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Oh God, the Archers. My parents were both massive fans, so every dinner time involved having to sit in absolute silence between 7 and 7:15 whilst they listen to it. And if we were really unlucky, we'd have a car journey on a Sunday morning where they'd listen to them all again in the omnibus.
Think yourself lucky. My much beloved late mother liked having cartoons on the TV as background ambience whilst she sat on the sofa knitting like a woman possessed. No man should have had to suffer the amount of Yogi Bear, Tom & Jerry, Tweetie Pie, Roadrunner etc that I witnessed during my formative teen years. Though on the upside, I did develop a lifelong love of Foghorn Leghorn from those times. lol
I loved Trapdoor on the Spectrum when I was a kid, even though I had no idea what to do. I just enjoyed controlling Berk. Don't think I ever accomplished anything whatsoever in the game.
Loved trapdoor on the spectrum when I was young collecting the worms and slimeys, trying to figure out how to cook the requests. I recall you had to frighten the bird monster so it laid an egg and then you could cook it and send it up in the lift, don’t remember ever completing it. I got the follow up Through the Trap door and had no idea what to do in that.
I loved the TV show so much I was determined to get into the game. Took me bloody ages mind you, and I don't think I ever actually finished it, but I did figure out a lot of the puzzles. The follow up game was absolute rubbish, though.
The scary part is that I actually could identify all the clips in the intro and pretty much all the TV licenses discussed. Over here in my neck of the woods (the Netherlands) BBC TV was available and was often the better option compared to Dutch, Belgian or German TV. That says something. It also makes some Dutch folk like me erie aliens who "have been listening and watching your broadcasts for decades and pretty much know all there is to know about UK society." 😬😁🤣
Yep that Young Ones game took me quite alot of investigating on my road to completing it, I've done a full longplay on it with commentary if you'd like to watch it. Thanks for rthe shout-out btw!
Being a huge fan I was so gutted when I bought it back then. I got that and world cup carnival at the same time. I was pissed when I got home and saw how bad they both were but still played them for hours. I had no choice lol.
Looking at the Don Priestley games again they really are quite amazing in the visual department with the size and no colour clash. I remember buying Trapdoor for a measly £1.99 budget range, loading it up the first time and being amazed at the visuals. It was like have the tv show on the Speccy in my mind at the time and I could not think of another Spectrum game as close looking to the source material. I am going to try Gregory Lose His clock out. Thanks for the video and what an entertaining channel you have. Merry Christmas.
I loved all the references to the show in the Young Ones, right down to the wardrobe leading to Narnia because of a brief segment in the programme where Vivian ends up in Narnia during a game of hide and seek.
If there's one thing that I remember Orpheus for, it's Electrosound, the popular music editor for the Commodore 64 released in 1985. Music in that tool ended up being used in a fair number of C64 games during 1986 and 1987 especially.
So lovely to see you back on the Tube Kim. Or have I misunderstood everything about you quitting and having a last live stream a few years ago? Anyway, always an appreciated joy to see a new video from you 🙂👍
I'm legitimately planning a licensed spectrum TV games livestream over Christmas so this is fantastic! Looking forward to checking this out! Also big up MINDER! What an absolute classic.
Excellent round-up, KJ. Your an excellent editor and narrator/presenter! ♥ Belated happy Christmas! ☃ 10:59 The speccy Minder game was great, I played it to death. Then sold it... for a profit, geezer.
Thanks for the video Kim! merry Christmas :) (EDIT: I had "Yes Primeminister" on the C64 and I had no idea what it was - I used to love sitting in that office pretending to be an adult)
Minder is up there as one of my all time favourite games on the Speccy. My sister and I used to play this for hours as kids. It took us a long, long time to work the game out though.
I consider myself one of the biggest Benny Hill fans and my childhood was split between watching his show and playing on my ZX Spectrum, but I did not know there was a Benny Hill game. How did I miss that. 😢
Maybe I’m a bit shallow, but the handsome visuals of Trap Door put it up there for me as one of the best games on the whole system. I love it! As for TV games on the Speccy that you should try, and I’ve played every single one, I can heartily recommend Treasure Hunt. With the aid of the Internet to help with landmarks and geography, it’s actually better NOW than it was the eighties. Definitely worth a try.
I liked The Trap Door and i always remember Round The Bend! Great childhood show so was awesome back in the day that were was a game of it on the Speccy!
What's that, Kim? You made a video specifically for me? Why thank you! For some reason I now remembered there was a Frankie Goes To Hollywood game. And a How To Be A Complete Bastard game.
Oh, How I've missed these Kim Justice originals. The Ode to Yakety Sax is just so uniquely you, Kim. I'm still subscribed, but I so rarely get any kind of notification or indication that you've released anything new. Your channel is my digital comfort food that whenever I want some late night video to fall asleep to, I'll generally go back to your Licensed Games from A to Z Playlist (as I pretty nearly know it by heart now) and put it on Autoplay. Glad to see you are staying true to your style!
SpecDrum (mad by Cheetah which was mentioned in the 3-2-1 section) was that good I can still to this day recall many of the songs it produced, well ahead of its time it was , and amazing to see such sound quality on the Speccy back in the day, even if it was only mono with a single phono output lol
I just want to say I adore and respect your work. I grew up in the apple II and amiga era of gaming, and I didn't know any of these titles. I say you should a wonderful view of history, and you have a lovely voice doing it as well.
Oh well, I suppose I’m in the minority of people who actually really like DALEK ATTACK !... I can remember being a disappointed child when it wasn’t released for the Amstrad CPC-464 (even though it was advertised for that system) Doesn’t matter what version it is, I’ll always have a soft-spot for it. (Also, come on Google etc..., it’s about time we got a Dalek emoji !)
I'd like to see a video of odd Speccy games based on American TV shows. As a yank who's more familiar with the NES and such, the grungy, at-home coding of the Spectrum always appealed to me. There's plenty of strange American TV games such as Miami Vice, Airwolf, The Transformers and Knight Rider, to name a few. (Saturday Morning Cartoon games for the Speccy and C64 could also make a good video)
Oddly, 3-2-1 has had a mini resurgence of sorts thanks to Limmy watching episodes of it on his stream. Even though I’ve never seen an episode of it outside of that context, it was still a pleasant surprise to see it pop up here.
Going to be frank, as an ignorant American this is my favorite type of video. Just a half hour of a voice I like telling me about video games I have no knowledge of. It's like heaven.
I would love to see a Don Priestley special he's my favourite coder ever. Funny thing about Benny Hill when I do my Speccy livestreams the guys in the US absolutely love watching me play it. It always gets requested. Fantastic video by the way 🤜💥🤛
I think it's a shame that the Doctor Who games have all ended up a bit naff. Personally, I think the concept of playing as a character like the Doctor at the outset is flawed. A super intelligent character who can go literally anywhere or when is always going to be ungodly difficult to portray as a player character in a world that can't possibly live up to the premise of the show. Personally, I think if they were have another crack at it, they should go the route of the mid-00s Flash Games on the BBC website (anyone remember those?) and not have the Doctor as the primary character at all. Perhaps you could go for a squad based military strategy game akin to the original w40k Dawn of War? Or maybe as some kind of Time Agent from any of of your well known factions with objectives in small but open ended maps. Just something that allows you to narrow down the focus while also allowing for strategic and/or skill based gameplay in a way playing as a genius pacifist doesn't.
I think you could do some very good adventure titles with that set-up- solve puzzles, pick up items, explore, etc.- it's just you'd have a hard time incorporating action. (Dalek Attack is at least accurate to the show in that you do mostly end up running from and trying to evade the enemies rather than fighting them straight up.) However the heyday of that sort of game was just past the show's prime back then, and attempts to do it with the new series have been inconsistent. Oddly enough the best DW video game may be the expansion done for the Lego Dimensions toys-to-life game.
@@EvanCWaters That's kind of what I was getting at really. The adventure games that came out of Matt Smith's era as the Doctor were all okay enough distractions but IMO all just felt a bit lacking. While it was a janky, mostly easy but sometimes frustrating experience, I still had more fun with the Last Dalek. I mean, you even got to kill the Doctor at the end, what other game lets you do that 😂? And the New Game+ mode where you got all the upgrades from the off felt like a good reward on top of that.
I used to work with Paul Kaufman at GST Software in St Ives, Cambs (they made Timeworks/Deskpress and 1st Word+ etc) where he was Head of Tech Support. I had no idea he was the owner of Orpheus ! Super nice guy and a great boss. EDIT. Just checked LinkedIn, yep, same guy ! Amazing ! I'm fanboying out for PK !
Love thinking about finished but unreleased games for the ZX Spectrum so I can say the phrase 'Speccy Lost Media', there's just something fun about that
24:14 I'm spanish and I can say: 1 2 3 Responda Otra vez the game was even worse in spite of participation of Paco Suarez (of Bugaboo the Flea's fame). It wasn't very successful, the market for the speccy was small in Spain those days (1984)
Yep, and it was a lot more convincing than the "3-2-1" version, even going so far as to replicate that pattern of red dots that you'd see briefly with a genuine crash / reset of the Speccy. Certainly made my heart freeze the first time I loaded the game. Possibly one of the first games to troll players like that. Good jest, though - respect to Brian Bloodaxe :)
I know of two Atari 800 games that had a fake reset to BASIC. One was the game "Prisoner 2" based on the Patrick McGoohan show. That game assigns you a random three number code at the beginning of the game which represents your reason for resigning the spy agency. Throughout the game you are interrogated for the reason of your resignation in multiple ways and if you ever type that three-digit code, you lose the game. At one point, the game replicates the times on the show where #6 thinks he has escaped the Island but winds up finding out it's a trick. It does this by faking a syntax error in the game code at a certain line of code that happens to be the same as the resignation code you're never supposed to type. If you try to list that line of BASIC code to look at the error, you lose the game. The other game was called "Abuse," and it was like a text adventure game with no plot, just a text parser that would throw insults at you and understand your replies, making insulting retorts to whatever you say. At one point, the game fakes an error and return to BASIC. You can try typing various commands. The one I remember is that if you typed "LIST" it would reply with something like "1) You're ugly, 2) You're stupid, 3) You're gullible..."
Thank you Kim for another nostalgic Speccy video! That's what I want at Christmas, to feel like a kid again! Anyway, I was the kind of child who let his love of a licensed game overtake his common sense. I didn't care if the reviews were bad, I loved the show of film, so I'm buying it! Christ, I purposely bought Back to the Future, a game that can literally be finished in ten minutes! Also, to use the horrible internet expression, "I was today years old..." All the times I played and loved playing Minder, trying to sell the most ridiculous items which people thought were euphemisms for condoms 🤣 and I never realised you could get Terry to protect you! Maybe I'll get an emulator and try again...
One day I hope someone summons the energy to do a huge video on 'competitions' because it seems like every time a game has a competition behind it, it never worked out.
Ahh. Fond memories. I still remember buying my copy of the young ones. Software + in Southend Vicoria shopping center. That was a Mecca for me back then. And I still have that edition of Your Sinclair. An absolutely amazing magazine when I was young.
Enjoyed that view of... should i say, games I did not play on my Spectrum. I'm glad, thanks, you saved me. Even though you played through it fast, i think your in for a copyright strike on that Benny Hill music. 😉
So a man who played a character on a completely irreverent show complained when a magazine used artwork that was much the same. I know Neil was kinda the "dull" one but still.
Orpheus did some games on MSX. Boulder dash was a nice conversion and Elidon was a good game that would probably have sold better if the main character was not a fairy
I've played Dalek Attack on DOS a little, but yeah, there are design *issues* with that game. The first level after the flying section starts with you dead center in the screen surrounded by enemies firing at you, it's possible to lose a life before doing anything! You can get better weapons in this version (and play as one of three doctors, the second, fourth, or seventh) but it's still usually a good idea to run from the enemies rather than fight them, which is at least accurate to the show in some ways. Also the default keyboard controls on the Dos version are very strange and you can't rebind them, though the assumption was you had a joystick.
The nearest I got to a Doc Who game on the speccy is doctor what a few years earlier. By the time the Who game came out I think I was using a Atari ST. Was always suprised that there were almost no Doc who games out there the license must have been a pain to get.
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Best of Christmas wishes to you Kim. I hope the new year bring you nothing but luck and joy.
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Super Ted on The Amstrad, it was actually a great game
There would be speccy games based on any old crap back then lol. Most of them terrible but I'd still play for hours and hours.
Oh God, the Archers. My parents were both massive fans, so every dinner time involved having to sit in absolute silence between 7 and 7:15 whilst they listen to it. And if we were really unlucky, we'd have a car journey on a Sunday morning where they'd listen to them all again in the omnibus.
Think yourself lucky. My much beloved late mother liked having cartoons on the TV as background ambience whilst she sat on the sofa knitting like a woman possessed.
No man should have had to suffer the amount of Yogi Bear, Tom & Jerry, Tweetie Pie, Roadrunner etc that I witnessed during my formative teen years. Though on the upside, I did develop a lifelong love of Foghorn Leghorn from those times. lol
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I loved Trapdoor on the Spectrum when I was a kid, even though I had no idea what to do. I just enjoyed controlling Berk. Don't think I ever accomplished anything whatsoever in the game.
Lmao, exactly the same here 😂
Loved trapdoor on the spectrum when I was young collecting the worms and slimeys, trying to figure out how to cook the requests. I recall you had to frighten the bird monster so it laid an egg and then you could cook it and send it up in the lift, don’t remember ever completing it. I got the follow up Through the Trap door and had no idea what to do in that.
Got somewhere in Trap Door, but same coder's Popeye game, nowhere.
I loved the TV show so much I was determined to get into the game. Took me bloody ages mind you, and I don't think I ever actually finished it, but I did figure out a lot of the puzzles.
The follow up game was absolute rubbish, though.
@@nickthelick What a lovely memory to have, Nick. Sorry for your loss.
The scary part is that I actually could identify all the clips in the intro and pretty much all the TV licenses discussed.
Over here in my neck of the woods (the Netherlands) BBC TV was available and was often the better option compared to Dutch, Belgian or German TV. That says something. It also makes some Dutch folk like me erie aliens who "have been listening and watching your broadcasts for decades and pretty much know all there is to know about UK society." 😬😁🤣
Very true.
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The first thing I do on Christmas Day is to watch Bottom for some classic Gold, Frankenstein and Grrr
“God save the quim !!!...”
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Yep that Young Ones game took me quite alot of investigating on my road to completing it, I've done a full longplay on it with commentary if you'd like to watch it.
Thanks for rthe shout-out btw!
Being a huge fan I was so gutted when I bought it back then. I got that and world cup carnival at the same time. I was pissed when I got home and saw how bad they both were but still played them for hours. I had no choice lol.
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Looking at the Don Priestley games again they really are quite amazing in the visual department with the size and no colour clash. I remember buying Trapdoor for a measly £1.99 budget range, loading it up the first time and being amazed at the visuals. It was like have the tv show on the Speccy in my mind at the time and I could not think of another Spectrum game as close looking to the source material. I am going to try Gregory Lose His clock out. Thanks for the video and what an entertaining channel you have. Merry Christmas.
The graphics with huge sprites and colour were amazing back then.
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I loved all the references to the show in the Young Ones, right down to the wardrobe leading to Narnia because of a brief segment in the programme where Vivian ends up in Narnia during a game of hide and seek.
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The landlord from The Young Ones (and the other characters played by Alexei Sayle) is named Balowski, not Bakowski.
Jerzy Balowski, if I recall correctly. I think they pronounced it "Balofski" in the show, so I've no idea where Kim got Bakowski from :)
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If there's one thing that I remember Orpheus for, it's Electrosound, the popular music editor for the Commodore 64 released in 1985. Music in that tool ended up being used in a fair number of C64 games during 1986 and 1987 especially.
Yes
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This is exactly the kind of content I love from you at this time of year!
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Thanks for another very enjoyable video Kim. Feeling all festive all of a sudden hearing the outro tune. Cheers
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So lovely to see you back on the Tube Kim. Or have I misunderstood everything about you quitting and having a last live stream a few years ago?
Anyway, always an appreciated joy to see a new video from you 🙂👍
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I'm legitimately planning a licensed spectrum TV games livestream over Christmas so this is fantastic! Looking forward to checking this out! Also big up MINDER! What an absolute classic.
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Excellent round-up, KJ. Your an excellent editor and narrator/presenter! ♥ Belated happy Christmas! ☃
10:59 The speccy Minder game was great, I played it to death. Then sold it... for a profit, geezer.
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I loved that yes minister game. The writing was spot on.
Hi Kim, I don't know if you see this but is the book written as Jim Hackers diary called The complete Yes Minister?
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Thanks for the video Kim! merry Christmas :) (EDIT: I had "Yes Primeminister" on the C64 and I had no idea what it was - I used to love sitting in that office pretending to be an adult)
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Thanks Kim - love your ZX Spectrum vids. Take care 👍
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Minder is up there as one of my all time favourite games on the Speccy. My sister and I used to play this for hours as kids. It took us a long, long time to work the game out though.
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I consider myself one of the biggest Benny Hill fans and my childhood was split between watching his show and playing on my ZX Spectrum, but I did not know there was a Benny Hill game. How did I miss that. 😢
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Cheers for the trip down memory lane Kim, and Merry Christmas.
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Maybe I’m a bit shallow, but the handsome visuals of Trap Door put it up there for me as one of the best games on the whole system. I love it!
As for TV games on the Speccy that you should try, and I’ve played every single one, I can heartily recommend Treasure Hunt. With the aid of the Internet to help with landmarks and geography, it’s actually better NOW than it was the eighties. Definitely worth a try.
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I liked The Trap Door and i always remember Round The Bend! Great childhood show so was awesome back in the day that were was a game of it on the Speccy!
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What's that, Kim? You made a video specifically for me? Why thank you! For some reason I now remembered there was a Frankie Goes To Hollywood game. And a How To Be A Complete Bastard game.
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Oh, How I've missed these Kim Justice originals. The Ode to Yakety Sax is just so uniquely you, Kim. I'm still subscribed, but I so rarely get any kind of notification or indication that you've released anything new. Your channel is my digital comfort food that whenever I want some late night video to fall asleep to, I'll generally go back to your Licensed Games from A to Z Playlist (as I pretty nearly know it by heart now) and put it on Autoplay. Glad to see you are staying true to your style!
SpecDrum (mad by Cheetah which was mentioned in the 3-2-1 section) was that good I can still to this day recall many of the songs it produced, well ahead of its time it was , and amazing to see such sound quality on the Speccy back in the day, even if it was only mono with a single phono output lol
I just want to say I adore and respect your work. I grew up in the apple II and amiga era of gaming, and I didn't know any of these titles. I say you should a wonderful view of history, and you have a lovely voice doing it as well.
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Oh well, I suppose I’m in the minority of people who actually really like DALEK ATTACK !...
I can remember being a disappointed child when it wasn’t released for the Amstrad CPC-464 (even though it was advertised for that system)
Doesn’t matter what version it is, I’ll always have a soft-spot for it.
(Also, come on Google etc..., it’s about time we got a Dalek emoji !)
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Supergran, one of ten top intro tunes!
i love pixel Vyvyan immediately
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Cluntamaniacs rejoice! There's a fake "crash to Commodore 64 BASIC" in the ZX Spectrum game Colony!
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Great video, thanks Kim xx
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I'd like to see a video of odd Speccy games based on American TV shows. As a yank who's more familiar with the NES and such, the grungy, at-home coding of the Spectrum always appealed to me. There's plenty of strange American TV games such as Miami Vice, Airwolf, The Transformers and Knight Rider, to name a few. (Saturday Morning Cartoon games for the Speccy and C64 could also make a good video)
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Oddly, 3-2-1 has had a mini resurgence of sorts thanks to Limmy watching episodes of it on his stream. Even though I’ve never seen an episode of it outside of that context, it was still a pleasant surprise to see it pop up here.
I still remember watching it on Saturday nights with my parents lol It was so bizarre even then.
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Going to be frank, as an ignorant American this is my favorite type of video. Just a half hour of a voice I like telling me about video games I have no knowledge of. It's like heaven.
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I would love to see a Don Priestley special he's my favourite coder ever. Funny thing about Benny Hill when I do my Speccy livestreams the guys in the US absolutely love watching me play it. It always gets requested. Fantastic video by the way 🤜💥🤛
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oh boy, 8 year old me would've LOVED the Young Ones game!!
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What about the Adrian Mole games? I loved them.
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Great video as always Kim, big up Zeusdaz as well, his sh*t game time videos are always a laugh.
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Thumbs up without even watching the video because I reckon I already know the cavalcade of krap games to follow!
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Merry Christmas Kim!
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KJ Christmas video joy, loved Trapdoor, Merry Christmas Kim
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*Watches*
Gregory loses his clock?
/googles.
How the hell did I miss this one back in the day?
/had never heard of it until 33 years later.
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Can't remember if it was a fake return to BASIC, but Mighty Magus definitely had a fake hard reset at the end.
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I once fell in love with a girl who worked down the abattoir who looked like Ted Rogers.
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First thing I thought of when seeing this title was Eastenders. Literally anything was a possible as a game back then.
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I think it's a shame that the Doctor Who games have all ended up a bit naff. Personally, I think the concept of playing as a character like the Doctor at the outset is flawed. A super intelligent character who can go literally anywhere or when is always going to be ungodly difficult to portray as a player character in a world that can't possibly live up to the premise of the show.
Personally, I think if they were have another crack at it, they should go the route of the mid-00s Flash Games on the BBC website (anyone remember those?) and not have the Doctor as the primary character at all. Perhaps you could go for a squad based military strategy game akin to the original w40k Dawn of War? Or maybe as some kind of Time Agent from any of of your well known factions with objectives in small but open ended maps. Just something that allows you to narrow down the focus while also allowing for strategic and/or skill based gameplay in a way playing as a genius pacifist doesn't.
I think you could do some very good adventure titles with that set-up- solve puzzles, pick up items, explore, etc.- it's just you'd have a hard time incorporating action. (Dalek Attack is at least accurate to the show in that you do mostly end up running from and trying to evade the enemies rather than fighting them straight up.) However the heyday of that sort of game was just past the show's prime back then, and attempts to do it with the new series have been inconsistent.
Oddly enough the best DW video game may be the expansion done for the Lego Dimensions toys-to-life game.
@@EvanCWaters That's kind of what I was getting at really. The adventure games that came out of Matt Smith's era as the Doctor were all okay enough distractions but IMO all just felt a bit lacking.
While it was a janky, mostly easy but sometimes frustrating experience, I still had more fun with the Last Dalek. I mean, you even got to kill the Doctor at the end, what other game lets you do that 😂? And the New Game+ mode where you got all the upgrades from the off felt like a good reward on top of that.
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Brilliant video that captures some of those real oddities!
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The more of your videos I watch the more I'm convinced England is on another planet.
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I used to work with Paul Kaufman at GST Software in St Ives, Cambs (they made Timeworks/Deskpress and 1st Word+ etc) where he was Head of Tech Support.
I had no idea he was the owner of Orpheus ! Super nice guy and a great boss.
EDIT. Just checked LinkedIn, yep, same guy ! Amazing ! I'm fanboying out for PK !
Candleshoe! Nah, it was much better back then. More festive and more family orientated.
Love thinking about finished but unreleased games for the ZX Spectrum so I can say the phrase 'Speccy Lost Media', there's just something fun about that
It's crazy looking at the prices of the games available then and then you look at the prices for everything in the UK now and... yeah.
Minder deserved so much more success as a game than it got... nice little game that.. and merry xmas
I loved it.
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24:14 I'm spanish and I can say: 1 2 3 Responda Otra vez the game was even worse in spite of participation of Paco Suarez (of Bugaboo the Flea's fame). It wasn't very successful, the market for the speccy was small in Spain those days (1984)
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Thought you would finally get around to the great but slightly racist It Ain't Half Hot Mum game, but sadly not.
Great video as always Kim. I don't suppose there were any Bottom games were there?
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321, what a cryptic show. Impressed by the Ted audio.
Brian Bloodaxe did the fake reset to basic thing, but if I remember correctly it was right after loading.
Yep, and it was a lot more convincing than the "3-2-1" version, even going so far as to replicate that pattern of red dots that you'd see briefly with a genuine crash / reset of the Speccy. Certainly made my heart freeze the first time I loaded the game. Possibly one of the first games to troll players like that. Good jest, though - respect to Brian Bloodaxe :)
I know of two Atari 800 games that had a fake reset to BASIC. One was the game "Prisoner 2" based on the Patrick McGoohan show. That game assigns you a random three number code at the beginning of the game which represents your reason for resigning the spy agency. Throughout the game you are interrogated for the reason of your resignation in multiple ways and if you ever type that three-digit code, you lose the game. At one point, the game replicates the times on the show where #6 thinks he has escaped the Island but winds up finding out it's a trick. It does this by faking a syntax error in the game code at a certain line of code that happens to be the same as the resignation code you're never supposed to type. If you try to list that line of BASIC code to look at the error, you lose the game. The other game was called "Abuse," and it was like a text adventure game with no plot, just a text parser that would throw insults at you and understand your replies, making insulting retorts to whatever you say. At one point, the game fakes an error and return to BASIC. You can try typing various commands. The one I remember is that if you typed "LIST" it would reply with something like "1) You're ugly, 2) You're stupid, 3) You're gullible..."
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Thank you Kim for another nostalgic Speccy video! That's what I want at Christmas, to feel like a kid again! Anyway, I was the kind of child who let his love of a licensed game overtake his common sense. I didn't care if the reviews were bad, I loved the show of film, so I'm buying it! Christ, I purposely bought Back to the Future, a game that can literally be finished in ten minutes! Also, to use the horrible internet expression, "I was today years old..." All the times I played and loved playing Minder, trying to sell the most ridiculous items which people thought were euphemisms for condoms 🤣 and I never realised you could get Terry to protect you! Maybe I'll get an emulator and try again...
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Cant believe there's no nsfw warning for the topless calendar in the minder game lmao
I like that the sponsor is something you actually care about. Tends to not be the norm on youtube
will there ever be a SPECTRUM mini, NTSC, so we in north america can experience those?
I just bought a Commodore 64 mini, hence why I am curious!
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I owned about 90% of these, proper traumatic trip down memory lane 😂.
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The fact that the 3-2-1 game makes absolutely no sense at all is extremely faithful to the TV show.
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Didn't see minder get a mention, I absolutely loved the minder game.
Kim needs a kazoo if she decides to make music in the future.
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Mobile games have kind of filled this space, albeit with mainly awful promotional and micro transaction fills games of tv shows
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Someone did a hack of the Benny Hill game with a 128k rendition of the theme - there's a video of it on TH-cam.
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I always thought that Doctor Who should have had point and click adventure games. I'm surprised that this idea has never been explored.
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what? no poirot licensed games? my little grey cells are going to waste
Oh, these things are always good :)
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Great video. Loved the Trap Door game but I never heard of Gregory Loses his Clock. Must check that one out!
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Great rendition of the Benny Hill theme! Have a good start into 2023, thanks for all the lovely stories in 2022.
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That archers game is basically a really old version of make my video. All it needs now is some marky Mark
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One day I hope someone summons the energy to do a huge video on 'competitions' because it seems like every time a game has a competition behind it, it never worked out.
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Ahh. Fond memories. I still remember buying my copy of the young ones. Software + in Southend Vicoria shopping center. That was a Mecca for me back then. And I still have that edition of Your Sinclair. An absolutely amazing magazine when I was young.
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By Christ, that's sad.
Enjoyed that view of... should i say, games I did not play on my Spectrum. I'm glad, thanks, you saved me.
Even though you played through it fast, i think your in for a copyright strike on that Benny Hill music. 😉
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I tried to subscribe using your URL and after clicking "Subscribe with Kim Justice", I just got taken to a generic magazine site
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As an American, I find learning about British TV licenses oddly fascinating.
That said, I had no idea Benny Hill was actually British, lol.
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So a man who played a character on a completely irreverent show complained when a magazine used artwork that was much the same. I know Neil was kinda the "dull" one but still.
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I remember my friend had Supergran. Even back then I thought "Why?" 🤣 My brother had Minder and that was much better.
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Orpheus did some games on MSX. Boulder dash was a nice conversion and Elidon was a good game that would probably have sold better if the main character was not a fairy
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Your wireframe link (the button on the page after you click the link above) links to the raspberrypi magazine
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I'm leaving a like for the marvellous humming.
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Yes, Prime Minister is a great game, of a great show.
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7th doctor is aweosme
Fair play. but .. The Detectorists. Check it out. Keep the BBC faith.
That would make a good game...detect all the treasure in a field before Simon & Garfunkel turn up.
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I love Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister ... never knew of the computer game, but it looks fun!
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I first saw the Trap Door game on Gamezville’s Old School section!
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Cheers for that vid, Kim. Happy new year, mate.
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I wonder if the Spanish version of Unos, Dos, Tres gave away a holiday to Scarborough 😊
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Trap Door's graphics were great for their time. Slow as anything, but it looked good.
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I've played Dalek Attack on DOS a little, but yeah, there are design *issues* with that game. The first level after the flying section starts with you dead center in the screen surrounded by enemies firing at you, it's possible to lose a life before doing anything! You can get better weapons in this version (and play as one of three doctors, the second, fourth, or seventh) but it's still usually a good idea to run from the enemies rather than fight them, which is at least accurate to the show in some ways. Also the default keyboard controls on the Dos version are very strange and you can't rebind them, though the assumption was you had a joystick.
Oddly enough, accurate to how Sylvester McCoy's Doctor gets killed off canonically.
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The Green policies on that Yes Minister game shows the Tories haven’t moved an inch in decades…
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Thanks, for this Kim. Have a lovey Christmas and a happy new Year.
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I wish you merry Christmas time, Kim. Thank you for a nice episode!
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Return to Oz at 12:30, can't wait!
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The nearest I got to a Doc Who game on the speccy is doctor what a few years earlier. By the time the Who game came out I think I was using a Atari ST. Was always suprised that there were almost no Doc who games out there the license must have been a pain to get.
I think John Nathan Turner would have bent over backwards to get a Dr Who game licensed, that would have been right up his street.
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There was a 321 DVD game. Talk about a bit late to market, would anyone even remember it by then?
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You remember it so, yeah