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.
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 ;)
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!
Same here, but it was in Portugal with a Timex Computer 2048, a Portuguese official ZX Spectrum clone. I moved to Brazil and I still have it here, live and kicking!
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
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!
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)
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.
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.
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. 👍
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!!
Fantastic video! Love and had forgotten about Booty. Too many thoughts but I'll say this: I'd love to see Ant Attack on Playdate which has a community that feels very early speccy :)
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. :)
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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.
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.
My top: The Trap Door, Renegade, Target Renegade, Combat School, Rastan, Dynamite Dan I & II, Chuckie Egg (the TRUE original version), Manic Miner, Dung Darach (favourite homebrew), Wriggler, B.C. Bill (Imagine version), Impossaball.
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
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..
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!
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
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 😆
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!
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!
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.
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.
I'm coming into this rather late in the day, but can't help but find myself agreeing with the vast majority of your choices here... BUT, one game that I loved back in the day was notably absent, codename Mat by Derek Brewster. As a spectrum take on Star Raiders I don't think it can be beat.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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). 😁
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!
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:)
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 :)
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!
3D death chase made me late for tea time loads of times, I remember closing my eyes and still seeing trees coming at me, totally agree with your choices.
Great list. Some of my others favorites not included in this list. Maziacs, Deactivators, Contact Sam Cruise, Who Dares Wins II, Commando, Frank 'N' Stein, Antiriad, Cavelon, Freez'Bees, Bruce Lee, Covenant, Feud, Mutant Monty and Ghosts n Goblins.
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 :)
I'm sure there are a few 128K titles here but to my mind, the 16K titles were true achievements. Cookie, Chequered Flag, Death Chase, Harrier Attack, Jetpac, Jungle Trouble, Pssst! and Tranz Am to name a few. Best thing about them was how quickly and reliably they loaded.
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!
I remember Shockway Rider! In fact, I think I still have the cover tape it came on Looks like Sinclair User, January '92, "The GREAT 8". I'm old so had a Spectrum from 1982. I put it aside whilst studying CompSci at Uni (1987 to 1990). I think I pulled my Spectrum out of a cupboard in 1992 to play on for a bit. There was a playable demo of Lemmings on this tape but by this time I had already seen it on an Amiga. I decided the Spectrum's time was past and it was time to get an Amiga... (Still got it though. I wonder if it will still boot up.)
Stunt Car Racer, The Great Escape, ATV Simulator, Head over Heels, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Dizzy (all of them), Renegade, Daley Thompson's to name but a few of my favourites that I played with a buddy of mine.
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 :)
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.
It's _Kim's_ top 100, not *_THE_* top 100. This list has games in it that hold special memories for her, even if the games haven't held up as well today.
@@abadenoughdude300 I agree, I'm sick of received wisdom/focus grouped best of lists that throw up the same games in the same order. Personal picks, good and bad, are actually interesting.
Have you ever played Laser Squad? Really awesome strategy game which eventually led to X-Com. You can just replay it over and over again. I also want to mention the game Nebula. It's an very simple strategy game with in BASIC but it's so addictive.
This was a trip down the memory lane! I actually watched it in hopes of finding a Speccy game I may have completely imagined, but maybe someone here remembers it, too: It was a sort of a square map-based FPS (i.e. movement like in a classic dungeon crawler such as Eye of the Beholder, but you're always facing "north"), you would shoot enemies (robots, I think) with your lasers (sorta like in Elite or Tau Ceti), see their health percent drop in a text area under the main screen, and you'd have to continue shooting their wrecks for a bit longer still or they regenerated. At the same time there were some buildings on the map that you needed to repair which could then in turn repair or maybe refuel you. I think the level ended when you killed all the enemies or repaired all the buildings - I'm not sure which, I only managed that once. Completing the level would give you a part of a large human-shaped figure (robot, probably) that was on the side of the screen - I'm not sure whether it was greyed-out initially, or some sort of a skeleton or scaffolding or what exactly, but I remember when I did clear the level, a leg "filled out", as if it was successfuly produced and delivered. Anybody remembers anything like this?
if that was you playing 720, then I am truly impressed. I was dreadful at it at the time - I sold it to the 2nd hand games shop after a week of trying.
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".
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.
The ZX Spectrum is so good!! I didn't even grow up with it but I did grow up with other classic computers like the Apple //e and Amiga, so in my early 20's when I finally did manage to load up a Spectrum (and other British computers like BBC Micro), I almost instantly fell in love with the system after trying out several games. I like the way the games look far more than how the C64 games look..
I noticed the absence of Impossible Mission, Rambo: First Blood Part II, BC's Quest for Tires and Transformers. Other than that, great list! I especially liked that you put RoboCop in your Top 10. It's one of my all-time favorite Spectrum games.
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Excellent video. Thank you. Something funny someone told me about Sabrewulf and I had never noticed: it has perspective. The doors and vegetation far away are smaller than the closer ones. Wow! =) Loved it.
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.
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.
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
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!
Same here, but it was in Portugal with a Timex Computer 2048, a Portuguese official ZX Spectrum clone. I moved to Brazil and I still have it here, live and kicking!
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
Exolon was (also) 48k. I know cos I only ever had a 48k Speccy clone and loved playing that game.
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!
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)
Great video! What a trip down the memory lane...
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
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.
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. 👍
I take off my hat to 1 hour 40 minutes of Spectrum games. Madly impressive.
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!!
Fantastic video! Love and had forgotten about Booty. Too many thoughts but I'll say this: I'd love to see Ant Attack on Playdate which has a community that feels very early speccy :)
Fantastic video, brought back so many memories, thanks so much
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 :)
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
@@Weird.Dreams Grow up and just accept that world doesn't exclusively work exactly how you think it should. Everyone is different and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, in fact it's what makes this worlds so awesome.
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.
Yes! I've been awaiting this list for a long time! Nice one Kim.
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
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.
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.
@goldentony111 Great shout about Turmoil! Of the hundreds of games I played Turmoil was the one I loved the most and played the longest.
My top: The Trap Door, Renegade, Target Renegade, Combat School, Rastan, Dynamite Dan I & II, Chuckie Egg (the TRUE original version), Manic Miner, Dung Darach (favourite homebrew), Wriggler, B.C. Bill (Imagine version), Impossaball.
Good choices
Got a bit distracted part way through. Is Ranarama in here? Great video.❤ It's clear you love what you do.
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
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..
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!
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
"Clive Townsend", not Colin, pure legend he is. Great video mate, I love all your stuff.
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
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?
I'm coming into this rather late in the day, but can't help but find myself agreeing with the vast majority of your choices here... BUT, one game that I loved back in the day was notably absent, codename Mat by Derek Brewster. As a spectrum take on Star Raiders I don't think it can be beat.
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.
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!
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.
Jet set willy, manic miner and the great escape were my favourite games
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.
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
Bless you for this Kim. So many games I never got to play back in the day. Will revisit. Cheers
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!
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!
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!
So glad to see another one of these top 100 vids from you so soon. Keep 'em coming! So great!
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? 😜
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.
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.
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). 😁
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.
Death chase !! What a game. I started with a 16k spect so this was my go to game 👌👌
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!
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:)
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 :)
Death chase was an outstanding game. The difficult levels required you to enter a zen like state and just feel your way through the trees.
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!
3D death chase made me late for tea time loads of times, I remember closing my eyes and still seeing trees coming at me, totally agree with your choices.
Great list. Some of my others favorites not included in this list. Maziacs, Deactivators, Contact Sam Cruise, Who Dares Wins II, Commando, Frank 'N' Stein, Antiriad, Cavelon, Freez'Bees, Bruce Lee, Covenant, Feud, Mutant Monty and Ghosts n Goblins.
"#45: A Day in the Life" -- well, Commodore had Jack Attack (if you can imagine Jack Tramiel as a jolly red bug thingl)
Hello. A reminder for the people scrolling in the comments that this is KIM's list, NOT your list.
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
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 :)
I'm sure there are a few 128K titles here but to my mind, the 16K titles were true achievements. Cookie, Chequered Flag, Death Chase, Harrier Attack, Jetpac, Jungle Trouble, Pssst! and Tranz Am to name a few. Best thing about them was how quickly and reliably they loaded.
I freaking love these damn ultra long form videos Kim! Seriously.
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!
I remember Shockway Rider! In fact, I think I still have the cover tape it came on Looks like Sinclair User, January '92, "The GREAT 8".
I'm old so had a Spectrum from 1982. I put it aside whilst studying CompSci at Uni (1987 to 1990). I think I pulled my Spectrum out of a cupboard in 1992 to play on for a bit. There was a playable demo of Lemmings on this tape but by this time I had already seen it on an Amiga. I decided the Spectrum's time was past and it was time to get an Amiga...
(Still got it though. I wonder if it will still boot up.)
that was brilliant! This list is a treasure!
I enjoyed the happy childhood memories too, great rambling :-)
Stunt Car Racer, The Great Escape, ATV Simulator, Head over Heels, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Dizzy (all of them), Renegade, Daley Thompson's to name but a few of my favourites that I played with a buddy of mine.
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 :)
Superb work as always Kim; this brought back a lot of fond memories! Looking forward to the next ‘Top 100’ list!
Started with the +2 myself. Nice nostalgia trip. Keep up the good work
Brilliant video.... Thanks for taking the time and effort to do it.
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.
"Top 100"... First game ; "Is it any good? Not really?" lol.
It's _Kim's_ top 100, not *_THE_* top 100. This list has games in it that hold special memories for her, even if the games haven't held up as well today.
This makes the list far more interesting and unique than a random assortment of whatever is in the best games section at world of spectrum.
@@abadenoughdude300 I agree, I'm sick of received wisdom/focus grouped best of lists that throw up the same games in the same order. Personal picks, good and bad, are actually interesting.
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I wich I could know where is Kim's accent from. London?
Have you ever played Laser Squad? Really awesome strategy game which eventually led to X-Com. You can just replay it over and over again.
I also want to mention the game Nebula. It's an very simple strategy game with in BASIC but it's so addictive.
St Dragon was amazing - I even won a copy of Narc by getting a drawing of the Dragon in a issue of Crash mag.
This was a trip down the memory lane! I actually watched it in hopes of finding a Speccy game I may have completely imagined, but maybe someone here remembers it, too:
It was a sort of a square map-based FPS (i.e. movement like in a classic dungeon crawler such as Eye of the Beholder, but you're always facing "north"), you would shoot enemies (robots, I think) with your lasers (sorta like in Elite or Tau Ceti), see their health percent drop in a text area under the main screen, and you'd have to continue shooting their wrecks for a bit longer still or they regenerated. At the same time there were some buildings on the map that you needed to repair which could then in turn repair or maybe refuel you. I think the level ended when you killed all the enemies or repaired all the buildings - I'm not sure which, I only managed that once.
Completing the level would give you a part of a large human-shaped figure (robot, probably) that was on the side of the screen - I'm not sure whether it was greyed-out initially, or some sort of a skeleton or scaffolding or what exactly, but I remember when I did clear the level, a leg "filled out", as if it was successfuly produced and delivered.
Anybody remembers anything like this?
This is the one I've been waiting for, lovely stuff Kim
if that was you playing 720, then I am truly impressed. I was dreadful at it at the time - I sold it to the 2nd hand games shop after a week of trying.
I love your sense of humor, Kim. You crack me up.
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".
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.
Bringing back some memories here with this video, especially some of the budget titles which were all I could afford from my local newsagents
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
I would love to have seen Starglider 128k version, Dark Side and Empire Strikes Back on here. Ah well! It's Kim's list.
The ZX Spectrum is so good!! I didn't even grow up with it but I did grow up with other classic computers like the Apple //e and Amiga, so in my early 20's when I finally did manage to load up a Spectrum (and other British computers like BBC Micro), I almost instantly fell in love with the system after trying out several games. I like the way the games look far more than how the C64 games look..
I noticed the absence of Impossible Mission, Rambo: First Blood Part II, BC's Quest for Tires and Transformers. Other than that, great list! I especially liked that you put RoboCop in your Top 10. It's one of my all-time favorite Spectrum games.
Excellent video. Thank you. Something funny someone told me about Sabrewulf and I had never noticed: it has perspective. The doors and vegetation far away are smaller than the closer ones. Wow! =) Loved it.
Compelled to show love for:
Halls of the Things (my most played game at the time)
Split Personalities (so quirky & odd - total respect)
What an effort... I haven't commented on your videos in a long time, but this one... Can't help but say bravo!
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.