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How do you download?Oooh! Haven't been here in a while... Hi all... No, this is not a rudimentary surfing query. I was wondering how people use retro archives like WoS e…
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The mid 80's and early 90's were happy times for ... -
Games TV ad.I just came across an mpeg of a Zelda tv commercial, which I reached from Fuzzbucket's website. I thought it was nothing short of hilarious... In th…
... Speccy appeared in the late 80's for the sole reasons that ... -
Games TV ad.I just came across an mpeg of a Zelda tv commercial, which I reached from Fuzzbucket's website. I thought it was nothing short of hilarious... In th…
... Speccy appeared in the late 80's for the sole reasons that ... -
Games TV ad.I just came across an mpeg of a Zelda tv commercial, which I reached from Fuzzbucket's website. I thought it was nothing short of hilarious... In th…
... a Spectrum in the late 80's? I take it that the ... -
What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... sometime during the late 80's and early 90's when I realised ... -
Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…
... me nowadays. although in the 80's I would have said JSW ... difficult one.
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Games published in Magazines.First of all this is a fantastic site. I am 38 years old now and this has bought back memories(and a lump in my throat) of my beloved speccy. I wond…
... go zzz now so that's all from me. I have ... Your Computers from early/mid 80's as I started off on ... -
?Gooool! The Spectrum in South AmericaA while back I received a private message from someone from Brazil talking about Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. I was really surprised, as I thought …
I live in Uruguay the TK90,TK95 and of course the ZX Spectrum were very popular here. I used to play games like mercemario, green beret, jetpac, and many others in the 80's in my TK95. -
?Gooool! The Spectrum in South AmericaA while back I received a private message from someone from Brazil talking about Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. I was really surprised, as I thought …
That's interesting, the Spectrum was sold ... the Spectrum and all it's clones are more widespread than ... the same time in the 80's. The Spectrum truly was a ... -
Tournament in Speccy games - Speccy Tour 2002Hi all ! I see a lot of talking about games here, so how about playing some Speccy's games ?? You can found final update of Speccy Tour 2002 (ST0…
... !, the Italian edition of Newsfield's magazine for the C64, with ... towards the end of the 80's, the Italian market was flooded ... -
Underwurlde = Crap?Ultimate have this huge reputation, and in terms of production it's deserved, but I don't think that the playability of their games are necessarily a…
If was frustrating for sure but i loved the game back in the 80's....i thought the graphics were great and i used to really enjoy playing it, so i'd have to disagree with you on the game...i do understand that it was tough at times to play though! -
Spectrum vs Amstrad (C64 has been knocked out!)The C64 was sensationally knocked out this morning of the Micromart World Cup by Amstrad, the final score being 71 votes to 70. In a week-long match …
I've voted Amiga in the new poll - despite being made by Commode it was undoubtable the best machine for playing 80's arcade games. Besides, at least one Commode machine should have to face the Spectrum so it can be roundly destroyed (ha har!) -
Spectrum vs Amstrad (C64 has been knocked out!)The C64 was sensationally knocked out this morning of the Micromart World Cup by Amstrad, the final score being 71 votes to 70. In a week-long match …
... the best machine for playing 80's arcade games. Besides, at least ... -
I had no idea this existed...Found this on ebay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3007221548&category="]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
... a built in camera, it's rubbish but in a groovy ... game based on an early 80's arcade machine, with a top ... well.
Anyway, it's a crappy machine for sure ... -
Spectrum vs Amstrad (C64 has been knocked out!)The C64 was sensationally knocked out this morning of the Micromart World Cup by Amstrad, the final score being 71 votes to 70. In a week-long match …
... the best machine for playing 80's arcade games. Besides, at least ... argument with me on C.S.S.
anyway whatever, i ... -
GamesI was looking thru the top 100 games in the YS rock and roll years website, and it occurred to me that i seem to have played at least 90% of them at …
... to play back in the 80's but couldn't. I have ... -
S14CM - Sinclair colour monitor. What's it compatible with?I got in my monthly shipment of retro 'junk'. (I have an arrangement with the local chairty shop). Got a nice Radiofin console, and amongst it the t…
Amstrad used the Sinclair brand to release a crappy XT/AT PC somewhere at the end of the 80's. It was black and your monitor was most likely part of the package. -
Wolfman & Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeI have searched and searched but to no avail. Surely there must be copies of Wolfman (CRL) by Jared Derrit and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Essential Myth)…
Me thinks i will never get 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'! Does anybody have an original copy of 'Zodiac Master' by the way, it was another program i used in the 80's which i have been after for ages! -
Name the gamePlease help me remember... I'm looking for the name of a game in which you played an adventurer. This guy was trapped inside a maze of tombs and loo…
It is spectacularly bad in this day and age, but how i laughed back in the 80's. -
Happy happy joy joy.What was the happiest moment in your Spectrum life? (To narrow this down, this thread doesn't include recieving the Spectrum, or buying your best ev…
... best memory from the late 80's was one night when a ... -
Distribution of the Spectrum in Europe.Ok, so we've noticed the lack of French posters (there might be readers we don't know about) here at WoS. We have people from UK of course, from Irel…
... most popular home micro during 80's in Greece and of the ... -
Distribution of the Spectrum in Europe.Ok, so we've noticed the lack of French posters (there might be readers we don't know about) here at WoS. We have people from UK of course, from Irel…
... most popular home micro during 80's in Greece and of the ... -
Relative price of the spectrum As Im sure you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its price.I was reading the other day that the 48K Spectrum cost ?175 - …
... 1 pound in the late 80's. In which case the equivalent ... -
That nipple...I don't know why my mind wandered to it but the other day i was thinking about the advert for a game called 'Game Over' released by Ocean...does anyo…
... computer game covers in the 80's, but the mere prospect of ... -
Urban Speccy MythI remember many moons ago my mate telling me that there was some RANDOMIZE USR command that would destroy your speccy!!!! Is there any truth in this…
... did hear that in the 80's there were viruses which would ... -
Name the TV series!Let's change the neverending name-the-game theme and help me to find out the name of British TV series! It was broadcast under the name "Predators" o…
... seconds of a truly early 80's block graphic pig being chased ... -
Worst game - sort ofAny suggestions for worst game - but not just worst game period - the worst game that has had a lot of work go into it and ought to have been good, b…
I thihk it's odds on that the worst, taking into account ??? spent on r&d, licencing etc
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What was your 3 Character Signature?What was your 3 character signature? Mine was 'mik'. (short for Mike) 'mik' once showed up on the top of the first R-Type machine to hit Rhyl in the…
... and Towyn in the early 80's especially Donkey Kong and same ... in Blackpool in late 80's ... on home units it was ... -
name the football mangement game......pleasei've been trying to find the name of this football management game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it that i can remember that my help so…
... head you're talking mid 80's but is that the case ... . Don't 4get too there's plenty of footy games in ... the archive mia so there's prob. an equal no. ...if ... -
name the football mangement game......pleasei've been trying to find the name of this football management game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it that i can remember that my help so…
... head you're talking mid 80's but is that the case ...