Kim Justice's Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games of All-Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- It's time for another top 100 - this one covers the best games of my first computer, the almighty ZX Spectrum. From arcade ports, brilliant platformers and games you just can't get anywhere else, this list has the lot. Enjoy!
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When I was home sick from school - my Mum would bring me soup and occasionally buy me a £1.99 budget game to cheer me up. I wish I was a kid again, life was all downhill from there ;)
Absolutely loved this
But where was 3D ant attack ((maybe I missed it))
Damn right!
Yes but we didn't have Goat Simulator.
so great
here on mexico when i was sick my mom sayed
i dont care you are going to school sick :(
Did she ever buy you Sqij? LMAO
Everyone from this era will know about imagination with these games. We used to look at the covers before playing the games and the pleasure we got from our imagination was just as good as playing the games. Cover art was everything. I was allowed one year to look at my atari boxes that were put away for Xmas and the pure enjoyment from this was indescribable. Atari 2600.zx81.spectrum.amiga.was my progression with other oddities between and lots of handheld tabletop arcade games and of course nintendo game and watch (and before that the 70s Tomy plastic wind up games)
Yes I so know what you mean. The cases looked amazing haha. My best Christmas was a new commadore 64 with 2 cartridge games. Just the thought of instant loading games made me too excited to sleep haha, happy old days.
Oh, the nostalgia! I grew up in the 80s in Brazil with a Brazilian knock off called TK90. It was a ZX Spectrum manufactured locally. My brother would buy British magazines that came with cassette tapes full of games. Good old times!
Y la Tk 95!
I think the people complaining that certain games didn't make the list should realise that this is a list of the games YOU played and have special meaning to YOU.
I have fond memories of Out of the Shadows, a dungeon crawling game, Mountains of Ket, the first adventure game I managed to complete, and Codename Mat, a space game that I put hours into.
These would be games at the top of MY list.
I think a lot of it comes from the way the title is worded - "Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games of All-Time" is a bit of a bold phrase if you're just going to list a bunch of games you personally like (especially when Kim herself admits that some entries aren't particularly good)
Exolon was (also) 48k. I know cos I only ever had a 48k Speccy clone and loved playing that game.
Super Stuntman, Curse of Sherwood, Oh mummy, Fast Food, Chronos (especially the music), Head over Heels, Renegade, Batman Movie, Jetpac, Manic Miner, Green Beret. Thank you for these amazing memories
I take off my hat to 1 hour 40 minutes of Spectrum games. Madly impressive.
That was amazing. It's great to see someone else's top 100 - let's be honest 100 isn't enough on the Speccy :)
If it was 150 you might have included Thrust, Bruce Lee, 3D Ant Attack, Glass, The Way Of The Exploding Fist, all the Wally games, Scuba Dive, The Hobbit, Transam, Pssst, Elite, Starion, Cyclone, the Monty games, Fairlight - my god....I'll stop there because the list is huge. That's why I still play Speccy games - there's soooo many and the addiction to primary imbalance(Brian Bloodaxe too!) never goes away.
Don’t stop there, I’d love hear more suggestions to try.
ITS POSSIBLE KIM NEVER PLAYED SOME OF THOSE
The ZX was the first computer I used around 1985 when visiting a friend in London. From the moment he started loading his games (many games - not sure how he had hundreds of games all on the same tape *cough*), I knew I wanted one. The games that I could not stop playing? Commando ... and One Day Cricket. Great list. 👍
Yes! I've been awaiting this list for a long time! Nice one Kim.
Hello. A reminder for the people scrolling in the comments that this is KIM's list, NOT your list.
I love your enthusiasm for the old speccy and thanks compiling, this is your personal list and all good. Some very important titles missing including Doomdark's Revenge, Nightshade, Avalon, Dragontorc, Sacred Armour of Antirad, Marsport, Astroclone, Shadowfire, Enigma Force, Swords & Sorcery, Winter Games, Academy (Tay Ceti), Elite Way of Exploding Fist
Thank you Kim - I have journeyed through your Top 100 with great delight! I had a short but fairly intense Speccy gaming career (1985-1986) so any personal list would fail to incorporate the sweep of time that is captured here. A really balanced and considered assessment! A few little observations along the way - #92 (Booty) was another budget release and certainly one of the best. The Wild Bunch, Pyjamarama, Moon Alert, Urban Upstart, Starstrike, Cyclone, Avalon, Airwolf, Automania, Nodes of Yesod, Wizard's Lair, Starquake, Wheelie, Fairlight, Wriggler, Tapper and Worse Things Happen at Sea all deserve a shout out and the highly addictive Gilligan's Gold would have scraped into my list too if it wasn't for the bugs. And despite its really cool synthesised intros it was Gyroscope which finally and fatally forced my fist through the keyboard.
It literally baffles me that you only have like, 55k subscribers. Your work is top notch and I've been watching for a long time now. Keep up the amazing work. P. S- Can you please do a top 100 ps1. :)
Hear! Hear!
I think it's because he's a feminist twat who wears a dress and pretends to be a woman. Weirdo.
Ace Rimmer well that wasn’t very nice
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She never had to come out and talk about herself, but choose to just to ease any confusion, so if she never said anything and no one knew, would you still think she was a "weirdo". Most people would've gave it second thought and just focused on the amazing content she makes. So maybe, instead of judging her by how she chooses to live her life, which doesn't effect any of us in the slightest...why not judge all the great content she provides us.
Because ultimately when it comes down to whether or not you choose to sub to a channel, and even true for most of life for that matter, it's not who you are but what you DO and how you do it that matters most.
Monty Mole must be still on the run if he isn't in the top 100
I remember enjoying that game until got to the random crushers then never played it again.
As far as Spectrum football games go, you can't ever beat Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
Amazing game
To me that was the best footy game on BOTH the Speccy and C64. I had both versions and I personally preferred Emlyn Hughes to Microprose Soccer
So glad to see another one of these top 100 vids from you so soon. Keep 'em coming! So great!
I love how you give it your personal touch. Adding not-so-great games to your list just adds to the retro feeling of being connected with the past :)
Superb work as always Kim; this brought back a lot of fond memories! Looking forward to the next ‘Top 100’ list!
Really enjoying this (i'm still watching as I write )
I remember if you enter your name as "Shit" into the high score table on Chronos,your name appears as "urrgh....plop"
I'm off to play it again lol 😆
Always used to make me laugh, with certain text based games. If you told them to 'fuck off', they'd throw a strop and kick you out of the game.
This is the one I've been waiting for, lovely stuff Kim
What a great list and I loved all your little memories. I remembered so many of those games and had such strong feelings of nostalgia I wasn't sure if I was going to cry or if my chest would burst! I will definitely look for some of these games and replay them. Maybe only for 5 mins each but it will be a real pleasure to revisit some of these timeless classics
Thanks - this was an awesome video! I fondly remember about 80% of these games, and will now check out the other ones which I've not played before. It's great when you get a game recommendation for something which passed you by back in the day. Cheers!
That was epic, KIm! Never played a Speccy game before but I enjoyed every minite of that. Your commentary and insights add a lot to the video!
Fantastic videos, I watched your Amiga top 100 in its entirety, a snippet of the megadrive top 100 (purely because that system doesn't particularly scratch my nostalgic itch) and now I'm starting this one. Basically commenting to say thank you and to let you know people do appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work.
I almost cried with the great memories i got from my childhood seeing these games again!! Reheat,Dizzy games ,Death Chase and loads more where my favourite l! I will watch this again!
What a great channel this isso much good stuff you put out mate. Thank you!!
Excellent video, some proper winners in there
For me my personal top 10 would certainly have featured most of the 'Wally' series of games with my all time favourite being 'Everyone's a Wally' the use of colour and the brain taxing 'solve the puzzle' element to the game kept me hooked for hours
I really enjoyed that. Lots of memories came flooding back. Thank you.
26:48 Finally, someone else who remembers Saint Dragon! They had the arcade version in the local rec center that I played to death, then I found out it had a home computer port and played it even more. Never finished it though because I was, and always will be, crap at shoot em ups. Still, its a forgotten gem of a shooter, and the arcade versions music was amazing.
that was brilliant! This list is a treasure!
I enjoyed the happy childhood memories too, great rambling :-)
Fantastic work Kim - thank you! Some heavy nostalgia here for me, especially Highway Encounter and Professional Ski Simulator. Those games both played SO well. Manic Miner is still my favourite game ever. The main thing not on the list that comes to mind is Tornado Low Level - loved that game!
Amazing work as always Kim, thanks for this.
So many titles that I had forgotten about, Really didn't want it to end!
Now, how about a Top 300? 😜
"Clive Townsend", not Colin, pure legend he is. Great video mate, I love all your stuff.
Bless you for this Kim. So many games I never got to play back in the day. Will revisit. Cheers
I freaking love these damn ultra long form videos Kim! Seriously.
Started with the +2 myself. Nice nostalgia trip. Keep up the good work
Amazing how the memories come flooding back by these game you had completely forgotten about! Great vid!
My fondest memories are probably the cover tape games, how about an ongoing series covering ALL the cover tape games?
Brilliant video.... Thanks for taking the time and effort to do it.
A thoroughly enjoyable video, Kim. Thank you.
Most entertaining, thanks Kim. I was a big Speccy fan back in the day (even ran my own fanzine ‘Microchip’ in 1985-6 and don’t remember many of these games but look forward to playing them on my Spectrum Next in 2021!
Awesome list, really enjoyed that and made me realise I missed out on a lot of good games back in the day as I moved on to an Amiga quite early. Surprised to see no Golden Axe though!
What an effort... I haven't commented on your videos in a long time, but this one... Can't help but say bravo!
Also Kim could you cover Turbo Esprite… one of the first open world driving games. I loved it at the time and it was an inspiration for GTA?
Thank you Kim, such a lovely video :)
fantastic top 100 and great presentation as always. I think everyone had their top games that spark those fond memories. For me classics were roller coaster, dynamite dan, TLL and my all time favourite starquake.
Loving this I must have watched about 35+ hours watching your channel over the last week love all the retro stuff I first got a spectrum in the midd 80s but then it broke sometime in the late 80s.Then my mum brought me the James Bond action pack from a shop in Southend’s Victoria shopping centre I remember seeing it in the window and ever time I went into town with my mum I would go in the shop and beg my mum lol did I get it yes about 2 mouths later for Christmas with a mega drive as well so happy gaming.Great channel
lovely list of games ideed.But you broke my heart with Biggles...i loved that movie so much (still happy it's in your top 100 games though). Recently discovered your channel and i'm really enjoying it, keep the good work :)
Another amazing video, you make some of the best retro gaming videos on TH-cam. And this one has a proper quotient of Joffa.
Chaos was my number one game. I also recommend trying The Sacred Armour of Antiriad and Spitting Images Kim. Props for including Cobra, great game that even had a countdown timer in the loading screen!
chaos is timeless!
Nice work as ever. My favourite Ultimate game was Gunfright. Used to love Nodes Of Yesod as well, beautiful graphics.
I forgot to say that one and the ark of yesod too
Brilliant, Kim x thank you for this :)
Thanks Kim, really enjoyed that. My Bro and I played the hell out of Eagles Nest and Ninja Massacre - not great games but our favourites!
Amazing! I love your impressions of the Codemasters synthesized speech! 😂
Fantastic video, brought back so many memories, thanks so much
I love your sense of humor, Kim. You crack me up.
Brilliant video! I just watched the whole thing :) A few games here I hadn’t heard off, I thought 8-year old me knew all the games but it seems not.
Hi Kim. Great vid. There were a few in your list, like Gryzor, and Ping Pong, I both adored and had completely forgotten about. And just for that I say THANK YOU.
But you also reminded me about renegade 3 😂😂, so some points off 😊.
I have no idea how old you are. I’m 44 and all my peer group were obsessed with preymuch anything by MicroProse: Gunship, F15 Strike Eagle et al, so I was surprised you never got to play them....I refuse to believe you did but they ranked outside the top C.
Keep up the good work.
Really glad I found your channel through Ashens and Slopes thanks for the reminder of such good memories of the good old Speccy. WHAT Bullseye was the greatest darts game on Speccy, well for me it is, tonnes of hours spent playing with the family.
Great video, some brilliant memories, thanks
Great video! What a trip down the memory lane...
Great video! Thanks.
We all have our own favourites and games that are special to us due to memories. You included most of my favourites but I'd def include Uridium, LED Storm, Afterburner, 3D Stock Car (Budget game with simple graphics but was awesome with friends), Underwurlde, Turbo Esprit, IK+, Gun Runner was fun too, just really hard!
Did you mention Bruce Lee and The Way Of The Exploding Fist?! Can't remember, so many games and good memories.
Always interesting to see other gamers favorite speccy games. Really enjoyed watching thanks for making.
That's the long, informative kind of video i subbed for.
I've been looking forward to this one , nostalgia overload ahead
Awesome and amazing video. I am about to watch your Amiga A-Z. My favorite was Rambo II. But I have to mention my late brothers favorite well two. Centipede and River Rescue!
Well done, a good video and your passion for gaming shines through. My personal list would have had many of those but also Wriggler, Pyramid, Turbo Esprit, Turmoil, Roller Coaster, Jumping Jack, Nightshade...the list goes on really.
One note though, I think Mr Withit was wearing a blazer, not an untucked t-shirt.
Enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Thanks. I would have been suprised if Manic Miner hadn't made it in there but was suprised at Deathchase for the top slot.
One of my personal favourites on the old speccy was The Sentinel. Brilliant strategy/puzzle game.
This video is a great resource for those who would like to dig a little bit more into the system's library, honestly! I experimented with Fuse once, but played only a few titles in your top 20.
I'm waiting for the next live stream. Cheers!
Where's "Everyone's a Wally" I loved that game .
With the Mike berry song on the other side of tape.
great game
To be honest, the entire "Wally" series was class
Great video Kim, just love the Spectrum. I believe the Spectrum was the best all-round 8-bit computer and it always will be to me. Commodore not in the same Class as the Spectrum!
Ah yes, the ZX Spectrum - loads of memories from this machine. Especially the 48k version. Great list and some that I've never played, so more to add to the list :)
Thanks for the video. 54 now and this has took me back. The game that I always remember is Dynamite Dan.
I've even part done a PC version of DDI.
Well done for compiling this looooong and interesting list, some rare choices add to the interest (my 100 features Grumpy Gumphrey so I can't talk!) Deathchase is a great #1, mine would be JSW :)
Really good commentary dude. I never had a Spectrum (had VIC20, C64 and Amstrad 6128), but I really enjoyed this entire video.
I believe I will sub... Yes indeed.
Edit: oh well, I am already subbed. Duh. XD
I feel as though Jet Set Willy II deserved a place here, since it was a lot faster than the first game, and the additional rooms added a lot to the experience. Great list though!
This video is so cozy and relaxing.
So many great games on the little computer that could. :)
Thank You Kim for the next almost two hours of entertainment :)
Thank you Kim for such a fantastic, personal, and honest list. That first game with you saying: "Is it a good game? Not really." Seriously thank you so much for saying that so truthfully, gaming as a community needs a lot more of that. Instead of the snobbery we have today. Where people, especially in TH-cam content and other games media try to tell you off for not liking games that they consider to be the absolute best. If you're having fun with a garbage game, then the fact it's garbage doesn't matter, because you're having fun with it. Which is all that really matters, isn't it? Anyways, tangent aside. Thanks again for sharing your memories and favorites, plus a big thank you for showing me some stuff to check out on the humble Speccy.
Nice one mate ive just managed to download a spectrum emulator and was trying to remember the games I liked from my childhood and you had two of them on here being Miky and Technician Ted so thanks for that,another fav game of mine was one called Colin the cleaner..
I disagree with several of your choices, but what a fabulous video! Excellent stuff :)
Great video. I had dozens of games - mainly budget jobs from the newsagent! It was pot luck whether they were any good or not. a lot of these I’ve never even heard of. Just goes to show the breadth of titles available back then.
Bringing back some memories here with this video, especially some of the budget titles which were all I could afford from my local newsagents
Amazing job Kim 😎
Death chase !! What a game. I started with a 16k spect so this was my go to game 👌👌
I greatly enjoy these "top 100" videos, especially for a home computer that I never saw or played, as I grew up in Minnesota. I find the Spectrum to be very fascinating, with its unique visual style and compact design. There were a few games from that computer that were ported to the Atari 8-bit, such as Starquake, which I really loved.
Question: did you ever have any experience with the Atari 8-bit home computers? I'm assuming that most UK kids grew up with Spectrum or Commodore 64, but I grew up with Atari and just loved it to death. I'd still have one if I only had the extra space and time to goof around.
As always, this is a terrific video that's well worth watching and listening to. I'm always looking forward to the next episode.
In answer to your question, yes we did indeed have the Atari system here at the same time as spectrum/commodore, but it was more a lot more niche. It’s appeal was actually that it felt very ‘American’ and closer to an ‘arcade’ experience. But there just weren’t many kids at school that had the atari, compared to the main two systems.
As long as he doesn't do a top 100 games for the Amstrad PCW, I don't think that many existed, maybe even that many programs. But, that monochrome green screen was pretty nice. :)
You know we missed out. When the Amiga was rumoured to be coming, that was it, 8 bits wasn't good enough. They didn't release 8 bits main home machines with QVGA+ 4 and 8 bit mode. Only a few companies, like Fran, MSX3/R, that NEC computer, or something, went to the next level. They should have all had super NES like graphics after the commodore 64.. The MSX, had strange sprite graphic limitations (and scrolling)
Even the mega drive, was a lightly upgraded msx graphics, without the 8 bit modes and no 512/640/720 pixel across hires mode, which I would have bought and as a computer conversion. The Amiga was way better than this, with its graphics coprocessing hardware. Then there was the Acorn Arm computers,and that was that. A good April 1st video, was to advocate making a 32 bit z80 Durban new Spectrum, then add, "with an Arm processor for on it, for comparability with modern day software!". Then question why have two different processors, and suggest that the Arm could run the z80 code, as the 32 bit cpu. (Which is basically just an Arm machine running a spectrum emulator, and wait to see how long it takes people to realise). 😁
I'd forgotten half of these, thanks for the nostalgia trip. Jetpac and a few other ultimate games were also 16K titles - I had a 16K spectrum in 1983 and Jetpac was one of the few games that worked with it. I was so happy when I got a 48K spectrum a year or two later.
Thanks for that, enjoyed it.
What I love about these lists is how personal they are, especially when they have commentary like this so you can understand the reasoning behind the selections. I think my own Top 100 would swap at least 60 of these out, things like Death Chase did nothing for me even back in the day, and my favourite Batman game was the one not featured here (The Caped Crusader) but a lot of it is about what left a mark on us. My favourite covertapes were 'A whole new ball game' and 'Earth Shaker', my favourite Dizzy, Magicland. Bomb Fusion I'd play for hours, while Chiller was the first budget game I remember owning that wasn't just a copied cassette and thus holds dear memories. But yes, fascinating to hear some opinions on things, likewise with the MD compilation before.
So many great games missing which shows how great a machine it was and still is. Top 100 is not easy and obviously a lot of these are games that mean a lot to you. Ask a 100 people their top 100 and half of these would definitely be there and the other half would be down to personal taste. Great video, there's a few here I never played so will be adding them to my divmmc and maybe pick up the tapes if I can get them at a good price.
Wow. Good list. Super glade i had a c64 as a kid. Hats off too you kim.
Well I already grumbled about Streaker but gosh this was a wonderful little wander down memory lane. Standouts for me that were missed would be Trap Door, Dark Sceptre, Swords and Sorcery and Wizball. Delighted to hear praise for Batty - I still sometimes fire that up to play it, it's great. My mum had an addiction to an Atic Atac clone called Wizard's Lair and can still complete it in no time flat. Loads of fun Kim:)
Very good sort! Many thanks!!
As a spaniard, I was waiting for La Abadia del Crimen, Freddy Hardest, Astro Marine Corps or Bugaboo, but it was a great time hearing you talking about speccy games, thank you!
Really enjoy your videos, Kim. Totally with you on Jet-Pac, great game. However, I'm really disappointed to see no entry for 'Emlyn Hughes' International Soccer'! Never played a game more on my Spectrum. Kudos for the nostalgia, though. Took me right back.
Great to see a list that someone's experience of a system rather than an assessment of everything done on that system. Good viewing and thanks
Good list and brings back a lot of memories although I never played any speccy game after 85 due to being blown away by the c64's music and multicolour Gfx. Speccy games always paled in comparison, as did all the other 8 bit home computers. This happened again when I first saw starglider on an amiga 500 in 88.
Great list! I'd love to see a top 10 of modern home-brew Speccy games - especially some of the new ones that push the graphics with multi-colour sprites etc (scan-line colour palette changes)!
Great list. Many games on this list that I never played, but towards the top I recognized most of them. Some of my favorites Spectrum games which is not on this list were "Wheelie", "Maziacs" and "Firelord".
Haha! Clive Townsend is saying 'Hey! My name's not Colin!!'. Thanks Kim, awesome video!