If so it would be no different than today. It's not a direct bribe and more of a "oh we're running a big ad campaign on your website and it would be a shame if something were to change our minds", or "we have a lavish press junket lined up in Las Vegas for our next game launch and all our favourite reviewers will be invited".
Tim Tregear was the writer of the original Driller game from Macmillan software. He was my teacher at Gossops Green Junior school and we had to test it, he also wrote survival and helped on Mercenary, please show Mercenary it was cool Signed Dave
@@SebsPlaceYT Tim Tregear died in a car accident in his Spitfire, big guy tall, voice like thunder , clever as you like. He refined my science antics into something far safer. Sad end to a clever guy
Great video! I was a regular reader of all three of these magazines, but I haven't even heard of the top 2 games, and I was playing Spectrum games from 1982, all the way up until I got a Megadrive in 1991!
Thankyou! Spent a little too long sat on the loo hiding from the wife and kids perusing this upload. I’ll put some quality time in some point soon! You’ve gained a subscriber
Excellent video! Probably the best ‘ best of’ speccy vids I’ve seen(take note Kim justice) couldn’t help but chuckle at the voice overs of the different magazine reviews! Good stuff. 👌👍
@@SebsPlaceYT my watch later list is 1,300 videos at the mo, which is about 2 months delay HOWEVER i'll try and remember that when it appears in my subscriptions list i'll add it to the much shorter "Urgent Watch" list 🙂 So odd that "Three Weeks" gets the best marks overall when I don't think it sticks in many peoples memories.
Ha - thank you! I do get why people find them annoying and if I was to redo the video I would do things differently now but it's all about learning as you go. Thank you for letting me know they worked for you. It's nice that someone liked them! 😍
Interesting video, never owned or played a Spectrum, so it’s a mystery why I’m so interested in the computer. Don’t play games now, so not likely to play them. The distorted voices of the review quotes annoyed a bit.
Appreciate the feedback. I wasn't sure what to do with the reviews as wanted a different voice to mine to separate them but couldn't convince anyone to read them for me :-)
Weird. I was born in 1991, in a country where the Spectrum was only a minor competitor in front of the Atari 8-bit computers and the 2600, and where most people only met video games in the '90s through Nintendo consoles, Sony and MS-DOS/Windows games. Only recently I cared about the Spectrum, and the few games I think are still worth playing today that made it to the list were between 43 and 20. Only Exolon and Skool Daze made it to the top of the list.
Yeah it's a strange list that goes to show there was a big difference between what that magazines all thought were good and what the rest of us thought.
@@SebsPlaceYT I must admit though, some of those top 20 games that I don't consider worth playing today without the nostalgia factor, are indeed good, specially if the Spectrum was your main or only gaming machine and arcade games were anchored to gigantic cabinets. But, today we live in a world where one can get mutant 64-bit IBM PC-Compatibl-ish laptops on steroids for cheap, where most phones are portable ARM Unix-like computers, and both of those can emulate the most popular arcade machines from the 80s effortlessly and even sprinkle the screen with pretty resource-intensive visual effects to simulate CRT displays over fricking liquid crystal displays. In the current scenario, getting a Rainbow Islands port with only 7 colours doesn't look like the best christmas gift. But Cybernoid!? That game seems blessed/cursed to be the greatest it can be on the Spectrum. The NES, the CPC and the C64 versions are cool, sure, but if anything, a bit generic. The uniqueness and psychedelia of the Speccy one makes the experience immortal. It's one of those Spectrum games I play without CRT shaders, just some soft bilinear interpolation at most, the more blocky and colourful it looks, the better.
Three Weeks was a great game, especially considering how many licences and arcade ports are in the list. The Speccy games that are still playable today are the original ones.
Hi - Yeah, not the usual suspects but all great games. It's got me interested in the Wally games too, quite a cool set of games although it's a stretch to say that is the best Speccy game :-)
That "criticism" in the Crash review of Dan Dare is peculiar- that is to say it's strange they called it such- leading me to think the editor didn't actually know the meaning of the word.
Wow a response from the man himself! I did not expect that @SebsPlaceYT . Thank you very much and I loved that fact you gave Target Renegade and Skool Daze special mentions. Skool Daze is my favourite ever Spectrum game despite never completing it. I also remember saving my pocket money to buy Target Renegade when back then £8.99 (If I remember correctly) was a lot of dosh. I loved the video so many memories. My rule back then was if I couldn't figure out a game in under five minutes it was rubbish so was never a fan of text adventures or isometric games. I think the magazines missed a trick with Renegade. Amazing work well done.
Thanks Stephen, you picked some great games there mate. I think Target Renegade is my all time favourite. Such a great game and not bettered on any other system!
Wow some real surprises there! No Dizzies at all, no Don Priestley, no Monty Moles, no Jack the Nipper, no Deathchase (maybe that was too early). I thought Saboteur might make an appearance too. Oh, and no one heard of a little game called Elite? Ah well, we all know Rock Star Ate My Hamster was the best anyway
Haha. I used to love that game! I played it more recently and it was definitely a game that fed the imagination as a kid. It's a bit boring now, I was surprised how little to do there is in it. Cheers!
Thank you - You are not the first to mention the "experimental" voices. It didn't work really but I'm learning as I go😀 . FYI - I'm working on a similar video across C64, Speccy and CPC magazines to see if any games got awards everywhere! Stay tuned and cheers for watching.
@@SebsPlaceYT Will do! I love this kind of stuff. Much more entertaining than just plonking some footage on the screen. I mean I like gameplay footage but I like to hear thoughts on the game, what it's about etc. That extra effort you put in earnt a sub. I'm a C64 lad but I'm getting into the Speccy late in life 😁
Great vid, I didn’t mind the squeaky voices, thought it was amusing. Some surprises both in inclusion and exclusion from this list. Subscribe button clicked, thanks.
A flawed list. Starglider is one of the highest rated games of all time (and although I'm biased :D ), all the reviews were among the highest across all the magazines, and even won game of the year in Crash. Your Sinclair never reviewed it when it was originally released as they had done a mega-preview the previous month.
Haha - not biased at all :D ! Gotta get an award from all three magazines, so didn't make the list, but yeah a great game indeed ! Kinda crazy that only 52 games amongst all the games these three magazines reviewed were awarded the top award by all three!
Finally! A list that admits the best games weren't always the ones that you'd want to show off to jaded audiences 30 plus years later. As someone who didn't even know the Spectrum existed until Retro Gamer threw in a free CD, it's easy to be misled by cautiously cultivated lists that tell the same few feel good stories over and over, until it feels more like just another console library. It was so much more than that. It was a taste of everything gaming could be, sometimes decades ahead of the rest of the world.
Thank you, great comment. I agree, it's hard to do something a little different that shows off some good games that people may have missed. Glad you enjoyed this one.
You can basicaly write off most of the coin-op conversions as paid reviews. There are so many better games out there. For me, the best game of the Speccy and possibly one of the best games of all time, Doomdark's Revenge, it's a technical masterpiece.
Disappointed that my all-time favourite Speccy game, Crash Smash and Crash cover stars The Great Giana Sisters is missing. Highly regarded by SU and YS also. They even published readers' hints and tips for the game. What a classic. (Aside: what a swizz.)
😂😂 Yeah....moral of the story..... don't mess with Nintendo! Maybe one day someone will unearth a review copy somewhere........ would love to play it (if it did actually exist.....)
It just seems so wrong that Atic Atac, Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Jet Set Willy weren't included - yes, I know it's down to the year of release, but still.....
I must admit that I don’t trust reviews from 1990 as I thought reviewers often overhyped and overrated any game that was half decent towards the end of the Spectrums life to try to maintain its relevance.
This reminds me of some old retro gaming drama - A few years ago, someone on a retro gaming Facebook group made a list of late era Amiga games that had got unjustified high scores by virtue of being late releases and the magazines needing to hype them. The sort of stuff that was coming out after commodore was dead and Amiga magazines had been forced to go to a direct subscriber model. The list generated a bit of discussion, with most people thinking the majority of the games weren't great but it was understandable 5hst they'd tried to hype what they could. Then, former Amiga Format reviewer Stuart Campbell (a year or so before he lost his mind over politics) came into the group, got *super* angry about the list, told a bunch of people to "f*ck off" over it and then left the group in an angry tantrum. Point is, apparently Stuart is very sensitive.
To many good original games on the speccy to make any king of definitive list, even if you made a greatest 100, there would be games missing. In no particular order: Bobby Bearing. Avalon Dragon Torc Astro Clone The entire Ket Trilogy (Text Adventures) BMX Simulator (Better than the offroad title in the list) Fat Worm Blows A Sparky. SPLAT Bugaboo The Flea (A single level of pure frustration) Empire Nether Earth (Possibly the first RTS) Arnem Wizball And the list goes on, are any of these playable today, absolutely.
A really eclectic mix in here, the top 3 are quite surprising. Strange that Elite isn't in the list at all as I remember it being the game everybody wanted and all the magazines rated it highly.
Elite came out just too early for Your Sinclair, so they only ever reviewed it as part of a compilation. Otherwise, yeah, it would have made it for sure.
100% agree for Jack the Nipper, but sometimes games got top marks but weren't awarded mega game, crash smash etc. Jack the Nipper got 5/5 in Sinclair User but no award. If you scroll down two pages. Pyracurse also got 5/5 and the Sinclair User Classic award. It often made no sense. Check it out here: archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-053/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater
Elite never got a review on its own in Your Sinclair and Gunship should have been included but even though it got top marks, Sinclair User didn't give it an award (which sometimes happenned) so it missed out. Both games deserve to be there though 100%
Like many 70's kids i er.. had loads of backup copies of games and surprisingly enough the only games in your list i played was robocop, back to school and 3 weeks which i didnt like... great list but not my top 40
@SebsPlaceYT I really liked the vid, but found the modulated voices irritating too. Have you thought about reaching out to the community for vocal contributions?
The Sinclair magazine reviews are, alas, completely untrustworthy. They lived off the advertising of the game publishers, after all. Ghosts 'n 'Goblins is pants on the spectrum.
Having given Ghosts and goblins a whirl on the speccy the other day I have to say I dont agree it's rubbish at all. Too hard? Yes, definitely think it's not the best balanced but it's quick and enjoyable enough and quite a feat to get it on there. Why do you think it's bad?
I don’t think it’s pants but it’s missing more than half of the arcade game (if you can manage to get that far). As a single load, it’s good, but if you know the coin-op, it’s merely an impression of the first two levels and then kinda does a simplified third one.
There were big rumours that the magazines took bribes for favourable reviews at the time. This countdown seems to support that.
I never twigged at the time but yeah - listening to the reviews now, they read like full-on promotional material! A bit devious really...
No it doesn't
@@brendanjudge577 it defo does
If so it would be no different than today. It's not a direct bribe and more of a "oh we're running a big ad campaign on your website and it would be a shame if something were to change our minds", or "we have a lavish press junket lined up in Las Vegas for our next game launch and all our favourite reviewers will be invited".
3 Weeks in Paradise?! That came out of left field.
😁
Tim Tregear was the writer of the original Driller game from Macmillan software. He was my teacher at Gossops Green Junior school and we had to test it, he also wrote survival and helped on Mercenary, please show Mercenary it was cool
Signed
Dave
Love it, nice story, cheers. I'll take a look thanks!
@@SebsPlaceYT Tim Tregear died in a car accident in his Spitfire, big guy tall, voice like thunder , clever as you like. He refined my science antics into something far safer.
Sad end to a clever guy
Interestingly, Crash did not score Turbo Esprit a Smash on its launch for Durell, it got 88%, but quite rightly scored the re-release on Encore 90%
Great video! I was a regular reader of all three of these magazines, but I haven't even heard of the top 2 games, and I was playing Spectrum games from 1982, all the way up until I got a Megadrive in 1991!
Same as me pretty much, although I had a SNES and then a MD later on. Thanks for the comment. Appreciate it.
Thankyou!
Spent a little too long sat on the loo hiding from the wife and kids perusing this upload.
I’ll put some quality time in some point soon!
You’ve gained a subscriber
Haha, that made me smile on a miserable Monday morning. Love it! Thank you, very kind!
Great idea for a video mate. Nice new angle on a top 50 video.
The top 3 did surprise me though 😮
Me too 😆 cheers Denny
Excellent video! Probably the best ‘ best of’ speccy vids I’ve seen(take note Kim justice) couldn’t help but chuckle at the voice overs of the different magazine reviews! Good stuff. 👌👍
Thanks Damon, really appreciate the kind feedback.
Seconded ☺️
Kim Justice is spoiling ZX Spectrum nostalgia, for sure.
@@lucasoheyze4597 Why is Kim spoiling nostalgia?
Kim Justice's opinions are entirely her own - she's made that abundantly clear. It's ridiculous to ask her to "take note".
Great vid, learnt a few things here I didn't expect to, thanks.
Cheers! Part 2 (kind of, not really) dropping Thursday 6pm 👍
I'm surprised Starquake didn't make the list. Great vid though mate!
Yeah, if Your Sinclair reviewed it, it defo would have been. Thanks for the kind words 😊
9:37 Thundera was the Thundercats' home planet that was destroyed in the first episode. It's pronounced thund-air-a
Thanks - I think it was plain to see I was struggling with that somewhat!!
A great run through. Must've taken many days to compile and edit all that so congratulations. Your toil is our "yeah it was ok" 🙂
😂 I'll take OK!! I'm working on a similar video now, so let me know if you watch it, if I've improved. Should be out Thursday 🤞
@@SebsPlaceYT my watch later list is 1,300 videos at the mo, which is about 2 months delay HOWEVER i'll try and remember that when it appears in my subscriptions list i'll add it to the much shorter "Urgent Watch" list 🙂
So odd that "Three Weeks" gets the best marks overall when I don't think it sticks in many peoples memories.
yeah, very odd! I hear you on youtube backlog, no worries, cheers for watching!
Had no idea the atmosphere was 90% helium in the 80's and 90's, and I was there. Maybe Aled Jones explains a lot.
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Great Video and a good way to show some half forgotten titles for a change
Thank you! 😊
Surprised Jack the Nipper didn't make the cut, same with Trap Door.
Loved those games :-)
Agreed, both excellent!
Couldn't agree more with the top spot. I loved TWIP at the time and still occasionally go back to it
Nice! I'm gonna do a video about the series soon, so make sure you're subbed! 😉 cheers for the comment.
The voices worked for me. Ignore the nay sayers with no sense of humour who take themselves far too seriously.
Ha - thank you! I do get why people find them annoying and if I was to redo the video I would do things differently now but it's all about learning as you go. Thank you for letting me know they worked for you. It's nice that someone liked them! 😍
Interesting video, never owned or played a Spectrum, so it’s a mystery why I’m so interested in the computer. Don’t play games now, so not likely to play them. The distorted voices of the review quotes annoyed a bit.
Appreciate the feedback. I wasn't sure what to do with the reviews as wanted a different voice to mine to separate them but couldn't convince anyone to read them for me :-)
How did you find all the original reviewers to record their original reviews, amazing!!
😁😁 it was tough!
Weird. I was born in 1991, in a country where the Spectrum was only a minor competitor in front of the Atari 8-bit computers and the 2600, and where most people only met video games in the '90s through Nintendo consoles, Sony and MS-DOS/Windows games. Only recently I cared about the Spectrum, and the few games I think are still worth playing today that made it to the list were between 43 and 20. Only Exolon and Skool Daze made it to the top of the list.
Yeah it's a strange list that goes to show there was a big difference between what that magazines all thought were good and what the rest of us thought.
@@SebsPlaceYT I must admit though, some of those top 20 games that I don't consider worth playing today without the nostalgia factor, are indeed good, specially if the Spectrum was your main or only gaming machine and arcade games were anchored to gigantic cabinets.
But, today we live in a world where one can get mutant 64-bit IBM PC-Compatibl-ish laptops on steroids for cheap, where most phones are portable ARM Unix-like computers, and both of those can emulate the most popular arcade machines from the 80s effortlessly and even sprinkle the screen with pretty resource-intensive visual effects to simulate CRT displays over fricking liquid crystal displays.
In the current scenario, getting a Rainbow Islands port with only 7 colours doesn't look like the best christmas gift. But Cybernoid!? That game seems blessed/cursed to be the greatest it can be on the Spectrum. The NES, the CPC and the C64 versions are cool, sure, but if anything, a bit generic. The uniqueness and psychedelia of the Speccy one makes the experience immortal. It's one of those Spectrum games I play without CRT shaders, just some soft bilinear interpolation at most, the more blocky and colourful it looks, the better.
Totally agree. Cybernoid is certainly one of those games. I talk about that game in a little more detail in an upcoming video. Cheers.
Three Weeks was a great game, especially considering how many licences and arcade ports are in the list. The Speccy games that are still playable today are the original ones.
Totally agree 👍
Excellent vid. I remember loads of these!
Thank you, very kind!
Never in a month of Sundays would I have guessed that top 3! Not a usual suspect in there. Still, Revolution is a bit of a nice surprise. :)
Hi - Yeah, not the usual suspects but all great games. It's got me interested in the Wally games too, quite a cool set of games although it's a stretch to say that is the best Speccy game :-)
That "criticism" in the Crash review of Dan Dare is peculiar- that is to say it's strange they called it such- leading me to think the editor didn't actually know the meaning of the word.
No Saboteur II I loved that game.
Sadly not. Only got Your Sinclair mega game, 83% Crash, 3/5 Sinclair User
Wow a response from the man himself! I did not expect that @SebsPlaceYT . Thank you very much and I loved that fact you gave Target Renegade and Skool Daze special mentions. Skool Daze is my favourite ever Spectrum game despite never completing it. I also remember saving my pocket money to buy Target Renegade when back then £8.99 (If I remember correctly) was a lot of dosh. I loved the video so many memories. My rule back then was if I couldn't figure out a game in under five minutes it was rubbish so was never a fan of text adventures or isometric games. I think the magazines missed a trick with Renegade. Amazing work well done.
Thanks Stephen, you picked some great games there mate. I think Target Renegade is my all time favourite. Such a great game and not bettered on any other system!
Great list.
Head over heels should be number one.
Wally? WTF. 😬
Spoilers!
Wow some real surprises there! No Dizzies at all, no Don Priestley, no Monty Moles, no Jack the Nipper, no Deathchase (maybe that was too early). I thought Saboteur might make an appearance too. Oh, and no one heard of a little game called Elite?
Ah well, we all know Rock Star Ate My Hamster was the best anyway
Haha. I used to love that game! I played it more recently and it was definitely a game that fed the imagination as a kid. It's a bit boring now, I was surprised how little to do there is in it. Cheers!
Excellent vid - just one point though: the altered voice segments can be pretty difficult to understand - at least to these old ears.
Thank you - You are not the first to mention the "experimental" voices. It didn't work really but I'm learning as I go😀 . FYI - I'm working on a similar video across C64, Speccy and CPC magazines to see if any games got awards everywhere! Stay tuned and cheers for watching.
@@SebsPlaceYT Will do! I love this kind of stuff. Much more entertaining than just plonking some footage on the screen. I mean I like gameplay footage but I like to hear thoughts on the game, what it's about etc. That extra effort you put in earnt a sub. I'm a C64 lad but I'm getting into the Speccy late in life 😁
The only game on that list I've spent significant time on is Fairlight. I still load it sometimes just for the intro music.
Great vid, I didn’t mind the squeaky voices, thought it was amusing. Some surprises both in inclusion and exclusion from this list. Subscribe button clicked, thanks.
Thank you Paul. Appreciate the feedback and the sub!
great video ,enjoy it .keep up the video .thanks
too kind, thank you!
Starquake? Where is Starquake? Those magazines were not fair!
😁
A flawed list. Starglider is one of the highest rated games of all time (and although I'm biased :D ), all the reviews were among the highest across all the magazines, and even won game of the year in Crash. Your Sinclair never reviewed it when it was originally released as they had done a mega-preview the previous month.
Haha - not biased at all :D ! Gotta get an award from all three magazines, so didn't make the list, but yeah a great game indeed ! Kinda crazy that only 52 games amongst all the games these three magazines reviewed were awarded the top award by all three!
Yeah I was expecting Starglider to be there.
Finally! A list that admits the best games weren't always the ones that you'd want to show off to jaded audiences 30 plus years later.
As someone who didn't even know the Spectrum existed until Retro Gamer threw in a free CD, it's easy to be misled by cautiously cultivated lists that tell the same few feel good stories over and over, until it feels more like just another console library.
It was so much more than that. It was a taste of everything gaming could be, sometimes decades ahead of the rest of the world.
Thank you, great comment. I agree, it's hard to do something a little different that shows off some good games that people may have missed. Glad you enjoyed this one.
Quazatron, Ultima games, Elite, Heavy on the Magic and Marsport all have fond memories. I notice Marsport didn't make the list?
Your Sinclair didn't review it. Did well in the other two, but Sinclair User didn't give it an award despite tip marks which sometimes happened.
Great idea for a video - Fab!
Glad you liked it! Cheers!
@@SebsPlaceYT I really did, Revolution was the big surprise for me, it looked so good!
You can basicaly write off most of the coin-op conversions as paid reviews.
There are so many better games out there.
For me, the best game of the Speccy and possibly one of the best games of all time, Doomdark's Revenge, it's a technical masterpiece.
Disappointed that my all-time favourite Speccy game, Crash Smash and Crash cover stars The Great Giana Sisters is missing. Highly regarded by SU and YS also. They even published readers' hints and tips for the game. What a classic. (Aside: what a swizz.)
😂😂 Yeah....moral of the story..... don't mess with Nintendo! Maybe one day someone will unearth a review copy somewhere........ would love to play it (if it did actually exist.....)
It just seems so wrong that Atic Atac, Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Jet Set Willy weren't included - yes, I know it's down to the year of release, but still.....
Dont forget Chuckie Egg 2, the best collect em up game ever made.
@@VeggieManUK another good 'un.
How is Jetpac not on the list?
Too early.
I must admit that I don’t trust reviews from 1990 as I thought reviewers often overhyped and overrated any game that was half decent towards the end of the Spectrums life to try to maintain its relevance.
There's probably some truth in that
This reminds me of some old retro gaming drama - A few years ago, someone on a retro gaming Facebook group made a list of late era Amiga games that had got unjustified high scores by virtue of being late releases and the magazines needing to hype them. The sort of stuff that was coming out after commodore was dead and Amiga magazines had been forced to go to a direct subscriber model.
The list generated a bit of discussion, with most people thinking the majority of the games weren't great but it was understandable 5hst they'd tried to hype what they could. Then, former Amiga Format reviewer Stuart Campbell (a year or so before he lost his mind over politics) came into the group, got *super* angry about the list, told a bunch of people to "f*ck off" over it and then left the group in an angry tantrum.
Point is, apparently Stuart is very sensitive.
To many good original games on the speccy to make any king of definitive list, even if you made a greatest 100, there would be games missing.
In no particular order:
Bobby Bearing.
Avalon
Dragon Torc
Astro Clone
The entire Ket Trilogy (Text Adventures)
BMX Simulator (Better than the offroad title in the list)
Fat Worm Blows A Sparky.
SPLAT
Bugaboo The Flea (A single level of pure frustration)
Empire
Nether Earth (Possibly the first RTS)
Arnem
Wizball
And the list goes on, are any of these playable today, absolutely.
Some great games there!!!
A C64 version of this vid could be interesting.
Which magazines would you go for?
A really eclectic mix in here, the top 3 are quite surprising. Strange that Elite isn't in the list at all as I remember it being the game everybody wanted and all the magazines rated it highly.
Elite came out just too early for Your Sinclair, so they only ever reviewed it as part of a compilation. Otherwise, yeah, it would have made it for sure.
I liked your video but the weird speech effects didn't work for me.
Me neither 😁
I just started the video and I think the top will be 'R-Type'
lets see...lets see if I am a speccy game nerd
Haha. Nice. I've never had a preemptive comment before 😀
I thought it would be Driller
I had forgotten that back in the eighties we spoke with weird high pitched voices ......a golden age
Indeed we did! We also experimented with different ideas to use in UA-cam videos that didn't quite work and will never be used again.
@@SebsPlaceYT lol love this video and love this channel just excellent
Thank you 😊
No Myth by Sysyem 3? Criminal!
Outrageous!
They live! One of my favourite films plus it has the longest fight scene in a film.... well it did at the time
Classic 🤩
One mistake in robocop reveiw the sampled speech clearly say "Applecart"
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Loved 3WIP! deserved a top ten appearance but surprised it took top spot! Why no Jack the Nipper in there?
100% agree for Jack the Nipper, but sometimes games got top marks but weren't awarded mega game, crash smash etc. Jack the Nipper got 5/5 in Sinclair User but no award. If you scroll down two pages. Pyracurse also got 5/5 and the Sinclair User Classic award. It often made no sense. Check it out here: archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-053/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater
Didnt see my childhood top games, Elite and Gunship both got 92% in Crash.
Elite never got a review on its own in Your Sinclair and Gunship should have been included but even though it got top marks, Sinclair User didn't give it an award (which sometimes happenned) so it missed out. Both games deserve to be there though 100%
Kevin Toms dislikes this video.
Lies....
I was a early Speccy user.
Loved Exolon. If you defined the keys to Z O R B A & then redefine them to how you use the keys, you got infinite lives.
Oooh
Wait, no elite? no stunt car racer?
Hi - Elite really should be, but Your Sinclair never reviewed it. Only later as part of a compilation. Stunt car racer didn't review high enough.
C64 Carrier command was made as a 2d game and lost something. Didn’t get great reviews. The Spectrum version looked awesome.
There's a PS4 spiritul successor to Uridium and I wish I could remember the name because it's excellent!
Futuridium.
@@Inaflap Actually no, it's not 3d etc it's the same view as the orig but Futuridium looks very interesting cheers! :-)
My guess(es): Head over Heels or Treasure Island Dizzy.
Waaay more random than that 😁
@@SebsPlaceYT It sure was. No spoiler alerts here- but I wasn't a million miles off, eh?... I'm off to play it now :)
Those voices :(
Yep, won't do that again.
great video
Thank you 😊
yeah target renegade still playable today! prob my best speccy game too, the original renegade just doesnt compare imo
Yeah probably my favourite game 😍
I hated rainbow Island and bubble
My all time favourite was Elite. Many hours spent playing that
Dynamite Dan looks disturbingly like Matt Smith as Dr Who.
ETA: The Target Renegade reviewer: ew, what a letch!
😂😂
No chaos?.....the fools
It did well in Sinclair User and Crash. Not sure even reviewed by YS.
what no ELITE i am gob smacked i literally left my speccy on for weeks whilst in spacedock as it took ages to load.
Yeah, Elite really should be on the list, but even though they scored it 9/10, your sinclair didn't give it an award. Scandalous!
Like many 70's kids i er.. had loads of backup copies of games and surprisingly enough the only games in your list i played was robocop, back to school and 3 weeks which i didnt like... great list but not my top 40
No.. I agree, some odd ones in there!
Ha.. good times. Me and a friend down the road used to *ahem* backup each others games on a 'ghetto blaster,' as they used to be called.
owned 3 wip on pirate ,
Top 3 = Never heard of them.
Bungs were had --- big time.
Distorted voices = very hard to understand.
Yep, voice experiment was shorted lived.....
Wot no 'Starglider...
Yeah same as Elite.... Your Sinclair robbed them.
Good job….no need for the voices
Fair
Silly voices ruined this video for me.
Agreed 😁
@SebsPlaceYT I really liked the vid, but found the modulated voices irritating too. Have you thought about reaching out to the community for vocal contributions?
The Sinclair magazine reviews are, alas, completely untrustworthy. They lived off the advertising of the game publishers, after all. Ghosts 'n 'Goblins is pants on the spectrum.
Hi - Yep, definitely some truth in that. Just a bit of fun really.
Having given Ghosts and goblins a whirl on the speccy the other day I have to say I dont agree it's rubbish at all. Too hard? Yes, definitely think it's not the best balanced but it's quick and enjoyable enough and quite a feat to get it on there. Why do you think it's bad?
I don’t think it’s pants but it’s missing more than half of the arcade game (if you can manage to get that far).
As a single load, it’s good, but if you know the coin-op, it’s merely an impression of the first two levels and then kinda does a simplified third one.
TBH the same could be said of Crash and anything Ultimate related. It still grinds my gears I bought Cyberun & Gunfright based on the Crash reviews.