In colour all these years later
You know what? Even though I've been playing the Spectrum for more than a decade via emulation and thought I had played everything I wanted to play but I am still coming across games that I am seeing in full technicolour for the first time, lol.
Like most of you (maybe), my ZX youth was spent in front of a black and white portable with the only colour part of it was the green band for tuning in. So it still a delight to come across the odd game that I am seeing it the way it's meant to be seen. Obviously the games aren't the biggies - they still get played to death, but games like Tiler, Son of Blagger, Specventure are fresh to me in colourville :)
Like most of you (maybe), my ZX youth was spent in front of a black and white portable with the only colour part of it was the green band for tuning in. So it still a delight to come across the odd game that I am seeing it the way it's meant to be seen. Obviously the games aren't the biggies - they still get played to death, but games like Tiler, Son of Blagger, Specventure are fresh to me in colourville :)
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When I finally played it on a colour telly (or was able to use it on the Big Telly in the front room), that moment I was able to load in Scrabble and press 'C' for Colour. <shiverswithdelight> :razz:
Then in late 80ties we got a Japanese Sanyo which had a PAL/SECAM switch so it could display both television and Spectrum in colour.
It still works perfectly too, she has it in her bedroom on a table hooked up to the old VHS.
But she has a colour TV, a DVD, and cable or freeview in the living room.
Needless to say that black and white TV was mine while I was a kid, because colour TV's seemed to cost a bomb back then, so we only had a tiny colour portable in the living room. Don't think we had a TV with a bigger screen on it until about 1998 :lol:
Sometimes I choose the B/W option in some emulators to play, remembering the good old days!
After 6 months or so I went down to the TV repair shop that was down the bottom of the road and he had a decent looking early 70s 20" color for 25 quid...I bought it and it was my pride and joy at the time (next to the speccy of course)....the thing sure was noisy though when running (just an electrical...high pitched type noises from the back) and gave off a lot of heat but it worked good for a couple of years....Also gave off a nice dusty smell when running.
I wasn't able to play a few of the games in green, but to this day I still miss the fact that there isn't any option to play them "like I used to"
It was very early 1970s. Portable size (although it weighed a ton, so wasn't particularly 'portable') and had a dial on the front, so you had to tune through stations like a radio. We just used it for the Speccy though, so it stayed on the same channel.
It worked pretty well then through to the 90's when it died again - but at that point it was fairly ancient, so we threw it out.