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Anonymous Sat Sep 25 13:37:36 2021 No.8174708 [Reply] [Original]

So this is what the UK had to play instead of SMB, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 13:45:31 2021 No.8174721 If you were poor, yeah. The Master System did quite well too, and some people did in fact own the NES.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 13:47:22 2021 No.8174728 >>8174708 I played through the rare replay collection on Xbox and i have to admit the speccy games where fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 13:49:40 2021 No.8174737 >>8174708 No idea what that is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 14:17:21 2021 No.8174773 >>8174737 You're not missing much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 14:41:59 2021 No.8174817 Gotta love how the Speccy is so bad at color many games just didn't even bother.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 14:52:35 2021 No.8174837 >>8174817 it has a colour memory map separate from the pixel data where each 8x8 block of screen is one colour, so that resulted in the famous "colour clash" and many games would just use a monochromatic playfield so it would look cleaner

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:00:44 2021 No.8174854 Actually a really neat, elegant design compared to how most 8-bit micros' graphics work (don't even ask what Apple II graphics are like).

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:16:44 2021 No.8174889 >>8174708 Wasn't this based on a British comic strip?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:21:59 2021 No.8174905 File: 284 KB, 762x820, UK Sales Chart May 1992.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:24:14 2021 No.8174909 >>8174905 >even the bongs didn’t call it the master system

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:28:26 2021 No.8174918 >>8174854 but that's not fair considering the Apple II is like 5 years older than the Spectrum

Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:37:48 2021 No.8174952

They sold the Apple II in the UK. It was expensive, only offices or laboratories or whatever had the things, and there were absolutely no games. I think at first they couldn't even display colour due to the graphics system being dependent on NTSC quirks.

Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:57:33 2021 No.8174997

>>8174952
Yeah absolutely zero people owned an Apple 2 for gaming. Oi me speccy, the Amiga and the commodore absolutely ruled the roost in England. Console wise it was Mega Drive for console and Game Boy for handheld. The Apple 2 was mainly used in offices and such

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 15:59:23 2021 No.8175001 it didn't even get into UK schools because the BBC Micro dominated the educational market

Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:00:49 2021 No.8175005

>>8174708
Yes. Understand that the NES was expensive and had conflicting software released for it (games cost upwards of £50 whereas a brand new triple A speccy game cost, at most, £20, and even then you had to make sure your NES game worked with your console or not). People only really started to give into consoles around the mega drive before everyone jumped ship and got a PlayStation when that came out

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:06:25 2021 No.8175024 >>8175005 those lovely un-optimized PAL games that ran at like 30 fps and they would release games 3 years after the US and Japan got them so you'd end up with LOZ in 1990, SMB3 in 1992, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:23:37 2021 No.8175065 >>8174708 You know we actually had NES and Master System in the UK. I remember I started with a Master System and I had a mate who had a NES so every couple of weeks we'd swap consoles then back again so we had the best of both worlds.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:24:40 2021 No.8175071 >>8175065 What was your consensus on the NES? Did it not stack up to the MS In your eyes or were you envious of him and his big grey box

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:27:46 2021 No.8175082 A lot of people especially professional game developers were often not that taken with the NES because they felt it was more of the same early 80s 8-bit nonsense and it took the Mega Drive before there was a console that looked really cutting edge.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:28:16 2021 No.8175084 >>8174997 >Yeah absolutely zero people owned an Apple 2 for gaming Wrong

Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:29:09 2021 No.8175086

>>8175071
I loved Mario 3 and Digger T Rock. I remember my downstairs neighbour had a NES as well but he had a game genie which completely mystified my tiny brain. I still preferred the Master System because I was a giant Asterix nut plus games were cheaper so I got to play more.I still love the Master System to this day to be honest, everything I played back then I can play now and enjoy (especially Asterix and Sonic 2), the NES only a very small, select collection of games I can still enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:31:45 2021 No.8175093 >>8175084 The U.K. In America it was a different story but the computer was absolutely a work only thing in England

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 16:45:07 2021 No.8175121 dude, like Apple IIs were just for public schools and nerds who played ancient grognard RPGs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 00:36:00 2021 No.8176361 >>8174728 Yankies fears the speccy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 00:49:59 2021 No.8176382 Rare Replay Collection is like the top 10% of Spectrum games, the vast majority are barely playable jank made by one 18 year old over his summer break.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 00:51:03 2021 No.8176385 >>8176361 I certainly do, I don't like playing with turds

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 00:59:20 2021 No.8176410 File: 6 KB, 220x147, images (90).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8176385 Yet you enjoy this

Anonymous Sun Sep 26 01:16:00 2021 No.8176445

>>8174728
I have that collection too and each one of those games were borderline unplayable shit other than Jetpac which was simply average. And those are supposed to be the best of the best speccy games so one can only imagine just how much worse the average game was.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 04:55:35 2021 No.8176889 >>8176410 Sup auster. Oy me speccer

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 13:17:14 2021 No.8177645 >>8176445 >>8176382 It's probably better on a real Spectrum, emulation tends to be meh.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 13:22:30 2021 No.8177651 >>8174905 is that millions or individual units?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 16:51:46 2021 No.8178264 >>8177645 Out of curiosity, what's missing from the emulated versions?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 26 17:29:46 2021 No.8178384 >>8174708 >Mega Man >Ninja Gaiden >1986 Dumb septic

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 03:55:44 2021 No.8179864 It's funny how many games the NES and the Spectrum share, the Spectrum version of TMNT is actually okay

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 04:15:03 2021 No.8179881 >>8179864 Isnt the commodore version of TMNT like, actually unbeatable because one of the walls in the sewers is too low to pass and they didn’t test it properly, or am I thinking of a different port

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 04:45:49 2021 No.8179908

>>8174708
>SMB, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, etc.
Boring copypasted platformers with simple gameplay and graphics.
>Jack The Nipper
One of the best action adventure games on 8 bit systems. So many more things to do than running right and shooting at braindead AI. More unique areas to explore. More than 3 sprites per scanline without flickering. Playable for tens of hours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 05:10:40 2021 No.8179940 >>8179881 ms dos version. Although I never did finish C64 version myself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:06:23 2021 No.8181698 File: 318 KB, 925x1050, 1492138170734.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8179908

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:13:11 2021 No.8181736 >>8179908 If Konami made Jack The Nipper it would be seen as an instant 10/10 classic on here.

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:17:48 2021 No.8181757

>>8181736
It's the opposite, if some z tier bong amateur programmer made something like bayou billy (a konami game nobody really talks much about) for the speccy, creatures like you would say it's the quintessential masterpiece in all of gaming or whatever.
The funny thing is, even a mediocre game like bayou billy is still miles better than the abominations you played as a kid on your specce

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:22:02 2021 No.8181771 >>8177651 You can’t buy .1 of a console dipshit

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:23:51 2021 No.8181781

>>8179908
>One of the best action adventure games on 8 bit systems. So many more things to do than running right and shooting at braindead AI. More unique areas to explore. More than 3 sprites per scanline without flickering. Playable for tens of hours.
you forget where it cost 1/3rd what you paid for NES cartridge

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:32:20 2021 No.8181821 >>8181781 and you could copy it for free! that alone makes it a better game! fuck paying for a good game! I'd rather have a shit one for free m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:34:39 2021 No.8181829 >>8181781 >>8181821 https://vocaroo.com/ficl4O040If

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 17:48:49 2021 No.8181874 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIGs_hpCQI If you haven't seen this game it's like a Sierra adventure but more arcadey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 21:09:35 2021 No.8182504 >>8181781 You could go down to the grocery store and pick up a new Spectrum cassette ever week.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 21:39:14 2021 No.8182604 >>8179908 >So many more things to do than running right and shooting at braindead AI really. like 80% of NES games could be boiled down to this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 28 00:45:31 2021 No.8182980 >>8181698 >Someone actually took their time to type that >Probably thought he's funny

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 28 01:30:08 2021 No.8183063 >>8182980 it's fucking hilarious, eurotrash monkey.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 28 01:43:56 2021 No.8183094 >>8183063 I never ever played on retro PCs. That shit looks like some 14 years old tried to be funny. >it's fucking hilarious If you're a low IQ moron, maybe.

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