Give the Spectrum a try

[Anonymous No.6908085]

If you're really interested, emulation of the system is officially allowed by the company that bought the rights from Sinclair (Amstrad).
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ has a huge archive of games to try out.

My ten favorite Speccy games:
Jet Set Willy series
Chuckie Egg
Dizzy series
Deathchase 3D
Laser Squad
Lunar Jetman
Manic Miner
Atic Atac
Knight Lore
Pentagram

These are all games i enjoyed back in '84/'85. Lunar Jetman is much better with a gamepad!

[Anonymous No.6908210]

Honorable mention for Nightshade because it's fucking based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade_(1985_video_game)

[Anonymous No.6908225]

It's the dog's bullocks wut wut

[Anonymous No.6908230]

>>6908225
Aye

[Anonymous No.6908243]

>>6908085
I quite liked Thrust as a kid back then

[Anonymous No.6908286]

>>6908085
Mate I've been on the spectrum since the day I was born

[Anonymous No.6908304]

>>6908085
>Dizzy series
its actually good i only played the ones released for nes though

[Anonymous No.6908363]

I don't need to give it a "try", I give it my love, my life, my love.
As you were.

[Anonymous No.6908394]

Gaze in awe upon Castlevania for the Speccy

[Anonymous No.6908494]

>>6908085
>emulation of the system is officially allowed by the company that bought the rights from Sinclair (Amstrad).
that's pretty based

[Anonymous No.6908496]

>>6908394
looks awful

[Anonymous No.6908510]

>>6908394
>mfw

[Anonymous No.6908601]

>>6908394
It's unironically pretty good (well, a 6 by first world standards) and easily the best game on the spedex.

[Anonymous No.6908618]

>>6908601
it's right to left tho

[Anonymous No.6908641]

>>6908618
? Not always.

[Anonymous No.6908782]

cor blimey

[Anonymous No.6909597]

>>6908085
>emulation of the system is officially allowed by the company that bought the rights from Sinclair (Amstrad).
OI BRUV YOU GOT YER EMULATIN LOICENSE?!

[Anonymous No.6909630]

If I bought zx spectrum shells and put raspberry pis in them. Do you think people would buy them?

[Anonymous No.6909637]

The power of the Speccy.

[Anonymous No.6909642]

Even Capcom loved the Speccy.

[Anonymous No.6909650]

>>6909630
Yes, but you will be competing against this.

https://www.specnext.com/kickstarter-2-has-been-a-resounding-success/

[Anonymous No.6909674]

>>6909650
The ones i'd make would be about half the price of the Next

[Anonymous No.6909707]

>>6909637
Those are honestly pretty good and ambitious graphics for the ZX. For what that's worth...

[Anonymous No.6909714]

>>6908085
spectrum and judas priest is all i need god save the queen!

[Anonymous No.6909720]

>>6909674
People will buy them, but you would be aiming for a small segment of a small market in which you are the 2nd cheapest option, but the cheapest for the complete physical experience:

Emulation on PC
You
Emulation on Mister
Spectrum Next
Original hardware

You would probably make more money from videos of you refurbing old Spectrums with PIs, which you could roll into doing the same with other micros/consoles. I'd definitely watch the videos, but wouldn't buy a ZX PI off you.

[Anonymous No.6909726]

I'm going to buy and burn every spectrum tape I find, britcucks.

[Anonymous No.6909730]

>>6909726
Good. The 1000s I have will become more valuable.

[Anonymous No.6909742]

>>6909720
never thought about going down the YT route. That's a pretty decent shout.
Also, I dunno where you got that the OG hardware is at most expensive. On ebay. used 48k speccys are pretty cheap. 9/10 times they are cheaper than that recreated zx spectrum which is nothing more than a bluetooth keyboard.

[Anonymous No.6909743]

My dad has one of these in the attic

[Anonymous No.6909805]

>>6909742
The Speccy itself is cheap, but I meant in terms of a complete set up. Joysticks, tape machines, cables, all the games, CRT... It isn't long before it's more expensive than a Next, which is more powerful, easier to use and has a growing community of devs and hardware upgrades. These 2 groups are the hardcores, you would aiming for the nostalgia casuals who just want it to werk on demand and they definitely exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wXCw-Ci4s

[Anonymous No.6909843]

The best emulator or the one that appears first is a paid one, there is a Virtual Machine emulator that also plays Amstrad CPC games though and it's free, just look for it online.

As for games, i haven't tried much, even before we started getting all these threads, i decided to try the ZX Spectrum since it was a big part of gaming history i didn't know much about and i want to try more than just games i knew from childhood.

...My experience hasn't been the best, i was extremely dissapointed with Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for example, but the Ultimate games are decent, particularly Jetpac.

I just haven't managed to really get into the computer but it's amazing seeing what people did with a weak computer that wasn't even supposed to play games.

Also, in case anyone is wondering, there are a ton of homebrew games out there and competitions for it, i remember trying Aliens Neoplasma and found that game decent, oh, and as someone who tried ZX Spectrum games for the first time months ago, prepare to find keyboard controls awkward in some games.

And like everything, don't expect every classic to be something you enjoy, just don't get in here to make troll threads or complain, i really didn't enjoy the Willy games nearly as much as i wanted, but i didn't come here to make threads bashing the Spectrum and for all their flaws, they are still really creative games and i can kinda see why people like them.

[Anonymous No.6909854]

>>6909805
>zxbaremulator
That would be the hurdle as the developer of the emu has stated that he doesn't want his software to be sold, even as part of a package and I don't casuals would want to flash sd's and open up the spectrum to insert the card

[Anonymous No.6909861]

>>6909805
heres the one I built recently

[Anonymous No.6909865]

>>6908286
Based

[Anonymous No.6909897]

>>6909854
>>6909861
The slot is exposed on that, so flashing zxbare is an option for users. With the Next pulling in 2 million from crowdsourcing, development for that is worthwhile, so you want to have the SD slot exposed to tap into that.

[Anonymous No.6909997]

yes

[Anonymous No.6910129]

People should look into homebrew games too, the Spectrum has a ton of them, same with the C64 and Amiga.

Quite a few are paid, particularly some of the better homebrew games, but there are also some great free games if you look around.

[Anonymous No.6910919]

I remember having an archive of like thousands of spectrum games downloaded back around year 2000 or so. I just randomly tried games from the pile whether I recognized them or not, most of them obviously were utter crap but you could find some hidden gems that way and it was a glorious way to waste time never quite knowing what you would unearth next.

I have almost more nostalgia for the emulation than for the actual machine itself or the games I played as a kid.

Pic related is Viking Raiders, game I wouldn't have ever found out about if I had not done this.

[Anonymous No.6910968]

>>6908085
Note to anyone looking for games like Codemasters stuff or Rareware you will need to go to archive.org as these devs and a couple others requested World of Spectrum remove their titles. Considering Rare did some of the best Spectrum games I figured it might be good to mention.

[Man from Bongistan No.6911050]

>>6909861
By built you mean you stuck a cuckberry Pi in a case

[Anonymous No.6911096]

>>6911050
Yes he built a ZX PI.

[Anonymous No.6913053]

>>6909707
Better port than the C64 TMNT which wasn't even properly completed.

[Anonymous No.6913132]

>>6910919
It doesn't have a definitive canon or essential games list like the C64 does and of course also doesn't have any NTSC library. So you can't just go and say oh yeah play Summer Games or Maniac Mansion. And since the Spectrum was entirely cassette based, it meant that many game genres weren't very feasible. RPGs and adventure games are particularly lacking as they rely on lots of random disk access. Thus most Spectrum games were single load or else linear multiload arcade games where you just progress in order from the first to the last level.

So Ultima and Maniac Mansion never got Spectrum ports and it wouldn't have been possible anyway without disk storage.

[Anonymous No.6913145]

>>6913132
>So Ultima and Maniac Mansion never got Spectrum ports and it wouldn't have been possible anyway without disk storage.
how the fuck were you fitting either game into 48k of memory?

[Anonymous No.6913159]

>>6913145
Ultima IV ran on the Apple II+ and Atari 8-bit in 48k. U5, yeah. You'd need 64k of memory for that. As for Maniac Mansion, it technically did fit into the NES's 40k memory space although it needed the entire 64k in the C64. But the real handicap is obviously the lack of disk storage which is why the Spectrum and Amstrad never got ports of either game.

[Anonymous No.6915792]

ok

[Anonymous No.6915818]

For me it's 'Ead over 'Eels m8s

[Anonymous No.6915824]

>>6908230
the design is fucking top-notch, shame about the garbage keyboard.

>>6908286
How did you post on modern 4ch

[Anonymous No.6915843]

>>6915792
Try Atic Atac first

[Anonymous No.6917724]

bump

[Anonymous No.6917745]

>>6908085
Sorry but I'm not into gay and tranny stuff.

[Anonymous No.6917764]

>>6909637
This looks like an Amstrad game. Amazing.

[Anonymous No.6917772]

>>6917745
Could have fooled me, gay tranny. Could you be any more infantile?

[Anonymous No.6917786]

>>6917772
>calling people infantile in a speccy spam thread

[Anonymous No.6918138]

>>6911050
ok I mean assembled. Would you like one anon?

[Anonymous No.6918242]

>>6917772
>guy calls you a doodoo head
>you call him an infantile doodoo head

[Anonymous No.6918957]

I touch my peepee

[Anonymous No.6919682]

>>6918242
I know. We should just perpetuate stupidity. We're actually doing a fine job of it. I mean, just look at the United Soviet States of Tranny Factories America. You're setting an example for the whole world to follow, comrade She/Her...

[Anonymous No.6920098]

>>6908085
>emulation of the system is officially allowed by the company
That's great, but no one needed their permission (legally or otherwise) to emulate their hardware.

[Anonymous No.6920117]

Nintendo still claims on their website that emulation is illegal even though Sony vs Bleem more than 20 years ago found that it wasn't, so...

[Anonymous No.6920126]

>>6920098

[Anonymous No.6920361]

>>6920117
It is illegal you fucking pirate scum

[Anonymous No.6920387]

>>6915818
Great game