Fascinating seeing such early games. Many of these, especially the very playable ones, would have been extremely exciting to kids back then. I can't recall when I bought my Spectrum but I'd had a VCS and a ZX81 before then. Some of these arcade conversions are pretty good for their time. Great memories again!
What a fantastic compilation! So many fond memories! Ground Zero was actually one of the first games I ever played at home on a computer, being a 16K Speccy back then. And Ground Force Zero, how well I remember that one! My granddaddy was determined to learned programming back then in the eigthies and he started with typing down the BASIC program of this game and analyzing it. Big thanks to the uploader, that's a great work!
I remember many of this games. I played a lot with the chess game, and I was totally unable to beat it. I am a very bad chess player, but I am able to win some other programs or persons, except this little program from 1982. Many of the games of this list were able to run in the Spectrum 16 Kb, it was an achievement because very few kilobytes were actually free in the 16 Kb model.
Selection is based on the games I personally played and know about. So it's possible I missed a few. If you know of any Spanish games I missed, please let me know. I'll be glad to check them out.
@@retrononame There were many spanish developers companies in those wonderful years, Opera, Made in Spain, Dinamic, Toposoft. In Spain, where I live, oldest titles are very expensive in second hand market.
I covered quite a few games from Dinamic, Topo ... in later episodes (1985, 1986 and beyond). I don't really know many older games from Spain (which is a shame). Will do a bit more research though. I'm just in the process of making a list for 1990 and there are a lot of good games from Spain made on the list. Stay tuned for it as it will be uploaded soon.
Take into account that we are talking about year 82, the first spanish "A-grade game" was La Pulga (Bugaboo in UK), and it was in 83. Dinamic started in 84, other companies even later.
@@retrononame I didn't mean "Why did you pick so many Pac-Man clones?" I was meaning: "Gee, they sure did make a fuckton of Pac-Man clones back then. Holy Shit!"
Worst games was in 1982 year. But in USSR/Russia this was in ~1989-1993. Vector-06c, BK and etc. Very poor programs and bad games was written in this time.
Well it does make sense. Spectrum was released in 1982 and it would take a bit of time for programmers to get used to the machine and its capabilities. I don't really know when the Spectrum was introduced in USSR. Was it in later years? And is this the reason for bad software in the 89-93 period?
@@Darwinion profits from mobile gaming made investors push mobile gaming as cool and normal same for other games, as budgets and profits exceeded movie budgets, it became obligatory to make everyone play and bring their money
No, they were just normal kids who enjoyed gaming. I don't recall any of my friends fitting the "nerd" cliched description (quite the opposite) but we all enjoyed computer games.
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Fascinating seeing such early games. Many of these, especially the very playable ones, would have been extremely exciting to kids back then. I can't recall when I bought my Spectrum but I'd had a VCS and a ZX81 before then. Some of these arcade conversions are pretty good for their time. Great memories again!
Horace Goes Skiing was the first game I remember playing on the Speccy! 💕
Nice. My first games on Speccy were Manic Miner and Aquaplane. :)
Horace goes skiing for me too. I wonder if it came with the package.
Amazing seeing how many of these were just written in BASIC.
What a fantastic compilation! So many fond memories! Ground Zero was actually one of the first games I ever played at home on a computer, being a 16K Speccy back then. And Ground Force Zero, how well I remember that one! My granddaddy was determined to learned programming back then in the eigthies and he started with typing down the BASIC program of this game and analyzing it. Big thanks to the uploader, that's a great work!
You are more than welcome!
Thank you for watching the video! I'm glad it brought back some nice memories.
Humble and basic beginnings for the might Speccy!
The Hobbit was a fantastic game. Lost many, many hours in that world, trying to get Bard to shoot the Red Golden Dragon 🙈
Thanks for the wave of nostalgia!
You're welcome. I'm glad you liked the video.
Great to see so many early classics in one video.
Nice list, I had most of these back in the day, by the way, your entry for Space Invaders (6:23) is actually called Spectral Invaders :)
Thank you. And yes, I checked and you are correct! It's Spectral Invaders indeed.
I remember many of this games. I played a lot with the chess game, and I was totally unable to beat it. I am a very bad chess player, but I am able to win some other programs or persons, except this little program from 1982.
Many of the games of this list were able to run in the Spectrum 16 Kb, it was an achievement because very few kilobytes were actually free in the 16 Kb model.
I was (and still am) a bad chess player, so I could never win against Speccy :)
Amazing series of videos: thank you !!!
Thank you, for your kind words and for watching the videos.
4 space invaders on the same year
Yeah, very popular genre in 1982 :)
Many many more in fact
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Glad you like the video.
Thanks for watching!
Wow, those Basic drawn sprites...
What about spanish Spectrum games?
Selection is based on the games I personally played and know about. So it's possible I missed a few. If you know of any Spanish games I missed, please let me know. I'll be glad to check them out.
@@retrononame There were many spanish developers companies in those wonderful years, Opera, Made in Spain, Dinamic, Toposoft. In Spain, where I live, oldest titles are very expensive in second hand market.
In any case, my favorite ones of all times are Dizzy and Dragontorc, english games which are in higher level.
I covered quite a few games from Dinamic, Topo ... in later episodes (1985, 1986 and beyond). I don't really know many older games from Spain (which is a shame). Will do a bit more research though.
I'm just in the process of making a list for 1990 and there are a lot of good games from Spain made on the list. Stay tuned for it as it will be uploaded soon.
Take into account that we are talking about year 82, the first spanish "A-grade game" was La Pulga (Bugaboo in UK), and it was in 83. Dinamic started in 84, other companies even later.
So many Pac-Man clones...
They were popular in 82 weren't they? :)
@@retrononame
I didn't mean "Why did you pick so many Pac-Man clones?"
I was meaning: "Gee, they sure did make a fuckton of Pac-Man clones back then. Holy Shit!"
There must have been at least 10 invaders/galaxian/phoenix clones in there, too.
Worst games was in 1982 year. But in USSR/Russia this was in ~1989-1993. Vector-06c, BK and etc. Very poor programs and bad games was written in this time.
Well it does make sense. Spectrum was released in 1982 and it would take a bit of time for programmers to get used to the machine and its capabilities.
I don't really know when the Spectrum was introduced in USSR. Was it in later years? And is this the reason for bad software in the 89-93 period?
Yeah, about "Lynch Mob" - Not a good name.
This is why gamers were just uncool nerds
Yet 30 years later when similar games came to mobiles they were suddenly cool. Why?! Just because women started playing angry birds?
weird comment....nothing wrong with these games or gamers lol
@@Darwinion profits from mobile gaming made investors push mobile gaming as cool and normal
same for other games, as budgets and profits exceeded movie budgets, it became obligatory to make everyone play and bring their money
No, they were just normal kids who enjoyed gaming. I don't recall any of my friends fitting the "nerd" cliched description (quite the opposite) but we all enjoyed computer games.