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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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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????

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.

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.

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.