Thanks! Fond memories of Skool Daze, Manic Miner, Ant Attack, Bobby Bearing, The Hobbit, Lords of Midnight, Trashman and Way of the Exploding Fist. Playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon broke my old Spectrum's keyboard so definitely getting this.
- All 48 games played - It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it! - Thanks Crazy Burger! I'm in the U.S. and have always heard praise for the spectrum, but never got my hands on one. I may actually buy this! I'm impressed with what programmers did with the hardware for the time!
@@RobertCatiller67 lol Seemed like s good idea at the time.. it was extremely popular over here. What helped was the ease and cheapness of a lot of the games. £2/£3 was perfect.
I live in Mexico. Since we depend mostly on the happenings in the US, we didn’t have this, but thanks to DK64, I managed to discover the beginnings of Rare, and when the internet became accessible, I discovered these micros and all the gaming we missed out. I’ve been wanting a machine like this but I’m afraid this will be Europe only. Even if Amazon UK lets me place the preorder, it will lock my account the day it will try to charge me because their algorithm considers that if the first purchase is over 50 USD, to be shipped to another country and paid with a card from another country, it must be a fraud and they won’t unlock my account globally until they review the proofs of my card ownership. My first Amazon account has been locked for two years since I tried to make a purchase in Amazon Germany.
I am tempted to buy. I was a Spectrum nut back in the day. And supported the machine and defended it to anyone. There was the usual mockery and rival fans of the C64 but what people forget is that the Spectrum was a LOT cheaper. It was still expensive, but the C64 on launch in the UK was really pricey. Both machines had excellent original quirky games. But the Spectrum had the one thing the C64 could NEVER have....it was English! And the games were often programmed by the same sort of young lads who were playing games in their bedrooms. Fire Lord was and is a classic and its buildings were inspired by the ones that the programmer Steve Crow used to see and walk past in his local village and area. You never got that quirky Britishness with a C64. And a lot of games were better played on the keyboard as you could be so much more precise with the keys. Ant Attack has a key to make the guy run, one for jump and the two to rotate in different directions. Then it was 4 different keys for range of the grenades. Short to very long. And keys to change the view. The idea is to follow the radar light to the girl, it goes green if you are going the right way. If too many ants start to swarm, get on a building and blow them up, using the mid range grenade keys if you are one block high. Then go for the girl again till you find her. Get as close to her as you can, clear the way once more, then leg it for the entrance where you came in. Dont get too far ahead of her or stuck on a building as you will get eaten by ants or blow her up trying to clear them. Its tricky and took me a while to get the hang of it. But it ended up being the first game I managed to ever complete. There are 10 girls to save. And all are pretty straight forward bar the last one or two....There is a superb map for the game out there as well and some nice art work that shows you the buildings and names them. Its the first really good 3D city game and caused some upset on release as it was more expensive at £7 instead of the usual £5 for main stream games....that was until Sabre Wulf came along at a shocking....£10!!! Ah those were the days....
You forget that the Amstrad CPC was English and cheap as well, and infinitely more capable than the Spectrum in every respect. From 1984, there was no rational technical reason to get a Spectrum over the other two, but first mover advantage saved it in the UK market.
@@renaudg True. But and this is the thing, the Amstrad never had the range of games that the Spectrum had. Not even close. And it had those as it was cheap as I said. And people could buy it and programme in their bedrooms. And that is what put it out ahead of every other system. The fact that it was easier to get to grips with. And its short comings and limitations are what inspired people to wring the most out of it. And it truly captured peoples imagination in a way that no other machined did, as it was the first affordable home computer. Its quirky nature and Sir Clive SInclair himself is why it won out over the others. It was that quirky boffin type Englishness that appealed to people....There were other machines, many others but the Spectrum was King. The only one to come close to it in mass appeal was the C64 a technically better machine on paper but so much more money. Between the two of them in the space of six months there was little point in buying any other system. It was an incredible fierce fight and so many other machines just did not make it. Acorn Electron, MSX, The Aquarius, Oric etc none had the software range and fanbase....The fact that decades later people still write software for it and there are new versions of the Spectrum machine itself coming to market is a testament to its loyal fanbase....
@@Simon-xc5oy I think you're spot on with the "quirky boffin type Englishness" of Sinclair that must have created fondness for the brand in the UK. I don't think there was any other rational reason. Range of games wasn't really a factor : most publishers ported the games on all 3 main micros and every important game was on the Amstrad. It even had a few exclusives that the other two couldn't technically afford. In other countries most people didn't think much of Clive Sinclair or Alan Sugar, so technical merits, price and games availability played a more important role. I grew up in France, the market there was probably 2-3 years behind the UK and Amstrad is what really got people into micros around 1984-1985. You couldn't beat the all in one convenience and price, and its games looked best. The C64 was a distant second and the Spectrum was almost non existent : we'd look at the ZX screenshots at the back of game boxes and felt bad for the owners, thinking it was some sort of primitive predecessor to the CPC :) In the end the C64 sold 30 million units worldwide which dwarfed both the Spectrum (5 million) and Amstrad (3 million not including later models). So we all have different perspectives, but it was all about these 3 and everything else was very far behind.
@@renaudg Yes. Interesting on the French being Amstrad lovers. We hated Sugar and were upset when Sir Clive had to sell out and sold it to him of all people. He had no clue, he was not a creative, he was just a seller...a spiv. The bottom line for the Spectrum love here was as I keep saying it was the first. And it was cheaper than all the others. It came in a kit you built yourself at the start and that drew in more people than you would think. Its where it began. And once it started, people stayed loyal. The thing with the Spectrum as well, was it had a LOT of games there were best on the Spectrum, despite other systems being better. They were written for that machine first, then ported across and most ports to other machines just had better music and not much else. Look at Robin of the Wood on the Spectrum. Its the best version of that game. Then things like Trap Door from the tv show were golden on the Spectrum. And utter classics like Atic Attack, Knight Lore, Pyjamarama, Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Star Quake, Roller Coaster, The Great Escape...Ant Attack...some of those on this new machine as well. The Spectrum was great at platformers and had that magic uniqueness to some titles. When you look at the C64 that had games that were unequalled and new on its platform also....Last Ninja and Wizball to name a couple...That was the thing about the 8 bit era, each machine had some killer games that you could only play on that system. In the Uk it was Spectrum first the C64 second and then creeping up to joint first. Everything else fell off a cliff...the Amstrad was a distant third here and came up the ranks late in the day after all the other computers had failed or fallen by the way side. It was never first choice for the majority in England....I think at lot of that was down to the name, as it had a reputation of being a bit bland and naff due to its Hi Fi equipment....That was what it was known for here, not the computer....In the end though when Clive blew his money on the failed C5 project they got the Spectrum name and produced their versions, taking two thirds of the market leaving the C64 as the only real rival...That was till the Amiga came along and computing took the next step up again...I ended up with an Amiga myself for many years that was the best...heh...till the PC started to gain the edge in the early 90s. And now thirty years on I still have and use a Pc. And it can emulate all the systems I used to have and own, and Arcade cabinets as well as pinball etc...Truly there has never been a more versatile system as the Pc that has evolved over time...I just wonder where it will all go next.....
I'm Spectrum obsessed!! I got my 48k for 5th Birthday back in 1986 and thankfully it is still in perfect working order 🙂I don't use it too often just due to perseveration and avoiding wear and tear, but I have hundreds of games emulated. This was an enjoyable review. Jack The Nipper happened to be my favourite Speccy game 🙂
Thanks for this round-up, really useful. I just learned about the new machine today and eagerly pre-ordered. I didn't have a Speccy in the day but have fond memories of playing them at friends'.
Sabre Wulf , Knight Lore , Jet Set Willy , Minder , Steve Davis Snooker and of course Daley Thompson's Decathlon ! Those are all games I played on the Speccy as a kid . You really did need a joystick for Daley Thompson though .
Man these games take me back! As memory serves, in Nodes of Yesod you need to catch a mole on the surface before going below ground then your mole can dig through walls for you :-) Well done on getting through all 48 games and it'll serve as a good example of what the Spectrum is and what it isn't. I feel our cousins across the pond who are maybe more used to Atari and Commodore 8 bit computer games may find these Spectrum games a bit more primative but scratch under the surface and you'll find some real gems. Keep up the awesome work!
Absolutely great idea for a video. Many people may not have seen the Speccy in action and what they can expect. Nice one! I own a modded original modded 48k+ - It can have a well earned rest when I get this console.
I remember playing the Hobbit and it would be in real time so if you waited around too long Gandalf would walk off. Also remember getting one of the characters drunk by offering him beer again and again. Waiting for the pages to load the graphics makes me wonder how we ever thought these games were fun.
Some of my speccy faves off the top of my head - Thanatos, Turbo Esprit, ATV simulator, deathchase, Jumping Jack, soul of a Robot, Sky Ranger, Run for Gold, Match Point, Scuba Dive, Kokotoni Wilf, Bruce Lee, can’t wait to stick them on this thing.
@@visitperaiagreece it suffered with colour clash massively hence no different colours on body parts.. but if you love retro gaming and the price isn’t too much then give it a go
The 48k wasnt good compared to c64 but the 128k had some memorable games and the sound chip on 128k was good. That's the machine I had and I understand this one can play the 128 k versions so for that I'd recommend if you're curious.
I was a Vic 20 / C64 / Amiga guy so this will be interesting. My mate used to play Manic Miner endlessly! The look is pure Spectrum with the single colours graphics and colour bleed. I have this on pre-order. No racing game though! I always loved Way Of The Exploding fist on the C64 - where it looked so much better1
I had a C64 as well….was very jealous of my friends who had Spectum’s…..really wanted to play Knight Lore and Alien 8 etc…..sadly never played them to this day.
Had 48k from lauch, played it to death for years, had every issue of crash all my mates had one as well. But do i hell remember TCQ. This is the first time i have ever seen it.
IIRC Where Time Stood Still was only available on the 128k Spectrum (I used to have the +2 version with the built in cassette player). WTSS and Great Escape were my favourite games.
Man, back in the day Way of the Exploding Fist was such a game, but this reminded me how basic and frustrating these games were. Saboteur we lived, but again, looking now I dont know if I can play that again. I will watch for when this releases, it’s one for us oldies.
For everyone complaining about what games it doesn't come with; you can easily download a game, copy it to an USB drive and play them on it (at least from what the advertising says - it covers most speccy image formats too). I for one am excited about this thing and have already mentally budgeted it for next month, even though my HD monitor doesn't have a speaker.
Great video…thank you.. the best game in this compilation is Target Renegade…sorry they didn’t put here R-type, rainbow islands, robocop, Batman the movie, the untouchables, last ninja 2, Rick dangerous 1 and 2, Off road racer, Commando, ikari Warriors, Flying shark, and so many others…
It looks like they weren’t able to include any arcade conversions or licensed games (except The Hobbit), which I think accounts for most of the games you mentioned?
Given that there's supposedly 10 000 Speccy games (likely an exaggeration because of variant files of the same thing etc), I think it's fair enough! For only 48 games, it's a nice selection.
I only got into the Speccy last year (C64 boy) and I sold mine as I assumed RGL would be releasing a new one and I was right. I love these modern iterations as I hate mucking about with dying hardware, CRTs etc. I don't have the room or the patience. LOL. Can't wait for this machine!
@@CrazyBurger Yeah exactly. I have a MiSTer but I much prefer TheC64 for C64 gaming due to having the correct keys. The keyboard is even more important on the Speccy. Can't wait to have drinking sessions playing 180 all night with a mate, haha.
As sweet as it is to reminisce on those days back in the 80's with a fond sense of nostalgia. I would very quickly get fed up with how frustratingly unplayable some of these games are (were).
Firstly. Well done for going through ALL the games there Crazy Burger! 👍. Certainly quite a lot of good games for Blaze to choice from, for a Spectrum cart! 😊. But I hope they add a few of their own into the mix as well. Also I believe you are able to do basic programming on it too. It would be a nice extra thing to have, if you wanted to create a basic game on for it too! 🤔
Chaos 👍 the board game written by Julian gollop, i still play it on my hi end gaming pc. Its now called Chaos groove. Proof that you dont have to have blinding graphics to make a good game.
As a now responsible adult i might just have to buy one of these , as kid i might of played all of these games without buying them all them years ago........ And now is an opportunity to possibly pass on some $$$ to the authors
Great summary and for sure you need to play more Spectrum games :) However you have the wrong "Spellbound", the one on "The Spectrum" is the adventure game from Mastertronic not the Beyond Software Q-Bert clone.
Zx81 to commodore 16 to commodore 64 to snes to megadrive to playstation. Good times watching that technology jump every couple of years. It kind of got less exciting around playstation 1 to 2 as it started to look all the same.
@@RobertCatiller67 I doubt it'll be anything included in the box. They usually put all the documents and guides on their website. Better than nothing I guess. We will definitely need help with many if these games.
Wheelie - full speed is not your friend. The bus jumps are around 3/4 speed and the easiest way of getting to the ghost rider without running out of fuel is to go as slow as possible, then you have full tank for race back.
I've just preordered this. Spectrum was from my childhood and i love it. Couple.of questions. What joysticks or game pads will be compatible? Also, where is best place to download additional games. I NEED, Treasure island Dizzy, ATV Simulator, Hyper Sports.and Daley Thomson Super Test as a minimum
@@PlattLineker2Pen generally 8bitdo gamepads are excellent. Joysticks options aren't great. Retrogames own peripherals are worth looking at. THE gamepad and THE Joystick would be the ones to check out. As for roms/games.. use Google.
I had 8 of this selection of games on the C64. I never had a Speccy back then; I did try an emulator on my Amiga. Despite it being an A4000/030, all the few games I tried were too slow. Wheelie was the one that was slightly playable, so I'll give that one a go. I'll skip Exploding Fist; having it on the C64, I would miss the crunching sound effects too much. As to what games I'd add via memory stick, I think I'd go back to the start and put the earliest commercial Speccy games on there for a start. I wonder what they were; is there a list somewhere?
I can see why they disabled the comments on the trailer advert, because people will be saying the background music sounds the same as the Kim Wild's song. Keep me hanging on 😅
Interesting I was about to invest in a all white Speccy brand new for £200 then I saw this, is it as easy as going to the games website clicking on games then saving on usb to play anytime
There are a lot of classics on the Spectrum... and not many are included! Ah well, we can add our own ROMs. The game you showed for Spellbound I think was incorrect, I assume it'll be the Mastertronic flip sceen game with a white knight.
@@indiaalphanovember8217Codemasters were always funny about licensing their games, but now they’re owned by EA I don’t think there’ll be any chance of them officially letting them out….
@@EnjoySynthSounds A mix of keyboard and joypad (where it worked). All good, 8bitdo controller works great. Once I get the actual spectrum console I'll test my joystick with it.
@@CrazyBurger I live in New York City and preordered it. Since there is a PAL / NTSC option (which I find interesting), I would imagine it will be available on Amazon in the United States and Canada at some point.
@@williamhughes5260 I live in Canada but close enough to the border I can drive across and pickup from an Amazon locker. I did that for the Amiga mini since it was so much cheaper than the Canadian Amazon price.
@@CrazyBurgerIt came with a novella that helped get your head around the tolkein-esque storyline. Also a couple of quite good novels in Amazon, expanding the story. Game itself came with a keyboard overlay as it used most of the keyboard in some capacity. It is as much strategy as adventure and has incredible depth for something with 48k of memory to play with.
@@lunarmodule6419 THE Spectrum is a replica of the original Zx Spectrum 48k model capable of playing 48k and 128k games. The Spectrum Next was designed for Spectrum enthusiasts and not widely available. It should play everything but has focus on next level graphics. Capable of far superior graphics that look more like 16 bit.
The British must had really lost their minds with Head Over Heels to turn the Spectrum into an isometric platform puzzler machine. That game did to the Spectrum what Street Fighter II did to the NEOGEO.
Im was newer a Spectrum fan at all. Im think its may have due a sound guy and hated the fart beeper. but anyway im did music and various other stuff for the Spectrum Next games. One of them is extractly Head Over Heels. A game im newer played, dispite all other ports was also good too, its a monocrome game done right, even on the c64! Was actuelly a fun game to mess with throught and im does of course have that machine now. From a C64 guy :-). Also AY have prove its is fun to do tunes for, dispite its simpler than SID.
Shame that the multicolour games like El Stompo and Snake Escape are showing up wrong in your video - they look much better on real hardware or with a more accurate emulator.
I think the problem here is time has not been kind to most spectrum games. I say that as someone who owned one. The gameplay often wasnt great with games made super hard in unfair ways.. from this selection, bak 2 skool should replace skool daze and the original renegade should replace target renegade.
@@CrazyBurger two shades of yellow I think you'll find!... albeit with colour clash... and no hardware scrolling, no hardware sprites, a shitty soundchip (even in the later model)... yeah, ok, I've argued myself into a corner here
Still to this day, 2024 the spectrum blows my mind at how they fitted some of the best times of my childhood into just 48k.
The 2600 did it with 128. Bytes, that is! 48K was overkill back then.
@@OM19_MO79not really, commodore was using 64k at the time. If you wanted bigger, more involved games then the more memory the better.
I got a 16k Spectrum, was frightened to ask for the 48k in case I priced myself out of one for Christmas, Jetpac ran on 16k.
Download an emulator and the games are free.
Check out a modern 1k demoscene demo :P
Thanks! Fond memories of Skool Daze, Manic Miner, Ant Attack, Bobby Bearing, The Hobbit, Lords of Midnight, Trashman and Way of the Exploding Fist. Playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon broke my old Spectrum's keyboard so definitely getting this.
Wow this brings back some memories.
Just don't think I could play these now 😂
- All 48 games played - It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it! - Thanks Crazy Burger! I'm in the U.S. and have always heard praise for the spectrum, but never got my hands on one. I may actually buy this! I'm impressed with what programmers did with the hardware for the time!
@@RobertCatiller67 lol Seemed like s good idea at the time.. it was extremely popular over here. What helped was the ease and cheapness of a lot of the games. £2/£3 was perfect.
I live in Mexico. Since we depend mostly on the happenings in the US, we didn’t have this, but thanks to DK64, I managed to discover the beginnings of Rare, and when the internet became accessible, I discovered these micros and all the gaming we missed out.
I’ve been wanting a machine like this but I’m afraid this will be Europe only.
Even if Amazon UK lets me place the preorder, it will lock my account the day it will try to charge me because their algorithm considers that if the first purchase is over 50 USD, to be shipped to another country and paid with a card from another country, it must be a fraud and they won’t unlock my account globally until they review the proofs of my card ownership. My first Amazon account has been locked for two years since I tried to make a purchase in Amazon Germany.
Get a new 64 or Amiga.
Download an emulator, the games are free.
I am tempted to buy. I was a Spectrum nut back in the day. And supported the machine and defended it to anyone. There was the usual mockery and rival fans of the C64 but what people forget is that the Spectrum was a LOT cheaper. It was still expensive, but the C64 on launch in the UK was really pricey. Both machines had excellent original quirky games. But the Spectrum had the one thing the C64 could NEVER have....it was English! And the games were often programmed by the same sort of young lads who were playing games in their bedrooms. Fire Lord was and is a classic and its buildings were inspired by the ones that the programmer Steve Crow used to see and walk past in his local village and area. You never got that quirky Britishness with a C64. And a lot of games were better played on the keyboard as you could be so much more precise with the keys. Ant Attack has a key to make the guy run, one for jump and the two to rotate in different directions. Then it was 4 different keys for range of the grenades. Short to very long. And keys to change the view.
The idea is to follow the radar light to the girl, it goes green if you are going the right way. If too many ants start to swarm, get on a building and blow them up, using the mid range grenade keys if you are one block high. Then go for the girl again till you find her. Get as close to her as you can, clear the way once more, then leg it for the entrance where you came in. Dont get too far ahead of her or stuck on a building as you will get eaten by ants or blow her up trying to clear them. Its tricky and took me a while to get the hang of it. But it ended up being the first game I managed to ever complete. There are 10 girls to save. And all are pretty straight forward bar the last one or two....There is a superb map for the game out there as well and some nice art work that shows you the buildings and names them. Its the first really good 3D city game and caused some upset on release as it was more expensive at £7 instead of the usual £5 for main stream games....that was until Sabre Wulf came along at a shocking....£10!!! Ah those were the days....
@@Simon-xc5oy Great, cheers for the tips!
You forget that the Amstrad CPC was English and cheap as well, and infinitely more capable than the Spectrum in every respect. From 1984, there was no rational technical reason to get a Spectrum over the other two, but first mover advantage saved it in the UK market.
@@renaudg True. But and this is the thing, the Amstrad never had the range of games that the Spectrum had. Not even close. And it had those as it was cheap as I said. And people could buy it and programme in their bedrooms. And that is what put it out ahead of every other system. The fact that it was easier to get to grips with. And its short comings and limitations are what inspired people to wring the most out of it. And it truly captured peoples imagination in a way that no other machined did, as it was the first affordable home computer. Its quirky nature and Sir Clive SInclair himself is why it won out over the others. It was that quirky boffin type Englishness that appealed to people....There were other machines, many others but the Spectrum was King. The only one to come close to it in mass appeal was the C64 a technically better machine on paper but so much more money. Between the two of them in the space of six months there was little point in buying any other system. It was an incredible fierce fight and so many other machines just did not make it. Acorn Electron, MSX, The Aquarius, Oric etc none had the software range and fanbase....The fact that decades later people still write software for it and there are new versions of the Spectrum machine itself coming to market is a testament to its loyal fanbase....
@@Simon-xc5oy I think you're spot on with the "quirky boffin type Englishness" of Sinclair that must have created fondness for the brand in the UK.
I don't think there was any other rational reason. Range of games wasn't really a factor : most publishers ported the games on all 3 main micros and every important game was on the Amstrad. It even had a few exclusives that the other two couldn't technically afford.
In other countries most people didn't think much of Clive Sinclair or Alan Sugar, so technical merits, price and games availability played a more important role.
I grew up in France, the market there was probably 2-3 years behind the UK and Amstrad is what really got people into micros around 1984-1985. You couldn't beat the all in one convenience and price, and its games looked best. The C64 was a distant second and the Spectrum was almost non existent : we'd look at the ZX screenshots at the back of game boxes and felt bad for the owners, thinking it was some sort of primitive predecessor to the CPC :)
In the end the C64 sold 30 million units worldwide which dwarfed both the Spectrum (5 million) and Amstrad (3 million not including later models). So we all have different perspectives, but it was all about these 3 and everything else was very far behind.
@@renaudg Yes. Interesting on the French being Amstrad lovers. We hated Sugar and were upset when Sir Clive had to sell out and sold it to him of all people. He had no clue, he was not a creative, he was just a seller...a spiv. The bottom line for the Spectrum love here was as I keep saying it was the first. And it was cheaper than all the others. It came in a kit you built yourself at the start and that drew in more people than you would think. Its where it began. And once it started, people stayed loyal. The thing with the Spectrum as well, was it had a LOT of games there were best on the Spectrum, despite other systems being better. They were written for that machine first, then ported across and most ports to other machines just had better music and not much else. Look at Robin of the Wood on the Spectrum. Its the best version of that game. Then things like Trap Door from the tv show were golden on the Spectrum. And utter classics like Atic Attack, Knight Lore, Pyjamarama, Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Star Quake, Roller Coaster, The Great Escape...Ant Attack...some of those on this new machine as well. The Spectrum was great at platformers and had that magic uniqueness to some titles. When you look at the C64 that had games that were unequalled and new on its platform also....Last Ninja and Wizball to name a couple...That was the thing about the 8 bit era, each machine had some killer games that you could only play on that system. In the Uk it was Spectrum first the C64 second and then creeping up to joint first. Everything else fell off a cliff...the Amstrad was a distant third here and came up the ranks late in the day after all the other computers had failed or fallen by the way side. It was never first choice for the majority in England....I think at lot of that was down to the name, as it had a reputation of being a bit bland and naff due to its Hi Fi equipment....That was what it was known for here, not the computer....In the end though when Clive blew his money on the failed C5 project they got the Spectrum name and produced their versions, taking two thirds of the market leaving the C64 as the only real rival...That was till the Amiga came along and computing took the next step up again...I ended up with an Amiga myself for many years that was the best...heh...till the PC started to gain the edge in the early 90s. And now thirty years on I still have and use a Pc. And it can emulate all the systems I used to have and own, and Arcade cabinets as well as pinball etc...Truly there has never been a more versatile system as the Pc that has evolved over time...I just wonder where it will all go next.....
I'm Spectrum obsessed!!
I got my 48k for 5th Birthday back in 1986 and thankfully it is still in perfect working order 🙂I don't use it too often just due to perseveration and avoiding wear and tear, but I have hundreds of games emulated.
This was an enjoyable review.
Jack The Nipper happened to be my favourite Speccy game 🙂
@@jamesbyersmusic Awesome, nice to hear. Will be plenty more Speccy stuff coming up.
Thanks for this round-up, really useful. I just learned about the new machine today and eagerly pre-ordered. I didn't have a Speccy in the day but have fond memories of playing them at friends'.
Ultimate - Play the Game.
Jetpac, Lunar Jetman, Pssst, Tranz Am, Cookie, Sabrewulf, Underwurlde & many more are my all time favourite games. ❤
I don't think I ever finished a spectrum. Gonna buy this and try and finish them all
I loved my Spectrum 48k as a child!
Sabre Wulf , Knight Lore , Jet Set Willy , Minder , Steve Davis Snooker and of course Daley Thompson's Decathlon ! Those are all games I played on the Speccy as a kid . You really did need a joystick for Daley Thompson though .
Awesome picks. I played Daley Thompson on Atari 2600. Destroyed me and the joystick. That last event long distance running still gives me nightmares..
You need about 15 joysticks for that lol
I broke my Symbol Shift key playing it. End of Spectrum :(
Chuckie egg 2 and booty were my favs
Avalon, Fairlight, Lords of Midnight. I’m suddenly back in the mid-80s.
Man these games take me back! As memory serves, in Nodes of Yesod you need to catch a mole on the surface before going below ground then your mole can dig through walls for you :-) Well done on getting through all 48 games and it'll serve as a good example of what the Spectrum is and what it isn't. I feel our cousins across the pond who are maybe more used to Atari and Commodore 8 bit computer games may find these Spectrum games a bit more primative but scratch under the surface and you'll find some real gems. Keep up the awesome work!
Download an emulator, the emulator and thousands of games are free
Some of my favourite games are here... Lords of Midnight, Avalon, Manic Minor, Nodes of Yesod. Going to check it out using your link thanks
Absolutely great idea for a video. Many people may not have seen the Speccy in action and what they can expect. Nice one!
I own a modded original modded 48k+ - It can have a well earned rest when I get this console.
I remember playing the Hobbit and it would be in real time so if you waited around too long Gandalf would walk off. Also remember getting one of the characters drunk by offering him beer again and again. Waiting for the pages to load the graphics makes me wonder how we ever thought these games were fun.
Some of my speccy faves off the top of my head - Thanatos, Turbo Esprit, ATV simulator, deathchase, Jumping Jack, soul of a Robot, Sky Ranger, Run for Gold, Match Point, Scuba Dive, Kokotoni Wilf, Bruce Lee, can’t wait to stick them on this thing.
@@JustinCardiff Looking forward to driving deeper into the Spectrum back catalogue. Thousands of games out there.
Thanatos i loved that game, the dragon was well animated some great enemies too great game
Download an emulator, the emulator and thousands of games are free
I grew up with the C64 in the U.S. but I am curious about this Spectrum. I am debating to get one. Thanks for the video!
Don't waste your money...
@@jimbotron70 I am curious to know why you think that? Do you think it is not worth the money they are asking?
@@visitperaiagreece It had terrible tech specs, unless you had it and you want to relive for the sake of nostalgia it's wasted money for a new user.
@@visitperaiagreece it suffered with colour clash massively hence no different colours on body parts.. but if you love retro gaming and the price isn’t too much then give it a go
The 48k wasnt good compared to c64 but the 128k had some memorable games and the sound chip on 128k was good. That's the machine I had and I understand this one can play the 128 k versions so for that I'd recommend if you're curious.
I was a Vic 20 / C64 / Amiga guy so this will be interesting. My mate used to play Manic Miner endlessly! The look is pure Spectrum with the single colours graphics and colour bleed. I have this on pre-order. No racing game though! I always loved Way Of The Exploding fist on the C64 - where it looked so much better1
@@Sungdynasty66 No doubt C64 did a few things better but wasn't always the case. Would've been nice if they added Chase HQ.
I had a C64 as well….was very jealous of my friends who had Spectum’s…..really wanted to play Knight Lore and Alien 8 etc…..sadly never played them to this day.
@howard7073 I'll need to add those to my list to play.
Had 48k from lauch, played it to death for years, had every issue of crash all my mates had one as well. But do i hell remember TCQ. This is the first time i have ever seen it.
TCQ is a new game from 2022!
@CrazyBurger Ahh.. I see. They seem to have done a good job with the colour clash on thar game. Cheers
Love the Scottish accent at the beginning ! + Alien Queen 😮, never knew of that one !
Lol Cheers, Alien Girl is a new game, there's a handful of new games included with The Spectrum. Tenenbra is another.
IIRC Where Time Stood Still was only available on the 128k Spectrum (I used to have the +2 version with the built in cassette player). WTSS and Great Escape were my favourite games.
Great video thanks for posting there's lots of excellent classics here cant wait to relive the Spectrum days all over again,
Man, back in the day Way of the Exploding Fist was such a game, but this reminded me how basic and frustrating these games were. Saboteur we lived, but again, looking now I dont know if I can play that again. I will watch for when this releases, it’s one for us oldies.
I'd say yeah its mostly for those that remembered it, lived and breathed it. I'm just curious to what I missed being a C64 guy.
For everyone complaining about what games it doesn't come with; you can easily download a game, copy it to an USB drive and play them on it (at least from what the advertising says - it covers most speccy image formats too).
I for one am excited about this thing and have already mentally budgeted it for next month, even though my HD monitor doesn't have a speaker.
Great video…thank you.. the best game in this compilation is Target Renegade…sorry they didn’t put here R-type, rainbow islands, robocop, Batman the movie, the untouchables, last ninja 2, Rick dangerous 1 and 2, Off road racer, Commando, ikari Warriors, Flying shark, and so many others…
Great suggestions.. at least we can add our own games.
It looks like they weren’t able to include any arcade conversions or licensed games (except The Hobbit), which I think accounts for most of the games you mentioned?
Given that there's supposedly 10 000 Speccy games (likely an exaggeration because of variant files of the same thing etc), I think it's fair enough! For only 48 games, it's a nice selection.
there would be licence fees to pay the what evers left of developers
@MrLtia1234 they should open a Web page for it that the zx can log into
I only got into the Speccy last year (C64 boy) and I sold mine as I assumed RGL would be releasing a new one and I was right. I love these modern iterations as I hate mucking about with dying hardware, CRTs etc. I don't have the room or the patience. LOL. Can't wait for this machine!
I'm looking forward to it. Spectrum isn't the easiest to emulate. Hard work on some systems to get working properly. Usually down to the key mapping.
@@CrazyBurger Yeah exactly. I have a MiSTer but I much prefer TheC64 for C64 gaming due to having the correct keys. The keyboard is even more important on the Speccy. Can't wait to have drinking sessions playing 180 all night with a mate, haha.
All the games played. Well done again!
As sweet as it is to reminisce on those days back in the 80's with a fond sense of nostalgia. I would very quickly get fed up with how frustratingly unplayable some of these games are (were).
That skiing game has the most terrifying death/crash noise 😂
Renegade , target renegade, match day 2. That was my childhood
Firstly. Well done for going through ALL the games there Crazy Burger! 👍. Certainly quite a lot of good games for Blaze to choice from, for a Spectrum cart! 😊. But I hope they add a few of their own into the mix as well. Also I believe you are able to do basic programming on it too. It would be a nice extra thing to have, if you wanted to create a basic game on for it too! 🤔
@@gaz-a-reno8891 Cheers, yeah you can use Basic on it. Going to be interesting. I'd expect Blaze to get at least 3 carts for Evercade from this.
My childhood right there 😍😍😍
Chaos 👍 the board game written by Julian gollop, i still play it on my hi end gaming pc. Its now called Chaos groove. Proof that you dont have to have blinding graphics to make a good game.
Listening to the awful screeching as the game loaded on cassette, watching the display fill line by line, hoping it wouldn't crash 😄
That first game, Alien Girl reminds me of Gauntlet!
@@claredin Sort of. It's probably loosely like Alien Breed.
Knot in 3D is a 3D version of the Light Cycle game in the film Tron.
As a now responsible adult i might just have to buy one of these , as kid i might of played all of these games without buying them all them years ago........ And now is an opportunity to possibly pass on some $$$ to the authors
:) omg the RETURN!!!!!! wheres the sanyo slim 11 tape player?
I am going to buy it in November 👍
Better with a raspberry pi running emulation station, I've got one with all the speccy games on it, runs perfect
I still have my original and the +2 version still have all my games
I remember buying the zx spectrum in kit form
Great summary and for sure you need to play more Spectrum games :) However you have the wrong "Spellbound", the one on "The Spectrum" is the adventure game from Mastertronic not the Beyond Software Q-Bert clone.
@@lordchippers Thanks.. wow thanks for the info regarding Spellbound.
Yes, I noticed that. The Mastertronic Spellbound is a much better game from the Magic Knight series :-)
That's the info I came to the comments for lol This was my favourite game as a kid :)
Zx81 to commodore 16 to commodore 64 to snes to megadrive to playstation.
Good times watching that technology jump every couple of years. It kind of got less exciting around playstation 1 to 2 as it started to look all the same.
Tragic they didn't include Dizzy
A crime .. aww well I have it on megadrive
Nicely done, thank you.
@@chrisshaw451 thanks, hopefully help everyone that's not sure of the games.
I’ve got my spectrum Next with every game ever made love it
Jealous !
I like the clicky harsh sounds
Lol I find them a bit difficult to listen to these days.
I don't need this but I am most certainly getting it!
You can use an emulator and all the ROMS are free.
Love the commitment! :)
@@EamonBJWyse lol your not kidding. Not an easy job at all. Seemed like a good idea at the time!
They did really well with their choice of included games, some absolute belters in there!
i grew up with speccy but as all fond memories do i want to play it. but will i buy it fffffffff yeah
After hearing your comments on the games, it makes me wonder what kind of documentation/instructions we'll get with this (if any).
@@RobertCatiller67 I doubt it'll be anything included in the box. They usually put all the documents and guides on their website. Better than nothing I guess. We will definitely need help with many if these games.
I play Snake Escape a lot and it is h-a-r-d but at least the first thing you touch doesn't kill you.
I've never heard of Wheelie.
Wheelie - full speed is not your friend. The bus jumps are around 3/4 speed and the easiest way of getting to the ghost rider without running out of fuel is to go as slow as possible, then you have full tank for race back.
@@DavidFalconer-np4bo Ah, right. Thanks for the tip!
I've just preordered this. Spectrum was from my childhood and i love it.
Couple.of questions. What joysticks or game pads will be compatible?
Also, where is best place to download additional games.
I NEED, Treasure island Dizzy, ATV Simulator, Hyper Sports.and Daley Thomson Super Test as a minimum
@@PlattLineker2Pen generally 8bitdo gamepads are excellent. Joysticks options aren't great. Retrogames own peripherals are worth looking at. THE gamepad and THE Joystick would be the ones to check out. As for roms/games.. use Google.
Not a bad list of games for sure, but it’s very sad that Rockstar Ate My Hamster is not included. 😢
I had 8 of this selection of games on the C64. I never had a Speccy back then; I did try an emulator on my Amiga. Despite it being an A4000/030, all the few games I tried were too slow. Wheelie was the one that was slightly playable, so I'll give that one a go. I'll skip Exploding Fist; having it on the C64, I would miss the crunching sound effects too much. As to what games I'd add via memory stick, I think I'd go back to the start and put the earliest commercial Speccy games on there for a start. I wonder what they were; is there a list somewhere?
@@MarkTheMorose Oh yeah there's tons of top 100 games out there. Just have a Google.
Odd how little to none adventure games included. They was a big part of that era. I mean you need to have something to use the rubber keys for right?
Joffa Smith. The Spectrum genius 👌👌
35:34 Nice work but believe that's the wrong Spellbound. It's the MAD one with the Magic Knight, which was a popular game.
@@conflummix1397 I know apologies about that. I updated my error in this ruclips.net/video/t2v2Liec5Lc/видео.htmlsi=hhqoIQJWyn9hlQpr
@@CrazyBurger Nice I'll take a watch.
I can see why they disabled the comments on the trailer advert, because people will be saying the background music sounds the same as the Kim Wild's song. Keep me hanging on 😅
Interesting I was about to invest in a all white Speccy brand new for £200 then I saw this, is it as easy as going to the games website clicking on games then saving on usb to play anytime
There are a lot of classics on the Spectrum... and not many are included! Ah well, we can add our own ROMs. The game you showed for Spellbound I think was incorrect, I assume it'll be the Mastertronic flip sceen game with a white knight.
@@JetmanUK Yeah I've realised that Spellbound is the wrong version. Apologies.
Will get it as long as I can put Dizzy on there!
@@indiaalphanovember8217 You can put all the Dizzy games on here..
@@CrazyBurger Woulda been nice to have it on there to begin with but yeah - gonna put the lot on there!
There's some modern Dizzy adventures available too.
@@indiaalphanovember8217Codemasters were always funny about licensing their games, but now they’re owned by EA I don’t think there’ll be any chance of them officially letting them out….
Where can the Dizzy games be downloaded?
No Bruce Lee :(
Any clue on the controllers we can use with the Spectrum? Maybe an Xbox controller?
@@lima01 Possibly. The xbox 360 ones might be better. You can use this, the official pad that'll release at the same time amzn.to/3U1Gghg
Highway Encounter was the reason I failed my A-levels. I remember playing it even as the exams looked. Hey ho.
Lol we've all been there. I'm blaming Speedball 2.
Did you play any of the games with joypads? How do they stack up? Thanks ahead of time.
@@EnjoySynthSounds A mix of keyboard and joypad (where it worked). All good, 8bitdo controller works great. Once I get the actual spectrum console I'll test my joystick with it.
Brilliant. Thanks for the heads up.
Retro Gamer magazine had an interview where they talked about mapping Head Over Heels to a joypad to help younger users.
@@Metal_Maxine Cool, I'll need to head out and get it. Its also got a feature on Snatcher..
This is all very well, but will they be selling a Kempston joystick? ;-)
@@pinball8701 I've heard rumours a controller of some description will happen early next year. Not sure if it's a joystick though..
For me Saboteur is the game…still have the OG console and the cassettes…
@@michaelvoulgarellis8298 Yeah looking forward to playing it more. It definitely stands out
Please tell me there's a 'tape load error' mode.
@@brandosbucket lol probably. Cause I'm sure we will have access to basic.. im sure they'll be a way.
No Switchblade?
Any indication if it’s coming to North America? I really don’t want to ship from the UK.
@@ChampippleD Not sure. I'd be very surprised if it doesn't appear on Amazon US at some point.
@@CrazyBurger I live in New York City and preordered it. Since there is a PAL / NTSC option (which I find interesting), I would imagine it will be available on Amazon in the United States and Canada at some point.
Good work! Don’t need this but can’t wait for it to arrive (and sit next to my real one)!
@@williamhughes5260 I live in Canada but close enough to the border I can drive across and pickup from an Amazon locker. I did that for the Amiga mini since it was so much cheaper than the Canadian Amazon price.
What, no Jet Set Willy? 😢
No Sabre Wulf?
Reminds me of my old amstrad 464
I miss the Zx 81
Lords of Midnight is epic
@@6thdr You'll need to teach me how to play!
@@CrazyBurgerIt came with a novella that helped get your head around the tolkein-esque storyline. Also a couple of quite good novels in Amazon, expanding the story. Game itself came with a keyboard overlay as it used most of the keyboard in some capacity. It is as much strategy as adventure and has incredible depth for something with 48k of memory to play with.
Whats the betting everyone gets it just for Manic Miner... ???
What's the difference between The Spectrum and ZX Spectrum NEXT?
Is it that we can code programs on the NEXT?
Or NEXT's hardware is more powerful?
@@lunarmodule6419 THE Spectrum is a replica of the original Zx Spectrum 48k model capable of playing 48k and 128k games. The Spectrum Next was designed for Spectrum enthusiasts and not widely available. It should play everything but has focus on next level graphics. Capable of far superior graphics that look more like 16 bit.
@@CrazyBurger Ah! Thank you!
@@CrazyBurger And we will not have any issues in North America right?
NTSC, electric power, etc.
@@lunarmodule6419 na will be fine. Usb powered.
@@CrazyBurger super!
Does anybody know if there will be an Amstrad version of this?
@@jamesayres845 not for a while.
Chaos: The Battle of Wizards should have been added as standard. 😉
I noticed there were none of Julian Gollop’s games, which surprised me…
The British must had really lost their minds with Head Over Heels to turn the Spectrum into an isometric platform puzzler machine.
That game did to the Spectrum what Street Fighter II did to the NEOGEO.
Im was newer a Spectrum fan at all. Im think its may have due a sound guy and hated the fart beeper. but anyway im did music and various other stuff for the Spectrum Next games. One of them is extractly Head Over Heels. A game im newer played, dispite all other ports was also good too, its a monocrome game done right, even on the c64! Was actuelly a fun game to mess with throught and im does of course have that machine now. From a C64 guy :-). Also AY have prove its is fun to do tunes for, dispite its simpler than SID.
Street Fighter II was newer released for NEOGEO. Its could not play the game property either anyway, due in fact its missing 2 buttons required.
Shame that the multicolour games like El Stompo and Snake Escape are showing up wrong in your video - they look much better on real hardware or with a more accurate emulator.
@@robqg No this was my error with incorrect settings. Explained here ruclips.net/video/t2v2Liec5Lc/видео.htmlsi=idaJ4z2OjmORaJYQ
Football Manager 2 is a long and varied game encompassing many play styles.
When are you going to cover the other 35 games? ;-)
Cool, you added chapters for the remaining games.
They were always there?
Hadn't even heard about this.. Please tell me that awful bilinear filter blur can be turned off though! :/
'The Spectrum' hasn't been released yet. Will be out in November. ;)
Can I download and add free roms this spectrum?
Yes
quite a few worthy games on there ,pity there's no R Type
Do people not know that they can download spectrum games for free?
The best games will come with the SD cart 😅
I'll wait til someone sells one on.
I don't understand. Why would people want to buy this and relive their childhood trauma of not owning a Commodore 64? 😂😂
@@NemedPhoenixMagicBecause we prefer the speccy lol
And let's face it, the speccy graphics were always better that the blocky brown C64 👌 😆
Do another video on how to load the games👍🏻
Please? Lol anyway. I'll cover that when I get my hands of the actual computer/console.
@@CrazyBurger Yes Please
I may get one of these, but I'm waiting to see if there'll be a North American release...I don't really want to import one.
Skool days
Ah no midnight resistance, I wonder if you can add games to this?
@@zombeat7376 You can via USB
I think the problem here is time has not been kind to most spectrum games. I say that as someone who owned one. The gameplay often wasnt great with games made super hard in unfair ways.. from this selection, bak 2 skool should replace skool daze and the original renegade should replace target renegade.
@@mr.y.mysterious.video1 It's Target Renegade that's included? I agree with you though. Many games haven't aged well.
@@CrazyBurger I think the original renegade is better, just personal opinion
Match Day really hurt my eyes. And ears.
A poor man's 64, saw no reason to buy it back then and just listening to it here, well enough said..
You're missing out on some excellent games, and no brown ( 😛)
Plenty yellow though 😉
@@CrazyBurger two shades of yellow I think you'll find!... albeit with colour clash... and no hardware scrolling, no hardware sprites, a shitty soundchip (even in the later model)... yeah, ok, I've argued myself into a corner here
@@lucian2701 😄 lol all good.