Best game ever, on the ZX Spectrum 48k...

[Kosh]

Silent Service... Awesome (my word of the day)

And to think they said: the chances of anything (decent) coming from this 48k thread were a million to one...

But still they come...

ooohhhh laaaaaaa

Kosh

 

[Surrey Seagull]

I never had the original rubber key Spectrum 48k. I had the plastic key Spectrum 48k+ right up until the Kempston joystick interface fell out and blew it's memory completely.
The fights which used to happen in the playground over which was better, the speccy or the c64? Then the rich kid who had a BBC micro B would show up and everyone would pick on him instead....ah memories. The speccy had better graphics but the c64 definitely had better colours and sound. It was a close run thing though.

 

[Gazwag]

I have just remembered TRANS AM

 

[Gazwag]

I'm pretty sure I had a London to Brighton steam train game as well

 

[maffew]

I can remember the invincibility cheat, except when you fell into ??hell it just looped so you had to reset the game

Yes that was Poke 35899,0 you could use 1 -32 instead of 0 as the number of lives so if you fell into Entrance to Hades through the bottom of The Security Guard or jumped off the front door or something it would only lose those lives and you wouldnt have to reload the game

There was actually a hidden item to collect in there but you could only get in with writetyper and I forget the room code

Kickstart 2 was my favourite spectrum game

 

[maffew]

There was a good budget game called Cyclone as well, little helicopter game

 

[Gazwag]

Yes that was Poke 35899,0 you could use 1 -32 instead of 0 as the number of lives so if you fell into Entrance to Hades through the bottom of The Security Guard or jumped off the front door or something it would only lose those lives and you wouldnt have to reload the game

Crickey that's impressive I was quite please just remembering the game from 25 years ago

 

[John Bumlick]

jet pac

 

[Austrian Gull]

I used to quite like the adventure games.

There was a Sherlock Holmes game where you could actually do gay things like tell Watson to sit on Holmes' lap (and he would do it) - it was great.

Thanks for the screenshot of the cricket game - entire summer holidays were spent playing that!

The Spectrum magazine rings a bell but I think they got sued after taking the piss out of Sinclair User calling it Unclear User.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I have just remembered TRANS AM

There is a remade version of tranz am you can download

Best game ever has to be head over heels.Download the remade version NOW!

Head over Heels /PC ***

 

[Legend]

Daley Thompsons Decathlon. Wrecked my keyboard !!!

 

[chez]

There were so many excellent games, heres a few of my favourites

Kentilla
Football Director
The Double
Monty Is Innocent
Android 2
Grand National

 

[dannyboy]

3d ant attack
3d defender

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

In 1985 I used to have a spectrum 48k with a Dktronics keyboard. Gotta say my fave games were Hyper sports, JSW and Alien8.
Lovin' all this nostalgia ...excellent thread.
BTW we're gonna win 2-1 tmw

 

[brakespear]

Deus Ex Machina - I still have the soundtrack tape

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Obviously as a GIRL in the 1980s, computers weren't really my thing, as they were far too slow, complicated, and would clearly never amount to anything useful in life, either then or in the future.

However, I do believe we owned a Speccy game called BC Bill, in which you controlled a hairy caveman, whose objective, I believe, was essentially to bag a wife (by clubbing her over the head, natch), drag her back to your cave by her hair, and then collect food by whacking it. And avoiding getting eaten by dinosaurs.

I loved it

 

[corkster]

http://www.the-commodore-zone.com/

 

[SeeGoals]

Used to love Sabre Wulf

and buying the magazines with the maps

But I think my all time favourite has to be Atic Atac

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

I loved StarQuake and Knight Lore too, but only completed them (and Skool Daze incidentally) when I got me an Emulator on my Mac a few years ago. The daddy though, the one which ate up all the hours, was Football Manager.

Kevin Toms, I bow down before your greatness.

Edit: May I respectfully recommend worldofspectrum.org as the current 'home' of the Speccy. Loads of emulators, and pretty much all the games downloadable, free, legally, the administrator of the site having gone to great lengths to get distribution permission from the rights holders. In short, it's 8-bitastic.

 

[Mostyn]

I'm pretty sure I had a London to Brighton steam train game as well

I think that was Southern Belle - I remember crashing into Brighton station a few times.

Loved Lords of Midnight - all that in 48k, less than a smiley these days