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Deprived childhoods?

retromadretromad
edited May 2017 in Games
Do you ever look on Ebay - at Spectrum bundles / job lots which are a bunch of games and a Speccy - look at the choice of games they'd made and think ... wow - if that was your Spectrum experience - boy were you missing out?!

Certainly - now I'm older - with use of the internet etc .... I'm discovering so many games I would have loved as a kid... I had some good ones back then - but I had limited money - and there are loads I'm finding now that I'd either never heard of or simply didn't realise would be good... and we certainly couldn't watch Youtube videos of them to make a decision - we mainly went by the cover art !

Just as well men never grow up... and I can still get enjoyment from this hobby... otherwise I'd feel very deprived.

Open discussion.... but wondered what games you wish you'd had back then?

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  • Sol_HSASol_HSA
    Maybe it was because all the good stuff got pirated? =)
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  • ValzValz
    I have that feeling too,but that´s also what made spectrum games so special,some games i could only dream about their covers in magazines and stores,now i realize that was even better than playing the game :)
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    It can also be looked at in another way: these are the games that I'm left with after the boot fair or fed up listing them individually to become a job lot.

    It was a great thing that I had a bundle of mates with Spectrums back then so that games could be exchanged, copied, sold on to buy new stuff so that we had a varied amount of games to play.
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  • grey keygrey key
    Or they found them in a charity shop and are looking forward to their first Million quid
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  • slenkarslenkar
    I got to play pretty much every big spectrum game back then,
    ok it was mostly due to piracy, :)

    I did buy a lot of budget games and a few full pricers though.
  • andrewvanbeckandrewvanbeck
    Me and my brother would pool our lunch money to buy budget games, but we didn't buy just any old thing - we checked all the shops pretty much every day, and would very rarely gamble on a game being good. There was always the hire shops as well, where you'd pay like 50p to hire a game for the weekend, and if it was good, then we'd nab a copy - my dad accidently told one shop owner that's what we were doing, expecting to be banned from the shop... instead he tried to sell us a new double tape deck :)

    Among friends we'd decide which games we'd try and get for Christmas, so we could then lend them and cover more games that way. I remember lending one git a compilation with Bubble Bobble and a few other games - then when I asked for it back, he told me he'd lent it to another friend - so I gave him a week to get it back, and he never did, and said we could fight about it if I wanted. He didn't factor in that this was absolutely unacceptable among gamers, so I knocked his front teeth out to act as a reminder. I'm not sure what he thought was going to happen, I mean you don't just mess around with someone's copy of Bubble Bobble without losing teeth in the process! - I got suspended for 2 weeks because of that, but my parent's were cool with it... my mum is the biggest Bubble Bobble fan on the planet.
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