9 MORE ZX Spectrum Games That Should NEVER HAVE HAPPENED
Вставка
- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Have you ever wanted to find hidden ZX Spectrum gems? Have you ever wanted to come across games you've never discovered before? THEN YOU NEED TO WADE THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE. AND YOU'LL PROBABLY STILL FIND GARBAGE.
It's ZX Spectrum Dumpster Diving and it's now an episode 2 thing, so enjoy it twice as hard.
Want To Support The Channel? Well you're just lovely.
❤ You can Subscribe here: / rosetintedspectrum
🤟Or you can one-off tip here: www.ko-fi.com/...
👕Merch: shop.spreadshi...
Follow me on Social Media Gubbins:
🐦Twitter: / spectrumtinted
🧔Facebook: / rosetintedspectrum
Fox Fights Back was stunning to look at, shame about the gameplay, Snorkers could probably fix that though.
Icicle Works also looks like it has potential.
And as for Death Stalker, that attack animation would get him put on the list these days 😂
20:20 onwards - this is what we in the industry call a "Pro UA-camr Move"
Nice to see others suffering with the good old speccy games like I once did. Nice reference with the conveyor belts/OK go song with the running machines video. Someone got it. Rayyyyyyyyyy
Are you doing another one of these? I love them!! Can't get enough of your sense of humour
I will be! It may actually be the very next video, but my approach to video creation is so scattershot based on whatever random idea comes to me, haha.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Great! Can't wait :D
I had icicle works on c16, pretty sure got it free with machine. Looked waaay better than that, and I could beat loads of levels, so it was probably easier too! You’re making presents for Santa at North Pole.
I remember Fox Strikes Back and I'm sure it was on a cover tape at some point. Sure the magazines gave it a good write up. I couldn't do anything on it though.
The magazines used to think difficulty was a massive plus point so if the school kid reviewing could not get anywhere as the game was so unbalanced it would get a good score
It looks cool and has style, id like to see a homebrew game with Fox Strikes Back as a base they start with as I think there is a good game in there somewhere
A lot of Pete Cookes games had the whole mouse thing. Tau Ceti, Micronaut One and Room Ten
Well, we found some of the ZX Spectrum games that have ever existed. I do like the way that the only thing in Conveyor Belt Capers which doesn't move on a strict character grid is the text saying "Brandon Software".
There was a ZX Spectrum game that unfortunately featured on Jim’ll fix it where some kid got his game programmed & released for sale in 1988. It was called Super Trolley. I thought that might have been on this list.
@@jamespoole76 I'll likely end up doing a video on that at some point, it's a game I had as a kid
@@RoseTintedSpectrumHa! Yes I had the game as well it was terrible 😂
I'm new to your channel and loving your humorous content. The humble Speccy brought me much joy as a child, though I always coveted my mates Amiga 500!
QAOP forever!
Didn't we all!
Not your mate's, specifically, just to clarify.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum I should think not, it tended to be covered in bogies.
I played a bunch of Death Stalker back in the day and it had an interesting line-of-sight mechanic that made the dungeon delve quite moody, I liked it. I'm also a fan of the completely unrelated film Deathstalker II.
POKE remains the most amusing ZX Spectrum BASIC command
"Talking Hedz" is actually a sort-of prequel to "Pop Stars", which appeared on a Sinclair User covertape (Ten Pack - Issue 111, May 1991: Side 1, Track 3), which is why it looks, feels and plays nearly identically to said game... and they both suck.
I like the Red in Death Stalker, it reminds when I get the bomb on Mastersystems Terminator.
Also University Of New Hampshire, that said red tends to trigger "stimulation, appetite, hunger, and attracts attentio.. see, now you learnt something.
Also Sunshine on a rainy day was only ever number 1 in Zimbabwe, which is a shame because it's a banger
I seem to remember having Talking Hedz on a tape with a magazine. Not sure if it was the full game or not
If finding videos games was possible with dumpster diving I would go in head first.
I played A Whole New Ball Game back in the day and really enjoyed it. It doesn't belong in "games that should never have existed" in fact it's one of the best Spectrum games
It had a hidden mode that let you draw fractal trees, loved it. Pete Cooke
Graphically, Black Magic was interesting. As was Fox Fights Back and the sprites were really well drawn and well animated. Thanks.
Your dumpster dive videos are quickly becoming my favourite thing on youTube. Please keep giving games scores like "Maunal/10" :)
PS are you going to NERG?
I'm not going to NERG sadly. Might end up at PlayEXPO Blackpool again though. Time will tell!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Pity I'm going it would be good to meet up. I'm not sure about it is a bit close to the next Crash Live
So many fond memories, so much youth wasted.😂
The Supermarket one was the worst game ever. Best I remember were Robin Hood and Daley Thomson Decathlon. Loved them.
A Whole New Ball Game was great, I got it on one of my first Crash covertapes.
Click the tree icon in the bottom right corner for... something different. I almost called it "a nice surprise", but that would be bigging it up too much.
Oh man, that cracked me up, 😂 that freeze-icicles-whatever was INTENSE!
You should review Cousin Horace, its awesome and the story including how the game idea was created is brilliant.
I'm a fan of UHJK myself ::ducks:: How about an episode of blindfolded Conveyer Belt Capers? 😁
ADWSO? Banned. Banned from the Spectrum community forever. Not just banned, but banished. To the C64 mines, cursed to forever gaze upon boxy things that are grey, brown and blue.
Lol wasdit lads
@@RoseTintedSpectrum qaop only
@@Lbf5677 space or enter for action?🤔
20:10-20:42
You're really good at this new fangled UA-cam malarkey
I'm always maximum effort.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum YEAH 👍🏻
I saw reviews of that fox game back in the day, but never played it. It got mediocre scores I think.
It deserved LESS
Stunning collection of some crackers and some stinkers indeed. Brilliant watch mate had me howling with laughter while eating ma coco pops this morning hahaha 😂🏴☕
Dungeon Danny. Never before have i seen a game that was so obviously written by a child and bought for £10 by a publisher that does not pay royalties hahaha
The flying F during icicle works cracked me up
A Whole New Ball Game was my 2nd choice suggestion for your 'Best Speccy Games Ever' video. Covertape only I think, but it has a level editor, meaning you can play it for 10,000 years instead of 2,000 years.
Pete Cooke (the author of this whole new ball game) did some very good Spectrum games -- Tau Ceti, Academy, Micronaut One, Stunt Car Racer...
@@vnaum and Brainstorm, another favourite, as well as Zolyx which was a pretty decent Qix clone for the time. Many of them have little extras too, I think I spent more time with the 'Game of Life' thing on Zolyx than the actual game.
Juggernaut was another of his I believe, the original trucking simulator.
Fox not a duck. FOX NOT A DUCK. 🦊!=🦆
Dungeon Danny: I’m pretty sure this was a BASIC listing in Sinclair User. Probably 1986 or something. I remember stupid things. For BASIC it looks kind of alright!
The Icicle Works game looks like it might have some interesting ideas.
Unfortunately those ideas were preceded by the idea of "Lets make Boulder Dash, an action strategy game, with a strict non-extendable time limit which will render all strategy elements completely pointless and a burden to success".
The third level had me yelling "It's a hot air balloon!" at the screen like a pantomime, but it wasn't...
I'll only accept QAOP Space for retro gaming, WASD feels too new and/or fangled.
Love these videos. I always want to do this myself and then can't be arsed.
I'm glad I could fill your refusal to do it.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum already looking forward to the next one!
Great content, subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Splitting Images/Split Personalities was a better tile puzzle game.
Great stuff
I have not seen Icicle Works since the time when i was 8yrs old and lost my temper with it. I demolished my first spectrum with my bare hands and had to be restrained...... It made me a bit cross.
I'm genuinely not surprised in the least. I don't think I've come across a game so needlessly brutal.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum I don't remember ever being that angry before or since. I'm never playing that again!
Black Magic is a pretty good Apple II game. The Spectrum version looks...fine.
Clive Townsend obviously copied Dungeon Danny's physics jumping algorithm for Saboteur..
the artwork on black magic looks amazing. Don't play the game, just look at that and listen to 10CC and get lots in the forest.
Yes do more of this. Haven't Evan watched it yet. Drunk hungover and this is the best thing since sliced bred. And go fuck yourself emoji.
I admit, there was some anger starting to rage when you used WASD. 😅
Never go face first in a Dumpster to dig out some bad speccy games🤕
Ball game is nice.
Love the speccy goodness, even though some of the games are crap, great content dude 👌🏻
Death Stalker has surprisingly good title screen music for such an underwhelming game.
A quality dive to pass the time.
I hate Foxx Fights Back with all my being. I bought it with pocket money and after the initial 20 minutes of trying to understand what the hell was going on I never returned to it. A hatful fecking game.
Go Hunting You Idle Fox :)
Did you increase the clock speed on Dungeon Danny? That's a type in game from Sinclair User. I know that as I typed it in and I don't recall it being that nippy.
Nope, that was just the game as it loaded.
I disagree about Black Magic and Foxx Fights Back.
The first is a platform/role-play title with much depth: several tasks to accomplish, different spells and enemies, need to look after your health, two pretty huge maps etc. It is not one of those games you can play just for a 10-minute go, you have to stick at it to understand how much substance lies beneath the primitive graphics and sound.
Foxx Fights Back is quite the opposite: a humorous take on Green Beret, with nice graphics and sound especially on the 128 and later models, and fast and furiouos gameplay. It might be frustrating at times but again, stick at it and eventually you will find a strategy to negotiate the enemy hordes.
This is how every Commodore 64 video looks to me, just a random compilation of junk, even when they're titled "my top 10 Commodore 64 games" or something similar.
Fox fights back looks so good though! All those scrolling layers at different speeds. Shame the game itself was a turd :(
Yeah, I had hopes. Those hopes did not last.
well that aged well.
i enjy this channel, greetings from cincinnati ohio.
Oh god. Please tell me "Dallas" wasn't licenced -- the family are called Ewing, not Euing! 🤦♂
Eyyoooing
😎👍