1984: Are The Top COMPUTER GAMES Good? | Saturday Superstore | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive
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- A brand new Top Ten chart has been compiled by the National Opinion Poll, documenting the best-selling home computer video games in the UK for the first time ever.
Sarah Greene is joined by some young games experts - Dominic, Duncan and Cassie - to help her undertake a "Special Superstore Software Check-Out." Which of the computer games in the so-called Top Ten do they think is the best?
The three top-selling titles; Manic Miner, Atic Atac and Ant Attack are put through their paces, along with new release, Bear Bovver. Games will be reviewed on the same format - the Sinclair Spectrum - and points will be allocated for graphics, playability and value for money.
Incidentally, the complete inaugural UK Video Game Top Ten is as follows:
1: Manic Miner (Commodore 64)
2: Atic Atac (Spectrum)
3: Ant Attack (Spectrum)
4. Hunchback (Spectrum)
5: Fighter Pilot (Spectrum)
6: Manic Miner (Spectrum)
7: The Hobbit (Spectrum)
8: Pole Position (Atari)
9: Mr Wimpy (Spectrum)
10: Revenge of the Mutant Camels (Commodore 64)
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That 80s style is so evocative. Britain looked permanently overcast and slightly damp.
It still is! 😭😭 lol
Can tell people who didn’t live in the 80s.. it was awesome time sadly never to be repeated. The world is heading to imploding up its own arse thanks to work rubbish 😵💫
@@project-95 I would. In a heartbeat.
@@markdillon5494 Me too
Very funny because growing up in the late 70s and 80s that is exactly what all the British shows looked like which is why I and I assume most of us, fell in love with all the American shows. They always looked so much more colourful and warmer.
Bear Bovver was way ahead of its time. Its a portrayal of the struggles of modern EV owners trying to access recharge points.
LOL
Someone give these poor kids a Kempston joystick 🕹️
qaopm!
Multiface II
Oculus Quest 2
For some reason I imagined myself popping into existence next to Sarah as a fourth guest, 54 years old, still playing games
I didn't agree with your score for Atic Atac and did you really have to have a stroke in front of those |(ids and Sarah Greene?
Come on time travelling commenter pull your socks up!☝️😩
Me too, 59 and still playing video games too. How things have improved graphically
@@DemonetisedZone haha, there's a lot of comedy in the imagery!
I'm 48 and still remember old Atari 2600 games!
Sarah G was eminently shaggable, back in the day.
@@adamkane7513 She sure was
Sarah Green was a true gem back then.
Blooming awesome to see footage like this from the real `Spectrum Days`, ah the memories, going into a shop and being able to try out the games...take me back!!!
I remember how exciting it was to go upstairs in our local Woolworths, in Peterborough, and play on the game systems they had set up to demo, the only specific system I can remember is the Atari VCS but I'm sure there were others.
@@RUSH2112RUSH Yes, I even remember going into Boots and playing games whilst my mum bought whatever mums buy in a chemist!
Super Drug was my fave place to go and play and buy Mastertronic games - what was it with drug stores and computer games?!
this clip has been up on madcommodore's channel for over a year lol
@@spectrumdays Boots were even selling Megadrive games and Playstation games in the 90's.
I wish I could go back to that time again.
Me too.
@@jinxterx And me, none of this woke/gender nonesense back then, no threat of this Great Reset agenda that's being pushed now either.
Sarah Greene and Atic Atac in the same video, sometimes life can be so good...
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
I heard she preffered pool to computer games
She is still fit today
@@bennyhill8679 no! But you chase owt ay benny?!
@@pem...apart from your mum
Sarah Greene is gorgeous. I think I was in love with her all my teenage years!
She's aged well.
Me too!
What a beautiful woman
The first documented simp.
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
I started gaming on the Atari 2600 in the late 1970's..
By 1984 i was12 years old and loved the ZX Spectrum back then, the games look laughable now, but it was nearly 40 years ago, and the memories of loading up those games still bring a smile to my face to this day..
Cool to think how games have improved over the decades. And this was the start of the gaming revolution, long live Speccy and C64! 👍👍.
Ah, Sarah Greene. I had a major crush on her through the 80's (let's face it, who didn't?).
Still in love with Sarah Green...and computer games
Dominic must be in his late forties by now and Duncan and Cassie will be in their 50s. I wonder how they feel looking back on themselves 39 years ago with the gorgeous Sarah Greene!
I had a Vic 20 back in 84. It was old hat by then and the majority of the kids I was at school with had Spectrums or C64s. So we had a little clique of us who used to lend each other games as we were in the minority (same went for those kids who owned a BBC or an Atari). Some games forNonetheless this brings back memories of some great games like Gridrunner, Choplifter, Ganymede and of course the classic Elite. And some of the companies that made games like Bug Byte, Llamasoft (Jeff Winter was a programming genius), Ocean, Imagine and even Thorn EMI and Virgin had a go at knocking out games for the markets. I remember one of the computer magazines (might have been Popular Computing Weekly) ran a top ten selling games of about six different computers. There were some really interesting machines back in those days (who remembers the Oric-1, The Dragon 32, Jupiter Ace, Tandy , Sord M5, named after a computer in an episode of Star Trek apparently, and the TI44/A?).
Yes I remember all of those I actually had a TI99/4a as my first computer back in 1985 but nobody else at school had one so I couldn’t swap games with anybody, anyway i rectified this the following year when Father Christmas brought me and amstrad cpc464 with a green screen monitor 😊 it was my pride and joy for the rest of my school years until i left in 1990, got a job and bought myself a sega megadrive, happy days..
Had an oric-1 (2nd system), felt more like a toy, and most games were typed in from mag listings. It took a tumble down stairs and is now in silicon heaven.
Edit: did want a dragon, purely for the name. Which is the system that had a portrait monitor in the adverts? Think I trashed all my early 80's mags due to them falling apart when a teen.
In Germany Stiftung Warentest (institution for testing consumer goods) compared home computers in October 1984.
Contestants were Atari 600 XL, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, EACA Colour Genie, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tandy TRS-80 und Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.
The TI-99/4A Was the winner! But they had to acknowledge that this system was already 1 year out of production back then. 😅
@@fruitking6916 I remember the green screen computers! II must be a couple of years older than you as I was working when I bought myself a mega drive around 1991. Lots of crap games for it but some great ones too. It came with Sonic who was a brilliant one to bundle with it. You were either a SNES kid or a Sega kid in those days. I was very much a Sega fan although I was a little jealous of some of the SNES games. Also had an Atari Lynx that was brilliant fun but it never achieved the popularity of the game boy
@@trevorbrown6654 I was 16 in 1991 and I also bought a megadrive when I started work in late 91, one system I didn’t know about at the time was the pc engine or turbografx, I defo would of had one of those if I’d of known!
Thoroughly enjoyable and depressing at the same time when you wonder where all the years have gone !
My absolute favourite spectrum game was "Knight lore" .
I remember "taping off" games but putting too many on something stupid like a C 120 TAPE and having a nightmare trying to find the beginning of a game !
Same here, repeatedly rewinding and forwarding in search of the loading tone, and then hoping it wasn't the splash screen loading tone which meant I had to go back a bit more!
HAHAHA oh yeah 120 Minutes tapes were not really made for Computer applications as the tape material was also too thin for the Data Tape drives to handle properly. Alsooo this is why you wrote down the 3 Digit tapecounter position when you added another game to your tape ;)
Knight Lore, Sabre Wulf, Alien8 and Underworld were some of the best games of the time.
You obviously never played “Starquake”
Shame they didn't realize you could turn the music off on Manic Miner....this also made the game run faster as there wasn't as much load on that massive cpu😂..My fav ZX game ever.
Its funny but I only realised when we did our review of Miner the other day that you could turn it off!!!
@@spectrumdays Kudos to Matthew Smith for this game. I think he inspired future generations of programmers with this game. Funnily enough he wrote this on a Tandy III computer and then ported it over to the Spectrum.
@@abrokenframe82 Ported? He called it squirting lol. He had a speccy open with wires coming from the cpu to his Tandy.
But why would you want to make it run faster? That made it harder...
@@squirrel7t7 ha! Yes...those were his exact words👍
the era in which one person in their bedroom or basement could learn to program, make a game and if they were talented enough get it published and sold in retail stores! the true first indie game makers, im more familiar with the 16 bit machines such as the Amiga and ST but even with them people who were in the demoscene such as the guys from travellers tales and DMA design went on to great things.
That's all well and good but I seem to remember an American kid, I think his name was/is David Lightman, finding a backdoor into what he thought was a new game being developed but it was actually a system for automating the American response to a nuclear attack. He started playing Global Thermonuclear War not realising that the military thought they were under attack for real and when he did, with the help of the creator of Joshua the computer running the programme, he narrowly avoided starting WW3 for real. So it wasn't always great to have that one computer genius alone in his bedroom with just his computer for company.
See now you can learn to do this from your mobile device , would have been hard back in these days
@@RUSH2112RUSH that's not the kids problem. It was the government that was stupid enough to allow access to their nuclear weapons, over the internet. You'd think they'd learn their lesson. Yet they still get hacked, because they think their floppydisk system is too hard to hack.😂
@@RUSH2112RUSH 😂 Yeah, I think they made a documentary about that. 😂
@@noompsieOG actually, nowadays you won’t be doing it at all. AI would do it for us and we could all just sit and watch.
Those were the days!!
How I miss recording games and swapping them at school.
The good old 48k Spectrum in all it's rubber keyed glory. Every kid who had one and used the keyboard control for games probably has carpal tunnel syndrome now.
I don't!
Kempston joystick interface was a must!
My dad also had a C64 at the same time so had the joysticks already.
Can remember us huddled around the C64 playing Summer Games.
I did and yes both hands done! Although I preferred my Atari 2600.
@@luminousfractal420 Sounds like an absolute bargain. I'll look into that.
Thanks for the heads up!
I remember playing Paperboy in the arcades and it had handlebars for controlling the bike.
i had a quckshot joystick
Such nostalgia. Feels a lifetime ago.
Just brilliant, I remember going skiing and fighting spiders with Horace as a 12 year old on Xmas day 1983.
Also.....Sarah Greene was never far from my adolescent "thoughts" 😁
Who remembers the collection of games that came with the ZX Spectrum. There was various Horace goes type games, but there was Grand Prix I think it was called. It was the first game to try and emulate a steering wheel. You had the option of taking a biscuit tin lid and placing it in the middle of the number keys. Then moving it left and right, pressed on the lower and higher number keys, turning the car. I remember thinking that one day, we would have much better graphics and real steering wheels. Now I play GT on my PSVR2 using a Fanatec wheel. I still think back to my playstation days back then.
Chequered Flag.
Christ, love this blast from the past, and the bonus of seeing the lovely Sarah to .
‘The colours are too bright’. Sounds like the C64 would be more your speed… earthtones.
heh, yeah you can't do much to change the bright colours on a spectrum
@@andyukmonkey Actually you could, there was a brightness level to each colour - well 2 of them dim or bright.
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 yeah, fair point
3 great games and Bear Bovver.
Atic Atac was very advanced for such an early Spectrum game with multiple playable characters thateach had their own strengths and shortcuts. Apparently, you can complete it in less than 5 minutes if you know the game which is something I could never do as back in the day.
The funny thing is that Ultimate already had KnightLore ready for release at this point. They held it back a year because they didn't think the market was ready and knew they could still sell less advanced games.
I didn't know the ACG key had to be arranged in the right order in the inventory. I "guessed", wrongly, it had to be assembled on the floor. Oh, the hours wasted by that front door...
Reminds me of the old Griffithiffs Games Megamart in my town. Have some fun memories of working up some suds playing the original version of Window Cleaner.
Computers aren't just for boring things like writing poetry or organising a funeral.
"Look Around You : Special Report on Computer Games"
I live in Australia, I got an Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer at 17.
I spent more time cracking game protection systems than playing games (inspired by War Games till I realised it wasn't realistic 😂) .. 80's games were just too hard for me.
After I'd crack the game I'd donate the games to my Amstrad User group I belonged to, we had a library where you could pay to borrow the game for a month... It helped pay the rent on the hall, pay for biscuits and coffee.
I probably bought 500 games and donated them all.. The library was pretty much my contributions.
Of those 500 or so games (not including adventure games), I finished 2 games without cheating.. N. O. M. A. D & Fireant.
A gaming prodigy I was not 😂
I don't think I ever got past the second screen of Manic Miner.
55 and still playing games, but actually able to finish them since they're so much easier nowadays.
Saddest thing about the BBC is that they've NEVER had a dedicated video game show. Sure, they've had shows with gaming elements in it like First Class, Total Reality, Fight Box, and that VR thing Craig Charles presented, but they've all been aimed at kids.
And for an industry bigger than the movie and music's combined, it's a huge shame that the Beeb has never had a proper mature series. More so when the TV license is required to show all interests. yet one of the most popular hobbies in the UK for four decades has nothing.
Probably because they would have had to focus exclusively on the BBC Micro as *the only true home computer*
Hey it's that guy.
On a similar thought, I always found it strange that quiz shows always had hundreds of questions about movies, sports, and bands, but almost never any questions about video games - and when they do, it's something like "what company created Mario?" or "what popular battle royale game has players drop in from a Battle Bus?"
That 3d vr thing with Craig Charles was such a NARROW era in graphics, the birth of 3d polygons, and utterly the most ugly of all stages along the video game evolutionary tree.
Also, it means a lot to know you like this channel too! It's actually the best thing about the BBC xD
It's TV licence (ce), not 'license' (se). Licence is the noun, whereas license is the verb only, unless you're American. Therefore you license (verb) someone by issuing them a licence (noun), hence TV licence, driving licence, etc.
Please use and preserve our English language and avoid adopting unnecessary Americanisms. xx
I had a Vic 20 and still vividly remember unboxing it and loading up Blitz 😀
Same! I can still smell the smell of the box. Psycho Shopper was a good one and The Perils Of Miner Willy. Dodo Lair was - not easy (ahem!)
If thats the city bomber game, I remember it well as the game type with huge graphics.
@@zigzagtoes - that’s the one, fly over the city bombing sky scrapers before you drop low enough to hit them.
The Ultimate Play the Game titles were my favourites too. Sabre Wulf, Jet Pac and Knight Lore kept me entertained for days on my BBC Model B.
I had such a crush on Sarah Green at this time
You and just about every other British male between the ages of 12 and 80...
edit: and a few females did as well I'd imagine.
And yet don't know how to spell her name.
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
@@scottishwildcat We've all dropped an "e" at some point.
"Makes too much noise and the colours are too bright". Boy, are you in for a shock! 😂
i was just thinking the same, now its "i need more noise and brightness......keeps tapping"
1st game i played on my ZX Spectrum was Beach Head by US Gold. Happy days, and Sarah Greene was and still is bloody gorgeous...
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
5:23 I'm feeling their neck strain looking up at those monitors
I still know Sarah Greene now and she's just as lovely as you'd imagine. A real gem of a person.
Looking at these charts, this was the best week of my life so far.
Loved every minute of that. Takes me back, many thanks
My childhood right there, those many, many minutes spent waiting to see if it would load, only to get to where the music and menu should pop up and it would crash! Those rubber keys! Awesome!
You ALWAYS went out the room to let it load! Only rookies stayed and watched it fail after 6 minutes of bleeping and coloured lines! 😂
The amount of hours spent on Saturdays in the 80s playing manic miner and jet set Willy with friends was worth it !
The fabulously lovely Sarah Greene. So 80s.
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
I love these old computer videos. Keep'em coming Aunty Beeb!
Bear Bovver is the only one I’ve never heard of, lost hours of my early teens to the other three. Think I bought Manic Miner but used my tape-to-tape recorder to make copies of the other two off boys from school. As long as you had, or knew someone with, a tape-to-tape recorder only one person in class actually bought the game. £5.99 was a massive amount of money in those days and you could get loads of games on a blank C90 tape (make sure you note down the tape counter number for where the games start and end!)
I played them all. Bear Bovver was rubbish.
Sarah Green gets 10 out of 10
no taste in men though- marrying the idiot mike smith
I would "award her 1" or something like that, though not when this programme came out; I would have been a similar age to the youngest boy.
I had a crush on this posh totty as a kid!
"It makes too much noise" - if only he heard the Spectrum starting up 😅
Back in my day we teleported everywhere 😅
I loved Manic Miner. It was one of the only mainstream games I could get for the Toshiba MSX. My dad was told it was going to be the next big thing, but unfortunately never took off. However I loved it. You got a monthly magazine where you could program your own simple games and a cartridge slot. You could get really good cartridge games for the time from Konamai.
She gave me special feelings as a teenage boy
The 80's were crazy this interview is great
Splendid! This is amazing to watch.
Atic Atac was great but I could finish it too quickly eventually. The one I really liked was the Defender clone - Invasion of the Bodysnatchas (I think) with back door loading hacks and weird Ulysses references.
Matthew Smith sweats blood to get actual music out of the Spectrum beeper.
Some kid: "It makes too much noise"
I was working at a local bargain brand battery plant, and some of my coworkers were talking about playing "Oregon Trail". I lived in the town of Oregon and thought they were talking about a local school. I thought their comments about running out of food or drinking contaminated water were taken from the numerous plaques that would adorn such a school. (We love our plaques around here) Little did I know they were talking about a computer game of some popularity.
i remember when i was in the 8th grade and I overheard 1 of my classmates talking about the pole vault, i chimed in assuming he was talking about the Commodore 64 game 'Summer Games'; then to my surprise he was talking about the actual pole vault! I could not believe that an 8th grader could do that! that kid was quite an athlete.
Those were the days!! When game reviews had no Nord-VPN and War Thunder sponsoring!!
Those were the dark days. Back then, even garbage published by LJN could be marketed as good.
"Today I'll be reviewing Read Dead Redemption 2, but first I'd like to tell you about another game which simply blows RDR2 out of the water on every front - It's called Raid Shadow..."
Hello boomers
@@ktsmells a boomer would have been 40 when this video came out
Not necessarily, a baby boomer is someone who was born in the twenty years that followed WWII. Youngest boomer would be about 18 at the time of this video.
Great video from the vaults. I'd happily show Sarah how to play each of these games, except for Bear Bovver.
I Remember playing “knobber” on an Apple IIe green screen only back in 1983/84.
Good to hear the word 'sheets' being used,instead of 'levels' or 'screens' and the like.
The posh kids had either a spectrum plus 2 or Commodore 64 or really posh ones a BBC micro with the game elite
The kid who smelled of onions and sat on his own at lunchtime would have an Amstrad CPC with the tiny green monitor.
4:07
Wee guy looks like he's having a fit 😂
All kinds of awesome. I love that the colours were too bright on the C64 version of Manic Miner 💪
0:21 That sound effect that they used when the kids appeared was also one of the sounds used in Blake's 7 for the teleport bracelets.
I know this because it's the text alert on my phone, and it confused me for a second lol
Jet Set Willy is still amazing to this day. Matthew Smith is an absolute Genius, as were the Oliver Twins.
yeah JSW is legendary. at the foot of the megatree!
Imagine 40 years from now, we're all gonna see a same video talking about Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War and Elden Ring. :)
Atic Atac was my favourite. I played it for hours, and programmed my own version.
That host was 80s hot 🔥
Just a couple of years away from Zelda being released. Must have blown their minds. I was born in 85 so I was more a mega drive / snes generation kid, but seeing the progression from manic miner onwards must have been an incredible experience for these kids.
It was really the arcade games that blew your mind at the time, at least for me.
It was the Amiga for me. The progression with a 16 bit machine like that compared to an 8 bit machine was mind blowing.
A great era.
@@DingKong I have very fond memories of my Amiga 500 - I got it from a friend in exchange for my gameboy. I knew sod all about computers or what to do with this massive collection of copied games and software... Had no computer of our own, no Internet, and no computer savvy friends to help. So I have some very happy memories of working out how to fire up Desert Strike, Hudson Hawk, Rainbow Islands and many others!
I still get a shiver now when I see James Pond appear somewhere. Nostalgia is a funny feeling isn't it!
I started with a Spectrum in 1986 and my brother got a NES in 87 I think with the first Zelda game not long behind Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt.
After that the Spectrum wasnt played so much but it had such a huge catalogue of games made by homebrew programmers 😊
You're not understanding that the home computer world is almost a different universe to the console world. No minds were blown by Zelda, it made little or no impression on people in 1986 with a C64, Spectrum, Amstrad, BBC, Apple, Amiga, Atari ST etc who were probably playing Bards Tale, Ultima, Sword of Fargoal etc if they liked rpgs. Even Super Mario brothers was barely noticed, and that was only because of the controversy around Great Giana sisters. It regularly amazes me how clueless people who grew up with a nintendo, sega etc are to the non-console world.
Still lots of love for the Spectrum. Dozens of new games are released for the machine every year.
You would know :)
The Speccy is an amazing platform. From limitations comes great creativity. And i gotta say, even though the C64 was my first love for Home computers, i LOOOVE the Spectrum because of its quirks and surprisingly fast CPU. Even the limited sound capabilities are surprisingly worked around with by so many developers.
Fond memories of the early game consoles and home computers. Back then, the graphics blew my tiny mind. Game evolution has come along way since the 1970's/80's as I compare 'Manic Miner' to 'God of War: Ragnarok.
Loved Tottenham Court Road back then for tech,it’s crap now they have all gone apart from Cex near the top end,that was the first Cex I’ve still got my original membership card 😊
I love how a lot of the early games were a character in some semblance of a room having to avoid whacky objects and collect stuff.
Like Chucky egg!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂
Sarah Greene flexing those pre-Ghostwatch acting chops 😄
They were saying most of the games are too large, I wonder what they think of games like red dead redemption as adult players
I would prefer a game that offered less value for money, stupid kids 😂
I used to love Tottenham Court road back in the day!
Somebody give those poor souls a Commodore 64 and a Joystick!
Ghetto blaster. Check. Connect ear socket cable on 48k Speccy to mic socket on ghetto blaster. Check. Play Winter Games by Epyx. Groove out at the apparent 3 channel sound! Check!!!
I was deeply into computer gaming around the same time as this. Had a huge game collection on my C64 but Manic Miner is the only title of these that I have heard of. The Bear one looks like a ripoff of Burger Time, which I have played a lot. Still do from time to time on emulators. Like these kids, I still think of some of these games as having great graphics.
@@chaosflower4892 Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy were published by Software Creations, not Ultimate
@@LordNimonYT Software Projects, not Creations. (Manic Miner was published by Bug Byte first, before Matthew Smith started Software Projects and took it with him.)
@3:05 "If you found new rooms all the time, it could last forever"
And that kid went on to make The Binding of Isaac. 😉
I played Atic Atac back when I was a similar age to the kids in this video and was just thinking how Binding of Isaac is like a twisted modern update!
Later in the year 1984 there was Jet Set Willy, Sabre Wulf, Star Quake, Knight Lore and many, many other games.
JSW and Sabre Wulf are/were awesome. probably spent entire days playing those.
The joy of modifying that DEC B to NOP in Manic Miner, so you wouldn't lose any lives.. Changing it to INC B was rather interesting...
This type of nostalgic technology is coming back.
If you asked my mother at the time (she kind of appropriated the ZX Spectrum for a couple of years in the mid 1980s!) her top three were:
3. Attic Atac
2. Jet Pak
1. Transylvanian Tower (she spent hours on that one!)
Brings back memories
Elite, Castle Quest, Sabre Wulf, Yie Ar Kung-Fu and Knight Lore on the BBC, *Chef kiss*.
We had a shop in our town centre in the 80's called "Grithiffths Games Megamart". The owner was a strange bloke. He would often be sitting in the corner alone at the computer pretending to be a fire fighter. Waggeling his "joy-stick" until he brought up a thick head of foam to put out the fire... (or so he said) ....
I still love my Spectrum.
Manic Miner and Atic atac are both in my top 3 speccy games, along with Chuckie egg. Ant attack would be in my top 10
Chuckle egg was my favourite also ghostbusters would be up in my top 10
@@davidmoore2308 yup enjoyed playing that a lot too
Lords of Midnight/Doomdark's Revenge, Elite, Psytron, Combat Lynx, Tau Ceti/Academy, Arnhem, Halls of the Things, Worm in Paradise ... those are the ones I spent all my time on.
I remember Ant Attack , I was amazed by the 3D graphics on my Spectrum LOL Very difficult to complete, I don't think I did.
Sarah Green was very fit in her day❤
Very interesting, thanks. :)
Fab review of games!
Ah before the days of 'Not actual game play' where you got what you see.
Fantastic games and fantastic days of wonderment and excitement...
LOL the kids face at 4:05 🤣🤣🤣
Though the cheeky rascals did used to put screen shots from different systems on the back of the cassette to make you think you're getting a graphically better game.
@@adamweishaupt2846 I know but you could easily tell by the colours used, nowadays they render complete scenes and try to make us think that it's gameplay. Can you imagine a car advert where it shows a Ferrari driving around and when you order it you get a Skoda instead 🤣🤣
And when loading times where actual loading times, not this "Xbox is slower, taking 10 secs longer than the PlayStation" 😂
Seeing an Amiga screenshot on the back of a Spectrum game would make me drool. Robocop 2 in 16bit colour? That was the stuff of legends that only the older kids had. I adored the Spectrum but my first Amiga is probably the gaming love of my life - The Blues Brothers, Toki, Titus the Fox, etc.
Love this. Funny how those primitive game sounds never seemed to bother me back in the day. Now they’re absolutely painful 😂
Ahh Happy memories had all of these for my Spekky (:
The golden age of video games
Great b7sound effects
Manic Miner. Great game for its time. Spent many an hour playing that.
Brilliant
What's also amazing is the staff you can see here, young men with neat hair, in jacket and tie with name badge. The polo shirt wearer would be the person loading things round the back. Now it's polo shirts up front and often no badge. And all the goods people wear dinner suits 😉
This comment appears just a day after a meme i saw yester, showing then and now.. jumber jack in dungerees, beard, checkered bobble hat, and tech guys in shirt & tie (then), and the now being tech guys in lumberjack clobber with beards, while lumberjacks are in the office attire and clean shaven 😂
@@zigzagtoes 👌
Thank you.