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ZX Retro Gamer
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Добавлен 30 янв 2024
Retro Gamer who loves gaming from the past, especially computers such as ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, & Amiga. Also consoles such as Super Nintendo & Nintendo 64.
Revisiting Wizard's Lair on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Wizard's Lair on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1985 by Bubble Bus Software, Wizard's Lair is often refered to as being inspired by Ultimate's Atic Atac.
The game was written by Stephen Crow and he also wrote my favourite Spectrum game Starquake, also released in 1985.
I enjoyed revisiting the game and immediately remembered how difficult the game is, especially when you lose power for your weapon. The game has very colourful graphics and constantly plays brilliant sounds.
What are your memories of Wizard's Lair?
Game play recorded using a ZX Spectrum Next KS2.
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The game was written by Stephen Crow and he also wrote my favourite Spectrum game Starquake, also released in 1985.
I enjoyed revisiting the game and immediately remembered how difficult the game is, especially when you lose power for your weapon. The game has very colourful graphics and constantly plays brilliant sounds.
What are your memories of Wizard's Lair?
Game play recorded using a ZX Spectrum Next KS2.
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Revisiting Gravity Force on the Commodore Amiga
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Revisiting Gravity Force on the Commodore Amiga. Released in 1989 by Kingsoft, Gravity Force is very similar to games like Thrust and Lunar Lander. I used to play this game with my friends and we'd take it in turns having goes at the mission levels, as well as the two player head to head mode. The controls took a little bit to get used to as you use the fire button to thrust and you have to pus...
Revisiting Uniracers on the Super Nintendo
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Revisiting Uniracers on the Super Nintendo. Released in 1994 in America by DMA Design, and also known as Unirally in the UK, Uniracers was one of my favourite SNES games to play with your mates when it first came out. I remember playing the game for hours with my friends, battling to see who could get the quickest time on each of the various courses. Initially the game is very easy to get into,...
Revisiting Jetpac on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Jetpac on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1983 by Ultimate Play the Game (who became Rare in the 1990s), Jetpac was a genuine step up in quality at the time and is a classic Spectrum arcade game. Amazingly it runs on the original 16K Spectrum and was I think the very first game I played on my ZX Spectrum when I received it for Christmas. It was also the first game I loaded when I receiv...
Revisiting Uchuu Race - Astro Go! Go! on the Super Nintendo
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Revisiting Uchuu Race - Astro Go! Go! on the Super Nintendo. Released in 1994 by KAZe Co Ltd in Japan only on the Super Famicon, Astro Go Go was very similar to Nintendo's own F-Zero. The game uses the famous mode 7 to create a smooth scrolling futuristic racing game. I remember visiting the original CEX store in London back in the 90s, which was located down a side road off Oxford Street calle...
Revisiting Commando on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Commando on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1985 by Elite Systems, Commando was one of the finest arcade conversions on the ZX Spectrum. This is the updated version of Commando for the ZX Spectrum 128K and features a very good AY version of the classic Rob Hubbard tune from the Commodore 64. I loved revisiting this game again and I'll admit it took a couple of practice games to get into...
Revisiting Mr Wimpy on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Mr Wimpy on the ZX Spectrum. Released by Ocean in 1983, Mr Wimpy was possibly one of the first games to have a promotional tie-in with the restaurant chain Wimpy. The game featured 2 main levels, the first required you to gather the ingredients for the burger by crossing from left to right, and avoiding both the holes and Waldo, who tries to steal the ingredients from you. The second...
Revisiting Raid Over Moscow on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Raid Over Moscow on the ZX Spectrum. Released by US Gold in 1985, Raid Over Moscow was programmed by the same team that created Beach-Head. Like Beach-Head, the game features multiple levels and each one is a different sub-game. I remember most people struggled to launch out of the hanger, however I always found it fairly straight forward once you'd figured out the best method. (Alwa...
Revisiting Horace Goes Skiing on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Horace Goes Skiing on the ZX Spectrum. Released by Sinclair Research in 1983, Horace Goes Skiing is one of the first games I played on my original ZX Spectrum . When I was given my Spectrum at Christmas, it also came with the Spectrum Six Pack, which included Horace Goes Skiing, Chequered Flag and Computer Scrabble. Horace Goes Skiing consists of two levels, the first one is very sim...
Revisiting Starquake on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Starquake on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1985 by Bubble Bus Software, Starquake is my favourite Spectrum of all time. For me this is Stephen Crow's best game on the Spectrum and he also wrote Wizard's Lair and Firelord. When originally released Starquake had one of the biggest world maps of any game. The variety in the various areas of the game is fantastic, as is the excellent use ...
Revisiting Vulcan Venture in the Arcade
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Revisiting Vulcan Venture in the Arcade. Vulcan Venture is also know as Gradius II in Japan, was released in 1988 and is a horizontal shoot'em up. Back in the 80s shumps we're my go to game and I use to regularly drop 10p's into Vulcan Venture whenever I saw it in the arcade. Much like my favourite game R-Type, it was brutally hard the further you progressed into the game. Every time you felt y...
Revisiting Spy Hunter on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Spy Hunter on the ZX Spectrum. Published by U.S. Gold in 1985, Spy Hunter was a rather excellent conversion of the original arcade game. The look and feel of the game closely matched the arcade version, however it did lack the Peter Gunn Theme music that I foundly remember. I had great fun learning to play the game again and it's possibly one of the first endless runner type games be...
Revisiting Salamander in the Arcade
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Revisiting Salamander in the Arcade. Salamander was developed by Konami and released in 1986, and was a spin off of Gradius / Nemesis. What made the game unique at the time was that it allowed you to play a shoot'em up in two player co-op mode. It also featured both horizontal and vertical scrolling levels. Like many of the games around this time, you were able to collect power ups for your shi...
Revisitng Chuckie Egg on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisitng Chuckie Egg on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1983 by A'n'F Software, Chuckie Egg was one of the early Speccy games that stood out for being a great platformer. Those who have played the game will remember that you had to use the keybaord to navigate the many ladders and collect the eggs to progress to the next level. I'm playing the game on the ZX Spectrum Next and using the keyjoy fun...
Revisiting R-Type in the Arcade
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Revisiting R-Type in the Arcade. R-Type was developed and released by Irem in 1987 and it's easily my favourite arcade game (tied with original Star Wars). Whilst it wasn't the first horizontal scrolling shoot'em up to feature power ups, it took them to the next level with the glowing orb which attaches itself to the R-9 ship. I'm not exactly revisiting this game for the first time after many y...
Revisiting Roller Coaster on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Roller Coaster on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Beach Head on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Beach Head on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Boulder Dash on the Commodore 64
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Revisiting Boulder Dash on the Commodore 64
Revisiting Paradroid on the Commodore 64
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Revisiting Paradroid on the Commodore 64
Revisiting Wheelie on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Wheelie on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Dynamite Dan II on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Dynamite Dan II on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Bomb Jack on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Bomb Jack on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Pheenix on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Pheenix on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Trashman on the ZX Spectrum
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Revisiting Trashman on the ZX Spectrum
Revisiting Exolon on the ZX Spectrum
Просмотров 1013 месяца назад
Revisiting Exolon on the ZX Spectrum
Go u! I like the content of the channel! I remember playing this and pausing the game to see the smoking effect from the jetpac in "slow mo"
@@animaldoc Thank you! One of the reasons why I started the channel is so I properly play the games I'm selecting. Thanks for watching.
The game arc is truly a classic and it is very satisfying to fill the rocket with fuel and launch it from the level.
Ive never seen or heard of this game before. Thanks for sharing, very cool!
@@aaronking9332 Glad you enjoyed it. Shame it was never released in the west, it would have sold well. Thanks for watching.
And it loaded 0.05 seconds faster than the C64 😂🤣😂
Love it! Thanks for watching.
All this effort to sound absolute crap compared to the C64
@@sterby1 You're not wrong. The C64 Rob Hubbard tune is one of my favourite C64 songs. I still think the version on this game is half decent for AY.
full screen scrolling, smooth, huge amount of sprites ..
An impressive amount of sprites. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer All of them managed by just the Z80 CPU. I really liked the game, but it was pretty hard to beat. I mean, I managed to do so just a few times.
We played cooperative with my friend. I leared relatively quickly how to get out of the hangar, but sucked at the Red Square. So we switched seat there. We were so proud for ourselves that we could beat the game together. 😊
@@joesam. Great memories. I used to do exactly the same otherwise you could be waiting a while for your go. The last level is tough and frustrating! Thanks for watching.
As a kid, I and my friends played this on our computers - one friend's ZX Spectrum, another one's C64 and my Atari 800XL. Fantastic game, lots of fun.
Great memories! I loved playing the C64 version of Raid over Moscow too. Thanks for watching.
Great Run! Like your posts on these games
Thank you and thanks for watching.
To think that a game wich we in modern times would consider really simple was at one point considered the height of gaming graphics.
@ppals3345 I think that's what made that era so great. Every new game that pushed the limits genuinely impressed.
2:31 WTF IS THAT DEATH SOUND!!!??? IT SCARED THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF ME!
An absolute classic game. Great work.
100% and it's my favourite Horace game I think. Thanks for watching.
C64 was miles better
Haha, you're much better in this game then I ever was! 👍🙂 But I can't recall that I ever saw ducks. 🥴
Funny you mentioned the ducks. I didn't remember them either! Thanks for watching.
God I must've lost so many hours playing that with my mate Danny on a tiny portable telly in his bedroom 😂
Great memories. B&W or Colour TV? Thanks for watching.
Just waiting for it to load!
@@ZXRetroGamer his mom was quite posh so it was colour lol
For 1985 it was a good piece of code, it had good scenery variation, Bond-esque weapons including smoke.
Indeed, very faithful conversion given the hardware.
Ah, the good old q, a, o, p and space. Simpler times.
I usually go with QZIP and space however the ZX Spectrum Next defaults to QAOP and spce for keyjoy support. Thanks for watching!
@@ZXRetroGamer I know people who preferred w, s, a, d and space. Weirdos.
this, manic miner and jet set willy 2, those where the days! the old tape loader noises :) where just awful.
Thanks for sharing your memories and watching. I think the loading sounds are what a lot of people remember the Speccy for.
I loved this game when I was a kid (I had the BBC version) :D
I don't think I've played it on the beeb. Presumably no colour clash too?
My whole family would play this on the TV in the 80's.
Great memories. Thanks for watching.
This game sold over a million copies in its life time...that's a lot of money! (Manic Miner sold over 5million!)
According to the Spectrum Computing website the game originally had an RRP of £6.90. Maybe I should do a video that covers They Sold a Million compilations?. Thanks for watching!
It's probably not very clear, but this is an unprecedentedly entertaining platfomer with flawless image traversal. Much more playable than the original Mario for me.
Yeah I played hours and hours of it. Playing Pink Floyd the wall over and over on the cassette player
Less frustrating that Mario perhaps? I don't remember getting very far as a kid. Thanks for watching.
@@michael1 Great memories. I was probably playing Jarre. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer My first contact with Mario was a disappointment. The avatar movement, the whole mechanics, didn't suit me. I wasn't having fun. Running around the screen in Chuckie Egg still amuses me today.
meanwhile on a 1940s nintendo, we see the battle of truk lagoon.
Albert - ruclips.net/video/zRGpT-Kjxs8/видео.html
ATARI XE/XL: ROBBO - ruclips.net/video/btRek7UytUQ/видео.html
Great game, I had it on Atari 65XE in 1988, the Atari and Commodore version is the best, I even play it on emulators today. There was one young guy in Poland, 19 years old, who made the game Robbo in 89, a combination of Boulder Dash and Sokoban 🕹🕹😉😉👍👍
Will look up Roboo. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer Today, the creators of games for 8-bit computers can do things that the creators of these computers did not foresee. See the Atari game "ALBERT". See also "Montezuma's Gold" is available for both C64 and Atari XL-XE.🕹🕹👍👍🎮🎮
Looks epic! Never seen it before :-o
Thanks for watching!
me in 1984 " it wont get any better then this , this is it for graphics and sound for computers for the next fifty years " "
@@firsteerr The graphics are still great. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer i though pong was cutting edge and the final thing in 1978!!
@@firsteerr Ha ha we didn't know any different back then. The level of innovation that happened afterwards is amazing.
Interesting ... I have a tape of this somewhere that I picked up cheap with a few others, to try with a +2 that a friend basically dumped on me at one point. Unfortunately I couldn't ever get the tape deck to work and the Speccy itself died before I could get some cables for an external one, so I've not seen most of the games in action (fixing it is a "one of these days" project...) This looks like a neat collection of minigames, kind of like what I may have bounced around killing time with on our ST in the early 90s, between pirate disks and magazine covers. Maybe a bit simplistic and not so much longevity once you've finally got through it, but somewhat innovative, probably would have burned an hour or two messing with it once I figured the controls out (and whatever the heck is meant to be going on in that first / interstitial map screen). The cover screenshots didn't really do it much justice, from what I remember of them... Particularly the kind of 3D take on Gorillaz mixed with Battleship (plus the planes at first) is something I don't think I've seen done before, at least not at all well or with that kind of sophistication (limited as it is). Like there's games where you rotate the view and shoot at enemy ships, but it doesn't have the whole rangefinding thing or the ability to attack airborne enemies. Having them all as silhouettes to avoid colour clash is a nice touch too. And then whac-a-mole mixed with skeeball at the end.
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Certainly is a masterpiece! Thanks for watching.
Realy not so easy
You're not wrong! I have always preferred Raid over Moscow. Maybe one for a future video? Thanks for watching.
I got Batty as part of a game pack for Christmas 87' and' absolutely loved playing this for hours, it was so addictive. I'm back into my Speccy stuff now so I'll be downloading this and playing it again on my emulator 😀🌈💻🕹
Great memories and good to hear you're getting into the Speccy again. When I received my ZX Spectrum Next it ignited my interest again and recording these videos has helped me enjoy the games further. Thanks for watching.
This was my favourite darts game til Wacky Darts came along. It's also the first game I ever found a POKE for; infy time on "Round The Clock", following Richard Swann's guide.
Wacky Darts is a classic too. Maybe one for a future video perhaps. Thanks for watching.
As I recall, the terminals (the device you access at 3:40) will also provide information about the various classes of droids with numbers lower than the one you're currently controlling. I used to get in control of the 999 droid and then read up on all the droid information... didn't do much else in the game though 😅
Well done for taking control of a 999 droid. I remember playing the game and not really getting that far! I simply enjoyed exploring the various levels on the ship for hours and hours. Thanks for watching.
This brings back memories!
Good ones I hope!?!? Thanks for watching.
Bizarre game. Anyone who has played it will remember it well. A "platformer" with a motorbike and it is even scrolling and does it back in 1983. Very strange "dungeon" atmosphere and LCD dot graphics. Programmer David S. Reidy (UK) was world class, see his Back to Skool, Contact Sam Cruise or Sky Ranger. ruclips.net/video/uCouwurVf1Y/видео.html - phenomenal 3D gfx - 1984 !!
I think the dugeon atmosphere is what makes it so good. Back to Skool is a classic too! I need to revisit Sam Cruise so perhaps that's one for a future video? Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer Back to Skool was wild!!
A devilish ghost fallen from heaven and God's grace.
Yes something like that! Thanks for watching.
Great port! I wish we had this on a Commodore Plus/4 back then
It really is! I must revisit the Plus/4 at some point. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer My channel is full of Plus/4 stuff. Also compared the recent Plus/4 Version to the Arcade in one video.
@@GeorgesChannel I noticed and gave you sub! Will take a proper look as I never really got into the Plus/4.
@@ZXRetroGamer Gave you a sub too!
@@GeorgesChannel Thank you sir!
It's a total classic, so true to the arcade and such great playability. Still remember my mum playing it and lifting the joystick as if that makes him jump higher :D. Good luck with the channel.
Great memories! I think we're all guilty of doing that aren't we? Thanks for watching and I appreciate your kind comments.
You didn't take upgrade at 3:10
@@theALFEST I completely forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder.
Loved this game back in the day (: Check out " Dynamite Dan 1 & "2" also great platform games.
@@darrensmith6999 Loved Dynamite Dan too. I prefer the 2nd one so perhaps I'll record that soon. Thanks for watching.
Great game. Gave u a sub. Good luck with your channel.
@@Hermski Very kind of you. Thank you!
a very very old code, good colours.
@@gurujoe75 For such an early Spectrum game, the quality is fantastic. Thanks for watching.
@@ZXRetroGamer absolutely.
run and gun with superb gfx.
Agreed! Very inteligent use of colour and graphics layers to avoid colour clash. Thanks for watching.