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YSRnRY - Advent Calendar and Documentary Christmas Special

NickHNickH
edited December 2010 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
It's December, which means it'll soon be Christmas, so have been up to the attic and brought back down the Advent Calendar I did last year, featuring personal memories from Speccy Christmases past, plus Vox Pops and various bits of Youtubery.

Also, the Documentary Christmas Special is well worth a look - 40 minutes of festive hype from Speccy Christmases (and their run-ups) during 1982 through to 1990, featuring all the big Christmas games, magazines and software houses, together with the odd other thing, all to a December-ish soundtrack. It's downloadable as a video DVD ISO download as well as on Youtube.

Enjoy!

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  • stefrobbstefrobb
    edited December 2010
    Where's the 'Like' button?
  • ArjunArjun
    edited December 2010
    Very good! I recongised a few tunes in the video but some of the others escaped me. Could someone list all the tunes in the video?
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  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2010
    Arjun wrote: »
    Very good! I recongised a few tunes in the video but some of the others escaped me. Could someone list all the tunes in the video?

    Here you go, plus a bit of metainfo:
    Intro/
    1982: Xmas Wrapping
    Coming Up... (single chorus of Wish It Could be...) (0:29)
    1983 body; Love of The Common People
    1983 Top 3: Only You
    KOC #5: Step into Xmas (1:27)
    1984 body: One Night In Bangkok (1:40)
    1984 Top 3: Last Christmas (1:30) => 1:14 => 1x24, 2x25
    KOC #4: Driving home for Xmas (1:25)
    1985 body: We Built This City (1:41)
    1985 Top 3: Shakey - Merry Christmas Everyone (1:29) => 1:13 => 2x24, 1x25
    ZXmas: Troika (1:15)
    1986 body: Showing Out (1:38)
    1986 Top 3: Breakout (1:32) => 1:16 => 2x25, 1x26
    KOC #3: Have yourself a merry little xmas (1:36)
    1987 body: Always on my Mind (PSB) (1:34)
    1987 Top 3: Pogues - Fairytale of New York (1:30) => 1:14 => 1x24, 2x25
    KOC #2: Stop The Cavalry (1:37)
    1988 body: INXS - Need You Tonight (1:40)
    1988 Top 3: Put a little Love in your heart (1:31) => 1:15 => 3x25
    Most Hyped: In Dulce Jubilo (1:05) ADVENT CALENDAR
    1989 body: Getting Away With It (1:37)
    1989 Top3: Whenever God Shines his light (1:26) => 1:10 => 2x23, 1x24
    KOC Bubblers: Slade (0:56)
    1990 body: Ice Ice Baby (1:38)
    1990 Top 3: Boombastic Jazz Style (1:29) => 1:13 => 2x24, 1x25
    KOC #1: St Etienne Born on Xmas Day (1:31)
    Credits: Justified and ancient (1:26)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2010
    Great videos ! Damn it brings back some memories, very sad, its like it was yesteryear !
  • spiderspider
    edited December 2010
    Thanks :)
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  • SpectorSpector
    edited December 2010
    I'll be going through the advent calendar again for sure!
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  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, I was going to be looking through it all again anyway, as I loved it last year!

    Still getting my Daily YS Fix too...;)
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  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2010
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    Still getting my Daily YS Fix too...;)

    Me too - probably what's keeping me vaguely interested in Speccy stuff these days :) Love the reviews and previews in the Christmas run-up period.
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