Magic days indeed. I got my Spectrum for Christmas in 1983. It had a Cheetah sweet talk box, my new Spectrum talked to me on Christmas day! "Hello my name is sweet talker"
Manic Miner, Jet Pac, Attic Attack, Underworlde. So many great games.. remember Skool Daze, fantastic. Those were the days when £1.99 would/could buy you some great games
I used to spend hours playing games like Lords of Midnight!
Waiting for 5-10 minutes, staring at blue,red,white horizontal lines, listening to the screaming sound, waiting for it to end... it all added to the excitement... or dissapointment if it just reset at the end.
Did anyone else go into shops which had Spectrums on display and type in things like
10 PRINT "Ste is great"
20 GOTO 10
BREAK
RANDOMIZE USR 1000
Never did finish Manic Miner, always died at a level called "We must perform a Quirkafleeg".
I think the Speccy was originally called the Sinclair ZX82, but renamed Spectrum, presumably before launch. It was also called Spaccy by me when it cheated at games.
After the Spectrum I moved on to the Atari ST, which will be 25 in 3 years.. now i'm feelin old.
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Magic days indeed. I got my Spectrum for Christmas in 1983. It had a Cheetah sweet talk box, my new Spectrum talked to me on Christmas day! "Hello my name is sweet talker"
Manic Miner, Jet Pac, Attic Attack, Underworlde. So many great games.. remember Skool Daze, fantastic. Those were the days when £1.99 would/could buy you some great games
I used to spend hours playing games like Lords of Midnight!
Waiting for 5-10 minutes, staring at blue,red,white horizontal lines, listening to the screaming sound, waiting for it to end... it all added to the excitement... or dissapointment if it just reset at the end.
Did anyone else go into shops which had Spectrums on display and type in things like
10 PRINT "Ste is great"
20 GOTO 10
BREAK
RANDOMIZE USR 1000
Never did finish Manic Miner, always died at a level called "We must perform a Quirkafleeg".
I think the Speccy was originally called the Sinclair ZX82, but renamed Spectrum, presumably before launch. It was also called Spaccy by me when it cheated at games.
After the Spectrum I moved on to the Atari ST, which will be 25 in 3 years.. now i'm feelin old.
:-)
Happy days.