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Crap games that you fondly rememberCant remember if this ones been done before tbh, but we always have classic games threads so heres one slightly different :P what crapper games do yo…
is colin the cleaner considered a crap game? cos i have fond memories of that, being the very first game i loaded on my speccy (or rather the first one i could get to load completely) -
Crap games that you fondly rememberCant remember if this ones been done before tbh, but we always have classic games threads so heres one slightly different :P what crapper games do yo…
Colin the cleaner, one of the first games i played on my new spectrum +2 in '87, or maybe Witchfiend? -
Crap games that you fondly rememberCant remember if this ones been done before tbh, but we always have classic games threads so heres one slightly different :P what crapper games do yo…
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both on the same tape :) I have about ... -
Speccy ProgrammersI compiled a list of great programmers on our beloved speccy at [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/ZX-Spectrum-Programmers"]ZX Spectrum Programmers[/URL] …
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Ah, yes... the notorious Harry Price and his ... can remember playing Colin The Cleaner on my +2 by the same author many ... -
Reliving christmas pasttommorow im thinking of reliving my speccy christmasses and loading up a speccy game on real hardware (the rubber keyed 48k lovely just like my origi…
I would load 'Colin the Cleaner' that was the first game i ever played ... Hollywood. I've still got the original tapes but not sure ... -
First Speccy game you ever played/boughtThis has probably been done before on here, and I'm also pretty sure it was done in about 1996 on comp.sys.sinclair, but anyway. What was the first…
First game i ever played was 'Colin the cleaner' on xmas morning 1987 (it came free with my new spectrum +2). The first game i ever bought was 'Ghostbusters' on budget a few months later in 1988, got it for ?2 from John Menzies. -
Is it just me or.....Hi Everyone I haven't been on here for a while, so this might have been discussed to death already, apologies if it has but... Is it just me, or wa…
I always remember the excitment of buying a new ... load it up, usually on the recommendation of a review in ... was when i actually got the +2 on xmas day 1987 ... what to do!) and playing 'Colin the cleaner' it was crap so i ... -
Games with best sound effects?I used the advanced search and couldn't find a topic dedicated to it. When I say "best" I mean not just sound effects that sound like what they're s…
Colin the Cleaner
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Won a +3 on eBay - which games to buy?After a couple of missed opportunities to get my hands on a +3, I finally won one in an eBay auction this afternoon (put in some sneaky bids in my lu…
The Spectrum +3 arrived today ... ) - yes, really!
Colin The Cleaner, Ian Botham's Test Match ... to take special care of The Collected Works (recently got ... ?73 boxed on eBay but the reserve wasn't met). < ... I've yet to test the Spectrum and games but if ... -
So what are WOS-SERS doing for chrimbo?Well...do tell? I shall be playing on Legend Of Kage or View To A Kill (Speccy 128k of course) on a GRUNDIG tv with a colindar on me head..whilst ea…
... 'll be over at the parents for the """"get-together"""" involving ... was a pause in the speedlock before the loading picture that ... xmas 2012 i will load Colin the Cleaner as that will be my ... of getting my speccy and Colin the Cleaner was the first ever game i ... -
Give me one game to play on ZXDS on my Nintendo DSI'm getting tired of the games I play regularly on my DS through the superb ZXDS, so please tell me one game I should download and put on there. Mayb…
Colin the Cleaner
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Pictures of your ZX Spectrum collectionsI love seeing other people's collections of stuff. Be great to see your shelves or boxes full of games so we can have a nose at it too. I find it he…
... also have Disk Doctor for the +3).
I found ... the loose disks a few minutes ... side B of the disk containing Colin the Cleaner etc is the games Big Bad ... -
Pictures of your ZX Spectrum collectionsI love seeing other people's collections of stuff. Be great to see your shelves or boxes full of games so we can have a nose at it too. I find it he…
... also have Disk Doctor for the +3).
I ... side B of the disk containing Colin the Cleaner etc is the games Big Bad ... One day I'll get the Ultimate disks... but not at ... they're worth at the moment. The case for the Colin The Cleaner etc disk should ... -
Pictures of your ZX Spectrum collectionsI love seeing other people's collections of stuff. Be great to see your shelves or boxes full of games so we can have a nose at it too. I find it he…
... day I'll get the Ultimate disks... but not ... worth at the moment. The case for the Colin The Cleaner etc disk ... and all the others thrown in with the Spectrum I ... won on eBay after the auction had finished.
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Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…
Not sure i've posted in this thread before..............
I'm 38 now, i was 13 when i got my +2 at Xmas 1987. The first game i played was 'Colin the Cleaner':smile: -
Christmas - Love it or Loathe it?If it were up to me, It'd be banned and anybody caught celebrating it shot - I can't stand the months of commercials ramming it down everyone's throa…
... like it, but i wish the companies wouldn't ram it ... xmas was 1987, that was the year i got my speccy ... xmas day and load up the Tynesoft tapes i got with ... they still work) and play Colin the cleaner (the first game i ever played ... -
Christmas - Love it or Loathe it?If it were up to me, It'd be banned and anybody caught celebrating it shot - I can't stand the months of commercials ramming it down everyone's throa…
... like it, but i wish the companies wouldn't ram it ... xmas was 1987, that was the year i got my speccy ... xmas day and load up the Tynesoft tapes i got with ... they still work) and play Colin the cleaner (the first game i ever played ... -
Dixons or Currys Spectrum +2 Bundle Xmas 87Hi guy's, I'm supposed tp be recording a podcast tonight for the Christmas edition of Retro Asylum and I want to mention the games included on the Di…
... for xmas '87 (from Dixons), the list (from memory) is:
Colin the cleaner, Blizzard pass, superfile, Ian Botham ... -
invent a speccy compilationbit of fun... try and come up with a compilation of at least 3 games from the archive, and give it an appropriate name. can be as off-the-wall as yo…
[B]10 Computer ****s[/B]
Big Bad John
Bubble Run
Cash Dash
Colin the Cleaner
Crime Busters
Steelyard Blues
Odd Job Eddie
Tidy Tony
Mind Your Head
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invent a speccy compilationbit of fun... try and come up with a compilation of at least 3 games from the archive, and give it an appropriate name. can be as off-the-wall as yo…
[B]The Working Mans Club[/B]
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Nightshift.
Colin the Cleaner.
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Speccy collection prepping for sale - Pics includedHi guys, I made a post a while back about having to shift my sizeable collection due to incoming sprog. I gave up typing up the names, so I'm going…
... Yeagers Advanced Flight Simulator
Colin the Cleaner / Who Said That
Colony ... Simulator
Gauntlet
Gauntlet The Deep[er Dungeons
Gnasher ...
The Flintstones
The Sports Compilation of the Year
The Times Book ... -
Speccy collection prepping for sale - Pics includedHi guys, I made a post a while back about having to shift my sizeable collection due to incoming sprog. I gave up typing up the names, so I'm going…
... /> Coin-Op Connexion
Colin the Cleaner / Who Said That
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
... /> Rugby Manager
Run the Gauntlet
Sailing
... The Footballer
The Games Winter Edition
The Match
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Speccy collection prepping for sale - Pics includedHi guys, I made a post a while back about having to shift my sizeable collection due to incoming sprog. I gave up typing up the names, so I'm going…
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Asterix & The Magic Cauldron
Astroclone ... Barbarian II
Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior
Bargain ... Colditz
Colin the Cleaner / Who Said That
Colin the Cleaner / Who Said ... Hedges
Heavy on the Magick
Helichopper
Sinclair Quality ControlCan anyone else remember seeing this on Speccy games? Think it came about after Amstrad took over with the +2. What was this quality control, and how…
When i got my +2 there was 2 tapes of Tynesoft games, i think they had the logo on them (they included Colin the cleaner, Blizzard pass, Who said that?, Odd job eddie, Witchfiend and Ian Botham's supertest).
Pity the actual games were rubbish!:grin:Spectrum games you liked to play whilst pissed :)Spectrum games you liked to play whilst pissed... So back in the day, when you enjoyed getting drunk (you blimin piss heads !) what was your favour…
... Simulator on the Special Brew :D
Colin The Cleaner in the Dixon's ... a life, it sounded like the game character had squelshy beer ...favourite random sound fx in games?<p>always liked the little sound you used to get in Hypersports swimming event if you accidentally pressed 'breathe' before you were suppos…
Colin The Cleaner... Squeaky farts as you collect the litter, but fall off a ledge and die and you squelchy fact sounds :DClones that you like more than the originalI mean you think its more playable than the original. Of course if it does improve other aspects of the game then its welcome. I will start with D…
... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001007"]Colin the Cleaner[/url] has better sprites and ... better levels than the original [b]Ralph on Alpha ...Clones that you like more than the originalI mean you think its more playable than the original. Of course if it does improve other aspects of the game then its welcome. I will start with D…
... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001007"]Colin the Cleaner[/url] has better sprites and ... better levels than the original [b]Ralph on Alpha ...Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... to high business rates in the Oxford Street shops (cheers ... em with my mates... Ahh, the memories...[/quote]
... Op compilations and fascinated by Colin The Cleaner, but it was nice ... , with plenty of posters covering the walls.
...Smart platform-action games?Most platform-action games for the Speccy rely on "fast thinking" (to keep running while avoiding enemies) and pixel-precision movement (mostly jumpi…
I would have to add in the vein of Frank 'N' Stein:
Ralph on Alpha2 which was on 16/48
(and I guess therefore also add Colin the Cleaner from good old Harry S. Price )
