I cannot believe the nostalgia that the magazine cover brought back at 27:02! When I saw the title screen for Dustin I realised I had the game, but seeing that magazine cover was epic. Great video, thank you.
@@pnvgordinho - Going to shamelessly plug another of my games here then, The Haunting of Waterbelle End. Deliberately combining the maze movement of Aliens with the reaction test of West Bank in a Resident-Evil style haunted house setting. And all based on a Victorian ghost story by J.M.Raymes. You can download the game, and a transcript of the original short story (can't find a copy of the compendium in print these days, so typed it up) from Spectrum Computing. (The story is listed under 'instructions', though it's not the instructions).
I play Jet Set Willy 2 since 1985 and that is very difficult on my loyal old ZX Spectrum 48K. Maybe i play it out in begin 2025. I’m almost to the end. And i play it on the rubber keyboard. Already finished playing Maniac Miner and Jet Set Willy. 40 years every weekend on a ZX Spectrum 48K is a long time.
Excellent choices. I just had "Bombjack" repeating over and over right up to when it was mentioned, so pleased about that. Great ep Seb. Always a pleasure.
Split Personalities is an absolute banger - great choice. Easy to get going on and hugely addictive. I've spent a LOT of hours on this one and once you get the hang of it it's easy enough and there are only 10 levels. I still fire it up now on the MISTR to try and beat my top score. It's fast, it's fair and it's exciting (and stressful when the bombs turn up). Brilliant game which has stood the test of time enough to transcend simple nostalgia.
Thanks for the mention! And for coining the 'Rectrum'! 😂 Have fun with the world of recent Homebrew games. And I'm just finishing my own shmup, which will probably be the last of my 48K only efforts - time to get to grips with the 128K sound chip and all the things a 128 Speccy should be doing to make better games!
@@SebsPlaceYT - Always entertaining watching other people play it! There are some fun strategies to be had trying to arrange chains of creatures with crates stacked on top, so that when you kill the cratures in one go, crates drop down to form multiple lines at once. But to avoid trapping one creature alone where you can't get to it.
The thing about the Spectrum is how versatile the machine was and at times outshine other 8-Bits especially in the case of the game Sabre Wulf. Some quality titles there mate, Chuckie Egg again was the best of all the conversions with it's superior physics. Did you ever jump all the way from the bottom ladder to the top on one of the levels?. Should have been a Crash smash, it's the perfect platform game for the system. Great memories for me, had my Spectrum after my Vic-20 then a Spectrum 128, the toaster version. What a time it was to be alive back then and we're still playing new games today. Brilliant stuff Seb, by the way, yes Nonterraqueous!! 😂
Great video Seb. As you probably know, those "tricky to download" games are pretty easy to get hold of if you know where to look, but appreciate you don't want to potentially ruffle any creator/IP feathers. Just wanted to make sure folks wouldn't assume some games are genuinely unavailable if they aren't downloadable from Spectrum Computing or World of Spectrum. They pretty much are all out there =)
I agree with a lot of what you said. I also didn't have a clue what I was supposed to do in Valhalla, but I just liked watching the other characters going about their business and interacting with them. I too also hated the jumping noise in Bubble Bobble. An edited version with a better sounding jump would make it even better. A couple of games I didn't mention that came to mind whilst watching the video were Feud, which along with Bloodwych were great two-player games, and Ping Pong which may seem a weird choice, but I recall finding it quite fun and playable back in the day. Quality and funny video as per usual.
Another droll, amusing and informative hit of 80s nostalgia, Seb. If you are struggling for topics, how about doing a show where you explore Spectrum remakes as well as the question about what makes a good remake - an exact facsimile, a close copy with extra bells and whistles or a new game which incorporates the spirit of the original. Having looked out for and played a lot of these [remakes], my own personal favourites are Melchior’s Mansion (by Richard Jordan) who also did an inspired fusion of Skool Daze and Track and Field. Then there’s Richard Langford’s site whose Project ZX series is a loving tribute to all things Speccy. However, my own personal favourite is R. Granado’s 2004 Pyjamarama remake which remains delightfully close to the look and feel of the original but the extra touches are in keeping with the spirit of the game and elevate it to another level. Either way, keep up the great work.
Thank you 😊 funnily enough a remake video has been on my video ideas doc for some time, just different ideas leapfrog it. Will definitely do it though and look at your suggestions. Cheers!
Yep, though to be fair it's hard to get anything more than peeps and farts from the 48K speaker so that's the best whirring machine noises I could get out of it. Also there's no way to control volume! The comment about not having in-game music always bugged me as none of this is done with the 128K sound chip - it was very much a game made to run on the original 48K Speccy.
@@jasonrailton7990 I think the buzzing is part of the game. My reactions aren't terribly fast and I need the bbbzzzz to warn me about incoming saws. I'm not faffed about background music - a lot of the time it just drives me around the bend.
I will still pine for Battle of Britain by microgame simulations. It was the first full price game I bought an I played it for ages. Mostly written in BASIC it was very cool. Although turning of the morse code beeping after the first play through is a must for sanity's sake. Oh and Yes Prime Minister a multiload choose your own political adventure.
Rectrum. Don't miss out on the R 😂 I'd like Level 9 and Infocom' Adventure Games. Also, Head Over Heels, Knight Lore, Gun Fight, Great Escape and other isometric games.
Some great games there and so many more that could easily have made the list. 180 is a prime candidate to make use of the rewind feature. I will likely just add every game and create a favourites folder of say 100 games to be getting along with.
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed! I was a massive Codemasters fan back in the day, and had loads of their games! It's a real shame that Codemasters don't think about monetising their heritage games on older machines and having a collection to buy? Have they ever thought of that?
One game I remember very fondly was Journey's End which was kind of a forerunner for Skyrim (albeit with a group of adventurers), unfortunately it had to be loaded in 3 separate tapes presumably because it was too big. This meant trying to find a working copy on an emulator is all but impossible as it stops after Part 1 which was the least enjoyable part of an excellent adventure. I think Mastertronic (or something like that) sold it for £1.99, bargain of the century.
Light Force was pretty but very difficult to last beyond 60 secs! Flying Shark would be my pick. I also played Chronos a lot. Split Personalities I could never figure out the mechanics. I think Think! was a great puzzle game but it's been a while.
Same here - I don't like fully open vertical shmups where the screen is set wide. Makes it too hard to cover everything, and too easy to be killed by cheap shots like enemies coming in from the top two corners at the same time. At least the games that channel you into a canyon offer more managed challenges. And yes, much prefer Chronos for its simple purity.
The only rule is, there are no rules 😂. Nonteraqueos is a classic. Love 180. Don't tell anyone, but I've never played elite. Dizzy 🤢 🤮 💩. Recall mapping and completing Dustin. Buzzsaw is very good, great hive mind picks.
As far as text adventures go, Sherlock, all the Delta four stuff, the Level 9 adventures plus the Magnetic Scrolls games are all brilliant. How about downloading a copy of the Professional Adventure Writer and programming your own? I wrote a few back in the eighties and have PAW on my emulator but alas no inspiration, maybe the new Spectrum will make the creative juice stir..........
Using a joystick 🕹 is a must. Keyboard sucks. I played ghosts and gobblings on my +2 with keys and had w**kers cramp for a few hours 😂 I'm a c64 man but really enjoying my speccy and your channel 👍
@@jaysmith2858 Ah yes indeed. Maria Whittaker and Wolf from Gladiators. 10 year old me was mightily impressed. My dad was fine with the poster too. Mum, less so.
Saturday afternoon and a couple of beers to come watching Seb’s Place 🍻 Sadly it is violent and even a crime. I was out on the town and got into trouble. I encased the other guy in a bubble and popped it, killing them. Was arrested and due in court 😀 My mirror in my living room has a small White Hart Lane plaque.✌️
Im unsure about getting one of these new machines. Ive got all the games on my PC and admittedly the keyboard isn't suitable although the Spectrum keyboard is as i was a keyboard guy back then. But I don't know if ill use it. I put games on the Fuse emulator and have like 5 minutes and then put something else on for another 5 minutes. I cant seem to get really immersed like i did at 10 year old but I do love the Spectrum and always watch Spectrum videos. I mean look at my name for a start!
😁😁 I know what you mean. I've even got retropie installed on a pi4 with a little 8bitdo controller that works fantastic on the big tele for spectrum games but I do play it from time to time., but yeah not sure what the retrum would give me beyond that experience. I'll still get one though 😁
I thought my iPhone was telling me I’d been arrested for first degree murder! Then I realised it was the screenshot of Chase hq saying that, and all was fine.
Please excuse a silly question, what is the difference between “available to download “ and “not easily available”? Isn’t every Spectrum game under the sun available online? Is it a question of availability or legality?
Yeah legality wise. There are popular spectrum based websites like spectrumcomputing or worldofspectrum that have links to the games. Some publishers like elite and codemasters asked them to take those links down, so you have to search for them to find them. Some other comments here give info where to find them, but most of the time, a simple Google will suffice. It's just that I can't recommend any of those sites as they might be spammy. Hope that helps.
Yeah, absolutely! Licensing is confusing at times. Many of the games on world of spectrum et al are western ports of arcade games. The companies owning the licenses probably care about the arcade originals, but these ports? Who knows. Probably varies?
Yeah varies I think. Spectrumcomputing.co.uk is by far my favourite. So nicely laid out and also great for making videos as a lot of the reference material is also linked. Reviews etc....
Interior, Sebs house. Seb is sitting at the dinner table with his back to the hallway leading to the front door. Two men have appeared, out of nowhere, in the the hallway. They are the 8bit Police. 8bit Police "Good evening Mr Seb!". Seb turns away from his dinner, steam is still rising from his plate of pasta and Seb has that pasta ring around his mouth you see kids get, it has stained his scruffy fifteen year olds beard and will be a bastard to wash out (😂). He sees two men standing in his hallway, wearing trenchcoats, hats and sunglasses indoors. "Who the hell are you? And how the hell did you get in here?" say's Seb dabbing at his face with his handkerchief. 8bP "We are the 8bit Police Sir. And we have come regarding a very grave matter Sir. Of online japery Sir". The 8bP fished a little black book and pen from his jacket pocket, he flipped it open and popped the pen and held it to the page. Seb "The fuck". 8bP "Did you or did you not say on the 11th of October that the Spectrum 48k version of Chase HQ was the closest any home computer port came to the arcade?". Seb "Well yeah, so what?". 8bP "Heresy Sir" wailed the 8bP "It is well known within the halls of the great and good in Retro City that the Amstrad CPC with it's vibrant colours, it's sense of speed and the feel of an arcade machine shrunk into your CPC. The full range of it's palate was evocative of smelly damp carpets, coins in machine slots, cigarette smoke and ladies of the night.....your puny Spectrum cannot stand against that good sir, cuff him Andrew" the pitch and tone rising to a stacatto screech as he finished. 8bP "We're not supposed to use names Nicholas". Seb "Wait a minute, take those hats and glasses off, are you the Oliver twins?". 8bP "Hit him with the DFM2K (Dizzy ForgetMe 5000) Nicholas". The 8bP produced a Dizzy plushy and squeezed it, a sulphurous green tinted gas oozed from within and just as Seb took a step forward and laid a finger on the 8bP he collapsed to the ground. "There, not only won't he remember that ludicrous claim about Chase HQ but he won't remember we were here either". Both men turned to look at each other and as if they could read each others minds, with their left hands index finger pointing to the sky they exclaimed "To the DizzyBoat", jumped up into the air and disappeared. Seb woke up 8 hours later.....all he remembered was, those fresh mushrooms they picked yesterday were banging in that pasta he made..... Great video as always mate 👍👍👍
Pac-Attack was itself a derivative. The original of this game style was an arcade machine called 'Cosmo Gang - The Puzzle', loosely based on characters and themes from an electro-mechanical shooting gallery game called 'Cosmo Gang'.
@@jasonrailton7990 ive got a licenced version of Cosmo gang on my Nintendo Wii.. NTSC J region only. Basically Galiga with cute sprites. Good game that. I like the cute sounds too.
@@bit-ishbulldog2089 - that's the shmup game with those characters. The puzzle game is falling crates, and the original arcade machine was a mechanical one with whack-a-mole like moving animatronics.
Not sure if i should mention this.. but as kids we were always letting each other know where to er... get a copy of a certain game.. so.. a nice chap by the name of Simply Austin who's channel has been silent for a few years now has conveniently left a Mega link to his speccy games collection linked on one of his vids.. As far as i remember its a full set and it contains a few games that as you say.. are not downloadable.. even though they are.. sort of.. but you didnt hear any of this from me.. and i will delete this post if you think its wrong to mention it.. Other than that... Pukka vid as always.. 👍
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I cannot believe the nostalgia that the magazine cover brought back at 27:02! When I saw the title screen for Dustin I realised I had the game, but seeing that magazine cover was epic. Great video, thank you.
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One cool arcade port we had was West Bank. Simple but a lot of fun.
Yeah. I loved that game!
@@pnvgordinho - Going to shamelessly plug another of my games here then, The Haunting of Waterbelle End. Deliberately combining the maze movement of Aliens with the reaction test of West Bank in a Resident-Evil style haunted house setting. And all based on a Victorian ghost story by J.M.Raymes. You can download the game, and a transcript of the original short story (can't find a copy of the compendium in print these days, so typed it up) from Spectrum Computing. (The story is listed under 'instructions', though it's not the instructions).
I play Jet Set Willy 2 since 1985 and that is very difficult on my loyal old ZX Spectrum 48K. Maybe i play it out in begin 2025. I’m almost to the end. And i play it on the rubber keyboard. Already finished playing Maniac Miner and Jet Set Willy. 40 years every weekend on a ZX Spectrum 48K is a long time.
Haha good luck!
Excellent choices. I just had "Bombjack" repeating over and over right up to when it was mentioned, so pleased about that. Great ep Seb. Always a pleasure.
Cheers Andrew!
Two of the best truly exclusive cover tape games were Moley Christmas and Bear a Grudge.
I couldn't get on with Moley Christmas, Bear a Grudge is ok though 👍
Split Personalities is an absolute banger - great choice. Easy to get going on and hugely addictive. I've spent a LOT of hours on this one and once you get the hang of it it's easy enough and there are only 10 levels. I still fire it up now on the MISTR to try and beat my top score. It's fast, it's fair and it's exciting (and stressful when the bombs turn up). Brilliant game which has stood the test of time enough to transcend simple nostalgia.
Great movie. Cool games. Nice to watch. Thanks :)
Cheers!
Thanks for the mention! And for coining the 'Rectrum'! 😂
Have fun with the world of recent Homebrew games. And I'm just finishing my own shmup, which will probably be the last of my 48K only efforts - time to get to grips with the 128K sound chip and all the things a 128 Speccy should be doing to make better games!
Haha no worries. Hope my Buzzsaw gameplay wasn't too shocking! Great little game 🥰 look forward to the shmup!
@@SebsPlaceYT - Always entertaining watching other people play it! There are some fun strategies to be had trying to arrange chains of creatures with crates stacked on top, so that when you kill the cratures in one go, crates drop down to form multiple lines at once. But to avoid trapping one creature alone where you can't get to it.
The thing about the Spectrum is how versatile the machine was and at times outshine other 8-Bits especially in the case of the game Sabre Wulf.
Some quality titles there mate, Chuckie Egg again was the best of all the conversions with it's superior physics. Did you ever jump all the way from the bottom ladder to the top on one of the levels?. Should have been a Crash smash, it's the perfect platform game for the system.
Great memories for me, had my Spectrum after my Vic-20 then a Spectrum 128, the toaster version.
What a time it was to be alive back then and we're still playing new games today.
Brilliant stuff Seb, by the way, yes Nonterraqueous!! 😂
Cheers mate! Certainly was a great time to be alive 🥰
Well, for shmups it would be better to choose a game with simultaneous two-players action, like Zybex.
Great video Seb. As you probably know, those "tricky to download" games are pretty easy to get hold of if you know where to look, but appreciate you don't want to potentially ruffle any creator/IP feathers. Just wanted to make sure folks wouldn't assume some games are genuinely unavailable if they aren't downloadable from Spectrum Computing or World of Spectrum. They pretty much are all out there =)
Good shout. It's hard to say for me...not for you 😁 I've pinned your comment 🥰
I agree with a lot of what you said. I also didn't have a clue what I was supposed to do in Valhalla, but I just liked watching the other characters going about their business and interacting with them.
I too also hated the jumping noise in Bubble Bobble. An edited version with a better sounding jump would make it even better.
A couple of games I didn't mention that came to mind whilst watching the video were Feud, which along with Bloodwych were great two-player games, and Ping Pong which may seem a weird choice, but I recall finding it quite fun and playable back in the day.
Quality and funny video as per usual.
Thanks mate! I loved Feud!
180 was a great game on the C64 that's going to be a must add to my Speccy
So good
I had completely forgotten about 180 and The Wild Bunch and split personalities. Def going on there
Yay!
The Rectrum is a good name, I hope it catches on :)
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Sod Elite. No one mentions Starfox by Reactor. It's well underrated. It's by the same team from 3D Starstrike. It's well worth a download 😉
I Played StarFox on the SNES if that helps?
I'd add The Sentinel, Mercenary and Tau Ceti....
Another droll, amusing and informative hit of 80s nostalgia, Seb. If you are struggling for topics, how about doing a show where you explore Spectrum remakes as well as the question about what makes a good remake - an exact facsimile, a close copy with extra bells and whistles or a new game which incorporates the spirit of the original. Having looked out for and played a lot of these [remakes], my own personal favourites are Melchior’s Mansion (by Richard Jordan) who also did an inspired fusion of Skool Daze and Track and Field. Then there’s Richard Langford’s site whose Project ZX series is a loving tribute to all things Speccy. However, my own personal favourite is R. Granado’s 2004 Pyjamarama remake which remains delightfully close to the look and feel of the original but the extra touches are in keeping with the spirit of the game and elevate it to another level. Either way, keep up the great work.
Thank you 😊 funnily enough a remake video has been on my video ideas doc for some time, just different ideas leapfrog it. Will definitely do it though and look at your suggestions. Cheers!
Had it been call the Rectrum back in the day I might have bought one 😂. Great video again pal. 👍
😂😂 thank you!
See, you couldn't resist Maziacs, Lightforce .... and almost Jumping Jack!!!
Haha! All three games are bangers! Great choices!
Buzzsaw is pretty good. I had to play it when people were out though, as my spectrum is in the dining room and the buzzing seems to annoy.
😂 yeah I get that. Is quite a sound!
Yep, though to be fair it's hard to get anything more than peeps and farts from the 48K speaker so that's the best whirring machine noises I could get out of it. Also there's no way to control volume! The comment about not having in-game music always bugged me as none of this is done with the 128K sound chip - it was very much a game made to run on the original 48K Speccy.
@@jasonrailton7990 I think the buzzing is part of the game. My reactions aren't terribly fast and I need the bbbzzzz to warn me about incoming saws.
I'm not faffed about background music - a lot of the time it just drives me around the bend.
I had Valhalla on my Speccy, I believe that it was mostly written in Basic.
It certainly moves like it was......
@@SebsPlaceYT I just checked on Wikipedia and it mentions about 4KB was in machine code, whilst the rest was Sinclair Basic 🙂
4k! Wooohooo!
Valhalla was epic. Played it to death.
Loving all the speccy content!
Gotta love the Speccy 🥰
I will still pine for Battle of Britain by microgame simulations. It was the first full price game I bought an I played it for ages. Mostly written in BASIC it was very cool. Although turning of the morse code beeping after the first play through is a must for sanity's sake.
Oh and Yes Prime Minister a multiload choose your own political adventure.
Ooooh not played those. I'm intrigued enough to check out Yes Prime Minister !
Rectrum. Don't miss out on the R 😂
I'd like Level 9 and Infocom' Adventure Games.
Also, Head Over Heels, Knight Lore, Gun Fight, Great Escape and other isometric games.
😂 Nice! Head Over Heels and Great Escape come preinstalled! Happy days!
Some great games there and so many more that could easily have made the list. 180 is a prime candidate to make use of the rewind feature. I will likely just add every game and create a favourites folder of say 100 games to be getting along with.
Yeah, I think that makes sense. It's so easy to just chuck hundreds of games on and then never play them. Less is more I reckon.
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed! I was a massive Codemasters fan back in the day, and had loads of their games! It's a real shame that Codemasters don't think about monetising their heritage games on older machines and having a collection to buy? Have they ever thought of that?
Thank you 😊 I think they do on occasion. They licensed a Dizzy collection on the Evercade a little while back.
One game I remember very fondly was Journey's End which was kind of a forerunner for Skyrim (albeit with a group of adventurers), unfortunately it had to be loaded in 3 separate tapes presumably because it was too big. This meant trying to find a working copy on an emulator is all but impossible as it stops after Part 1 which was the least enjoyable part of an excellent adventure.
I think Mastertronic (or something like that) sold it for £1.99, bargain of the century.
Sounds intriguing!
Light Force was pretty but very difficult to last beyond 60 secs! Flying Shark would be my pick. I also played Chronos a lot. Split Personalities I could never figure out the mechanics. I think Think! was a great puzzle game but it's been a while.
Agreed, LF is pretty tough, as is Split Personalties. I'm still trying to get Ronald complete! Cheers!
Same here - I don't like fully open vertical shmups where the screen is set wide. Makes it too hard to cover everything, and too easy to be killed by cheap shots like enemies coming in from the top two corners at the same time. At least the games that channel you into a canyon offer more managed challenges.
And yes, much prefer Chronos for its simple purity.
@@kev1n726 I thought about suggesting Flying Shark but it's just far too difficult, well at least for me at any rate.
The only rule is, there are no rules 😂.
Nonteraqueos is a classic.
Love 180.
Don't tell anyone, but I've never played elite.
Dizzy 🤢 🤮 💩.
Recall mapping and completing Dustin.
Buzzsaw is very good, great hive mind picks.
😁😁 Not playing Elite is ok but even worse......do you own a copy?
Nonterraqueous, Dave are we the only ones who love the game 😁
@@dennyhaynes3 only ones with taste mate.
@@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533 😉
As far as text adventures go, Sherlock, all the Delta four stuff, the Level 9 adventures plus the Magnetic Scrolls games are all brilliant. How about downloading a copy of the Professional Adventure Writer and programming your own? I wrote a few back in the eighties and have PAW on my emulator but alas no inspiration, maybe the new Spectrum will make the creative juice stir..........
Using a joystick 🕹 is a must. Keyboard sucks. I played ghosts and gobblings on my +2 with keys and had w**kers cramp for a few hours 😂 I'm a c64 man but really enjoying my speccy and your channel 👍
Hahaha the cramp comment made me smile. Cheers!
Zybex was my favourite game on the speccy and it only cost me £1.99
Couple of mentions for that one. I've not played it.
@SebsPlaceYT it was great!!The first game I ever completes.
After playing it for 37 million years.
i always dreamed about a Spectrum Loki That never happend :(
Any love for 'Barbarian' by Palace Software? Memorable marketing and instant death one move execution. Great in 2 player too.
The poster wasn't bad either. 😉
I think that and the head lopping move were the two things that persuaded a lot of people to buy the game.
Barbarian is a brilliant shout and should be added 100%
@@jaysmith2858 Ah yes indeed. Maria Whittaker and Wolf from Gladiators. 10 year old me was mightily impressed. My dad was fine with the poster too. Mum, less so.
@@SebsPlaceYT Cheers. Love the channel. You and RTS have been excellent finds.
We are both together for More Fun Making Its charity stream next Saturday, 3-5pm 😊
Saturday afternoon and a couple of beers to come watching Seb’s Place 🍻
Sadly it is violent and even a crime. I was out on the town and got into trouble. I encased the other guy in a bubble and popped it, killing them. Was arrested and due in court 😀
My mirror in my living room has a small White Hart Lane plaque.✌️
😂😂 so it is a violent game then! COYS!!!
Auf wiedersehen pet x10 there you go.
😂😂 what a game!!!
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Im unsure about getting one of these new machines. Ive got all the games on my PC and admittedly the keyboard isn't suitable although the Spectrum keyboard is as i was a keyboard guy back then. But I don't know if ill use it. I put games on the Fuse emulator and have like 5 minutes and then put something else on for another 5 minutes. I cant seem to get really immersed like i did at 10 year old but I do love the Spectrum and always watch Spectrum videos. I mean look at my name for a start!
😁😁 I know what you mean. I've even got retropie installed on a pi4 with a little 8bitdo controller that works fantastic on the big tele for spectrum games but I do play it from time to time., but yeah not sure what the retrum would give me beyond that experience. I'll still get one though 😁
I thought my iPhone was telling me I’d been arrested for first degree murder! Then I realised it was the screenshot of Chase hq saying that, and all was fine.
😂😂 phew!
I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but, I've never played Elite. Even though I have a copy.
😁😁 Not playing it is ok.... owning a copy and still not playing it....
@@SebsPlaceYT I bought it around 1988. Bad Franko 😢
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Don't worry. I'm a worse offender - I bought the Beeb to play Elite, and still didn't get round to doing so!
@@volo870 Yeah, that is worse. 🤣
So, which joystick are you guys going to be using?
Good question!
Please excuse a silly question, what is the difference between “available to download “ and “not easily available”? Isn’t every Spectrum game under the sun available online? Is it a question of availability or legality?
Yeah legality wise. There are popular spectrum based websites like spectrumcomputing or worldofspectrum that have links to the games. Some publishers like elite and codemasters asked them to take those links down, so you have to search for them to find them. Some other comments here give info where to find them, but most of the time, a simple Google will suffice. It's just that I can't recommend any of those sites as they might be spammy. Hope that helps.
Yeah, absolutely! Licensing is confusing at times. Many of the games on world of spectrum et al are western ports of arcade games. The companies owning the licenses probably care about the arcade originals, but these ports? Who knows. Probably varies?
Yeah varies I think. Spectrumcomputing.co.uk is by far my favourite. So nicely laid out and also great for making videos as a lot of the reference material is also linked. Reviews etc....
No hang on….let us realise
No hang on as in the game or no hang on as in hold on a minute ? 😁
Interior, Sebs house. Seb is sitting at the dinner table with his back to the hallway leading to the front door.
Two men have appeared, out of nowhere, in the the hallway. They are the 8bit Police.
8bit Police "Good evening Mr Seb!".
Seb turns away from his dinner, steam is still rising from his plate of pasta and Seb has that pasta ring around his mouth you see kids get, it has stained his scruffy fifteen year olds beard and will be a bastard to wash out (😂). He sees two men standing in his hallway, wearing trenchcoats, hats and sunglasses indoors.
"Who the hell are you? And how the hell did you get in here?" say's Seb dabbing at his face with his handkerchief.
8bP "We are the 8bit Police Sir. And we have come regarding a very grave matter Sir. Of online japery Sir". The 8bP fished a little black book and pen from his jacket pocket, he flipped it open and popped the pen and held it to the page.
Seb "The fuck".
8bP "Did you or did you not say on the 11th of October that the Spectrum 48k version of Chase HQ was the closest any home computer port came to the arcade?".
Seb "Well yeah, so what?".
8bP "Heresy Sir" wailed the 8bP "It is well known within the halls of the great and good in Retro City that the Amstrad CPC with it's vibrant colours, it's sense of speed and the feel of an arcade machine shrunk into your CPC. The full range of it's palate was evocative of smelly damp carpets, coins in machine slots, cigarette smoke and ladies of the night.....your puny Spectrum cannot stand against that good sir, cuff him Andrew" the pitch and tone rising to a stacatto screech as he finished.
8bP "We're not supposed to use names Nicholas".
Seb "Wait a minute, take those hats and glasses off, are you the Oliver twins?".
8bP "Hit him with the DFM2K (Dizzy ForgetMe 5000) Nicholas".
The 8bP produced a Dizzy plushy and squeezed it, a sulphurous green tinted gas oozed from within and just as Seb took a step forward and laid a finger on the 8bP he collapsed to the ground.
"There, not only won't he remember that ludicrous claim about Chase HQ but he won't remember we were here either".
Both men turned to look at each other and as if they could read each others minds, with their left hands index finger pointing to the sky they exclaimed "To the DizzyBoat", jumped up into the air and disappeared.
Seb woke up 8 hours later.....all he remembered was, those fresh mushrooms they picked yesterday were banging in that pasta he made.....
Great video as always mate 👍👍👍
This is quite possibly the greatest comment of all time 😂😂😂 I'm still laughing.....
@@SebsPlaceYTNo probs Mr Seb 😂😂😂
Okay that's the last edit 😂😂😂
Buzzsaw plus, looks more like Pac Attack. Play Pac Attack and you'll know what I mean.
Pac-Attack was itself a derivative. The original of this game style was an arcade machine called 'Cosmo Gang - The Puzzle', loosely based on characters and themes from an electro-mechanical shooting gallery game called 'Cosmo Gang'.
@@jasonrailton7990 ive got a licenced version of Cosmo gang on my Nintendo Wii.. NTSC J region only. Basically Galiga with cute sprites. Good game that. I like the cute sounds too.
All Namcot aka Namco games.
@@bit-ishbulldog2089 - that's the shmup game with those characters. The puzzle game is falling crates, and the original arcade machine was a mechanical one with whack-a-mole like moving animatronics.
Really? You missed Dracula from text adventures?
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Rectum is an awesome name for a product!
You missed the R out.......😁
@@SebsPlaceYT "R"-rectum? That sounds naughty. 😊
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Not sure if i should mention this.. but as kids we were always letting each other know where to er... get a copy of a certain game.. so.. a nice chap by the name of Simply Austin who's channel has been silent for a few years now has conveniently left a Mega link to his speccy games collection linked on one of his vids.. As far as i remember its a full set and it contains a few games that as you say.. are not downloadable.. even though they are.. sort of.. but you didnt hear any of this from me.. and i will delete this post if you think its wrong to mention it..
Other than that... Pukka vid as always..
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Lovely! Happy to leave here 👍 thanks for sharing
Don't buy this must not in the first place. Just a nostalgic cash grab that will soon end up gathering dust.
Not sure it's a cash grab if people are genuinely excited to get one? Lots have been pre-ordered. No different to the other minis imo.
Great video. I admire your commitment to the Rectrum joke. Classic Dad-joke territory 🫡
Thank you! I try 😁