I turn 50 in January so I've shared your journey and I'm glad you got some nostalgia goodness from this. Tons more Speccy on the channel if you're so inclined to drop back in 😎👍
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52 here and started out with the Speccy too (Timex Computer 2048 to be honest). Cheers!
Only had this morning to put it together, one liners were all I had time for 🤣 Glad you liked it though, because there will like be some similar C64 content on the horizon 😉
Awesome vid here more games than I can shake a stick at never heard of the last two games but a Defender clone you can spot that a mile away nicely done my mate have a very Merry Christmas
My brother and I found Rebelstar FREE on a cover disk in about 1993. We had both played Rebelstar Raiders (Despite the longer name - it came out before). We played Rebelstar "hotseat" none stop for months. That corridor along the top - blocking the door with one of the fat droids, missing shots from point blank range. "Topper Headley" and other names very similar to the names of the members of The Clash I remember it like it was yesterday...not 30+ years ago.
Rebelstar is definitely a game best played against a friend or sibling. I still play it even to this day, but only against the CPU, and although that does scratch the nostalgic itch, it's not quite the same. Thanks for dropping in and sharing your story, although it's put me in the mood to play a little Rebelstar now 🤣
Very enjoyable video this mate, like the style and the commentary is great - I wish I could put my thoughts about things as concisely and as well as you do. Hope to see the results of the C64 disc that handsome fellow sent you 😂😂 Great stuff mate, thanks for sharing that with us and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours 😁🐻👍
Yes!!! More A-ZX Spectrum videos!!! I wanna check out Quartet! I mean it’s SEGA 🤷🏻♂️ Knightmare looks phenomenal as well! Xevious looks like it plays so smoothly on Speccy! As someone who hasn’t had the opportunity to play a ZX-Spectrum, I could go on all day about many of these games I’d like to try! Even my beloved SEGA had wonderful games on the Speccy. 2022 might see SegaBlocks have to add this to my gameroom!!! Thanks so much for these videos GP!, and thanks for making me get interested in a new gaming system/computer! Cheers my friend! Stay awesome!
I am merely a conduit spreading the Holy word of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, praise be to our Lord Sir Clive Sinclair and may the games never end. 🤣 Thanks for dropping in buddy, hope your Christmas is a good one full of love and good food 😎👍
Brilliant video, the admiration & love for the system really shines through. Interesting seeing how you rank these after bingeing all of the A to Z of the Spectrum series, Fair play buddy.☘️🖖
I'm a year late to this, but thanks for listing these games! I've been wanting to set up a sample of the ZX Spectrum's library, and this looks like a pretty good selection of both the bad and good.
There was no way in hell I was going to be able to sift through this system's library on my own. It just wasn't happening. But one of my goals has been to set up a 'sample library' of every meaningful system in gaming history, so friends can learn from any platform they get curious about! Suffice to say, hearing about the ZX Spectrum from someone who was there for the whole thing is a big help.
Merry Christmas bro!🎄Wow this is such an impressive video, fantastic editing and great commentary! We're trying to get into Spectrum more and this will definitely be our guidebook!🍺
Well to be fair, Hypersports is my favourite and most nostalgic of all the Speccy "Track and Fields". So I understand why it's been at the front of my mind 🤣 Thanks for dropping in bud 😎👍
I didn't play Scuba Diver that year, or have I ever played Stonkers, so thanks for reminding me of one and recommending another. I'll get back to you on Stonkers 👍
For 1983 Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, the hours I put into it as a kid was unreal, but so many great developers pushed the Speccy to its limits later on, and are still doing so today. Antiriad is a fantastic early Metroidvainian 😎👍
I miss my +2. I'm currently using a + with a composite mod, and it's pretty cool playing Speccy games on a 55" TV 🤣 I'd live to get a +3 back into my collection, maybe some day 😎👍
Well, to be fair, I have never played Arcadia or Penetrator, to the best of my recollection 🤔 I'll add those to my list 😉 And yes, for 1983, Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, and I love it dearly, but so many other games really pushed the Speccy. Thanks for dropping in and giving me a couple of games to look at 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel Cool as. What about 'Laser Squad' ? I bought it for £2.99 when I was about 11 years old. The shop put the wrong price on- it was meant to be £9.99. I took it home and wet my pants at how good it was.
@@GenerationPixel You must Sir. It was the sequel to Rebelstar, by Julian Gollop, who was a visionary of his time. Laser Squad even had an expansion cassette, with 4 more levels that you could buy on mail order from a page in the back of the manual. Julian Gollop also wrote 'Chaos' and 'Lords of Chaos'. All excellent games way ahead of their time. Heady days. Misty eyed memories 👍
These were selected from the games I'd played that year, unfortunately I didn't get around to Head over Heels, and Fairlight is a game I haven't heard of, at least as I can recollect. I'll definitely look it up, just in case it sparks a memory. And if not, I'll take a run at it at some point. Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
Emlyn hughes international soccer, scooby doo, bubble bobble, new zealand story, skool daze, back to skool and treasure island dizzy should surely be on this list. Were my favourite games when i had my spectrum
These were just the games I played through that year, I'm surprised that New Zealand Story and Bubble Bobble didn't make my playlist that year 🤷♂️ Both of which I've played recently, you'll be glad to hear 😉
@@GenerationPixel skool daze and back to skool are classic spectrum games. The only game ive played since that is similar is bully on the ps2. And loved all dizzy games as well. The problem is there are so many games for the spectrum its hard to remember all of them from back then.
Kung-Fu Master in the top 100 ZX Spectrum games? Well, that's daring for a change! 😎 This is generally considered to be a dud. Thus a way superior version, Mister Kung-Fu, was homebrewed. But individual mileages may vary. Great video by the way! And I will have to check out some games on your list which I never even noticed back in those glory days.
I do so enjoy highlighting games that people may have missed back kn the day 😁 The current Homebrew scene us something I haven't dabbled with yet, though I've been blown away by some of the videos I've seen on RUclips. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
The Speccy still has 100 decent classics imo (so you don't need weak games), it is hard to discover them all though... they seem to take longer to get into these days than back in the day.
The Speccy library is mind-blowing when you try to comprehend its scope. As is the scope of the whole 8Bit Microcomputer era. I managed to play 120 games that year and wish I could have played more. So, some less than great games made it on to this list. What's a few of your top Speccy game? And thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
It's still Manic Miner I expect. It can only really be the speed it is, and fortunately that isn't too slow these days. The other ones I seem to come back to every now and again are Arcadia and Atic Atac, for the exact same reason I expect. Of course there are many more in that exact vein that I either never played or simply never heard of. The golden era for me was its first few years. @@GenerationPixel
@@GenerationPixel The Speccy is where all that began - it even hosts the very first in that lineage: Rebelstar Raiders (the great-grandaddy) which Rebelstar (and Rebelstar 2) were buffed sequels to. And then came Laser Squad (which I played on the Amiga but also had a Speccy version) and then X-COM (which I had on PC and PS1).
@@GenerationPixel You'll feel right at home with Laser Squad, with the Marsec hardware and familiar names like Corporal Jonlan, plus 5 different scenarios to play (7 with the expansion). It's the pinnacle of the top-down games, before it all went isometric with X-COM. If you want to "play 'em all" there was a Gameboy Advance "Rebelstar" game as well, by the original author, which was surprisingly decent. It uses an isometric view, like X-COM, but plays more like Rebelstar except with a proper campaign story mode to work your way through. Enjoy 😃
Hard Driving and Kung Fu Master are daring choices for the top 100 ZX Spectrum games. The former is more a technical achievement but lacks severely in the gameplay department. The latter is generally considered a flawed arcade port. Orbiter seems an odd choice for a Defender type of game. There are better Defender clones on the ZX Spectrum. Many of the best games ever are missing. Lords of Midnight, Midnight Resistance, Dragontorc, R-Type, Zynaps, Cabal, Commando, Trap Door, Sim City, Carrier Command, Starglider, Starstrike (both games), Dun Darach, Heavy on the Magick, Space Gun, Ant Attack, Elite, Where Time stood still, The Great Escape are just the ones that come to mind instantaneously. So its an excellent video but the omissions are very obvious.
These were the Top 100 games that I'd played that year. So the missing games from your picks were all games I hadn't played. As for Orbiter, it was the second game I played on the Speccy, and Defender was my current go to arcade cab, so it has an extra-special place in my hard, so even makes it on to my favourite games of all time.
Android 2 and Halls of the Thing, two games I don't think I've ever heard of. I'll need to check those out. Thanks for dropping in and pointing me in the direction of a couple of new experiences 😎👍
Hahahah. On Vigilante it's funny seeing the building colours becoming the main characters colours as he moves by. Is that something to do with transparency/Spectrum limitations?
It's definitely due to the Spectrum's graphical limitations. It wasn't designed with games in mind, as Sir Clive Sinclair's vision was to produce a purely business machine. Of course, the gaming community had other plans 😉 It's quite remarkable what some developers managed to squeeze out of that little computer. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
I gotta admit I had to tap out at 95, I might tray again later, but proper explanations for your choices would be great! RotJ is better than Alchemist?
Video games can be a very subjective experience. This was my personal ranking of the games I played that year based on the fun I had with them. If you do drop back in, don't stress too much about my ranking, or have fun shouting at the screen, berating my decisions 😉 Oh, and on the subjectivity, I'm a massive Star Wars geek (Original Trilogy that is), so even I am willing to accept I can be a little biased 🤣 And thanks for dropping in, especially to tell me why you were less than impressed, I love hearing opposing viewpoints. So many people don't bother to be honest 🫡
So, Panzadrome, interesting little game. I'll need to set up a joystick because the keyboard controls are wacky 🤣 I can see me getting into this. It's very much an evolution of Combat on the Atari 2600, or at least that's my first impression 😎👍
They're from the same era, and some are older than the NES, so game developers for the early Microcomputers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 started with simple one screen games akin to the Game and Watch, but played on a TV screen. Of course, as time went on, they soon got to grips with the system and produced more complex games. And new games are still being developed 2020s and they are quite mind-blowing feats of technical achievement. Thanks for dropping in, my friend, and thanks for the great question 😎👍
Target Renegade way down at no. 47.. I have to take issue with that, it made a recent top 10 video so at the least it belongs in the top 20 for me. Also where is Head over Heels, the isometric 3D masterpiece and made by the same team that did the Batman game you referenced? It’s a far superior game, and builds on that but improves so much it clearly deserves to be included (potentially in place of Batman).
I'm afraid m, Head Over Heels didn't make the list because I've never played it. And this list was my personal ranking of the games I had played that year. But just for you, I get around to Head Over Heels and get back to you 😉 As for Target Renegade, yes, it's a fantastic game. I'm personally not a big Brawler or One on One Fighter fan, so any beat em up that makes any of my lists is an indication of how special they are. Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
I am totally unaware of Chaos 😮 so n9t 9nly did I not play it that year, I've never played it. But thanks to you, I have a new Speccy game to hunt down and discover 😎👍 A quick Google search later, is it Lords of Chaos or Chaos Battle of Wizards?
This was just a best of from the games I played that year 😉 but thanks for bringing up Bubble Bobble, do you know how hard it is to get that theme out of your head, I'll be humming it all day now 🤣
@generationpixel thanks for the reply! Was great to re-live some games from my first experiences of gaming (I would have been around 6-8 mid to late 80s when we had one) bubble bobble 2 player with my dad on a Saturday is a great memory for me - but still today this game is hugely popular. Have subscribed to you channel keep up the good work 👍
I love nothing more than interacting with people in the comments, so thank you for taking the time to chat, I hope I can nudge your nostalgia in future videos 😉
Enjoyed this, you've played a lot of classics this year, some personal favourites and a few I've not played. I hate Ghostbusters 😆 Look forward to more speccy videos in the new year 🥰. C64 😲😲😲, unsubbed immediately 🤮💩
Lunar jetman (sequel to jetman), "a little too difficult" ?! Hame is brocken in a halfs, it is just unplayable, and you cant pass any bumps on road, so you just stuck.
Rebelstar was my favourite Spectrum game. Made all the better for costing £1.99. Astonishing value for money which sadly, we rarely see nowadays.
Ain't that the truth, but at least we had those times, kids these days wouldn't understand 🤣
I loved ‘Thrust’. Another belting £1.99 jobby if I remember rightly
Ah memories!😀As a 51 year old gamer who started out with the speccy 48k ive played alot of these classics.Thanks for this video its made my day!
I turn 50 in January so I've shared your journey and I'm glad you got some nostalgia goodness from this. Tons more Speccy on the channel if you're so inclined to drop back in 😎👍
52 here and started out with the Speccy too (Timex Computer 2048 to be honest). Cheers!
Im 53 now lol.
And I'm 51 🤣
It was a great time to start, and a great little machine to start with 😎👍
I honestly think this is your best video yet, absolutely loved watching this, the one liner reviews are absolutely brilliant mate, we need more!!
Only had this morning to put it together, one liners were all I had time for 🤣 Glad you liked it though, because there will like be some similar C64 content on the horizon 😉
@@GenerationPixel 😮 wow what???careful you might like it!!
Awesome vid here more games than I can shake a stick at never heard of the last two games but a Defender clone you can spot that a mile away nicely done my mate have a very Merry Christmas
That wasn't even all the speccy games I played over the last year 🤣🤣
Awesome list buddy no idea about most of these - I need a beginners guide to this system 😁😁- happy holidays
Thanks for dropping in an subjecting yourself to really old school games 🤣👍
@@GenerationPixel 😁
My brother and I found Rebelstar FREE on a cover disk in about 1993. We had both played Rebelstar Raiders (Despite the longer name - it came out before). We played Rebelstar "hotseat" none stop for months. That corridor along the top - blocking the door with one of the fat droids, missing shots from point blank range.
"Topper Headley" and other names very similar to the names of the members of The Clash
I remember it like it was yesterday...not 30+ years ago.
Rebelstar is definitely a game best played against a friend or sibling. I still play it even to this day, but only against the CPU, and although that does scratch the nostalgic itch, it's not quite the same.
Thanks for dropping in and sharing your story, although it's put me in the mood to play a little Rebelstar now 🤣
Very enjoyable video this mate, like the style and the commentary is great - I wish I could put my thoughts about things as concisely and as well as you do. Hope to see the results of the C64 disc that handsome fellow sent you 😂😂 Great stuff mate, thanks for sharing that with us and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours 😁🐻👍
And a Merry Christmas to you and yours too my good friend and Lang May Yer Lum Reek 😎 👍
Yes!!! More A-ZX Spectrum videos!!! I wanna check out Quartet! I mean it’s SEGA 🤷🏻♂️ Knightmare looks phenomenal as well! Xevious looks like it plays so smoothly on Speccy! As someone who hasn’t had the opportunity to play a ZX-Spectrum, I could go on all day about many of these games I’d like to try! Even my beloved SEGA had wonderful games on the Speccy. 2022 might see SegaBlocks have to add this to my gameroom!!! Thanks so much for these videos GP!, and thanks for making me get interested in a new gaming system/computer! Cheers my friend! Stay awesome!
I am merely a conduit spreading the Holy word of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, praise be to our Lord Sir Clive Sinclair and may the games never end.
🤣 Thanks for dropping in buddy, hope your Christmas is a good one full of love and good food 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel Same to you and family buddy! Have the Merriest of Christmases!
Brilliant video, the admiration & love for the system really shines through. Interesting seeing how you rank these after bingeing all of the A to Z of the Spectrum series, Fair play buddy.☘️🖖
It was an interesting series to put together, and feel I learn a fair bit from the process. Glad you enjoyed this journey 😎👍
I'm a year late to this, but thanks for listing these games! I've been wanting to set up a sample of the ZX Spectrum's library, and this looks like a pretty good selection of both the bad and good.
This might be the first time I've had a video that could be useful to someone 🤣 Thanks for dropping in and good luck with your own Speccy adventure 😎👍
There was no way in hell I was going to be able to sift through this system's library on my own. It just wasn't happening. But one of my goals has been to set up a 'sample library' of every meaningful system in gaming history, so friends can learn from any platform they get curious about! Suffice to say, hearing about the ZX Spectrum from someone who was there for the whole thing is a big help.
The Spectrum library is a bit daunting, and considering people are still making new games for it, it's getting more daunting by the year 😉
Loving your t-shirt. That black and spectrum light combo is pure class.
And for a logo from 1982, it still absolutely stands the test of time 😎👌
Merry Christmas bro!🎄Wow this is such an impressive video, fantastic editing and great commentary! We're trying to get into Spectrum more and this will definitely be our guidebook!🍺
The way of the Spectrum is a long dark path 🤣 Glad to be your guide 😎👍 And a Merry Christmas to you too my friends. Lang May Yer Lum Reek 🏴👍
Apparently I picked the right day to pop along :D just 2 years late though!
@@njp2k914 It's never too late 😁
Ah, you’ve mentioned hypersports at no.34 but the video capture is from Daley Thompsons Decathlon. Great list though!
Well to be fair, Hypersports is my favourite and most nostalgic of all the Speccy "Track and Fields". So I understand why it's been at the front of my mind 🤣 Thanks for dropping in bud 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel yes, I love Hypersports and have got Track ‘n’ field on my Switch. Just stumbled across your videos so need to binge watch now!
@@gipgap4 well I hope there is a little something in my channel that makes you smile 😎👍
Aw, come on. no Scuba Diver, no Stonkers? I was waiting for TLL too. Good job it appeared or I would have been mad. :D
I didn't play Scuba Diver that year, or have I ever played Stonkers, so thanks for reminding me of one and recommending another. I'll get back to you on Stonkers 👍
Great vid buddy. I definitely need to pick up a copy of Jetpack 👍
Spooky, you comment just as I'm rewatching your Xmas MasterSystem challenge vid to get the details 🤯🤣
@@GenerationPixel that IS spooky!! 😉
No.1 it’s easy to miss the impact that rebelstar had. Awesome game
It absolutely is, and certainly had an impact on me. Thanks for dropping in 😎👍
Thought it was bold having Manic Miner so low, but your higher up games look really interesting, I've got to try Antiriad.
For 1983 Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, the hours I put into it as a kid was unreal, but so many great developers pushed the Speccy to its limits later on, and are still doing so today.
Antiriad is a fantastic early Metroidvainian 😎👍
I got my Spectrum +2 at Xmas 1987 - so many great games to choose from.
I miss my +2. I'm currently using a + with a composite mod, and it's pretty cool playing Speccy games on a 55" TV 🤣 I'd live to get a +3 back into my collection, maybe some day 😎👍
Lack of Pananma Joe AKA Montezuma's revenge is shocking.
What's worse, I've never even played it 😬 not on any system. I swear I'll get that sorted, just for you 😉
Some absolute classics in here ... great effort
Thanks mate, it was a blast to make 😎👍
Yes! Uridium was killer. Great game. Bomb Jack too! So many good times playing those games.
And both Uridium and Bomb Jack played beautifully on the Spectrum, even compared to other Micros out at the time 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel definitely among the best games on zx.
NO 'Arcadia' and NO 'Penetrator', & 'Manic Miner' should have been much higher!
Well, to be fair, I have never played Arcadia or Penetrator, to the best of my recollection 🤔 I'll add those to my list 😉
And yes, for 1983, Manic Miner was ahead of the curve, and I love it dearly, but so many other games really pushed the Speccy.
Thanks for dropping in and giving me a couple of games to look at 😎👍
I loved Penetrator. A great ‘Scramble’ type of game
Great stuff friend lo ve the con tent honestly hope you come a cross here and show some lo ve lol honestly keep it up brother you got this
Thanks buddy, I appreciate the love 😎
Absolutely agree with Rebelstar being no.1
It's a hugely important game that gets nowhere near enough love. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel Cool as. What about 'Laser Squad' ? I bought it for £2.99 when I was about 11 years old. The shop put the wrong price on- it was meant to be £9.99. I took it home and wet my pants at how good it was.
@@svenred6eard757 I've never played Laser Squad. I'll have to take a look at it 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel You must Sir. It was the sequel to Rebelstar, by Julian Gollop, who was a visionary of his time. Laser Squad even had an expansion cassette, with 4 more levels that you could buy on mail order from a page in the back of the manual. Julian Gollop also wrote 'Chaos' and 'Lords of Chaos'. All excellent games way ahead of their time. Heady days. Misty eyed memories 👍
So great you poured so much time into every game, sadly I don't have ADHD.
Me niether, but I had a lot of time on my hands during lockdown 🤣
Would have expected "Head over Heels" and "Fairlight" to show up
These were selected from the games I'd played that year, unfortunately I didn't get around to Head over Heels, and Fairlight is a game I haven't heard of, at least as I can recollect. I'll definitely look it up, just in case it sparks a memory. And if not, I'll take a run at it at some point.
Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
Emlyn hughes international soccer, scooby doo, bubble bobble, new zealand story, skool daze, back to skool and treasure island dizzy should surely be on this list. Were my favourite games when i had my spectrum
These were just the games I played through that year, I'm surprised that New Zealand Story and Bubble Bobble didn't make my playlist that year 🤷♂️
Both of which I've played recently, you'll be glad to hear 😉
@@GenerationPixel skool daze and back to skool are classic spectrum games. The only game ive played since that is similar is bully on the ps2. And loved all dizzy games as well. The problem is there are so many games for the spectrum its hard to remember all of them from back then.
Kung-Fu Master in the top 100 ZX Spectrum games? Well, that's daring for a change! 😎
This is generally considered to be a dud. Thus a way superior version, Mister Kung-Fu, was homebrewed.
But individual mileages may vary.
Great video by the way!
And I will have to check out some games on your list which I never even noticed back in those glory days.
I do so enjoy highlighting games that people may have missed back kn the day 😁 The current Homebrew scene us something I haven't dabbled with yet, though I've been blown away by some of the videos I've seen on RUclips.
Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
Rebelstar for #1. I agree 100%.
It didn't look like much but a super playable game that a friend and I would waste away hours on.
Two player Rebelstar was just fantastic back in the day. I wish I could get someone to play it with me now 🤣
The Speccy still has 100 decent classics imo (so you don't need weak games), it is hard to discover them all though... they seem to take longer to get into these days than back in the day.
The Speccy library is mind-blowing when you try to comprehend its scope. As is the scope of the whole 8Bit Microcomputer era. I managed to play 120 games that year and wish I could have played more. So, some less than great games made it on to this list.
What's a few of your top Speccy game? And thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
It's still Manic Miner I expect. It can only really be the speed it is, and fortunately that isn't too slow these days. The other ones I seem to come back to every now and again are Arcadia and Atic Atac, for the exact same reason I expect. Of course there are many more in that exact vein that I either never played or simply never heard of. The golden era for me was its first few years. @@GenerationPixel
Can you cover some home brews in future vids? There’s plenty of newish games on both the Speccy and C64.
I have yet to play a single new Homebrew, either Speccy or C64, but it's something I fully intend to get stuck into that scene soon 😎👍
Happy Holidays
Thanks buddy, and you too 😎👍
Yay another speccy vid. Great top 100 :)
Thanks mate, though I wish I'd thought about doing sooner and not given myself one day to put it together 🤣
Turn based strategy game on the spectrum? Must have missed the R video, nice choice.
Rebelstar, the granddaddy of X-Com 😎
@@GenerationPixel The Speccy is where all that began - it even hosts the very first in that lineage: Rebelstar Raiders (the great-grandaddy) which Rebelstar (and Rebelstar 2) were buffed sequels to. And then came Laser Squad (which I played on the Amiga but also had a Speccy version) and then X-COM (which I had on PC and PS1).
I've still, to my shame, to play Laser Squad. I'll get to it eventually 😉👍
@@GenerationPixel You'll feel right at home with Laser Squad, with the Marsec hardware and familiar names like Corporal Jonlan, plus 5 different scenarios to play (7 with the expansion). It's the pinnacle of the top-down games, before it all went isometric with X-COM.
If you want to "play 'em all" there was a Gameboy Advance "Rebelstar" game as well, by the original author, which was surprisingly decent. It uses an isometric view, like X-COM, but plays more like Rebelstar except with a proper campaign story mode to work your way through.
Enjoy 😃
@blatherskite3009 What!! A GBA Rebelstar!!! Oh, this great news! Thanks 😎 👍
Hard Driving and Kung Fu Master are daring choices for the top 100 ZX Spectrum games.
The former is more a technical achievement but lacks severely in the gameplay department. The latter is generally considered a flawed arcade port.
Orbiter seems an odd choice for a Defender type of game. There are better Defender clones on the ZX Spectrum.
Many of the best games ever are missing.
Lords of Midnight, Midnight Resistance, Dragontorc, R-Type, Zynaps, Cabal, Commando, Trap Door, Sim City, Carrier Command, Starglider, Starstrike (both games), Dun Darach, Heavy on the Magick, Space Gun, Ant Attack, Elite, Where Time stood still, The Great Escape are just the ones that come to mind instantaneously.
So its an excellent video but the omissions are very obvious.
These were the Top 100 games that I'd played that year. So the missing games from your picks were all games I hadn't played.
As for Orbiter, it was the second game I played on the Speccy, and Defender was my current go to arcade cab, so it has an extra-special place in my hard, so even makes it on to my favourite games of all time.
I'd have to include Android 2, Halls of the Things, Lords of Midnight, and Elite.
Android 2 and Halls of the Thing, two games I don't think I've ever heard of. I'll need to check those out.
Thanks for dropping in and pointing me in the direction of a couple of new experiences 😎👍
Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are the best!
My top 5 would be
1- Football Manager
2-Manic Miner
3-Crimebusters
4-Tapper
5-Jet Pac
Crimebusters is the only game from that fantastic top 5 I've never played. I'll need to try that at some point 👍
Thanks for dropping in 😁
Hahahah. On Vigilante it's funny seeing the building colours becoming the main characters colours as he moves by. Is that something to do with transparency/Spectrum limitations?
It's definitely due to the Spectrum's graphical limitations. It wasn't designed with games in mind, as Sir Clive Sinclair's vision was to produce a purely business machine. Of course, the gaming community had other plans 😉 It's quite remarkable what some developers managed to squeeze out of that little computer. Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
Great way to cap off the A-Z of speccy
Why thank you good sir, though I wish I'd thought of it sooner and given myself a little longer than a day to to it 🤣 here's to next year Jim 🍻
@@GenerationPixel 🤣 may I make even less videos next year!
And deprive the world your work! Nay I say@ Make more! Or else you tube will be filled with pickup vids!
@@GenerationPixel it already is pal. It already is 🤣
I gotta admit I had to tap out at 95, I might tray again later, but proper explanations for your choices would be great!
RotJ is better than Alchemist?
Video games can be a very subjective experience. This was my personal ranking of the games I played that year based on the fun I had with them. If you do drop back in, don't stress too much about my ranking, or have fun shouting at the screen, berating my decisions 😉
Oh, and on the subjectivity, I'm a massive Star Wars geek (Original Trilogy that is), so even I am willing to accept I can be a little biased 🤣
And thanks for dropping in, especially to tell me why you were less than impressed, I love hearing opposing viewpoints. So many people don't bother to be honest 🫡
Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games in your oppinion... right?
All top lists are just someone's opinion 😉 and this was just my Top 100 from the games I played that year 😎
Lest we forget Panzadrome, also.
That's a new one to me, I'll look into it 👍
So, Panzadrome, interesting little game. I'll need to set up a joystick because the keyboard controls are wacky 🤣 I can see me getting into this. It's very much an evolution of Combat on the Atari 2600, or at least that's my first impression 😎👍
Knight Lore created an entire new category, like Doom did layer. Some dart game? Please…
Ultimate Play The Game were absolute geniuses. Which is of course why we still play their games in 2020 👍 Thanks for dropping in my friend 😎👍
All of them (Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, Knight Lore,...) are in my top 100.
Why do a lot of these games look like Game and Watch games but with a color overlay?
They're from the same era, and some are older than the NES, so game developers for the early Microcomputers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 started with simple one screen games akin to the Game and Watch, but played on a TV screen.
Of course, as time went on, they soon got to grips with the system and produced more complex games. And new games are still being developed 2020s and they are quite mind-blowing feats of technical achievement.
Thanks for dropping in, my friend, and thanks for the great question 😎👍
Target Renegade way down at no. 47.. I have to take issue with that, it made a recent top 10 video so at the least it belongs in the top 20 for me.
Also where is Head over Heels, the isometric 3D masterpiece and made by the same team that did the Batman game you referenced? It’s a far superior game, and builds on that but improves so much it clearly deserves to be included (potentially in place of Batman).
I'm afraid m, Head Over Heels didn't make the list because I've never played it. And this list was my personal ranking of the games I had played that year. But just for you, I get around to Head Over Heels and get back to you 😉 As for Target Renegade, yes, it's a fantastic game. I'm personally not a big Brawler or One on One Fighter fan, so any beat em up that makes any of my lists is an indication of how special they are.
Thanks for dropping in mate 😎👍
@@GenerationPixel Give it a try, I think you’ll love it.
I'm a fan of isometric puzzle platformers, so to be honest, I should have already played it 🤦♂️
Kung Fu Master!?!?! Is this a wind up?
I only played 120 games that year, it unfortunately made the cut 😉
Hello, my top Abu Simbel Profanation and Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee is a fantastic game, my friend 😎👍
Literally new to the channel good guess lol legit
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new body of channel
Welcome, my friend 😎👍
top share bro 4:40
Thanks 😎👍
No chaos !!
I am totally unaware of Chaos 😮 so n9t 9nly did I not play it that year, I've never played it. But thanks to you, I have a new Speccy game to hunt down and discover 😎👍
A quick Google search later, is it Lords of Chaos or Chaos Battle of Wizards?
@@GenerationPixel it’s one of the best games ever on spectrum for sure - wizard chess! Masterpiece
How can you do a 100 best games on spectrum and not have bubble bobble?
This was just a best of from the games I played that year 😉 but thanks for bringing up Bubble Bobble, do you know how hard it is to get that theme out of your head, I'll be humming it all day now 🤣
@generationpixel thanks for the reply! Was great to re-live some games from my first experiences of gaming (I would have been around 6-8 mid to late 80s when we had one) bubble bobble 2 player with my dad on a Saturday is a great memory for me - but still today this game is hugely popular. Have subscribed to you channel keep up the good work 👍
I love nothing more than interacting with people in the comments, so thank you for taking the time to chat, I hope I can nudge your nostalgia in future videos 😉
If you want to do a video with an 80s-era voice synth, contact me.
Thanks for the offer mate, and I'll keep that in mind 😎👍
Enjoyed this, you've played a lot of classics this year, some personal favourites and a few I've not played.
I hate Ghostbusters 😆
Look forward to more speccy videos in the new year 🥰.
C64 😲😲😲, unsubbed immediately 🤮💩
Don't blame me for the possibility of the C64, that's RetroBear's doing 🤣🤣🤣🤣 He's a bad influence 😬
Lunar jetman (sequel to jetman), "a little too difficult" ?! Hame is brocken in a halfs, it is just unplayable, and you cant pass any bumps on road, so you just stuck.
You can lay bridges over the holes, but the difficulty is brutal. Thanks for dropping in my friend and 😎👍
28:05. On the Minder game......... Is that Steven seagal in the top right?
🤣🤣 I can't unsee that now 🤣🤣 but that is very late Segal 🤣🤣
Laser Squad have similar gameplay and is even better than RebelStar
I've never played Laser Squad, despite so many people telling me to. I'll add it to my "To do list" for this year. Thanks for dropping in buddy 😎 👍
@@GenerationPixel Ohh man then is a MUST....Laser Squad is probably my top 5 favorite Speccy games ever......
Did you say Clint Eastwood was in fall guy? It was Lee Majors not Clint
It's been a while since I made this, but if I mentioned Eastwood in this, it would have been in reference to the show's theme song 😉
top 100 and no 'elite'?!?! WTF!
These were the top 100 I played that year 🤷♂️🤣 Elite is God Tier. If I do another, I promise to include Elite 😉