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  • Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…

    ... .'s statistics "One chance in a million is bound to pop up ...
    Skarpo Skarpo April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.

    ... on the [i]They Sold A Million[/i] compilation. Especially the sound ...
    Zagreb Zagreb April 2007 Games
  • Beachhead One vs. TwoWhich was better in your opinion, Beach Head one or Beach Head Two? I like one better, I loved the sinking ships part. In BH2 do you think it was m…

    I have a fondness for [i]Beach Head[/ ... part of [i]They Sold A Million[/i]) back in the late ... playing it felt like a bit of a treasured rarity. Having played ... I seem to remember being a bit disappointed and put-off ... . Maybe I should give it a proper go.
    Zagreb Zagreb April 2007 Games
  • Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…

    ... , apparently (well, according to a vague fifth-hand news story ... able to find a reliable source for in a million years). The story ... is that customs detained a woman with a ... copy protecion costs the industry a fortune, and mostly only ...
    gasman gasman April 2007 Chit chat
  • Beanz, Beanz, good for ya heart the more ya eat the more ya fart!!! Happy Burfday!Happy Burfday Beanz! The big 4....0..... Didn't realise you were THAT old ;) I'd have a beer for you now but I'm already drunk so maybe tommorow, …

    A million housewives everyday
    Pick up a tin of Beanz and say
    Beanz meanz fartz!

    Hippo birdy two ewes dude!! :)
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Chit chat
  • Challenge: try to survive more than ten seconds in this gameThe game "[B]Oriental Hero[/B]" is almost unbelivable difficult. Does anyone manage to stay alive for more than ten seconds? :-) [url]http://www.wo…

    ... doing something like a million rollbacks I have a complete RZX recording of ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Games
  • Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!I bought a Nintendo Wii today along with Zelda : Twilight Princess. I just spent the last half hour playing it. It's cool. :D Necros.

    ... this kind of game in a million years but he was desperate ... br />
    He got it; a day later he was telling ... he had ever played. A week later he had put ... been pissing around with for a couple of months.
    < ... . It's like Elite (a game I never got into ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2007 Chit chat
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... Sold a Million" so I guess a million must be an indication of a successful ... Super Store used to have a games chart, I still remember ...
    MoonMonkey MoonMonkey May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    I thought 'they sold a million' was the combined sales of all the games ?
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... ;188671]I thought 'they sold a million' was the combined sales of ... as it adds up to a mil.
    If it is ... the case, then that was a very misleading title.
    CUCHULAINN CUCHULAINN May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... as it adds up to a mil.
    If it is ... the case, then that was a very misleading title.[/QUOTE]
    a million copies rather than each game ... had sold a million in its own right. If ...
    Zagreb Zagreb May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... the "all titles combined sold a million" theory. I remember reading something ... much and actually clock up a million each.
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... the "all titles combined sold a million" theory. I remember reading something ... much and actually clock up a million each.[/QUOTE]
    At the ... Set Willy hit the half million mark. It would be very ... again when re-released at a budget price.
    MartynC MartynC May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    [QUOTE=psj3809;188671]I thought 'they sold a million' was the combined sales of all the games ?[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, this is true. And it was a million combined, across all platforms.
    osgorth osgorth May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... really doubt 'Beach Head' sold a million before that compilation was released ... up sales of over a million in quite a short space of time ...
    def chris def chris May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    "They sold a Million" was just the name of a complilation.

    It ... better that "They Sold half a Million" or "They Sold 1 and ... half Million"

    On the same ...
    ChuckieEgg ChuckieEgg May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... ;190180]"They sold a Million" was just the name of a complilation.
    a Million" or "They Sold 1 and ... half Million"
    [/QUOTE]

    ... Perhaps someone did. Anyone know? A bestsellers top 100 would make ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack May 2007 Games
  • The whole "Maddie" thing...Can you say "trial by media"? How about "media over-reaction"? Had "Maddie" been a poor, ugly, black child, this would never have been headline news…

    [QUOTE=Bluce_Ree;190191]you should never visit liverpool. they take it to a whole new level.[/QUOTE]

    Hoo boy, tell me about it. I live not a million miles away from it these days...
    NickH NickH May 2007 Chit chat
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    [QUOTE=psj3809;188671]I thought 'they sold a million' was the combined sales of all the games ?[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, but most of them sold to a W.O.S'er who kept them in a shed for twenty years before putting them on ebay.
    thx1138 thx1138 May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... very high sales figures (half a mill seems to be the ... 'd reached half a million and were hoping for a million.

    It ... claimed to have grossed 2 million pounds on the game at ... sales had reached more than a couple million.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... ;188671]I thought 'they sold a million' was the combined sales of ... those four games were around a million[/B] - at some point they ... charts. "If we sell another million, we will be only too ... the bold tags - is there a problem here?
    ghbearman ghbearman May 2007 Games
  • They Sold a Million TZX problemHi yes it's me again :) I notice that the "They Sold a Million" TZX file on this site is corrupt. It doesn't load Daley Thompson's Decathlon (tape …

    Can't believe I missed this difference between the versions of JSW: the one on They Sold A Million replaces If I Was a Rich Man with In the Hall of the Mountain King.
    StuBruise StuBruise May 2007 Infoseek database
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    ... probably expect that it shifted a broadly comparable amount in December ... of 1991 as well, so a million copies overall may not be ... budget charts for about 10 million years.

    Whatever the ...
    Malc74 Malc74 May 2007 Games
  • How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?

    Well, I'd probably knock a year off those estimates. Certainly ... probably expect that it shifted a broadly comparable amount in December ... of 1991 as well, so a million copies overall may not be ... budget charts for about 10 million years.

    Whatever ...
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich May 2007 Games
  • Top Ten British Things Americans Don't Care AboutThis is A list of ten things that were/are huge in the UK, but (most) Americans don't care about (in no particular order): 1. ZX Spectrum 2. Footbal…

    ... in the states. Here's a quote from Wikipedia (had to ... U.S. plant, about a million cases a year, was reserved for military ... sugar water that's sometimes a refreshing cold drink in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Chit chat
  • @ footy management gamesIve tried to get back into these management sims on the emulator (which Ive only had about 6 months, - hadnt played a speccy game in about 13-14 year…

    ... many that sold, less than a million I would guess. I think ...
    def chris def chris May 2007 Games
  • Type-in listingsI still can't believe the amount of time that I spent typing in listings (which usually didn't work) Does anyone remember a Scramble copy that was p…

    ... />
    Does anyone remember a Scramble copy that was printed ... even I baulked at inputting a million lines of hexadecimal.
    ... have been released as a commercial program called Frogger.< ... (Your Computer) which simulated a Greyhound Race meeting that was ...
    Nick Elliott Nick Elliott June 2007 Games
  • Question about Bill GatesI was reading a portuguese book that has a few memories from former Timex engineers, and one of them mentioned that when someone asked Bill Gates if …

    ... schools and businesses. Have a look at [URL="http ... (the VIC-20 sold a million a month before the TS1000, ... zx81 and perhaps there's a different statistic).

    a whirl. Prior to ... them computers sold in a (relative) trickle, being ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Chit chat
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... , the same stuff that probably a million other people made actually... erm ...
    caffeinekid caffeinekid June 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Wanted: Free/cheap Web hostingTo replace my present site on [url=korax1214.port5.com]Portland[/url]. I would say "must be more reliable than Portland", except that it's hard to i…

    ... ... :( (It's like having a 20-litre bucket of booze ... allowed to drink through a straw with a half-millimetre bore.)[/ ... it as if it were a "normal" site. Why is ... ? Some shitty "site" with a million pop-ups and ad banners ... "useless". I'm at a loss as to why you ...
    Daren Daren July 2007 Chit chat
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