In colour all these years later

edited November 2010 in Games
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 :)
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  • zx1zx1
    edited November 2010
    Yea i was the same, played all my speccy games on a black and white portable tv for the first 4 years. Then i got a colour portable and suddenly managed to play all my games in colour, although most were in mono anyway!
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  • Ah, the joys of black and white tellies. I too had a black and white portable with tuning dial for the first couple of years of my speccy.

    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:
  • edited November 2010
    I had a colour tv manufactured in Soviet Union, but it still displayed Spectrum picture in black and white as the tv worked with SECAM standard and Spectrum worked with PAL standard.

    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.
  • edited November 2010
    To be honest I never missed colour back in the days. I did have a nice B&W tv with a decent picture, the neighbour, however, had a colour tv... but to be honest I didnt miss it a bit. Most games were monochrome anyway with an odd one here and there with more colour. I still had the same B&W TV when I got the c64... and again, didnt really miss the colour, but when I got the Amiga I had to get a colour monitor after a month or two... just HAD TO ;-)
  • edited November 2010
    My mother still has our ancient Black and white dial tune TV back in England, it was my grandads so she won't get rid of it.

    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:
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  • edited November 2010
    B/W tellies bring back great memories to me. As many mentioned above, I started playing Spectrum games in a portable black & white telly (this telly has the game 'PONG' included, by the way). Decathlon, Match Day, Atic Atac, Raid Over Moscow, Commando... After 2 years, I got a colour TV, I remember the first game I loaded that moment, it was Stainless Steel, by Mikro Gen, so colourful! :smile:

    Sometimes I choose the B/W option in some emulators to play, remembering the good old days!
  • edited November 2010
    I started off on a black and white for about 6 months but was happy as hell to go to colour. Yeah a lot of games were monochrome but many others werent, had to have full colour !
  • edited November 2010
    Aye B/W here at first....My dad being a nutter would not allow me to use my speccy on the big TV because it would 'burn in the screen forever'....I'd try to explain that only happened if it was prolonged use (years) and if it was the same screen left to burn in day in day out...he wasn't having it though.

    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.
  • edited November 2010
    I had a very small portable old B/W screen for a few moths, then my parents got me a monitor that had a green image (I remember back in the day there where some monitors that either gave you green image or orange) it was only latter on, near 91 or 92 that I got our first coloured tv in to my living room (a huge phillips, that worked fine till 4 or 5 years ago, when the cat peed on it...)

    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"
  • edited November 2010
    I had a black & white set with the Speccy for a while, but then my Dad pulled our old, broken front room TV set out of the attic and repaired that, so I got to have colour.

    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.
  • edited November 2010
    I remember starting on black and White portable with tuning dial also. The dial had to be just so! Then my parents would get me a big colour one from advert in paper. These would be cheap tvs on their way out with the tube failing. One quarter of the screen would be blurry colour like early 3d film, but the other side would be glorious technicolour. Until it broke completely and I would be back on b&w portable
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