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40 glorious years of gaming perfection and still going strong

>> No.9092747

>>9092717
LUV ME KNIGHTLORE, SIMPLE AS

>> No.9093078

I love pretending that ancient home computers with Atari-tier ports and games are good.

>> No.9093191

Belongs in the same trash bin as all the shitty postpunk bands the UK produced back then

>> No.9093213

>>9093191
Ah yes, all of those famously shitty UK post punk bands like Wire, Joy Division, The Fall and Public Image Ltd.

Anyway, this was a cracking little system. I still remember the +2 I got in the late 80s, it came with the light gun and Ocean’s near arcade perfect port of Operation Wolf. Happy days!

>> No.9093217

>>9093078
Shut your fucking mouth. Specyshit wasn't anywhere near as good as 2600 stuff.

>> No.9093226
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>>9092717
>and still going strong
you’re absolutely right

>> No.9093230
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9093230

BASED SPECCY THREAD

>> No.9093237

>>9093191
i hope you get aids

>> No.9093247

>>9093217
I agree the Speccy wasnt as good as the 2600, it blew the shit out of it

>> No.9093250

>>9093078
>>9093191
>start a Speccy thread
>seething Nindildos get upset that is isnt a Nintendie thread
never go full autismo

>> No.9093257

>>9093213
Would rather listen to Britpop than any of them. At least they understood rock music is meant to be fun

>> No.9093263

>>9093226
how in the actual fuck did they get the scrolling so smooth? and parallax as well??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6nPqgR0PK8

>> No.9093274

>>9093263
Post more games like this. I love the fantasy art style!

>> No.9093308

you guys are aware of Melkhiors Mansion right? PC version is out, not sure where the Speccy version is but its due out, its fantastic:
https://youtu.be/SI3vzCNtVQY

>> No.9093385
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>>9093250
>ate me tendie
>simple as

>> No.9093419
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Luv me sum 'Ead o'er 'Eels lads
Carefully positioning a grotesque caricature of the future king so I can use his head as a stepping stone to reach distant jumps

>> No.9093982

>>9093385
Post flag. Then I'll post some stats. Start off with these links:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+teeth+better+than+american+teeth&t=palemoon&ia=web
...and then the real annihilation will begin when I know where you're from, cunt.
Go on - grow some balls.

>> No.9094026

>>9093263
Any game where you shoot moons out of your boobs is gud tim

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9094071

I can't help but feel sorry for the britsharts and abbos that had to play these dogshit speccy games growing up

>> No.9094080

>>9092717
I thrifted a CIB one but could never get it to work lol

>> No.9094137

>>9093078
Why are you here?

>> No.9094152

>>9094080
what was wrong?

>> No.9094168

I have a 16K, a +2, an Omni and a Next. Omni is my favourite, was thinking of selling the Next.

>> No.9094279

>>9093213
I never understood the appeal of that type of band, they’re too dark, and not in a fun way like The Damned

>> No.9094328

>>9093263
damn that looks really good

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Today I found my dad's Timex Sinclair 2048 (zx spectrum clone sold only in Portugal and Poland) that I used to play as a child but I can't find any of the cables. How hard are they to find? I don't even know what they look like

>> No.9094565

>>9094350
https://www.polyplay.xyz/Power-Supply-ZX-Spectrum-Timex-2048-with-Power-Switch

>> No.9094774

>>9094071
fortunately Britain is a first world country so we also had Commodores, Ataris, Sega and Nintendo too on top of our own computer industry.

>> No.9094839

>>9094071
Oh nooooo, Chuckie Egg, one of the greatest single screen arcade platformers of the era, how ever did we cope?

>> No.9094889

>>9094071
Who cares, they're in their 50s now

>> No.9094894

OI

>> No.9095213
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>>9093982

>> No.9095252

Speccy had some great games because it had plenty of RAM. It was the right price too and serviced the market of Speccy or no vidya at all.

>> No.9095276

>>9094889
Wrong. I’m in my 40s.
Also what are you meant to care about? People in an exact certain age group that matches your shitty opinion? If people want to play Chucky egg that’s up to them. I wouldn’t bother now.

>> No.9095287

>>9095276
Chuckie Egg is a classic 80s single screen arcade plaftormer, on the same level of elegant simplicity and addictiveness as games like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros and Lode Runner. if you don’t like those kinds of games then fine but people acting as if it’s a bad game probably haven’t actually played it

>> No.9095303

>>9095287
Chuckie Egg on Speccy has some real playability, the movement just feels good.

>> No.9095324
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Too young but I'd play Sabre Wulf with my dad. Good shit

>> No.9095367

>>9095324
Not a bad game, it was the graphics that made it compelling though. Atic Atac is pretty fun.

>> No.9095667

>>9095213
Clarkson’s a northerner they can’t afford proper dentistry

>> No.9095703

>>9094137
Can't speak for that anon, but I come to oi me speccy threads to watch brits seethe and cope. I've got to hand it to you ladlets. Your loyalty is second to none. Whether it's your local club that hasn't won in your lifetime. Your national team that can't win at games you invented. Or some random old calculator tier excuse for a computer being shilled by a literal Vicky Pollard. You're right there. Being more retarded than most mere mortals are even capable of imagining. Keep a stiff upper lip. Weetabix.

>> No.9095720

>>9095703
yes we Brits are fiercely loyal to British hardware. unlike you Americarbs who shat on Commodore and Atari and bought Japanese, the very country who tortured your Grandfather in World War 2. disgraceful.

>> No.9095721

>>9095703
this kek

>> No.9095725
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>>9095720
Sharters literally tanked their entire industry while the ZX Spectrum was standing strong

>> No.9095736

>>9095720
I’d sooner trust the Japanese than a company ran by a kike like Jack Tramiel.

>> No.9095795

>>9095736
hating Commodore I can get but Atari? their 8-bit computers were excellent. why murrika why?

>> No.9095798

>>9095795
Admittedly the only thing Atari excelled at was arcade games.

>> No.9095801

>>9095720
The tragic thing is that the demise of the British empire is in living memory. There are people alive today who remember the British Raj. And it's all gone. The largest empire in human history reduced back to an island--not quite European, and second-rate compared to its most famous colony. Young men have to grow up with that. When they're boys, they splash toy boats in their baths, reciting, "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!" Except they don't anymore. You're absolutely right, of course; the child growing up in Latin American squalor at least has hope for the future.

>> No.9095812
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>>9092717
Still going strong indeed. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/38122/ZX-Spectrum/Uranus_Penetrator_III_The_Hunt_For_Number_Two

>> No.9095813

>>9095798
their 8 and 16-bit micros were excellent. the Atari ST was a mainstay of music studios throughout the 90s due to its rock solid MIDI capabilities. it was the console division that went awry.

>> No.9095837

>>9095813
Sure but were they good productivity machines? Because that’s mostly what people in America bought computers for in the 80s.

>> No.9096049

>>9095801
>the child growing up in Latin American squalor at least has hope for the future.
Nah, there's no hope for this shithole.

>> No.9096069

the speccy is superb at 3D isometric puzzlers, like Head over Heels, Spindizzy, Knight Lore, Alien 8 and Batman for starters, not bad for a calculator.

>> No.9096074

>>9092717
4chan has made me hate bongs and I’m fairly certain it’s justified.

>> No.9096139

>>9095813
Atari team went on to make the Commodore Amiga, and the Commodore team made the Atari ST, I am confuse.

>> No.9096240

>>9096049
I suppose that’s what happens when you’re only colonized for resources like gold and wood.

>> No.9096312

>>9095837
Yes you "know" that because that's what I told you three years ago.

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9096357

LUV ME MATCHDAY
SIMPLE AS

>> No.9096427

Any Z80 programmers in here? gonna attempt to write a game on the ZX and the challenge of getting it in a 48k machine appeals, any tips?

>> No.9096464

40 years of cancer and shitting up my c64

>> No.9096475

>>9093213
I've never heard of any of those except Joy Division so they're probably shit :p

>> No.9096476

>>9096312
Take yer meds

>> No.9096492

>>9093250
Imagine being so obsessed with Nintendo that you randomly bring them up in every thread you shitpost in.

>> No.9096513

>>9096492
nindildo detected

>> No.9096517

>>9096513
Why did you change your usual "nintendildo" keyword for "nindildo"? It's so obvious it's still you.
Love how Nintendo lives rent free inside of your being for all eternity.

>> No.9096519

>>9096074
You hate English people so much you type in their language and use their inventions to do so.

>> No.9096523

>>9096517
nindildo make you seethe more
simple as

>> No.9096536

>>9096523
haha yeah oster, I'm seething so much while I'm going on a date with a qt girl on saturday night, knowing you will spend the rest of the weekend thinking about nintendo.
how am I seething!

>> No.9096547

>>9096536
you saw a speccy thread and got angry, only nintendies get this triggered.

>> No.9096567

>>9096547
Yes, Australia-kun, everyone who doesn't particularly share your shitty brit childhood with speccy is a nintendo boogeyman.

>> No.9096598

played a weird speccy game called "Tir Na Nog" its a walking simulator that reminds me of Tolkien. not sure whats going no but seems like you have to draw your own map

>> No.9096608

>>9096598
It's not "a weird game" it's fairly well known. It's based on celtic mythology.

>> No.9096617

>>9096608
Speccy games do have a unique atmosphere, not seen anything like Tir Na Nog before.

>> No.9096632

>>9096617
Try Dun Darach, Marsport, Heavy on the Magick and Astroclone.

>> No.9096739

i love how this cracking little machine makes sharters seethe and cope. long live the speccy!

>> No.9096943

>>9095667
b-b-but britistan has le perfect free healthcare system, no?

>>9095720
This. When I was a child Opa Obergruppenfuhrer Schmidt told me stories about how being forced to have sex with titless comfort women who reeked of kimchi just to keep the nips on our side was literally torture.

>>9095801
If you can't beat the wogs at a game you invented it's time to call it quits init.

>> No.9098108

>>9092717
>gaming perfection
that never happened. spectrum titles are renowned for being absolute trash. this is why the speccy only sold in the uk and eastern euro nations. nobody cared for cheap garbage made for poor people.

>still going strong
haven't seen any new games or software for it in years. the entire platform is dead, along with its brain damaged community of british failures. no new music, graphics, games, nothing.. it's dead. even the c64 is doing better than this.

>> No.9098136

>>9098108
nindildo is SEETHING today

>> No.9098139

>>9098108
I see you fixed the greentext formatting error but are still using Reddit spacing, interesting. Also, there are already plenty of examples in this very thread of new homebrew games for the ZX Spectrum, genius.

>> No.9098215

>>9098139
Using spaces to separate paragraphs and greater-than symbols to denote quotes have been conventions since the Usenet times.

Surely you would remember that.

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>>9098215