/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8118228]

Sir Clive just meant to create a teaching tool to help British schoolchildren learn programming. He didn't mean for it to try and recreate 68000-based arcade games. Really, that's not what he had in mind at all, guys.

[Anonymous No.8118351]

>>8118228
>Sir Clive just meant to create a teaching tool to help British schoolchildren learn programming.
spectrum was for poor people on the dole. the middle and upper classes bought commodore, atari or amstrad.
>He didn't mean for it to try and recreate 68000-based arcade games
>in 1982
>when no arcades used 68000
what a fucking spastic

[Anonymous No.8118454]

>>8118228
Demakes on shite hardware can be kino, though.

[Anonymous No.8118514]

>>8118351
>the middle and upper classes bought commodore, atari or amstrad.
or the BBC (Acorn)

[Anonymous No.8119369]

>>8118454
Unless they're on the ZX Spectrum, that is.

[Anonymous No.8119381]

>>8118228
Oh christ. Not another ZX Spectrum thread.

[Anonymous No.8119389]

>>8119381
We could have another argument about whether 3D Sonic on the Saturn was possible or not if you prefer that.

[Anonymous No.8119390]

>>8119369
Explain why all of us who grew up speccy still love it then? You realise Gameboy was the most basic system compared to Lynx and Game gear and yet it still kicked their ass.

[Anonymous No.8119418]

>>8119389
I'd rather anything over acknowledging the "speccy" as the brits call it.
>>8119390
Refer to the enclosed image.

[Anonymous No.8119442]

>>8119418
Ok now post a NEC PC-6001 or Sharp MZ game and get back to me.

[Anonymous No.8119445]

>>8118228
>gets a superiour remake of Simon's Quest so as to make it not suck fucking arse

NESfags btfo.

[Anonymous No.8119448]

>>8119390
Stockholm syndrome. Simple as that.

[Anonymous No.8119472]

>>8119442
>Sharp MZ

[Anonymous No.8119495]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPwkgN_8OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_-NX-QPEgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLgyVOkU5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjrawxFWgiM

Yes this is very much an improvement on the Spectrum I must say.

[Anonymous No.8119509]

>>8119381
oy me speccy

[Anonymous No.8119517]

>>8119495
Yeah, but those are early 80s machines soon surpassed by computers with 32-64-128 colors and FM sound while for some reason the Spectrum was still going until almost the Clinton years. Imagine the idea of the PC-6001 still being commercially relevant to be able to get a port of Street Fighter II.

[Anonymous No.8119537]

The only homebrew game /vr/ ever successfully completed was for the Spectrum.

[Anonymous No.8119570]

>>8119445
Have you actually played this? It's a terrible game. Like, the first part of the game is a forced path with invisible barriers and there's a ton of dialogue to go through that's written like a high school student's fanfiction about their OC characters. It looks beautiful and the gameplay isn't the worst for the system, but it's something that looks better in screenshots and choice vignettes than it actually plays.

[Anonymous No.8119628]

>tfw never grew up with the Spectrum but getting way into it now
If you can't find any enjoyment with it then that ain't my problem. It's polarizing like the Atari 2600 is, people who like it are gonna continue to have fun with it no matter how much other people just try to write it off as garbage. Their loss really.

[Anonymous No.8119631]

>want to get into zx spectrum because I enjoy jank and strange cool experiences
> A banged up soviet copy ZX is $90
Damn

[Anonymous No.8119638]

>>8119631
https://retroradionics.co.uk/#!/OMNI-128HQ-LAPTOP/p/75106221/category=0

Get you one of these. I'm American and have no chance of finding original hardware (Timex Sinclair machines don't count since they're like less than 10% compatible) and fuck paying to import one. Plus then you'd have to deal with a step down converter and you better have a PAL display, then you're gonna need more hardware for joystick ports or to let you use modern storage solutions. The Omni is a great solution for all that. It's a full on hardware clone (contains a Harlequin SuperFO board which has proven timings) and I honestly can't recommend it enough if you wanna fuck with the Spectrum but do more than just emulate.

[Anonymous No.8120349]

>>8119445
Simon's Quest was a great game. Fuck off, YouTube homo.

[Anonymous No.8120404]

>>8119418
Never in my life I saw spectrumfags shitting on jap computers. Or vise versa, for that matter.
Falseflagging murrican nintoddlers of nu/vr/ though...

[Anonymous No.8120510]

>>8119628
The spectrum seems like the kind of device that was best suited to playing single screen games or games where the screen gets changed the moment you reach the edges. It's when developers try to get too much out of the system when things go to shit.

[Anonymous No.8120515]

>>8119445
If you had actually played literally any of this game you would know it isn't a remake of Simon's Quest at all.

[Anonymous No.8120517]

>>8119638
Know of any others like this for other micro computers?

[Anonymous No.8120584]

>>8119418
>my less than worthless subjective opinion is actually objective reality
Say what you like. Our games and computers were of high enough quality for us not to have had a crash. These hilariously pathetic anti Spectrum posts of yours are just cope. You're utterly transparent. We're going to hold over your heads the fact that you almost destroyed your industry through sheer incompetence until the end of time. You fucking imbeciles.
>inb4 no bong industry to speak of
There were so many bedroom coders becoming millionaires that a documentary was made about it, you dopey cunt.
>inb4 shit taste
HAHAHAHA! There's literally a stereotype (made by YOU, no less) that Yuros were (are) infinitely more sophisticated than you. Cope. Keep injecting leftist politics into your games, morons. Bring on the crash sequel so the rest of us can continue laughing at you.

[Anonymous No.8120692]

why is it Bongs think whole world revolves around them or that anyone in Europe outside UK and Spain gave shit about ZX Spectrum?

[Anonymous No.8120948]

In fact the UK did have a market crash in 1984. This was similar to the American crash in that it was caused by an oversaturated home computer market with too many competing architectures. It also saw a lot of bedroom coders disappear and the software industry become more consolidated and professionalised as publishers like Ocean and Elite came to dominate.

[Anonymous No.8120969]

>>8119389
I would be fine with both Saturn and Spectrum threads completely disappearing from this board.

[Anonymous No.8120987]

>>8120515
Wrong, the devs say it started as a port of SQ to the Speccy but they decided to remake it into a game that wasn't absolute garbage like the original NES version.

[Anonymous No.8121026]

>>8120692
>Bongs think whole world revolves around them
it does

[Anonymous No.8121029]

>>8121026
Just because you ran the world 200 years ago doesn't mean you still do now.

[Anonymous No.8121220]

>>8119448
Fuck you. Sinclair had a rich history that kicked off the home computing craze in the UK during the early 80's. The ZX81 was my first computer and the whole reason I got into the field. It had fuck all to do with gaming as anyone who tried to "game" on the machine can attest. It was a sad day when Clive sold up to Sugar and the company was subsumed by probably the worst electronics manufacturer in history. So as I said, fuck you. Don't ever let me see you round my estate you cheeky little cunt or I'll give you a good fucking hiding. Now fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8121252]

>>8121220
He got butthurt because people just wanted to use his computers for gaming which he considered an unproductive waste of time, so he sold his company off, took the money he'd made, and split.

[Anonymous No.8121332]

>>8120692
Well I mean...plenty of South Americans and Russians also care about the Spectrum. Two Brazilians loved the Spectrum enough to make pic related which has been hugely successful. The Spectrum might have been a footnote in America since we were spoilt for choice and had a ton of other hugely influential machines to choose from but in places where people had no money the Spectrum was pretty prominent since it could be easily cloned and built entirely using (cheap) off the shelf components.

[Anonymous No.8121348]

>>8121252
>so he sold his company off, took the money he'd made, and kept trying to make dumbass electric vehicles that nobody wanted
Fixed

[Anonymous No.8121392]

>>8121348
>After Clive sold his company and left, he went further on making electric cars that most people didn't care for
Source on the latter part?

[Anonymous No.8121396]

>>8121392
Google dot com

[Anonymous No.8122884]

>>8120948
>In fact the UK did have a market crash in 1984
Kek. Odd how no one has ever brought it up. All the more strange, given the foaming at the mouth, perpetual victim complex, coping retards who post here... Massive false equivalency, or is this more made up nonsense to cover up the eternal shame and COPE?

[Anonymous No.8123752]

>>8122884
There was never a software crash in the UK, it was just hardware. All the smaller computer manufacturers got bought up or shut down and it was really just Sinclair, Acorn and Amstrad left (and the American companies like Atari and Commodore.) The UK didn't suddenly have retailers stop stocking video games altogether like what happened in America but there was definitely a boom period followed by a crash. It's funny because many bongs will complain constantly about how they never had a crash and it was only in America and how "Americans need to stop assuming their video game market was/is representative of the market as a whole." They bitch about it nonstop.

[Anonymous No.8124661]

>>8120692
>why is it Bongs think whole world revolves around them
"The meridian line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian of the world, Longitude Zero (0° 0' 0"). Every place on the Earth is measured in terms of its angle east or west from this line"

Because it does.

[Anonymous No.8124669]

>>8121396
>GOOGLE KNOW EVERYTHING
No, the do not know everything, and neither does ask.com nor Bing.

[Anonymous No.8125223]

>>8124669
>search engines don't host information

[Anonymous No.8125301]

>>8125223
There is a lot of information google gets wrong. Look up anything nutrition or exercise related and you will get so much bogus advice. You would have an easier time going to a gym and asking people in person.

[Anonymous No.8125671]

>>8119369
wrong

[Anonymous No.8125697]

why does no one talk about the oric atmos?

[Anonymous No.8125761]

>>8119418
>>8119472
quit spamming your fucking gay ass .png you spent all night making

[Anonymous No.8127992]

>>8118228
Ok