ZX Spectrum

**Sharky** · #1 06-09-2009, 03:13 PM

http://www.zxspectrum.net/

**mike81** · #2 06-09-2009, 07:04 PM

Awesome, playing Football Manager from 1982.

**zola** · #3 07-09-2009, 01:56 PM

Great site............. memories!!!
To think I used to play the Hobbit and think it was way cool!!

**tjl** · #4 07-09-2009, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharky

http://www.zxspectrum.net/

Any Ideas how to overcome the settings for some of the games that require a joy stick ie Kempston....

**Sharky** · #5 07-09-2009, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tjl

Any Ideas how to overcome the settings for some of the games that require a joy stick ie Kempston....

Not the foggiest.

I got bored after about an hour and I think the Daley Thompson game would have led to me destroying my keyboard if I'd carried on playing it for much longer.

**fishtoast** · #6 07-09-2009, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharky

Not the foggiest.

I got bored after about an hour and I think the Daley Thompson game would have led to me destroying my keyboard if I'd carried on playing it for much longer.

Those were the good old days whacking your keyboard to make people/things move faster driving you mad etc playing certain games

**imperial109** · #7 07-09-2009, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by fishtoast

Those were the good old days whacking your keyboard to make people/things move faster driving you mad etc playing certain games

The trick was to use the back of a pen or something like that, used to drive my parents potty.

**tjl** · #8 07-09-2009, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharky

Not the foggiest.

I got bored after about an hour and I think the Daley Thompson game would have led to me destroying my keyboard if I'd carried on playing it for much longer.

I remember having a sore wrist from this game using a joy stick moving it rapidly from side to side giving way to ribald comments of "being masturbating to much and fooked your wrist then"....

**Sharky** · #9 07-09-2009, 08:36 PM

I think Track and Field was the worst for it.

Playing against our kid usually ended up in a fight.

**revolver** · #10 07-09-2009, 09:07 PM

I played Neighbors, its awful! You float about Ramsey street on a skateboard. Its like paperboy without the papers.

Spectrum was well before my time, my first was a c64.

**imperial109** · #11 07-09-2009, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by revolver

Spectrum was well before my time, my first was a c64.

loved the c64, I had Terminator 2 as a cartridge (even though as I got older i realised that there was stages that was from the 1st terminator film?!?!).

**Burdock** · #12 07-09-2009, 10:07 PM

I remember a World Cup footie game on the C64.... best ever!

The ZX series were the ground breakers though. My mate had a ZX81 as I recall..... with a whole 1kb of memory, it was the cutting edge.

**Begbie** · #13 08-09-2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by zola

Great site............. memories!!!
To think I used to play the Hobbit and think it was way cool!!

I never got past the barrel that fell into the river bit.

**zola** · #14 08-09-2009, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Begbie

I never got past the barrel that fell into the river bit.

If I remember rightly, you climbed into it. The bit that I struggled on was killing the dragon, I bought the book to read and found out that someone else killed it for you!

Been looking through the games and they haven't got "Jet Pack" (I'm pretty sure that was the name). Was a good game. "Manic Minor", now that one pissed off the family, for its music!!

**Chivers** · #15 08-09-2009, 04:27 PM

Monty Mole was huge as well