island of Dr Destructo' for many hours when I was back at school. I'm going to have to download this to use on my Speccy Emulator 😀 You've just got another Subscriber, love your channel 👍
I met the chap who programmed both games. He's a genius. I don't think they're as playable today as they once were. It's just my humble opinion. Saying that, they would definitely make a top 100.
@@ClassicReplay that's cool, I remember reading interviews with him in Crash. My cousin worked at Imagine before it was raided by the cops and we both knew Matthew Smith of JSW fame..scousers. merry xmas, mate.
@@ClassicReplay Steve Turner. He was one of a small handful of devs on the Speccy whose games were always instabuys for me, regardless of what kind of game it was, because I knew it would be special. Loved the Avalon games. Such a lovely vibe to them. I was able to send my respects to him fairly recently, via RZX Archive, and tell him about a shout-out to Dragontorc that I put into a Speccy game that I worked on back in 1990. So that was nice :)
I really love what you're doing here, and the editing is top notch, but you need to lower the game's audio a lot. You have a nice voice. Don't drown it. We're here to hear *you*
Is that the real music from the spectrum version??? Sounds great! Better than the sound on the CPC version! Never had a speccy, but I'm amazed at the quality of this one and chase hq.
@@ClassicReplay outrun. Was typing as I watched and didn't put a timestamp. Really impressed with what the speccy could do. Did it also come with a tape of the arcade music?
Whats the game in the bottom left of the opening? Is there any other system where an all time top 50 would have such a high % of homebrew? Genuinely i would probably have about 40 homebrew at least.
We live in a world with such great homebrew that the games of Noentiendo get no attention despite the awesome Gandalf, Manic Pietro & Get Out of Mars being up there with the best games in each of the three genres.
Homebrew has Mighty Final Fight as a better beat em up, Rubinho Curacho as the best driving game ever, Gandalf as the best platformer, Manic Pietro the best Manic platformer. Cousin Horace the best umm, adventure? (Hard to classify Cousin Horace lol)
If you invest the time into Mercenary or Elite, same with Tomahawk or Gunship or any game of that style. You realise after deep play that these are the best of games and were massively ahead of their time. If updated today, with PC/PS5 power thrown at their original design in terms of graphics and sound with newer control schemes, they would still play beautifully and give anyone a challenge.
Alien Storm - I've never liked any version of this game. The weird awkward shooting mechanic where you sort of fire straight, but then fire down when near an enemy just always felt sloppy to me. Elite - I played this for hours on my C64. All the 8-bit ports were pretty good. Shame the Amiga and Atari st versions were inferior. Fast, pretty graphics, but it feels soulless. Stunt Car Racer - A rare example of a game where I don't think there was a single bad port. Rodland - Not that I'm good enough to do it, but apparently if you beat the arcade version, it then tells you how to access a second set of levels with all new graphics and enemies. This is missing from all the home ports. :(
I agree with everything you say but Alien Storm. Thanks for watching and leaving such a great comment. That’s part of why I enjoy doing this, reading the comments and memories shared of these games 👍🏻
Myth, great game! Saboteur, great game, as are the others. But I gave my reasons for why these games stood the test of time and also mentioned that the list could go on and on...
I’m amazed at the sound they were able to get out of the simple hardware provided. Imagine the improvement with something a little more capable, like a SID or even an Atari POKEY.
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" ?
I'm okay with most of the list, I'll even give you "Stunt car racer" based on its technical achievement (even if i didnt like it)... But i'm TOTALLY in disagreement with Outrun.. That game was awful! I think you're the first person i've ever heard say it was good! I've never played Turbo Outrun, but I suspect you're wrong there too 😉 *wink*
Operation wolf is better in spectrum than amiga, apart i think wec le mans is far better than chase hq, stunt car racer looks like amiga that is insuperable,
I am trying hard to like the ZX Spectrum and give it a fair chance, but I can't see a single game here that wasn't much better looking and just as fast on my Amstrad. Except R-type, which was a botched Speccy port.
im sorry but comparing target renegade to any streets of rage is just wrong and you like outrun how its the worst racing arcade conversion as i played the arcade and then got the speccy port not of outrun but shinobi and god its bad then later i borrwed outrun and no just no it is shite as theyre my fav games as a kid and talk about dreams destroyed but to each their own all so no midnight reststance and your going by the mag score which is like bullshit as they were payed for ads
Lords of Midnight. Can still go back to it now and have hours of brilliant gameplay
And Doomdarks Revenge, still playing them now.
It has had a reskin for the ZX Next. But still the same enchanting game
Target Renegade is still sublime. That music is outstanding. Equally the CPC version is right up there. Robocop is a must, again THAT music.
Every word 100%
I wish Quazatron would get re-discovered - such a lot of depth of gameplay from such a simple couple of concepts.
It was brilliantg. I tried playing it again a couple of years back but forgot what I had to do in the puzzle screens!
I was never a fan of the isometric view, but the game it was based upon, Paradriod was a top drawer classic
I know I’m coming to this late but that opening song is absolutely sublime - the highest of fives good sir
Thanks for the lovely kind comment
Spy vs Spy? Great 2 player fun on multi platforms. Also we loved the game whose name eludes me - sci fi setting, turn based, top down maps, control a team of mercenaries, each with differing skills. One was a spherical floating bot called Maul. We often figured out how to turn 1 player games into 2 players by sharing the tiny keyboard 🤓
It is called Shadowfire.
There was a second game called Enigma Force.
Wore the Jack the Nipper badge to school. Loved that game.
Legend 😊
There are so many 8 bit wonders that are still playable now, to many to list, but be personal faves are Doomdarks Revenge, Neather Earth, Empire, and not forgetting Manic Miner.
And also, a big shout out to all those text adventures, truly remarkable, even now tbh.
Yes, nobody ever really celebrates text adventure games. The second point and click hit the scene they were largely forgotten. Rigel's Revenge was great and only £1.99
Not the main reason but I had to subscribe because your mic quality is better than the other speccy nostalgia channels. Also thanks for the excellent rendition in the intro ;)
I’ll take it 🤣
Great list of games. ZX Spectrum still rocks!
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment 😀
Great video. 👍👍👍
.......Your first video: Cybernoid (1) is an absolute belter - and it makes a change from playing various Jet Set Willy games/clones. And them pokes for Cybernoid (1) are brilliant. 😁😁😁
The second game Cybernoid 2 was really good as well, didn’t change the formula too much, difficult but beatable
I loved Rainbow Islands as a kid. I played all home versions recently and apart from the TGCD arcade perfect one, i genuinely think Spectrum was the best home port of the game. What a great game.
I personally preferred the Amstrad and Amiga conversions and Master System from memory. But yes, Speccy version is class 👍🏻
Every time I see one of these Spectrum "memory road" videos I can't help but smile... I am so glad I had a Commodore 64 😁 🤣🤣🤣
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The games I loved on the Speccy (that I also completed):
Spellbound, Knight Tyme, Stormbringer; Firefly; Lords of Time, Red Moon, The Price of Magik; Star Paws; Jetpac; Impossible Mission; Brainstorm
And the ones I loved that I couldn't beat (or where it's not technically beatable):
Spy Hunter; Ghostbusters; Zynaps; Hypersports; Exolon; Head over Heels; Zolyx
Great times! I beat Ghostbusters, Zynaps, Hypersports, Head over Heels and one of the Knight games, maybe Spellbound.
I loved all of the David Jones series and i completed all of them apart from finders keepers (which is the easiest one to complete lol). I recal i was learning Binary code at the time which helped during either knight tyme or stormbringer as you needed to understand binary code to complete the tasks, with Spellbound, i had a few friends in school at the time who were all stuck in the lift until one friend figured it out and then it was easy. (i look back at some of the uploads on youtube and wonder to myself how on earth did i complete these things , good times lol)
It's nice how you mention the devs who created some of these, good to see credit given and these peeps still mentioned by name. As for test of time, well I've been playing a lot of Jetpac recently. Back in the day I didn't have a joystick for my Speccy, so these days via emu (Kempston setting) it's actually much more fun than I had back then and I can finally actually clear a few levels!
Joystick on Speccy = Game Changer! Thanks for watching and your kind words 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay Welcome, always enjoy your vids, you have an uplifting manner, celebrating the pure fun of gaming!
A really great selection of games. Some I have never thought of playing. Thankyou
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment. I really appreciate as it allows me to produce better content
Perhaps it's just me, but I never see *Exolon* in these Speccy lists. Hands down my favourite speccy game and one of my favourite games of all time. Mayne I had the only copy 🤷♂
It’s definitely a classic. I need a bigger list.
As a CPC owner I have mixed feelings about this video... 🤣seriously, what great games the speccy had, always a little faster and smoother than on Amstrad. Great video!
Not sure about always, but definitely if a Speccy port. Glad you enjoyed.
@@ClassicReplay Not really in all of them, but almost... in exchange we have the best color palette in the history of computing!
Wouldn’t have swapped my CPC for any other 8bit.
Definitely worth a 👍 for your brilliantly sung theme tune alone 😁👍👍👍.
Great list beside merely the usual suspects. Appreciated. I can't explain what it is about the Specci. I still feel the magic when I play certain games. I have this with no other system. Only exception is playing Baldurs Gate 1 on a PC.
Crazy, how addictive JETPAC still is. 🎉🎉🎉
Jetpac still plays a blinder. As does Lunar Jetman, albeit a bit more difficult to get your head around initially
You always pick the songs that made my childhood! Littlest hobo, I'm the Storyteller, Convoy...
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Back in the day, when i owned a ZX Spectrum 48k, my favourite games included:
Jet Set Willy
3D Death Chase
Hyper Sports
Jetpac
Spy Hunter
Tapper
Knight Lore
Arcadia
Skool Daze
Scuba Dive
Chuckie Egg
Ghost Busters
..and then i picked up a Commodore 64 ^_^ (..which blew me away ;D )
I don’t think there’s one bad game there, although some would question Ghost Busters
Absolutely love your zx Spectrum videos
I can't believe "Chuckie Egg" wasn't in this list, as the Speccy version was the best one.
I need a bigger list, too many great games. What a fantastic problem for the Speccy to have 😊
Great video, thanks for uploading.
Cheers 🍻
Some great picks, as always. I don't think Outrun holds up, personally and didn't like it when it released. Chase HQ, however is an epic programming achievement and still impresses.
I give my reasons 😉
Yeah Outrun was a giant turd, so disappointing.
Enjoyed. For all its qualities, the crime I'd charge Abbey of Crime for is its visuals. I don't think I'll play it, ever
There’s a remake for windows in full colour. You won’t regret playing it
2:11 OK! I am SHOCKED that OUT RUN made it on here - But I was a CPC Boy and although my sisters had a Spectrum, We never had Out Run for it... And what I can see of the footage in this video (I suspect that was the 128K version with the music) - DAMN! IT ROCKS!
I know the Screenshots on the case were faked, But the Spectrum does at least have a proper CRASH when you hit another vehicle!
Yes! Amstrad owners were short changed. Apparently the guys programming the CPC wanted to do more, but ran out of time.
@@ClassicReplay I was lucky, I got my copy for 99p from those "Book Club" Adverts in magazines... The game was Awful but You could not complain about the Arcade Soundtrack on an extra Cassette!
I played the tape out of it. I know every nook and cranny of this game on CPC. Yes truly awful in every respects, but she’s all I had at the time, it wasn’t until the plus 3 and later Saturn came along that I got to properly enjoy Outrun
What about:- the magic knight series, laser squad, saboteur 2, turbo esprit….:). Plus the sentinel. Would love a modern vr remake of it… :).
I'm only here for the awesomely funny title song.... Brilliant....😂
Doesn’t matter why you’re here, the important thing is you’re here ☺️
I’d add Way of the Exploding Fist, 3D Deathchase, ATF and Ping Pong to this.
All quality games there. I could never work out what to do in ATF, everything came at you so quickly and by the time I was ready to fire a missile the target had passed me by. Still great times had trying though. Ping Pong is one of the best, hardly ever gets the credit, but it’s a great challenge. Thanks
What an intro theme! ❤
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I look at every ZX top on YT, not a single one is even close to what my brother and I had. I actually haven't even seen some of the games and they are good and quality games:
Jet Story, Twilight, F.I.R.E., Tetris 2, Quadrax, Towdie, Commando 2, Bionic Commando, Deliverance: Stormlord II, Thanatos, Laser Squad, Sim City, Ancient Fighters, HeroQuest, Ikari Warriors, Xecutor, Dragon Breed, Astro Marine Corps, Savage, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, Extreme, Dan Dare, Barbarian, Turrican, and probably more.
You should do a top ten. All those games you mentioned are good from memory 👍
Even with emulators I struggled with a lot of the games I loved back in the day and most of them just gathered dust until I got my hands on a Kempton joystick and dug them back out because of the awful rubber keyboard, I'd moved on to more powerful machines by the time the newer models with real keyboards start to drop so I never really got to give a games a chance, that said even now a game I still go back to, and even have it installed on my phone, is Lords of Midnight, if one game has stood the test of time to be more than just a nostalgia trip it's this one.
Honourable mentions go to Kevin Toms Football Manger, TLL, Ant Attack, and of course Manic Miner. But ultimately Lords of Midnight is the one that stands out, how they managed to fit it onto the 48k speccy still never ceases to amaze me even forty years later. I left school in 83 and got a YTS place between that and doing odd jobs at an allotment I saved and bought a C64 and thought I'd moved on from the Spectrum then Lords of Midnight dropped so I dug it out just to play this game then again when it dropped on the C64 along with the sequels.
People talk about Ultimate and Ocean for their games and rightly so but for me Beyond Software with Lords of Midnight is to the Spectrum what Elite was to the BBC micro. RIP Mike Singleton.
Very interesting, I had to read it twice to take it all in. I’m not sure how many people actually knew how to play Lords of Midnight. I think where programmers fell down in the past is that in the beginning of these types of games they should have held the players arm a bit before unleashing them into their fantasy. The original rubber keyed spectrum wasn’t so much a pain to use, the keyboard layout and combination of keys you had to use didn’t always make sense. Try playing Jetpac without a joystick, almost impossible as things ramp up. But I’m with you, if you give LOM the time and can get your head around what you need to do, it’s a real sight for sore eyes.
Great video. Go back and watch Cobra again. It's actually a great movie imho. It just wasn't what anyone expected at the time.
Will do… Thanks 😊
@@ClassicReplay yeah but will you? 😉🤣
Hahahaah great singing intro
Mint titles for the good old speccy, some quality games in there mate, enjoyed!! 😊
Then my work here is finished 🤣
Very good video of a lot of the best Speccy games from back in the day. Agree with your choice of games here. I loved playing 'The Island of Dr Destructo' for many hours when I was back at school. I'm going to have to download this to use on my Speccy Emulator 😀 You've just got another Subscriber, love your channel 👍
Thanks 😊
Looking forward to watching this later!
Cheers mate. All I ask is please share. Happy days! ;-)
I'm sad that neither of the Avalon games from Hewson Consultants made your list.
I met the chap who programmed both games. He's a genius. I don't think they're as playable today as they once were. It's just my humble opinion. Saying that, they would definitely make a top 100.
@@ClassicReplay that's cool, I remember reading interviews with him in Crash. My cousin worked at Imagine before it was raided by the cops and we both knew Matthew Smith of JSW fame..scousers. merry xmas, mate.
@@ClassicReplay Steve Turner. He was one of a small handful of devs on the Speccy whose games were always instabuys for me, regardless of what kind of game it was, because I knew it would be special. Loved the Avalon games. Such a lovely vibe to them. I was able to send my respects to him fairly recently, via RZX Archive, and tell him about a shout-out to Dragontorc that I put into a Speccy game that I worked on back in 1990. So that was nice :)
Opening set piece Absolutely Fantastic mate. Littlest Hobo gone wrong 😂😂😂😂 God I need a pint 🍻 😂😂😂
That was me after two Stella...
Ooh, Cobra and Hysteria are uncannily similar (including the 'Time Zup!' tune)! I'd bet one is ripping the other off...
Cobra was 1986, Hysteria 1987 ;-)
Coded by the same person, Joffa Smith. The Speccy versions anyway.
Alien Storm was on the spectrum? Today I learned.
Edit: I forgot 2 gems that I LOVED squash and winter games. I played those for hours.
That’s great to hear 👍🏻
You show the passion, now that's an engaging video!❤
I appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it.
I really love what you're doing here, and the editing is top notch, but you need to lower the game's audio a lot. You have a nice voice. Don't drown it. We're here to hear *you*
I had another guy saying the volume is too low on the games 🤣
@@ClassicReplay had to be irony. Please please consider it 🙏
Or at least lower it while talking over. I lost my bus typing the last comment, that's how important I think it is 😅
Cheers my friend 👍🏻
Some hidden gems there 😊
That’s exactly what I was aiming for. Can’t stand these typical mainstream lists. I always think, those aren’t the games I loved and played.
Imagine an up-to-date speccy that's the same only with say 128 bit graphics and the games are remastered
There’s the ZX Spectrum Next 👍🏻
Loved "The littlest Hobo song remix"
Brilliant video!!
Glad you liked it!
No Manic Miner? I'll see you down by the bike sheds after school mate 🤛😂
Jet Set Willy for me, but yes, Manic Miner is a classic.
Jetpack was for sale? I thought it was the demo game. It came with my Spectrum 16k.
Great list. Greater singing😂
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With Elite, the original BBC version left the designers of the BBC micro stunned.
I never read that before, do you have a source
Nice video love all things spectrum “Subbed”
@@Hellastreet700 thanks for watching.
Is that the real music from the spectrum version??? Sounds great! Better than the sound on the CPC version! Never had a speccy, but I'm amazed at the quality of this one and chase hq.
Which game?
@@ClassicReplay outrun. Was typing as I watched and didn't put a timestamp. Really impressed with what the speccy could do. Did it also come with a tape of the arcade music?
@@d1btd3265 Yes, Speccy version had two soundtracks included in the game, plus audio cassette tapes 👍🏻
Let’s face it. There’s still more in this 30 that I would rather play, than anything on my PS5. 🤦🏻♂️
I hear you! The classics have that timeless appeal. What are some of your favourites?
Whats the game in the bottom left of the opening?
Is there any other system where an all time top 50 would have such a high % of homebrew? Genuinely i would probably have about 40 homebrew at least.
We live in a world with such great homebrew that the games of Noentiendo get no attention despite the awesome Gandalf, Manic Pietro & Get Out of Mars being up there with the best games in each of the three genres.
Homebrew has Mighty Final Fight as a better beat em up, Rubinho Curacho as the best driving game ever, Gandalf as the best platformer, Manic Pietro the best Manic platformer. Cousin Horace the best umm, adventure? (Hard to classify Cousin Horace lol)
You've got some games I've never played in this video though, will have to check them out thanks!
Wow the Turtle game looks great.
Mission accomplished ;-)
I rember complwting renegade for first time was amazing was at it a week lol
Where is head over heels ?? It should be in every top x speccy gsmes chart :)
If you watch the vid fully, I give my reasons for every game 😉
"I had no idea computers could have periods until I played this" got me howling 😂 😂
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Bubble Bobble, Commando
Couldn’t agree more 👍🏻
Yeah, bubble bobble was a fantastic game😊
Loved Robocop and Batman on my speccy
I swear that intro passed most people by 😊
Best intro on TH-cam if I do say so myself 🤣
@ClassicReplay it's most certainly up there. Nice to see its finally found a good home 😂
A like and subscribe purely for the Littlest Hobo mashup alone 😂😂
I’ll take a sub any which way I can get one 😉 thanks
Remember mercenary got 99% by Johnny Nash? I loved it! But deathchase is still super addictive!
If you invest the time into Mercenary or Elite, same with Tomahawk or Gunship or any game of that style. You realise after deep play that these are the best of games and were massively ahead of their time. If updated today, with PC/PS5 power thrown at their original design in terms of graphics and sound with newer control schemes, they would still play beautifully and give anyone a challenge.
I'm loving the bezel! Where can I find it?
I have no idea, it was sent to me by a friend.
Just subbed I'm from facey!!!!
Welcome! Glad to see you onboard 🥰
Alien Storm - I've never liked any version of this game. The weird awkward shooting mechanic where you sort of fire straight, but then fire down when near an enemy just always felt sloppy to me.
Elite - I played this for hours on my C64. All the 8-bit ports were pretty good. Shame the Amiga and Atari st versions were inferior. Fast, pretty graphics, but it feels soulless.
Stunt Car Racer - A rare example of a game where I don't think there was a single bad port.
Rodland - Not that I'm good enough to do it, but apparently if you beat the arcade version, it then tells you how to access a second set of levels with all new graphics and enemies. This is missing from all the home ports. :(
I agree with everything you say but Alien Storm. Thanks for watching and leaving such a great comment. That’s part of why I enjoy doing this, reading the comments and memories shared of these games 👍🏻
Where is head over heels ?? It shouls be in every top x speccy gsmes chart :)
I'm sure I give it a mention 🤔
Elite held so good that it was re released as Elite Dangerous.
Dan Dare, Renegade, Nigel Mansell F1, Gary Lineker Football, Dundee Football, Andy Capp, Formula one.
All good games. Not sure I’ve played Gary Lineker Football
@@ClassicReplay It was a mix of manager with control of the striker during the games.
Where are Myth, Saboteur!, Robin of the Wood, Nether Earth, Sim City ?!!
Myth, great game! Saboteur, great game, as are the others. But I gave my reasons for why these games stood the test of time and also mentioned that the list could go on and on...
@@ClassicReplay Those are masterpieces not just "great games", half of yours aren't even great
@b213videoz we will have to agree to disagree. If you watch my video I clearly state why. Opinions are like bum holes, everybody has one 😉
@b213videoz which half?
I always thought Jetpac was overrated. Fantastic software, but a bit dull. I prefer Lunar Jetman, a true classic. Trans-am is underrated.
Quazatron and Rebel Star
Very good games. I enjoyed both of them 😊
Yeah ELITE :)
Tai Ceti/Academy not in list?
Very good games, I prefer the 2nd game Academy. I couldn't fit it in. Plus they haven't aged well, graphics are minimal and not very intuitive.
The Littlest Hobo!
Why no Highway Encounter?
Good game 👍🏻
My God...I swear I would throw up after one hour of these sounds....
Why?
I’m amazed at the sound they were able to get out of the simple hardware provided. Imagine the improvement with something a little more capable, like a SID or even an Atari POKEY.
If you were 8 years old when this was new you too could bathe in the nostalgia... poor you :)
Great video, major nostalgia, I’m gonna boot up my N-Go and download them thanks
The 128 sound chip is excellent.
Deflector is used in gta online as security passes.
Just goes to show that all of these new games borrowed from the past.
Your sinclair also took bribes from publishers.
They all did.
Yep they did. They were threatned by publishers refusing to display ads in there magazines.@@ClassicReplay
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" ?
I'm okay with most of the list, I'll even give you "Stunt car racer" based on its technical achievement (even if i didnt like it)... But i'm TOTALLY in disagreement with Outrun.. That game was awful!
I think you're the first person i've ever heard say it was good! I've never played Turbo Outrun, but I suspect you're wrong there too 😉 *wink*
I disagree, it was decent when you consider the year and hardware. But good old opinions eh 😝
Double Dragon 3 in better than the choppy arcade version.
I agree
littlest hobo...canada spectrum....england..... this is commonwealth gaming right here
That's certainly not my intentions. Can't help where you're born. But I guess we're all products of our environment 😉
I prefered Hobo to Lassie , loved that show as a kid :)
Operation wolf is better in spectrum than amiga, apart i think wec le mans is far better than chase hq, stunt car racer looks like amiga that is insuperable,
I am trying hard to like the ZX Spectrum and give it a fair chance, but I can't see a single game here that wasn't much better looking and just as fast on my Amstrad. Except R-type, which was a botched Speccy port.
You have to look past the colour pallet to appreciate the code behind the games.
im sorry but comparing target renegade to any streets of rage is just wrong and you like outrun how its the worst racing arcade conversion as i played the arcade and then got the speccy port not of outrun but shinobi and god its bad then later i borrwed outrun and no just no it is shite as theyre my fav games as a kid and talk about dreams destroyed but to each their own all so no midnight reststance and your going by the mag score which is like bullshit as they were payed for ads
Okay, I will cancel my opinion 🤷🏻♂️
Despite the enthusiasm of the commentator's voice... These games are far from being the best ones on a list. Sorry, but I had to be honest.
Opinions are like smelly bum holes, everyone has one 🤷🏻♂️
Out Run doesn't belong on this list. It was unplayable trash when it was released and it's not gotten better with age.
Let’s agree to disagree 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay I‘m still pissed off at how bad it was. That’s how bad it was 🙂
Skate crazy is not on the list ? wow.
Wasn’t that a Gremlin Graphics game. I remember having a bit of fun with that, but there were some issues with difficulty from memory.