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I’d never seen Insanity Fight until now, and will be digging that out soon for a play. Looks good. 👍 Don’t you just hate it when the floppy makes that “cutting through a log wrapped in chains with a hacksaw” sound? I get nervous when that happens often imagining the worst. 😅 Oh and as for Wizball, annoying AF now, but strangely back in the day I had it completely mastered on the Spectrum. Can’t do squat on it now before (like yourself) giving it the one finger salute. 🤣

Pleased to see they worked matey... Nice one 😀

The sounds of opening and loading a cassette game. 1980s UK computer geek ASMR. 🤣🤣🤣

Oooh, that loading sound from the drive is hugely nostalgic. As I'm almost certain I've mentioned before I had the cartoon pack, lemmings, Bart Simpson, captain planet and something I can't recall. Shame about mercenary, I totally agree about wizball 😂.

Bringing back so many memories. I still have my old 48k Speccy from xmas 1982. Need a powerpack though to see if it still works. Thanks Chris.

Love seeing these working. Wizball……always wanted to love it, we had the Speccy version but it just never clicked.

You should check out Rob Smith (Dev)'s crazy disk cleaning machine.

I wonder if the car looks like that from behind in order to work with/around the colour clash thing? There is definitely something going on there graphics wise to ensure the colours are all in the right place. It is a very un-Spectrum looking car....if that makes sense. Makes me wonder if the game wasn't a result of working out how to draw that car in that way.

A decent result, but isn't it always the way that the one game that "could" let you down is the most wanted 🤦‍♂️

Too bad about the mold on your favorite. Is ipa the way to clean it?

Amazing these Disks still work all these years later. I use fs-uea to play Amiga games, loved the Artworks on the Disk covers.

I have a set of the tenstar I have never checked. I am not hopeful. At least I have the cases and manuals.

Gutted mercenary was also my favourite. Not initially, but having played all the other games to death, mercenary was reluctantly put into the drive, and ended up being absolutely fantastic. Terrorpods, still have no clue how to play it. 😂

Me and my older brother got that compilation of TEN STAR PACK, when we got our first Amiga 500 (STARTER KIT) for christmas 🎁🎄🎅 back in the late 1980's. I got these Amiga games: - THUNDERCATS - BUGGY BOY - THE ART OF CHESS - INSANITY FIGHT - TERRORPODS And my brother got these games: - AMEGAS - BARBARIAN: THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR - IKARI WARRIORS - MERCENARY / THE SECOND CITY - WIZBALL What a great retrospective childhood christmas 🎁🎄🎅 😺👍🕹️. I still have THUNDERCATS, TERRORPODS and WIZBALL for my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

02:19, I've been so clicker-trained: just hearing that floppy drive sound makes my head go "uhh, good things are coming 🤩"

Never played this back in the day... I did love the cheap budget titles though matey.

Thanks @ThePillock for supplying this game.

I can't remember if this was one of the batch of games I sent, but if it was I likely paid more than the £2 or £3 you estimated, purely based on the cover art and being a car-mad kid who was deprived of a 16 bit machine (sob!) until a bit later in life. I'd have snapped it up long before it went budget. I remember having the game in my Posso box of cassettes, but do not remember much of the gameplay which definitely suggests I played it once and then regretted my pocket money spending decisions.

I bought this, the graphics looked good and the game looked promising....no reviews to check back then. I was very disappointed, especially with the speed the thing moved at.

Looks like the car from the amiga version of outrun Great vid mate never played this one before

I wondered how feasible it would be to do a vector-based racer on the Spectrum rather than sprite-based. Obviously Ian Dunlop had the same idea back in 1989! With vectors, the scaling is smoother and you can fit much more in memory. As you mentioned the frame rate is at least comparable to Outrun, and I suspect that with more work it could be improved further.

the irony is the testarossa is a V12...

Try the Amstrad version.

That loading sound is from hell

That hypnotic drone sound reminds me of street rod

Never seen that actually running... I think it looks ok👍

How bad was Outrun on the Spectrum?

Guilty pleasures. I have a few myself. Not just games but also in film and music.

Firstly, CLEAN THAT CASSETTE BOX 😂. Recall buying this from boots many many years ago. I had the same thoughts, not a great game but one I went back to. Not sure why.

Those clouds are straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey!

most of my games where £1.99 I looked forward mostly to the music from the games.

Is that Lotto written on your hand? Just to remind you to enter perhaps? I owned a speccy and enjoyed these types of game too. BTW I just moved from UK to Aus and its rare to see Spectrum content down under!

ASMR intro <3 The game looks... well :D I have a lot of games I love that I doubt anyone with no nostalgia for would be able to enjoy!

I assume this is a 128k game from the title audio/speech? Although the box also says 48k? Interesting.

So ASMR!

Chris, you’re crazy! 😂 Still, we all have our guilty pleasures. I like a Frazzles sandwich myself…

The cover art looks promising 😸😺👍, but the game seems complicated 😹🕹️. On the plus side, CodeMasters brought some great games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga 😺👍🕹️. A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

C64 Richer colours and no colour clash? The C64 had 16 flavours as diahrea to choose from when designing sprites, where the Speccy had Red, Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow, Magenta and White, REAL COLOURS, with half-bright variations as bonus. The C64 had its own form of colour clash: a big muddy chroma bleed in composite, mixed with jailbars: the worst display output from any computer. And don't make jokes about that ZX80. It has a pretty case design, where the C64 is again, a boring looking piece of diahrea coloured plastic, with the most impossible key placement and a selection of ports that ignored every standard. Sure they were actual switches with full size caps, but somehow it did not help to get on screen what you had in mind. Shift did not deliver the caps you expected, and if you touched the wrong shift, you got your text in diahrea on purple instead of purple on purple. YAY! The C64 was a good game machine for money in 1983 until the CPC and NES arrived, today it is a bad game machine. The C64 always was a bad computer for small office work and coding, the C128 was supposed to correct that, but it was too little too late and people still used it 99% as game machine, so the office work did not took off on the C128 either, which was not helped by the fact that the 80 character mode of the C128 only worked half decent with the expensive Commodore 1084 screen. So yeah, the C64 is both crap and shit.

Amiga Switchless Boot Drive Selector look that badboy up no hot iron needed! Great Video

Has that game cartridge been tested in a known working system ? The cartridge could be the bad part here !

That's a bugger.....I was convinced you'd fix it.

WD40 can damage plastics, it would be safer to use IPA. Put IPA on a game cart's contact, then insert, remove and insert a number of times. Do you have any other games to test than that 8 in 1 fake Chinese cart? Also, depending on the model num of the Genesis, it may have the protection (TMS) in place. If the model is in line with one that should have it and it's still black screening with a legitimate cart (which is clean and tested working good by someone), but your console doesn't even reach the TMS screen... then it's down to multi meter usage to track the flow of signals more thoroughly. When I had a failing Mega Drive that wouldn't read games and it was one of the TMS models, it would at least show the TMS copyright warning before black screening. Hope you figure out what the problem is either way.

Have you tried shaking them and shouting?

I'm glad that you finally have taken the solder iron out! Practice makes soldering master 😊

These things can a bit of a work in progress.

Have you noticed spectrum and other eight bit games coming down in price in the last year or two?

So, the conclusion is that you've handed Mad Max over to someone whose instinct isn't to take a hammer and chisel to a PCB 🤔🤣 I'll check in with Retro Game On to see how it fares now 😎👍

BUGGA ! Good effort though 👏.

Thanks Chris, this is the sort of trash to treasure I can relate to, all that effort and you ended up with two busted megadrives even after you bought a new toothbrush to fix them! At least you ended up in the Pub, keep up the good work

G7200 g7400 the Voice more magnavox than Philips Golf is a must just to see the golfer go mental when he goes out of bounds or hits a tree. The original box was a lift off 2 part box. The original controllers which were black & silver were far far better as they didn't have the little grooves like the black ones( obviously wear & tear was an issue) My dad worked for Polygram records/ Philips & use to get to go to the Philips staff shop to choose games after the initial Xmas present. It was superior in everyday compared to atari atari however had far more games.