Hi Mike! My Father used to build and fix computers for people in the 1980s and 90s (in the United States) and we went to computer stores with him to buy parts for his projects.These were the days before Best Buy, I think Comp. Usa and Circuit City were the chains, but we also ended up in many Smaller Computer Stores that just had shelves of motherboards and ram and random stuff. So... I ended up playing SOOOOO many different games on Dos, Mac, Apple II, and whatever other random OS that he was working on at the time. We wanted a NES, but we already had computers, so we had to buy the VGA version of Double Dragon and stuff like that. I never liked it as much as the NES, when we eventually got one, but as I get Older, I like to reminisce and think about those old games, and the variety they came in, and how lucky I was to watch someone work on those old machines. But, I have experienced a life that kids who are born now have to deal with, with their parents Mesmerized by their device and Neglects Everyone and Everything else around them. My Father was Chained to a Computer Chair for the time he was on his computer. But now, someone on a device is like someone chained to a MOBILE Computer Desk that goes with them everywhere, at least the Current Day people are getting more exercize than they used to on a Computing Device(Cell Phone). Thank You for Loving Video Games and Sharing your Passion With US, YOU RULE!
"I was not able to figure out how to get the damn controller to work." Sounds like a genuine Sinclair ZX Spectrum experience. As there was no proprietary joystick interface for the Spectrum, many companies made their own, and it made selecting which joystick you had a bit of a mystery sometimes. :)
@@juliedunken1150 you're wrong, you just don't know all the great games which number in the hundreds. You just know the shitty stuff, you gotta take the time to dig the crates but I doubt you care to anyway
@juliedunken1150 because stupid it never came to the US. We did get the previous model the ZX 81 but that was handled by Timex. Still yours was a stupid comment from a stupid person
Here are some good games: Chase HQ Bubble Bobble Rainbow Islands R-Type Sabre Wolf Saboteur Giana Sisters Green Beret (Rush n Attack) Renegade Target Renegade Super Hang On Wizball Bobby Bearing Spin Dizzy ATF Star Wars Note: The ZX Spectrum joysticks were mainly normal 9 pin joysticks like the C64, Atari 2600, Amiga, Atari ST and etc.
Forgot to add Jet Pac Cliff Hanger ( very unique game for it’s time) Enduro Racer Barbarian ( first game with a fatality before Mortal Kombat) Skool Daze Back to Skool
Glad you liked Ooze, nice to see people enjoying it. To be honest ive never heard of any of the games you mentioned. This game just evolved from my own imagination :)
Thanks for adding the chapters, most of the games look interesting and I'm gonna check them out. I started playing games on the Apple II, so I get the charm of this era very well. The Doom one reminds me of a game I made in the 90's on our Mac, before Doom was ported over. It was called Doomed and I made it in Hypercard. It was a really simple programming tool that could add buttons on cards that go to other cards, play short animations or sounds, etc, and so it was really just a point and click game but like you'd click on an imp's poorly drawn head and it'd play a gun sound and look like it exploded, and you could go down branching pathways kind of like a choose your own adventure book. This is quite a step up from that and it's really cool.
Fun fact, Hypercard was almost the world's first web browser, the only difference is that Hypercard can access only one web server (and this was intentional, to keep their customers from sharing stuff they didn't like), the first actual web browsers were even based partially on Hypercard.
Such a treat to see an Spectrum video on this channel! In case you wanna check some old games, here in Spain there was this company called “Topo Soft” that created some really good games for the time (Gremlins 2, Black Beard, Chicago’s 30, Lorna, Mad Mix…)
Hi Mike, I've played this for years, must have got it in 88 or 89 good memories and some good games, I'm sure you will find plenty of gems. had it hooked up to regular TVs 🇬🇧 👾
I had a ZX Spectrum PC emulator back in middle 90s and it emulated this soundtrack on PC speaker. IT WAS SO FUCKING LOUD with the music and you couldn't adjust it.
Amazing, I get two long-time wishes coming true in the same week: a new Monkey Island game and Mike playing Cookie! Just a bit of trivia, that title is in an honored tradition by the Ultimate Play the Game to mistype words in their games (along with Atic Atac you mentioned, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and other classics). I think the title actually refers to the cook, because the inlay talks about a bowl of ingredients for a cake. And that green broccoli-like thing is actually a fishbone. I guess it's mouldy. The Ultimate games are all originals and they were actually made to have an arcade feel on a speccy.
Great to see you playing the ZX, the 48k Speccy was my first computer, I think, that and 2600 console I had around the same time. Magnificent Seven was a classic twin tape pack compilation, Project Future, Chuckie Egg, Jack The Nipper 2, 180, Agent X, Atic Atac, Wizball, Xenon.... These are games I still play on my MiSTer or 128k fairly often. Can't beat them Spectrum colours eh, unmistakable 👍 Edit: definitely recommend Project Future for a fun game, quite tricky I'd say, and shows Speccy colours nicely, vibrant
Nice to see you trying this out! There's definitely cool games on the Speccy!! Zynaps is a good shmup I know of. Try Hobgoblin for a Ghosts & Goblins ripoff 😁 The Speccy version of MYTH is really good, but it will take some getting used to the controls to get anywhere properly.
I like the streams reposts as well, but I have to say that I really like this type of edited let’s play type video. It would be cool to see more of them and it’s a good opportunity to bring a guest on sometimes.
The ZX Spectrum was the top selling home computer in the 1980s in the United Kingdom. It has a very varied and vast back catalogue of games software most of it on compact cassette tapes. It had decent version of arcade titles like Space Harrier and Enduro Racer, Paperboy. Knight Lore, Atic Atac, Jet Pac ( All three games by Ultimate Play The Game). I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ myself. A nice video thanks for putting this out.
This is one system I WISH o could of got into collecting for, its just too much trouble nowadays. But I love these simple games and that unique color the Spectrum has
Mario on the Speccy is pretty impressive considering the Spectrum has no hardware scrolling, no hardware sprites, and 8 colors of which 7 have a bright option for 15 colors total. As for Manic Minor, the Speccy 16K and 48K do not have a sound chip, so to produce music it has to constantly interrupt the CPU, so it is pretty amazing it has any music at all, let alone music and sound effects at the same time.
LOL that DooM port is very ambitious for the system.. I hope it gets finished also. Appreciate the exploration of the system here- I am also a complete ZXnoob
The ZX was my first computer, obviously I loved it back then and played many obscure titles. *Gilbert escape from drill *American werewolf in London *Barbarian *Target Renagade
Omg!, As a kid in the UK England I went through 3 spectrums before I got my Amstrad CPC 464 which blew my mind compared to the spectrum lol. I think my most defining gaming moment though was when I got the sega megadrive/genesis and I watched Altered Beast boot up!... My mind was blown at the graphics, playing the game it looked incredible, I couldn't believe how real it looked lol. Revenge of Shinobi, castle of illusion, sonic 1, Mercs, shadow dancer, golden axe, Hellfire, just a few games that blew the rest of what was left of my child mind. Then I got the SNES and I just died when I saw super mario world, Fzero and could play final fight at home instead of watching all the bigger kids hog the arcade machine during school lunch break lol. Also Gryzor, I had that on my Amstrad, never knew it was Contra until years later. I think Contra was on Nes and I never owned a Nes so my introduction to that series was Gryzor I guess. I moved it though. First Contra game for me was Super Contra, that's when I went "hang on... this is like that old Gryzor game I had" :).
You know cookie was made by "Ultimate play the game" known later as "rare". Pretty much all there games on the spectrum are great. I suggest looking through all there games.
The Spectrum originally released in 1982 with 16k and 48k variants. These had a rubber keyboard, a beeper for sound and no joystick ports, you had to buy an adapter hence the "Kempston", "Sinclair" etc options, they were the popular joystick interfaces and were compatible with "Atari" style joysticks. The 128k model released in 1985, affectionately called the Toast Rack due to the large metal heat-sink on the right side. This model had a proper soundchip (an AY-3-8912) and a better, plastic keyboard. The 128 was short lived as Sinclair was taken over by Amstrad in 1986 who revised the machine to look more like their own CPC range. The Spectrum +2 had similar specs to the earlier 128 but featured a built-in tape drive and joystick ports and a updated rom. A revised +2A model and a +3 were released in 1987, the +2 fixed some bugs and incompatibilities found in the +2. The +3 had a 3" floppy drive instead of the tape drive. Production ended in 1992.
That Aliens game was damn good especially for the time, and yes Mike it did indeed say 'shit', proof that they weren't above swearing in games back then, very impressed with that one. Cool stream Mike.
Wow, this brings back memories. Used to play the spectrum on an old black and white crt. Elite is a good game to try, and bomb jack is a great arcade conversion to play.
Maybe try Manic miner..wheelie..monty on the run..Death chase..star quake..dynamite Dan..Painter..Beach head 1 + 2..Jet set Willy. Just a few game suggestions for you Mike. :)
Mike. Now maybe I'm just pretending to not understand your humor but, it's actually really hard to watch ALL your streams, and remember all the things you say and know which streams the things said came from. Loved the video! See you again soon!
Mike nice video but this is not the version of kung-fu we got in the UK ask anyone in the UK. This Version looks amazing never seen it before if u ever need some tips about games on this platform let me know if love to do a let's play with u dude anytime as I think ur a legend and you know your shit for sure. But I'd happy happy to hold ur hand on speccy games loooool
“I’m not a tech guy, I’m a Star Trek guy” 😂 and so am I. 🙋🏽♂️ With Mike’s analogy I immediately understood exactly what the fuck he was saying at the beginning of the video within a snap 🫰 of the fingers, (no pun intended.) It was almost as if he was speaking to me in a foreign language. 🤣
About the "disk swapping problem" on c64 games: CSDB (Commodore Scene DataBase) is a webside with scene-releases. You can find cartridge-files of some games (called easyflash-release) and also some d81 versions (a disk with more space) so multiple d64-diskimages can fit into a single file without the need of swapping disks... As long as someone took the time to make one. A good example is the easyflash-release of zak mckracken & maniac mansion by onslaught. Two great games in one file and no "disk swapping problem"! Those files also load faster. You should also try out "project firestart" (easyflash-release by nostalgia)! It predates "sweet home" on the nes by some month so its more or less the first survival horror game ;) Greetings from germany
I love the MISTer. I hook it up to my Sanyo CRT via component. Wish there was a way to flip classic arcade games rather than flipping my big ass TV vertically.
One time during a Halo lan party back in the day a friend of mine set his Sanyo tube on its side for a few minutes while we were hooking stuff up. After he set it back up right, one side of the screen was all purple and green, and it took almost a half hour for that to fade and go back to normal. So my advice would be to never set a tube on its side unless it was designed to be a vertical monitor.
About the problem with some games not loading: I dont own a mister so my knowledge about it is basic at best but maybe i needs some bios files in .rom-format. At least my "fuse-emulator" needs them for the russian versions of the spectrum (called "pentagon" and "scorpion") I had most success with loading .tap and .dsk images... I know that the mister is not the same as an emulator but i hope you can fix your problems! Greetings from germany
Zx spectrum is awesome , nice high res graphics compared to the c64 , yeah not so much colours and crappy scrolling but it was an incredible games machine for poor kids in the UK , I was a commodore kid , I had a c16 , then a +4 ,then a 64 , then an Amiga but I remember how much fun these were on my council estate , copying your mates games on tape to tape Rasta blasters
@@uriituw no the 64 had an overall higher resolution , sometimes used for static images , but most c64 games used multicolour mode which was at a lower resolution than the zx spectrum , the trade off was that the spectrum had a limited palette in games
Apparently the Speccy can only display the 8 colours; Black, Blue, Red, Magenta, Green, Cyan, Yellow, White. With 2 different intensities of each one. So limitation is probably a fair part of it But on games like Ghouls n Ghosts, why Arthur is yellow, as is the bricks, as is the fire... Don't know why at least Arthur isn't coloured different to stand out? I'd think must be some limit otherwise it's a strange design choice I agree
I think you meant CGA, those were the DOS games from the mid 80’s that had 4 colors (usually black white cyan magenta). VGA was mid 90’s with 256 colors on the screen like Doom and Wing Commander.
Mike the irony is that Manic Miner was technically impressive in the day for having an in-game soundtrack. You can turn off the music with the M key give it another go it's a good game.
Noooo I can't believe I missed this stream lol. Heya guys if you are interested in more British/Euro consoles of old check out Kim Justice and the Nostalgia Nerd's channels too. :)
Atic Atac is included the Rare Replay compilation that released a few years back. It's available on Xbox and PS4 anyway, not sure about Switch. It's a strange maze/item hunt game. It's all right, pretty outdated though in its design imo.
It's definitely bizarre. It's all about memorizing the maze, which is a huge pain to do, but with enough repetition, you do eventually get the hang of it.
Oh yes, all that color clashing, lol. If you want to know more about the Spectrum, Kim Justice has a lot of videos about its games. Mario Bros. with the Dr. Snuggles theme? lol
I find that the Commodore 64 hardware is really good but the game library is surprisingly bad, and that the Spectrum hardware is really bad but the game library is surprisingly good. One of my favorite Spectrum games is Xeno. Of course the Spectrum is a computer, so it doesn't really specialize in "pick up and play" type games, but the library has a lot of variety with something for everybody. And of course, both Commodore and Spectrum have many good homebrew games.
I always want to see this ZX Spectrum computer games looks like? It's quite unique I like it because of the colors. even though I didn't grow up with the actual computer.
The ZX spectrum colours and controls were restricted by hardware. Keyboards were legit controls back in the day I guess. My first home computer was the Commodore Vic 20! That was pre C64! Did you guys have the Atari 800XL States side? This was the home computer I had next and was probably most comparable to the C64.
Another point...the NES games were programmed by the Japanese powerhouse studios, whereas the home computer versions were always licensed out. Many publishers were after a 'quick buck' so the translations were mostly poor. Imagine that all games back in the day were 'home brew' on home computers, and the talented programmers were snapped up by publishers. The cream eventually rose to the top. Look at the history of Rare for example (look at the games on 'Rare relplay' for example). They were bedroom programmers and their main studio is just up the road from me now. Huge studio in Twycross UK.
Cookie which seemed to be your favourite was made by RARE before they were RARE. If you like that one then give Pssst! a go which is similar, and definitely inspired by the movie Silent Running.
Hi Mike! My Father used to build and fix computers for people in the 1980s and 90s (in the United States) and we went to computer stores with him to buy parts for his projects.These were the days before Best Buy, I think Comp. Usa and Circuit City were the chains, but we also ended up in many Smaller Computer Stores that just had shelves of motherboards and ram and random stuff. So... I ended up playing SOOOOO many different games on Dos, Mac, Apple II, and whatever other random OS that he was working on at the time. We wanted a NES, but we already had computers, so we had to buy the VGA version of Double Dragon and stuff like that. I never liked it as much as the NES, when we eventually got one, but as I get Older, I like to reminisce and think about those old games, and the variety they came in, and how lucky I was to watch someone work on those old machines. But, I have experienced a life that kids who are born now have to deal with, with their parents Mesmerized by their device and Neglects Everyone and Everything else around them. My Father was Chained to a Computer Chair for the time he was on his computer. But now, someone on a device is like someone chained to a MOBILE Computer Desk that goes with them everywhere, at least the Current Day people are getting more exercize than they used to on a Computing Device(Cell Phone). Thank You for Loving Video Games and Sharing your Passion With US, YOU RULE!
"I was not able to figure out how to get the damn controller to work."
Sounds like a genuine Sinclair ZX Spectrum experience. As there was no proprietary joystick interface for the Spectrum, many companies made their own, and it made selecting which joystick you had a bit of a mystery sometimes. :)
Up until a few years ago I still had my C-64 monitor. That machine was ahead of its time for sure.
Yeah, that thing had great image quality. If you hooked something else up to that monitor, it looked great!
Wow this is super nostalgic for me. I had a ZX Spectrum as a kid in the UK.
Horrible machine… it needs to be forgotten that is why it had no sales in the motherland USA
Yeah me too, 48k power haha
@@juliedunken1150 you're wrong, you just don't know all the great games which number in the hundreds. You just know the shitty stuff, you gotta take the time to dig the crates but I doubt you care to anyway
@juliedunken1150 because stupid it never came to the US. We did get the previous model the ZX 81 but that was handled by Timex. Still yours was a stupid comment from a stupid person
Here are some good games:
Chase HQ
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands
R-Type
Sabre Wolf
Saboteur
Giana Sisters
Green Beret (Rush n Attack)
Renegade
Target Renegade
Super Hang On
Wizball
Bobby Bearing
Spin Dizzy
ATF
Star Wars
Note: The ZX Spectrum joysticks were mainly normal 9 pin joysticks like the C64, Atari 2600, Amiga, Atari ST and etc.
Forgot to add
Jet Pac
Cliff Hanger ( very unique game for it’s time)
Enduro Racer
Barbarian ( first game with a fatality before Mortal Kombat)
Skool Daze
Back to Skool
Glad you liked Ooze, nice to see people enjoying it. To be honest ive never heard of any of the games you mentioned. This game just evolved from my own imagination :)
Cinemassacre isn't the same with your input. I'm glad you are still keeping the Retro Gaming Alive!! Long live 80s & 90s kids!!!
Thanks for adding the chapters, most of the games look interesting and I'm gonna check them out. I started playing games on the Apple II, so I get the charm of this era very well. The Doom one reminds me of a game I made in the 90's on our Mac, before Doom was ported over. It was called Doomed and I made it in Hypercard. It was a really simple programming tool that could add buttons on cards that go to other cards, play short animations or sounds, etc, and so it was really just a point and click game but like you'd click on an imp's poorly drawn head and it'd play a gun sound and look like it exploded, and you could go down branching pathways kind of like a choose your own adventure book. This is quite a step up from that and it's really cool.
Fun fact, Hypercard was almost the world's first web browser, the only difference is that Hypercard can access only one web server (and this was intentional, to keep their customers from sharing stuff they didn't like), the first actual web browsers were even based partially on Hypercard.
Such a treat to see an Spectrum video on this channel!
In case you wanna check some old games, here in Spain there was this company called “Topo Soft” that created some really good games for the time (Gremlins 2, Black Beard, Chicago’s 30, Lorna, Mad Mix…)
Hi Mike, I've played this for years, must have got it in 88 or 89 good memories and some good games, I'm sure you will find plenty of gems. had it hooked up to regular TVs 🇬🇧 👾
When I saw Manic Miner I knew it's going to be great. Didn't dissappoint.
I had a ZX Spectrum PC emulator back in middle 90s and it emulated this soundtrack on PC speaker. IT WAS SO FUCKING LOUD with the music and you couldn't adjust it.
@@skeptic10 glorious
That Alien game was freaking awesome.
Amazing, I get two long-time wishes coming true in the same week: a new Monkey Island game and Mike playing Cookie! Just a bit of trivia, that title is in an honored tradition by the Ultimate Play the Game to mistype words in their games (along with Atic Atac you mentioned, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and other classics). I think the title actually refers to the cook, because the inlay talks about a bowl of ingredients for a cake. And that green broccoli-like thing is actually a fishbone. I guess it's mouldy. The Ultimate games are all originals and they were actually made to have an arcade feel on a speccy.
Yeah Cookie is awesome. If you know any other good arcade style games that are exclusive to vintage computers let me know
To add, 'Ultimate play the game' were a subsidiary of Rare.
Loved the Star Trek analogy
Who knew that the Doctor Snuggles theme was perfect for Mario 😁
Lol. I remember when I was first introduced to VGA graphic games on DOS. It blew my mind back then. Your streams never fail to bring me back. 👍 cheers
Great to see you playing the ZX, the 48k Speccy was my first computer, I think, that and 2600 console I had around the same time.
Magnificent Seven was a classic twin tape pack compilation, Project Future, Chuckie Egg, Jack The Nipper 2, 180, Agent X, Atic Atac, Wizball, Xenon....
These are games I still play on my MiSTer or 128k fairly often.
Can't beat them Spectrum colours eh, unmistakable 👍
Edit: definitely recommend Project Future for a fun game, quite tricky I'd say, and shows Speccy colours nicely, vibrant
Nice to see you trying this out! There's definitely cool games on the Speccy!! Zynaps is a good shmup I know of. Try Hobgoblin for a Ghosts & Goblins ripoff 😁 The Speccy version of MYTH is really good, but it will take some getting used to the controls to get anywhere properly.
The Thundercats ep you ask called sword in hole 1.35
That Aliens game looked awesome. Also, I liked the format of this video where it seems like there was no twitch chat.
I like the streams reposts as well, but I have to say that I really like this type of edited let’s play type video. It would be cool to see more of them and it’s a good opportunity to bring a guest on sometimes.
The ZX Spectrum was the top selling home computer in the 1980s in the United Kingdom. It has a very varied and vast back catalogue of games software most of it on compact cassette tapes. It had decent version of arcade titles like Space Harrier and Enduro Racer, Paperboy. Knight Lore, Atic Atac, Jet Pac ( All three games by Ultimate Play The Game). I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ myself. A nice video thanks for putting this out.
This is one system I WISH o could of got into collecting for, its just too much trouble nowadays. But I love these simple games and that unique color the Spectrum has
Awesome to see Mike!! Great video
The Eighties such a good time to be a kid
@@rome5628 agreed!
Mario on the Speccy is pretty impressive considering the Spectrum has no hardware scrolling, no hardware sprites, and 8 colors of which 7 have a bright option for 15 colors total. As for Manic Minor, the Speccy 16K and 48K do not have a sound chip, so to produce music it has to constantly interrupt the CPU, so it is pretty amazing it has any music at all, let alone music and sound effects at the same time.
LOL that DooM port is very ambitious for the system.. I hope it gets finished also. Appreciate the exploration of the system here- I am also a complete ZXnoob
I love all your content Mikeeeeee 💖✨
The ZX was my first computer, obviously I loved it back then and played many obscure titles.
*Gilbert escape from drill
*American werewolf in London
*Barbarian
*Target Renagade
This is a machine from 1982 , let that sink in that it’s running a first person shooter
Omg!, As a kid in the UK England I went through 3 spectrums before I got my Amstrad CPC 464 which blew my mind compared to the spectrum lol. I think my most defining gaming moment though was when I got the sega megadrive/genesis and I watched Altered Beast boot up!... My mind was blown at the graphics, playing the game it looked incredible, I couldn't believe how real it looked lol. Revenge of Shinobi, castle of illusion, sonic 1, Mercs, shadow dancer, golden axe, Hellfire, just a few games that blew the rest of what was left of my child mind. Then I got the SNES and I just died when I saw super mario world, Fzero and could play final fight at home instead of watching all the bigger kids hog the arcade machine during school lunch break lol.
Also Gryzor, I had that on my Amstrad, never knew it was Contra until years later. I think Contra was on Nes and I never owned a Nes so my introduction to that series was Gryzor I guess. I moved it though. First Contra game for me was Super Contra, that's when I went "hang on... this is like that old Gryzor game I had" :).
You know cookie was made by "Ultimate play the game" known later as "rare". Pretty much all there games on the spectrum are great. I suggest looking through all there games.
The Spectrum originally released in 1982 with 16k and 48k variants. These had a rubber keyboard, a beeper for sound and no joystick ports, you had to buy an adapter hence the "Kempston", "Sinclair" etc options, they were the popular joystick interfaces and were compatible with "Atari" style joysticks.
The 128k model released in 1985, affectionately called the Toast Rack due to the large metal heat-sink on the right side. This model had a proper soundchip (an AY-3-8912) and a better, plastic keyboard.
The 128 was short lived as Sinclair was taken over by Amstrad in 1986 who revised the machine to look more like their own CPC range. The Spectrum +2 had similar specs to the earlier 128 but featured a built-in tape drive and joystick ports and a updated rom.
A revised +2A model and a +3 were released in 1987, the +2 fixed some bugs and incompatibilities found in the +2. The +3 had a 3" floppy drive instead of the tape drive.
Production ended in 1992.
MiSTer content !! love the star trek explanation XD
the colours on the Spectrum are excellent
I would have loved one of these as a kid and messing with it.
That Aliens game was damn good especially for the time, and yes Mike it did indeed say 'shit', proof that they weren't above swearing in games back then, very impressed with that one. Cool stream Mike.
it's awesome but it's from 2019
Love a bit of speccy
Wow, this brings back memories. Used to play the spectrum on an old black and white crt. Elite is a good game to try, and bomb jack is a great arcade conversion to play.
The Thundercats game seems very similar to arcade version of Rygar.
Maybe try Manic miner..wheelie..monty on the run..Death chase..star quake..dynamite Dan..Painter..Beach head 1 + 2..Jet set Willy. Just a few game suggestions for you Mike. :)
Man I forgot how awesome the Rastan music was
Mike i think you might like Jet Pac and Atic Attac, just a couple of suggestions for you.
Those colors are amazing. Will have to try to play this system some time.
I love the opening to this video.
You should play Jetpac. The first Rare game.
Chuckie egg dominated my childhood. Please try that would be great to see it again and is a fun game. Also Jet set willy is fantastic
We used tv back in the day , and they looked great
Mike. Now maybe I'm just pretending to not understand your humor but, it's actually really hard to watch ALL your streams, and remember all the things you say and know which streams the things said came from.
Loved the video! See you again soon!
Well get started. You have to watch every single one start to finish and memorize all lines. 😉
You'd like Jet Pac
Gotta do some MS-DOS text-based games
Came here for retro games, stayed for thundercats cartoon trivia.
I could talk about Thundercats.. a lot.
If you loved Cookie try Jetpac which has a similar arcade feel. Absolute classic.
Everyone's Goldeneye cartridge has Zx spectrum games in the code haha- fun tidbit.
Love these games, shame you didn’t show granny’s garden
Mike nice video but this is not the version of kung-fu we got in the UK ask anyone in the UK. This Version looks amazing never seen it before if u ever need some tips about games on this platform let me know if love to do a let's play with u dude anytime as I think ur a legend and you know your shit for sure. But I'd happy happy to hold ur hand on speccy games loooool
Wow the door took out the facehugger pretty cool
As a trekkie non techie my self, your analogy made perfect sense.
“I’m not a tech guy, I’m a Star Trek guy” 😂 and so am I. 🙋🏽♂️ With Mike’s analogy I immediately understood exactly what the fuck he was saying at the beginning of the video within a snap 🫰 of the fingers, (no pun intended.) It was almost as if he was speaking to me in a foreign language. 🤣
About the "disk swapping problem" on c64 games:
CSDB (Commodore Scene DataBase) is a webside with scene-releases.
You can find cartridge-files of some games (called easyflash-release) and also some d81 versions (a disk with more space) so multiple d64-diskimages can fit into a single file without the need of swapping disks... As long as someone took the time to make one.
A good example is the easyflash-release of zak mckracken & maniac mansion by onslaught. Two great games in one file and no "disk swapping problem"! Those files also load faster. You should also try out "project firestart" (easyflash-release by nostalgia)! It predates "sweet home" on the nes by some month so its more or less the first survival horror game ;)
Greetings from germany
There's a lot of people in your chat that are on the spectrum.
Reeeeeeeee?
That alien game was pretty cool
Honestly, some of these games, like Alien and the Ooze, have an appealing aesthetic that I could see being brought back in indy games today.
they are from 2019, and yeah they are really awesome. Ooze author commented in here
Can't wait to see another Amiga stream and More Mario Doom
I love the MISTer. I hook it up to my Sanyo CRT via component. Wish there was a way to flip classic arcade games rather than flipping my big ass TV vertically.
One time during a Halo lan party back in the day a friend of mine set his Sanyo tube on its side for a few minutes while we were hooking stuff up. After he set it back up right, one side of the screen was all purple and green, and it took almost a half hour for that to fade and go back to normal. So my advice would be to never set a tube on its side unless it was designed to be a vertical monitor.
Another episode of mike torturing himself this should be fun.
Hey look, Mike is on the spectrum. I always suspected as much.
Thanks for the info in the intro.
eh i tried.
Nice stream. I wish it were uncut though.
i missed all the old PC consoles. we had a DOS system so I played dos games. I wish I had a ZX spectrum
If you like cookie, you should definitely try jetpac and pssst. Also, Castlevania: Spectral interlude. Hammer boy is another fun arcade style game.
About the problem with some games not loading:
I dont own a mister so my knowledge about it is basic at best but maybe i needs some bios files in .rom-format.
At least my "fuse-emulator" needs them for the russian versions of the spectrum (called "pentagon" and "scorpion")
I had most success with loading .tap and .dsk images...
I know that the mister is not the same as an emulator but i hope you can fix your problems!
Greetings from germany
Mike as a fellow c64 guy.. did you ever play Airborne Ranger, or the transformers or gi joe games?
Petition for a live playthrough of Salamander on Twitch!
Zx spectrum is awesome , nice high res graphics compared to the c64 , yeah not so much colours and crappy scrolling but it was an incredible games machine for poor kids in the UK , I was a commodore kid , I had a c16 , then a +4 ,then a 64 , then an Amiga but I remember how much fun these were on my council estate , copying your mates games on tape to tape Rasta blasters
Are you saying that it had higher resolution graphics than the C64?
@@uriituw no the 64 had an overall higher resolution , sometimes used for static images , but most c64 games used multicolour mode which was at a lower resolution than the zx spectrum , the trade off was that the spectrum had a limited palette in games
Apparently the Speccy can only display the 8 colours;
Black, Blue, Red, Magenta, Green, Cyan, Yellow, White.
With 2 different intensities of each one.
So limitation is probably a fair part of it
But on games like Ghouls n Ghosts, why Arthur is yellow, as is the bricks, as is the fire... Don't know why at least Arthur isn't coloured different to stand out?
I'd think must be some limit otherwise it's a strange design choice I agree
I think you meant CGA, those were the DOS games from the mid 80’s that had 4 colors (usually black white cyan magenta). VGA was mid 90’s with 256 colors on the screen like Doom and Wing Commander.
Mike the irony is that Manic Miner was technically impressive in the day for having an in-game soundtrack. You can turn off the music with the M key give it another go it's a good game.
1:00:21 thats what they call a banger, new break music
Looks good Mike
1:09:30 This is GB port! This Ninja Gaiden was on GameBoy!
Cookie is by Ultimate Play The Game, which was the company that would eventually go on to become Rare, by the way.
Electron's move through reality!!!!!!
Ahhhh yeah mike is on the spectrum
the mario underground music was from Dr snuggles. :D
That Ninja Gaiden game was good
Ramon F. Adams’s Western Words lists “cookie” as one of the names for a range cook. Probably you're acting as the cookie in this game.
Noooo I can't believe I missed this stream lol. Heya guys if you are interested in more British/Euro consoles of old check out Kim Justice and the Nostalgia Nerd's channels too. :)
Atic Atac is included the Rare Replay compilation that released a few years back. It's available on Xbox and PS4 anyway, not sure about Switch. It's a strange maze/item hunt game. It's all right, pretty outdated though in its design imo.
That game baffles me, Sabre Wulf looks more like something I would enjoy.
It's definitely bizarre. It's all about memorizing the maze, which is a huge pain to do, but with enough repetition, you do eventually get the hang of it.
Oh yes, all that color clashing, lol.
If you want to know more about the Spectrum, Kim Justice has a lot of videos about its games.
Mario Bros. with the Dr. Snuggles theme? lol
I find that the Commodore 64 hardware is really good but the game library is surprisingly bad, and that the Spectrum hardware is really bad but the game library is surprisingly good. One of my favorite Spectrum games is Xeno. Of course the Spectrum is a computer, so it doesn't really specialize in "pick up and play" type games, but the library has a lot of variety with something for everybody. And of course, both Commodore and Spectrum have many good homebrew games.
Had a sinclair too. 🇳🇱
Mike Does your super x pro emulation console have the Sinclair Z×Spectrum console on there, if so you could utilize the more worthy controller.
I always want to see this ZX Spectrum computer games looks like? It's quite unique I like it because of the colors. even though I didn't grow up with the actual computer.
Apparently the keyboard had a bad feel to it, some users said it was like trying to type on a corpse's face.
@@holdingpattern245 As someone who owns the original rubber keyboard, I quite like it. But there are other models that use more traditional keyboards.
Was Ooze a modern homebrew? That looks very very good for the spectrum
Yes, I wrote it a couple of years ago. Can be found for free at my website www.bubblesoftgames.com
The ZX spectrum colours and controls were restricted by hardware. Keyboards were legit controls back in the day I guess.
My first home computer was the Commodore Vic 20! That was pre C64!
Did you guys have the Atari 800XL States side? This was the home computer I had next and was probably most comparable to the C64.
Another point...the NES games were programmed by the Japanese powerhouse studios, whereas the home computer versions were always licensed out. Many publishers were after a 'quick buck' so the translations were mostly poor.
Imagine that all games back in the day were 'home brew' on home computers, and the talented programmers were snapped up by publishers. The cream eventually rose to the top.
Look at the history of Rare for example (look at the games on 'Rare relplay' for example). They were bedroom programmers and their main studio is just up the road from me now. Huge studio in Twycross UK.
the ZX spectrum runs on electrons moving through reality
Cookie which seemed to be your favourite was made by RARE before they were RARE. If you like that one then give Pssst! a go which is similar, and definitely inspired by the movie Silent Running.
You might need to get a 3D Printed hard case for you Mister, just to protect it. I know plenty of people on Etsy, that sell them for a good price.
yeah i put mine together in pieces. i just got the on/off wire today haha. you are right i need the shell.
The Ninja Gaiden game is a port of Ninja Gaiden Shadow on Game Boy. Good game, but nowhere near as difficult as the NES games.