I have been playing one of the first games I played on a zx spectrum and even today its a very clever game for the time it was made and i still have loads of fun with it.
I think like more games because it was sinclair own brand it sold well.. it is a nice game though.
I do recall playing scaletrix 2 player.. you would go in front of the other player.. slam the anchors on and win as they'd crash. Pole position I liked also..
Hmm, now which one had, 'The McFaster Special,' in it? Was that Chequered Flag, or Formula One Simulator?
Cuz I liked that one.
Played both of them quite a bit, and, yeah, I guess they're not too bad considering when they came out. I was never that blown away by them though, despite constant sittings at it. A nice advancement from just playing the Psion's Horizon tape!
But gimme the 128k version of Roadblasters, Wec Le Mans, Chase HQ or Continental Circus, any day!
I thought Chequered Flag was a great game. Pole Position was big in the arcades at the time though and, as a sim racer, it probably wasn't quite what everyone was hoping for. However, once you'd taken the time to get stuck into it, learn the racing lines and what gear you needed to take each corner in, I don't think there was any turning back.
It always seemed to cop a lot of criticism for the fact that there weren't any other cars on the track to overtake, but given that overtaking practically never happens in Formula 1 these days anyway, I don't think it's that much of an issue.
Revs was, of course superb, in that it had both realism and other cars to race. I'd think that TT Racer was the closest to a Spectrum equivalent, albeit with bikes.
Hmm, now which one had, 'The McFaster Special,' in it? Was that Chequered Flag, or Formula One Simulator?
Cuz I liked that one.
Played both of them quite a bit, and, yeah, I guess they're not too bad considering when they came out. I was never that blown away by them though, despite constant sittings at it. A nice advancement from just playing the Psion's Horizon tape!
But gimme the 128k version of Roadblasters, Wec Le Mans, Chase HQ or Continental Circus, any day!
I got CF with my first Spectrum, a Plus for Xmas 1986. It was probably the most played out of the generous selection I had, for about 6 months at least.... and for all of those 6 months I raced every track in FIRST GEAR, having not clocked that there was a gearbox, and you could change it :razz: By the time I'd worked out my mistake I'd got hold of a few more games and stopped playing CF anyway.
So I won't be comparing record times if it's all the same!!
I got CF with my first Spectrum, a Plus for Xmas 1986. It was probably the most played out of the generous selection I had, for about 6 months at least.... and for all of those 6 months I raced every track in FIRST GEAR, having not clocked that there was a gearbox, and you could change it :razz: By the time I'd worked out my mistake I'd got hold of a few more games and stopped playing CF anyway.
So I won't be comparing record times if it's all the same!!
I got mine in a pack with 5 other psion tapes i know i had scrabble, survival, make a chip, CF, Horace goes sking and my spectrum was the rubber keyboard 48k...class
I got mine in a pack with 5 other psion tapes i know i had scrabble, survival, make a chip, CF, Horace goes sking and my spectrum was the rubber keyboard 48k...class
SNAP
i used to write down my fastest times on the tracks
and as far as scrabble is concerned, i did my first ever competitive stuff on it!!!!
with my other games being the competitors
I've still got the scrabble tape (got it from my cousin). It was a good way to get the brain cells working. It's the only spectrum game my mum ever played.
I have been playing one of the first games I played on a zx spectrum and even today its a very clever game for the time it was made and i still have loads of fun with it.
what do you think of it ?
yeah
Here something interesting
So this is NIgel Mansell's Williams during the Spectrum days complete with CANON logo
And here is the same car in 2008 PC game. Amaizing what 20 years can bring. At this rate I am almost scared what we will get in 2028 :-o :-o
I think thats my main argument but i know its only me thats saying it.
I dont want my games to be real as for me it is losing its fun. If i wanted to get in a car and drive then i will in the REAL world. Games have become too real in my eyes.
I think thats my main argument but i know its only me thats saying it.
I dont want my games to be real as for me it is losing its fun. If i wanted to get in a car and drive then i will in the REAL world. Games have become too real in my eyes.
sure but on the other hand how many of us can get behind the wheel of an real F1 car for example ;);) unless you are super rich and can buy one of this historic cars and race them
Kids today probably think of the Spectrum as complete rubish, a bad joke
I got mine in a pack with 5 other psion tapes i know i had scrabble, survival, make a chip, CF, Horace goes sking and my spectrum was the rubber keyboard 48k...class
And here is the same car in 2008 PC game. Amaizing what 20 years can bring. At this rate I am almost scared what we will get in 2028
Which 2008 made game is that? Is it a Geoff Crammond written one?
As for Chequered Flag, I used to play it against my Dad, we had quite a lot of fun with it.
But Revs on the Beeb was of course much nicer. I was always hoping and praying Revs would come out on the Speccy, but it never did (perhaps the Speccy didn't have the CPU horsepower to do it justice?)
which is what I was thinking.. I used to like the Crammond GP1 and 2... I heard 3 was pony.. but after that micro prose got bought up by psygnosis (sony) and then there weren't officially licensed games?!? I do remember the one being on the PS, perhaps that's why they bought up microprose.hhmm
It used to be fun playing multiplayer on the pc one and as for chequered flag.. it was good as of it's time. It's still playable that's the point, but the only 8 bit driving game I was playing really was grand prix circuit by EA (again what were zzap thinking when they rated it)
As for Chequered Flag, I used to play it against my Dad, we had quite a lot of fun with it.
But Revs on the Beeb was of course much nicer. I was always hoping and praying Revs would come out on the Speccy, but it never did (perhaps the Speccy didn't have the CPU horsepower to do it justice?)
Crammond ported Revs to the C64 and the Spectrum's certainly got more CPU power than that. I can only guess that it just wasn't a big enough hit to be worth the effort of taking it to a non 6502 machine.
I suppose the likes of TT Racer and the Nigel Mansell games pretty much filled that gap too.
Crammond ported Revs to the C64 and the Spectrum's certainly got more CPU power than that. I can only guess that it just wasn't a big enough hit to be worth the effort of taking it to a non 6502 machine.
I suppose the likes of TT Racer and the Nigel Mansell games pretty much filled that gap too.
Revs on the speccy would be a game I would still pay full price for 20 odd years later.....Amazing game.
Crammond ported Revs to the C64 and the Spectrum's certainly got more CPU power than that
I was surprised to know it WASN'T ported , but then it was acorn soft, clive's main rival. also the fact of the c64 / bbc both being the same cpu (so you could keep the guts of the code, but modify it for graphics etc)
firebird put out the 64 one, probably under condition that they couldn't port it to speccy. It made no sense why the DIDN'T port it.
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I do recall playing scaletrix 2 player.. you would go in front of the other player.. slam the anchors on and win as they'd crash. Pole position I liked also..
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005026
I never played , but looks ok. I noticed a lot of driving games got around the 70% or 80% mark..
for some strange reason I thought Rev's had been released on the speccy
Cuz I liked that one.
Played both of them quite a bit, and, yeah, I guess they're not too bad considering when they came out. I was never that blown away by them though, despite constant sittings at it. A nice advancement from just playing the Psion's Horizon tape!
But gimme the 128k version of Roadblasters, Wec Le Mans, Chase HQ or Continental Circus, any day!
It always seemed to cop a lot of criticism for the fact that there weren't any other cars on the track to overtake, but given that overtaking practically never happens in Formula 1 these days anyway, I don't think it's that much of an issue.
Revs was, of course superb, in that it had both realism and other cars to race. I'd think that TT Racer was the closest to a Spectrum equivalent, albeit with bikes.
the game your on about is Chequered Flag
I got CF with my first Spectrum, a Plus for Xmas 1986. It was probably the most played out of the generous selection I had, for about 6 months at least.... and for all of those 6 months I raced every track in FIRST GEAR, having not clocked that there was a gearbox, and you could change it :razz: By the time I'd worked out my mistake I'd got hold of a few more games and stopped playing CF anyway.
So I won't be comparing record times if it's all the same!!
I think I did a 99 lap race and really went for it, at least once and finished it.
I got mine in a pack with 5 other psion tapes i know i had scrabble, survival, make a chip, CF, Horace goes sking and my spectrum was the rubber keyboard 48k...class
SNAP
i used to write down my fastest times on the tracks
and as far as scrabble is concerned, i did my first ever competitive stuff on it!!!!
with my other games being the competitors
HOLY CRAP ONE HUNDRED POSTS
Here something interesting
So this is NIgel Mansell's Williams during the Spectrum days complete with CANON logo
And here is the same car in 2008 PC game. Amaizing what 20 years can bring. At this rate I am almost scared what we will get in 2028 :-o :-o
I dont want my games to be real as for me it is losing its fun. If i wanted to get in a car and drive then i will in the REAL world. Games have become too real in my eyes.
sure but on the other hand how many of us can get behind the wheel of an real F1 car for example ;);) unless you are super rich and can buy one of this historic cars and race them
Kids today probably think of the Spectrum as complete rubish, a bad joke
Ditto. :)
Which 2008 made game is that? Is it a Geoff Crammond written one?
As for Chequered Flag, I used to play it against my Dad, we had quite a lot of fun with it.
But Revs on the Beeb was of course much nicer. I was always hoping and praying Revs would come out on the Speccy, but it never did (perhaps the Speccy didn't have the CPU horsepower to do it justice?)
It used to be fun playing multiplayer on the pc one and as for chequered flag.. it was good as of it's time. It's still playable that's the point, but the only 8 bit driving game I was playing really was grand prix circuit by EA (again what were zzap thinking when they rated it)
Crammond ported Revs to the C64 and the Spectrum's certainly got more CPU power than that. I can only guess that it just wasn't a big enough hit to be worth the effort of taking it to a non 6502 machine.
I suppose the likes of TT Racer and the Nigel Mansell games pretty much filled that gap too.
Revs on the speccy would be a game I would still pay full price for 20 odd years later.....Amazing game.
I was surprised to know it WASN'T ported , but then it was acorn soft, clive's main rival. also the fact of the c64 / bbc both being the same cpu (so you could keep the guts of the code, but modify it for graphics etc)
firebird put out the 64 one, probably under condition that they couldn't port it to speccy. It made no sense why the DIDN'T port it.
no , the game is Rfactor by ISI (image space incorporated) , which is basicly just a modding platform for mods.
The mod is F1 1988 with all cars from that season and it has even a track pack and you can download it for free like all the stuff you see on the site
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=F1%201988%20carrera%2E4
If you are interested in historic F1 there is also a GP79 mod with all the carss from the 79 season , very well done too
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Grand%20Prix%201979
some other seasons are WIP and quite close to release like 85, 86, 91 and 94