Spectrum 30th anniversary

[Pinback]

Never owned one myself but its the spectrums 30 birthday todayhttp://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/23/happy-st-spectrums-day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RockPaperShotgun+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%29Mind you it was nowhere near as good as an Amstrad 464

[Geraldine]

PINBACK wrote:
Mind you it was nowhere near as good as an Amstrad 464
Heretic! Ah, the speccy, the last one I owned before going Miggy was the +2 with 128 k. Great little computer when I could get it load anything!!!!....................ahem

[Dalkeith]

Hey I honestly very rarely had any trouble loading things.Except sometimes dodgy bootlegged copied games (Cos I had put like 50 on a single tape and I could hardly find the start)(I was a poor ten year old) I never bootleg now though

[Pinback]

Dalkeith wrote:
(Cos I had put like 50 on a single tape and I could hardly find the start)
A C90 tape user Might have been the tape head out of alinement which caused the games fail too load.Now for a vid spot the space game.

[sscadmin]

I have seen the Spectrum in action when I was a kid just never got to own one.

[Overlord]

A big HURRAH for the Speccy!Kept me entertained for years. Started with a 48K with PLASTIC keyboard, not the usual rubber one. Cant think what was different about it.. Then went on to a 128K +2 (I think ), it had the built in tape player which the lid broke off. I had a special juggling ball that was just right to sit on the tape spool thingy while loading to keep the tape tight I reckon that at times, it was left on with a game loaded for weeks because of dreading trying to save a game to tape. Was easier to leave it running 24-7. Cant believe I did that now!I remember the first ever game I played was Dangermouse.

[Pinback]

The spectrum was home to many classic games, still can't believe that there was about 8000 games made for it. given that it was really only known in Britain.

[Overlord]

8000 still doesn't seem like enough! I reckon I had near 1000 games. I used to buy 3 different Speccy mags every month which all had a tape stuck to the front. Each tape could have 2 main games and 2 or 3 weird little ones. Add to that the games I bought in Woolworths every week, then the market stalls where you'd have some dodgy geezer selling hundreds!You wanna know the sad part? Some years ago for a reason I can't quite remember, I got rid of the lot. Everything. WHY????

[Pinback]

IIRC world of spectrum says over 10,000 but they count re release and utilities as well.I don't think that there is a definite figure.

[Zptr]

Curious as to what veterans thought the best space game on the Spectrum was, aside from Elite. I was rather partial to the Tau Ceti games.

[Pinback]

As I said in the op never owned a spectrum but most of the games I played originated on the spectrum or had version on it.Probably not the best space games but I played Darkstar a fair bit and 3D Starstike,never really got into Codename Matt.One of the big ones as I recall was Starglider but oddly I never played it.