Please don't shout at me - I bought something C64 related...
Went in to Argos with the missus yesterday to get something dead exciting (bedsheets) and saw someone at the counter collecting one of those C64 30-games-in-one joysticks.
Well, I thought, worth seeing how much they are. To my surprise they were being sold off at the bargain price of ?4.99. So I grabbed the last one in the shop.
I'm going to try it out today, probably. I might just leave it to collect dust and never actually use it.
Anyway, my question is should there be a Spectrum one of these? It may have been discussed before, but I think there should be - in my (biased) opinion, the Spectrum was the defining 8-bit computer of the 1980s, and if the C64 lot can have one of these TV game systems, then so should we.
Well, I thought, worth seeing how much they are. To my surprise they were being sold off at the bargain price of ?4.99. So I grabbed the last one in the shop.
I'm going to try it out today, probably. I might just leave it to collect dust and never actually use it.
Anyway, my question is should there be a Spectrum one of these? It may have been discussed before, but I think there should be - in my (biased) opinion, the Spectrum was the defining 8-bit computer of the 1980s, and if the C64 lot can have one of these TV game systems, then so should we.
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The Atari joystick isnt bad, practically an exact Atari VCS joystick with a fair few games on. Have a look on ebay, theyre pretty good actually and cheap
California Games, Summer Games and Winter Games are all good fun, as is Zynaps. Speed Ball isn't as good as the Amiga version (which was the only version I'd played up to now) but it is still a good game.
I should have fun with this - of course I've got stacks of emulated games for the C64 (I've even got a real one stashed away somewhere in my parents loft) but these joystick things are good for a quick five minute blast when you don't want to sit at the computer.
the Atari is really let down by all of the games being rubbish. I'm sure its not just bias when i say that Speccy games have generally aged a lot better.
Whilst I like the idea of Spectrum one, I'm dubious as to how commercially viable it would be. Maybe if someone could secure the rights to the entire Ultimate back catalog or something...
Titles which spring immediately to mind are: Manic Miner, Renegade, Batman (isometric), R-Type, Chuckie Egg... I know there are loads but I think you'd need quality titles like these (or indeed the Ultimate games as Matt suggested) to make it work - the Atari ones are a bit pap, and there are some games on this C64 one which beg the question "why?".
I've got the Megadrive one with Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer. I've not really played it much, but both are great games. It has a third game but I can't remember what it is.
I can't use mouse and keyboard at all on those.
And me. It feels odd playing games like Exolon on a joystick which I played so much years ago using the Speccy keyboard. I kept accidently jumping into the path of the bloody bullets and floaty ball things.
What price a TV-plug-in rubberkey Spectrum keyboard with built in games? I'd buy one, and I'm sure at least 12 other people would too.
probably a lot with a production run of 13 :-P
Like many others here i always used the keyboard but it would be great to have a Quickshot II plug n play with various Speccy games on it
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
The former. Just a joystick full of games run by a circuit board that somehow emulates the C64.
obviously speedballs not as good as the amiga version cos 1s 8 bit and 1s 16 bit :P
Which 50, you ask? CC50, of course! I know of at least 0 people who would by it!
I would have paid for it too, but couldn't remember my login details, and their webstie sucks donkey balls.
[chortle]
[edit = assuming there is one, of course]
what??? isnt it MegaLoMania ?... another amazing Sensible game - shame on you!
so what's the excuse of Gauntlet, Manic Miner or Exolon for all being better on the speccy then? hehe
Because the Spectrum is 8 bit and the Amiga's 16 bit, of course. :-P
(Some might say that it's down to the programmers on the respective systems making a hash of it, but I wouldn't believe a word of that.)
You must get your arse whooped if you play them online then!
Surely you're not implying that all 16-bit games are better than all 8-bit games just because of the bits issue? Shame on you Mel! :p
Well, it ain't as good as S.Soccer or C.Fodder (imo), so the most likely one of the three not to remember.
I'm a big Sensi Fan all round, and even have a big soft-spot for Sensible Golf (usually ranking it higher than CF in my top amiga game lists)
i know that those joystick versions are based on the MegaDrive though, so in fact MLM should be the best one in there! Sensible Soccer on MD is useless when compared to proper Amiga Sensible World of Soccer imho.... in fact i'd probably go as far a to call SWOS the best game ever. ( warning! bold claim!)
ok i'm done here.
Rabble rabble rabble...
RabbleRabbleRabbleRABBLERABBLERABBLE (In a SouthPark kinda way) :)
How does Cannon Fodder play like? I remember the Miggy version using mouse
to move with Left Click, and Right for shoot... just wondering how that would transfer to a one button joystick, both control wise and playability?
It`s funny but with Amstrad being so decent about their spectrum roms it`s pretty effing amazing (ah shit that youngins tought me to swear, tut tut) that they haven`t licensed a limited test to some company for a Speccy flavoured version of one of these.
From the playground battles topic it`s clear that in the UK at most schools
the speccy was the most owned in the UK and everybody I talk to about retro computers (non PC owning piss-Station fanboys) mention Dizzy mainly
as the one game they`d like to play again so as a tie in they could even get the Codies onboard with one or two of their catalogue... I`d personally love a one with Professional Ski Simulator on (still can`t get by level 3) :)
They`d (or whoever licensed it) would make such a killing for 15-20 bones a unit.
The early levels are fine to play, but it's tough to react quick enough as the levels and difficulty progress.
I don't really know why I bought the CF one (well, I do - it's because it was ?7.99) as I have the original PC game (and CF2) on my old Dell laptop, which I use to play all the old classics.
edit. I quite like control pads (D-Pads), not really a consoley person apart from Mario games on gameboy and SNES but I think they work well... gutted that the GP2X has one of those silly thumb joysticks rather than a D-Pad... don`t know how nice spectrum games would be with one of those.
Capcom also released a Commando, 1942, Ghost's and Goblins one which looks rather good, if it wern't for mame
oh and If a Speccy one was ever released in a Quickshot II I wouldn't buy it.
Another 5 minutes, and they found one, that wasn't reserved from somewhere, and sold it to me.