3 1/2 HOURS of ZX Spectrum Arcade Ports Compilation | Kim Justice

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  • @ultra_marcus
    @ultra_marcus Рік тому +31

    What a lovely spread you've laid on for us, 3 and a half awesome hours, thanks Kim.

    • @newsbender
      @newsbender Рік тому +5

      Lovely spread! Not heard that for ages. Are you from Edinburgh?

    • @ultra_marcus
      @ultra_marcus Рік тому +5

      @@newsbender I'm a couple miles east of Swansea, down in South Wales. My Gran used to use the phrase, it's a lovely one too.

  • @Sabre_Wulf1
    @Sabre_Wulf1 Рік тому +4

    My mum sent me a picture of me from back in the day playing buck Rogers on my spectrum + on a cheap black and white TV. I'm 50 now and still remember all these games like they were yesterday. Great video for the memories. Time to boot up my speccy emu.

  • @KAZ3EM
    @KAZ3EM 8 місяців тому +3

    It's funny how you call it "Speccy", like greeding an old friend from better times in life and history!
    Like your content and left a sub. As an 40 year old german 90's SNES/Nintendo fan boy and retro enthusiast,I have to love channels like this!

  • @TheInfiniteMiseryJumper
    @TheInfiniteMiseryJumper Рік тому +12

    For God's sake, stick a doily on the telly, it's three and a half hours of classic Kim!

  • @thrashmetaldave
    @thrashmetaldave Рік тому +2

    Fantastic video!
    Seeing these Spectrum-rendered titles after so long takes me back to my pre-console gaming years.
    Great to see some love for the humble Spectrum. I had a 128k+2 in the late 80s.
    Space Harrier, Spy Hunter and Chase HQ were favourites in the arcade and on the Speccy.
    Thanks for posting 👍

  • @stuartchapman7934
    @stuartchapman7934 11 місяців тому +3

    Dude, you sound just like Stop and Step!!!
    Great Video about ZX Spectrum Home Video Game Ports!!!
    Very Detailed, Thanks!

  • @alk7934
    @alk7934 Рік тому +7

    Your videos are great. Always a ton of effort put in. It's people like you who got an American like me to get interested in these great 8 bit computers. I love to see all the different games and get to see which are worth giving a shot. Thanks for the video.

  • @f1nkangel
    @f1nkangel 9 місяців тому +3

    Just looked up and realised I've been watching this for almost an hour and a half...! Carrying on...

  • @jedediahreaver210
    @jedediahreaver210 Рік тому +7

    Kim is awesome .ZX is such a nostalgic computer

  • @ayecarumba6879
    @ayecarumba6879 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for these nostalgic trips down video game memory,all presented and voiced by a true gaming guru,your videos are what I search for after a stressful day,and they seem to calm the storm ☔️🙌

  • @RapideWombaticus
    @RapideWombaticus Рік тому +6

    Your work is phenomenal. Well done Kim and Thank you 👍

  • @t.a.sgamezone5037
    @t.a.sgamezone5037 Рік тому +2

    Outstanding coin-op conversion breakdown.

  • @gordonwalker1975
    @gordonwalker1975 Рік тому +1

    Helluva resource here, Kim! Brilliant, and nice to have all in one place.

  • @komemiute
    @komemiute Рік тому +2

    This compilation of video is *JUST SO GOOD!* thank you so much for putting it together.

  • @Hz-432Hz
    @Hz-432Hz Рік тому +2

    See I don't even think it's bad that I clicked "like" before I started watching because I already knew this video would be a blast 👏😊

  • @michaellitten4538
    @michaellitten4538 Рік тому +3

    Great video as always Kim.

  • @TheAspiePainter1851
    @TheAspiePainter1851 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic video! Really miss those days of biking into the arcade on a Saturday morning to spend my saved lunch money 😊

  • @Ross6041
    @Ross6041 Рік тому +2

    that brought back some childhood memories. I remember midnight resistance being particularly good on the spectrum, for arcade conversions.

  • @muttley00
    @muttley00 11 місяців тому +2

    Turbo Esprit, Quazitron and a space game I cant remember the name of, where you go to different planets trying to collect rods for reactors. On the planets you used a hovercraft to go to different reactors, and had to fight robot defences. I remember it being quite cool in battle, very absorbing. Edit: Just googled it, Tau Ceti.

  • @paullee3660
    @paullee3660 Рік тому +2

    Excellent video. May I recommend putting a top 10 or 20 game recommendations from the video into the description in videos like this, as there are loads of games I didn’t know that I would want to play. And it’s a lot of video to crawl through afterwards to pick up some games to try out.

  • @wardyx360
    @wardyx360 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant video, brought back so many memories from my childhood, pretty much had all these games on my specy growing up.

  • @retrogamerecluse
    @retrogamerecluse Рік тому +4

    Hehe, 3.5 hours of ZX Spectrum footage. That's my Friday night sorted 👏👏👏👍

  • @Rosco1973
    @Rosco1973 Рік тому

    Absolutely adore your videos Kim Justice, probably my favorite ever retro gaming presented of all time on here ❤

  • @loganford3921
    @loganford3921 Рік тому +4

    Midnight Resistance is amazing on the old spectrum. Rainbow Islands and Ghouls and Ghosts are up there with it as well.

  • @Peter-MH
    @Peter-MH Рік тому +10

    That Turtles game where there’s no colour clash is unbelievable! If that was possible, why were so many other games not like that?!

    • @newsbender
      @newsbender Рік тому +3

      It was difficult to do. Much easier to knock them out in monochrome to meet those notoriously tight deadlines.

    • @gipgap4
      @gipgap4 Рік тому +5

      I’m guessing that’s a David Perry and Nick Bruty conversion who produced the likes of Savage, Trantor and Dan Dare 3 amongst others.

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 11 місяців тому

      To be fair, I don't mind monochrome as long as they use the right color scheme. Way too many Spectrum games use garish yellow...why? What's wrong with black and white? My favorite games on the spectrum either use black and white or they use blue and white. It's not that the yellow was bad per se, but it was overused

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah it took too much skill. Check out a modern game Gandalf and it will blow your mind for what the Speccy can handle

  • @mustaffaleak9247
    @mustaffaleak9247 Рік тому +1

    3:00:35 Bit of a flub there Kim. One got past you 😛
    Great vid though. It's always a good day when you upload a vid. Even a compilation.
    Keep up the great work. You deserve far more subscribers.

    • @zenksren8206
      @zenksren8206 Рік тому

      Been happening a few times in Kim's videos lately

  • @markjones5647
    @markjones5647 Рік тому +1

    All ready for this Kim great stream last night best wishes Elvis

  • @paulwilson6357
    @paulwilson6357 8 місяців тому +1

    Good lord, Kim! On Spyhunter if you shoot the good guys you lose points. You can tell which is which by the colour your score flashes when you make a kill - white is going up, cyan is going down. Although hitting the bikes will always be fun, whatever it does to the score.

  • @f1nkangel
    @f1nkangel 9 місяців тому +1

    Man, Hypersports...when I was growing up, living in Wimbledon we had an ice cream parlour at the end of the road - Dayvilles - I think - 32 flavours (including irresistible bubblegum) and they kept about 8 arcade machines in there. We had Gravitar, Hypersports, Spy Hunter, Galaga and an Enduro Racer stand up cab that would give you credit if you aggressively introduced your knee to the coin slot mechanism...Still loved playing Hypersports on the Speccie though...

  • @ninjawacker5442
    @ninjawacker5442 Рік тому

    Fantastic video again Kim. Love your gaming content and especially the Speccy stuff as I owned a 48k in the day. Keep up the great work.

  • @satan3959
    @satan3959 Рік тому +5

    The Commodore 64 actually got two official Frogger ports, one from Sierra, and another from Parker Brothers. Both of which were released in 1983

    • @Matthew6248
      @Matthew6248 8 місяців тому +2

      Probably due to Parker brothers having the Cartridge rights to frogger. This may have also been why the 2600 had two Frogger ports: a P.B. Cartridge port and a port for the Supercharger Add-on for the 2600

  • @marcgoesblindgaming2076
    @marcgoesblindgaming2076 Рік тому +1

    Kim this was fantastic, I'm amazed by the amount of work you must Put in To get a video like this made, I know you're really knowledgeable really knowledgeable about the Speccy But you must have to do a lot of research To make sure you're getting your facts right And scripting a 3 hour plus video As well As getting all the game play Footage you need And editing it Deserves high praise , Always a joy To watch your videos Kim and I always feel like feel like I'm learning so many facts I never knew before , Have a wonderful weekend

    • @Evilkingus
      @Evilkingus Рік тому +1

      Not really that much, since it is a rehash-compilation of older videos. Kim has become Aerosmith, resting mostly on his/her (sorry I really don't know what to state here, in this day and age) laurels. I don't say it's a bad or a good thing. I would probably also like to live by mostly releasing greatest hits - I believe it is a sign of quality that you are able to do that.

    • @ShadowAngel-lt8nw
      @ShadowAngel-lt8nw Рік тому

      @@Evilkingus Should be obvious that he is a male with the voice and watch the older videos were he puts his fat face on camera (at least he got the memoe that he shouldn't do that), it becomes even more obvious.

  • @stevieboyXI
    @stevieboyXI Рік тому +1

    My God Kim, what a monster video. ❤

  • @harrygreenfeld4964
    @harrygreenfeld4964 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this.

  • @zamiadams4343
    @zamiadams4343 Рік тому

    Absolutely BRILLIANT!

  • @leahwells5692
    @leahwells5692 7 місяців тому

    the in game pixel art for street fighter 2 on the spectrum was done by Adam Steele. A north east artist who started out in the mid 80's on a 16k spectrum and some graph paper doing posters on a thermal printer. I knew him at the time in the mid 80's and he got me into computer art using the rainbird opc art studio. I later became an artist on triple A titles on xbox and PlayStation and still thank him for getting me started. He is alive and well in the north east today

  • @johnebbs3819
    @johnebbs3819 Рік тому

    Fantastic video.

  • @LunarJetwoman
    @LunarJetwoman 4 місяці тому

    Hey Kim… not sure what video it was on but you rightly used the term egregious to describe the multiload nightmare of a lot of late speccy ports. It triggers a memory from my high school days in regards to being shit at chase hq and realising my level of common sense matched my ability when a lad in my class asked me why I didn’t just skip the tape counter forward to the last levels data if I wanted to see the last level… he might as well have been showing me how he figured out cold fusion.. literally never entered my head to do that 🤣

  • @simonebernacchia5724
    @simonebernacchia5724 Рік тому

    @2:49:00 the HURG! Never really understood how to use it (did not speak english at the time plus was a "parallel" version)

  • @LlorDrei
    @LlorDrei Рік тому

    I played the NES version of Trojan. One of the few games I was able to beat. Ran through it over and over, at least three times, that I can remember.

  • @PaulDavies4
    @PaulDavies4 Рік тому

    2:49:52
    That's very interesting, I loved Double Dragon as a kid, so much that I even became General Manager of the company that built the arcade machines for the game in 1987!
    I remember buying the game as apresent off my Grand Mother for Christmas and it cost £10 and came in a big box, I had always had £1.99 or £2.99 games up until that point. I was so disappointed initially with the game and it was the first time I realised about the difference between arcade and home computers. I did however play it a lot of times.

  • @DJTwenty2020
    @DJTwenty2020 Рік тому +1

    Excellent!! 🕺

  • @Hallowed_Men_Band
    @Hallowed_Men_Band 11 місяців тому

    I played spectrum Power Drift a hell of a lot when I was a kid, I even had the big box version.

  • @ianthompson6288
    @ianthompson6288 Рік тому

    Thank you
    3 hrs well enjoyed ❤

  • @megadruretrogames
    @megadruretrogames Рік тому

    Power Drift was incredible, what a port!

  • @azzawhite2946
    @azzawhite2946 Рік тому

    Never owned a spectrum back in the day and as you know I’ve always been a C64 owner but really enjoyed the video

  • @schneil
    @schneil Рік тому

    47:41 didn't the Sinclair magnum come out in 1989?

  • @krissymarklewis1793
    @krissymarklewis1793 11 місяців тому +1

    Rainbow Islands is the best port on the speccy, I don't know why they didn't do a port of Parasol Stars...think the system could have handled it.

  • @skywalkerranch
    @skywalkerranch Рік тому

    Kim, it would be interesting to hear from some of the bad game developers that you mention in this video if only to get their side of the story. Canvas, Tiertex, etc. Thanks again for all your efforts.

  • @50factsabout
    @50factsabout Рік тому +1

    cheers Kim :)

  • @simonebernacchia5724
    @simonebernacchia5724 Рік тому

    I did realize that most of the ports here were mentioned in The Games Machine arcade section some time earlier - might be that US Gold did use TGM as porting guide?

  • @jasonrockley3724
    @jasonrockley3724 Рік тому

    Cheers Kim.

  • @drewnorthcott6268
    @drewnorthcott6268 9 місяців тому

    Shinobi 1:22 -31:47 I made that, the graphics anyhow. The second year I was freelancing IIRC. I also did the Flying Shark loading screen,

  • @franktriggs
    @franktriggs Рік тому

    There's a coloured version of Outrun Europa. The code for colour is in the game, they just left it out. Someone from the WOS forums added it back in and I did some AY music for it.

  • @AngryBootneck
    @AngryBootneck Рік тому +2

    Back in the day it took real skill to make an arcade port that was actually good! 👍👍

  • @MichelleCruz-k6r
    @MichelleCruz-k6r 9 місяців тому

    Does anyone know the name of the song playing at the credits? So soothing!

  • @roywilson4514
    @roywilson4514 Рік тому

    Excellent

  • @weirddudehi
    @weirddudehi 10 місяців тому

    The Pixel perfe,i mean the pixel perversions,the ZX was my first Computer,what a hard childhood.

  • @cathalssupermegahappyfunti223

    I must have had a later re-release of out run on a compilation as I swear these slow down issues were not on mine.

  • @vitorsousa8172
    @vitorsousa8172 Рік тому

    Spot on with Golden Axe port shortcomings.
    Such a great game to play in arcade but with zx you could never know what your hero was hitting 😂
    Arcade was indeed better and so much fun to play with my friends, together with Golden Axe II

  • @alice-pz1kf
    @alice-pz1kf Рік тому

    my jaw dropped when i saw the power drift port, especially compared to the preceding games

  • @paulahaunt
    @paulahaunt 7 місяців тому +2

    2:04:46 okay what's up with this dude's hands?

  • @jal051
    @jal051 Рік тому

    Match Point was great. One of the best tennis videogames I ever played. On the arcade ports subject. I don't think I ever enjoyed a single port in the Spectrum. All my favorite games were Spectrum originals.

  • @siege-79
    @siege-79 Рік тому

    Thank you 😊

  • @roythomson555
    @roythomson555 Рік тому

    Chase HQ2 was released around 1990 or 1991 not 1987.

  • @HairDom
    @HairDom Рік тому

    Great compilation video 👍 on the subject of Outrun, content wise it’s closer to the coin op than the C64 version, and I think that’s its downfall. Reducing the roadside objects on stages like gateway and Grand Canyon would have kept the frame rate at frames / second instead of frames / minute. Probably why the truck sprites shrunk in between the preview press release and the actual game. Still it’s less disingenuous than the ST screenshots which were shown a good year before the game and have zero resemblance to the finished product, mainly because they were mocked up on Degas Elite using the arcade as a reference. Space Harrier is bare bones but quite an achievement as a 48k single load game. A lot of the best 8 bit conversions are those that play to the strengths of the system rather than trying to copy the arcade (think Power Drift compared to SF2).

  • @LiamGoodison
    @LiamGoodison 11 місяців тому

    Oof Zaxxon on the speccy, but Space Harrier made up for it

  • @leewiscovitch
    @leewiscovitch Рік тому

    Yes, teardown of the portable GameCube please!!!

  • @mikeuk666
    @mikeuk666 Рік тому

    00:58:57 Amstrad?

    • @gipgap4
      @gipgap4 Рік тому

      They owned the spectrum brand and machines in the period Kim is referring to. Amstrad took the reigns from 1985 I think. Certainly by 1986.

  • @richardcoles9985
    @richardcoles9985 Рік тому

    Love how when I watched this there were “16k views”. Nice 😅

  • @mrdsjenzie
    @mrdsjenzie Рік тому

    oh gawd three and a half hours on MY tv???
    welp, better sit back in my chair then ... in about eleventybillion months when i GET to see this!!! as backlogged as us gold were rubbish in coin-op conversions teehee

  • @jimc9183
    @jimc9183 9 місяців тому

    Wish I could like your videos each time I watched them... You'd be a damn millionaire...

  • @jamesburchill7522
    @jamesburchill7522 Рік тому +1

    I've watched these individually...but eff it. I'll bite

  • @BrenTenn
    @BrenTenn 9 місяців тому

    Spy Hunter is James Bond on the C64

  • @scottbreon9448
    @scottbreon9448 11 місяців тому

    To be fair to Alien Storm, the only decent port of the game is on the Megadrive (or as we call it here, the Genesis), haven't played any other ports of the game that I like unless it's on one of those compilations on stuff like the PS2 (but that's pretty much emulating the arcade version)
    Most, if not all ports of Rolling Thunder were also lackluster. I just play that game on MAME these days

  • @Feenix102
    @Feenix102 11 місяців тому

    How come there was never a Power Drift port to the Mega Drive? I would have played the ass out of that.

  • @SkepticalChimp
    @SkepticalChimp Рік тому

    Do you realise you have a billion outtakes left in this?

  • @videogamesruinedmylife3769
    @videogamesruinedmylife3769 Рік тому

    Spy hunter on the spectrum is the only game that I would say plays better than the arcade version imo

  • @davidhenaresaguar4074
    @davidhenaresaguar4074 Місяць тому

    El spectrum no era el mejor en gráficos ni en colorido pero era de los mejores en jugabilidad

  • @f1nkangel
    @f1nkangel 9 місяців тому

    Forgotten Worlds was going to be an L from the start, it requires the twistable arcade stick, emulation is impossible without two analogue sticks (and still not ideal)...

  • @krissymarklewis1793
    @krissymarklewis1793 11 місяців тому

    Salamander was totoal bollocks ha!

  • @krissymarklewis1793
    @krissymarklewis1793 11 місяців тому

    Arrghg, Renegade 3, I don't mind the setting and time travel shit but why not just keep the same fucking engine? You can have your captain caveman sprites or whatever crap but the gameplay is broken. Just run through the level, get to the clearing where they all come at you in 2 waves and duck and punch and you're sorted. At least the music is great.

  • @JanetStarChild
    @JanetStarChild Рік тому

    1:11:25 ...Look at that face...

  • @manicpanic4486
    @manicpanic4486 Рік тому

    Thanks for my spectrum porn video Kim,....3 hours of pure nostalgia and as always wonderfully written & narrated 😊

  • @theatheisthammer
    @theatheisthammer 8 місяців тому

    @kim justice. Its G- LOCK PRONUNCIATION NOT G LOKE 😂😂😂😂

  • @lordevyl8317
    @lordevyl8317 11 місяців тому

    To be fair to the Spectrum port of Jailbreak, it's still not as dire as the Commodore 64 port, but they are both poor ports of a rather mediocre game to begin with.

  • @vitorbonifacio3550
    @vitorbonifacio3550 Рік тому

    yeeahh but back in the day we eat it and like it regardless :D or i was too young to notice lmao we played the bad and finished the good like cheap drugs thanks to pie rats lol

  • @Error_4x5
    @Error_4x5 Рік тому

    As an American, I'll never understand how y'all enjoyed these games cause to me they all look like shit, lol. But, I love the videos about the dev's, publishers and hardware makers.

  • @filevans
    @filevans 25 днів тому

    They are called conversions, dense person
    nothing was ported, port is when a whole game code is identically transferred from one system to another

  • @simonebernacchia5724
    @simonebernacchia5724 Рік тому

    Thunderblade was another Tiertex crap job

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 11 місяців тому

      To be fair, though most, if not all ports of Thunderblade were awful, apart from the Megadrive/Genesis version

  • @cloudskipa
    @cloudskipa Рік тому

    Super video except the bit where you say; "Ghosts 'n Goblins' on Speccy is definitely the best when it comes to 8-bit micros". I appreciate you're a Speccy fan but the C64 version destroys it on all levels. Not sure how you even arrived at that conclusion lol. Ghouls 'n Ghosts did actually play way better on Speccy though.

  • @taecentro6169
    @taecentro6169 Рік тому

    At least the spectrum tried... the nes could do better

  • @meh3247
    @meh3247 Рік тому

    The answer to your question in the first few seconds of this video is, "Enshitification".

  • @Aintyourbuddy_guy
    @Aintyourbuddy_guy 9 місяців тому

    I feel sorry for people that had the spectrum.. Yikes

  • @richardnelson3507
    @richardnelson3507 Рік тому

    I truly appreciate your work, but COME ON MAN!!! The Speccy was obsolete before it was released. EVERY micro at the time simply CRUSHED the speccy in EVERY WAY. There were no monochrome "Rainbow Islands" games... The speccy didn't sell in the US for a reason. It was TERRIBLE. It simply blows my mind how people praise this thing. I would have been embarrassed to own this thing when I was a kid. The system is simply unacceptable for gaming. I can see people loving it for its quirkiness, but I can't understand how on earth people would choose this thing over the C64. I always thought Brits had more class than that! Every compliment you give it is like telling a special needs kid "good job" for doing something simple like washing his / her hands. Is this really all that the UK had back then??

    • @peterainsworth8026
      @peterainsworth8026 Рік тому +1

      Never under estimate the power of cheap hardware and free games.

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 Рік тому +1

      Fun fact - the UK was the most computer literate nation on earth and proceeded to have a large computer industry in terms of percentage of employment than any other country. There's a reason games like Tomb Raider and GTA spawned from the UK. And that reason is the Spectrum.

    • @sky37blue
      @sky37blue Рік тому +1

      I just feel sorry for you when I read your comment. You have completely ignored everything which made the speccy amazing. There were plenty of people at the time who had the C64 but the Spectrum was far more ubiquitous. That's part of what made It so fun, lots of your friends had them and you could copy each others games.
      Nobody cared about the graphics in 1983 when you had games with great gameplay. I feel like a lot of modern games have missed this point. To me it's similar to the I've got a big TV or monitor argument. When I'm engrossed in something I don't notice whether I'm watching a 20 inch or a 70 inch TV. Same with games back in those days on the spectrum, the good ones were engrossing.

  • @stevensgoodallsg
    @stevensgoodallsg Рік тому +1

    Truly awful conversions on a rather awful microcomputer. Beep

    • @newsbender
      @newsbender Рік тому

      They were usually good enough back in the day as a substitute for the original arcade games. But I can't imagine wanting to play them now when the far superior originals are so readily available via emulation.

    • @mikeuk666
      @mikeuk666 Рік тому +4

      Awful computer? There were some great games back then on it....

    • @gipgap4
      @gipgap4 Рік тому +3

      @@newsbender well I like playing the speccy versions of bombjack and commando over the arcade originals.

    • @newsbender
      @newsbender Рік тому

      @@gipgap4 each to their own 😀 I can’t think of a single arcade game where I’d rather play an 8-bit conversion. But that’s just me.

    • @gipgap4
      @gipgap4 Рік тому +1

      @@newsbender I think it depends on what you played first. I played the hell out of Bombjack and Commando on the speccy back in the day. I didn’t play the original arcade versions until many years later. The nostalgia lies with the Spectrum versions for myself unlike the arcade games.

  • @sebastianbattaglia6330
    @sebastianbattaglia6330 Рік тому

    Thunder Blade for the 8-bits has the PEPSI logo at the beginning....(at least for the c64) also, the c64 version of shinobi is great!

  • @_.OX._
    @_.OX._ Рік тому

    Bloody awful genre on the Spectrum or most 8 bits for that matter but monochrome graphics and Spectrum beeps were never going to be a winning formula despite some sterling efforts.