Just the average British computer game

>>11927679 (OP)
I pity bongcels, the UK seems like such a shithole in almost every aspect

>>11927679 (OP)
I guess you've never heard of Elite, Wipeout or Tombraider. Figues since you are just here to troll and shit yourself over zelda while you finger your anus while looking at child porn.

yeah I saw the ClassicsOfGame video too

>>11927710
He said computer game you inbred bong

>>11927715
Lurkers can tell all you know is from watching cunty retards just like you on youtube, it shows,

>>11927679 (OP)
which dizzy is this?

>>11927721
Elite IS a computer game and Tombraider was ported to PC. The bongs were doing 3D games on computers wit keyboards when normie kids in the US were pissing and farting over sprites on overpriced carridges

You know nothing about games but that's par for the course for this board, otherwise you;d know that arre the British people that wrote Donkey Kong Country and GoldenEye 007 started out writing 'computah' games you brainndead pedo spastic (the norm for this board)

For anyoe who is not retarded here are somme good games to try from the early computer years in the UK

3d lunattack
starglider
tir na nog
alien 8
knight lore
dark star
fighting warrior
gyroscope
gunfright
elite
lords of midnight
mercenary
highway encounter
i of the mask
nightshade
attack attack
raid over moscow
the boggit
robin of sherlock
shadowfire
enigma force
bobby bearing
heavy on the magic
light force
sabateur
thanos
thrust
uridium
acadamey
the setinel
laser squad
Lord of midnight
Fairlight
the hobbit
the land that time forgot
spy vs spy
zzoom
beachead
deus ex
hamstead
mugsy
sherlock
hampstead
lord of the rings
bobby bearing
jet pack

>>11927679 (OP)
What is it with this board and constantly shitting on the brits?

Even as an American it's kind of weird.

>>11927741
>knight lore
I played this and every other “premium” speccy game on Rare Replay. They were all utter garbage.

>>11927758
No you did not, infact you've only heard of rare becaus eyou're the usual ninntendo style liar. Millions of people played these games inn teh U, SPain, Ital Germany etc. You certainly never did, or wrote any either. You are the same worthlees piece of shit who uses this board to spam your cancer and make it an nintendo spafespace as a condequence its a shit board but don't just lie.

Fuck you and this board. ITS SHIT and usless for snyone who loves retro games be they 8 bit computers or anything other than fucking crap cartridge consoles that wree sold for normie retards.

>>11927741
For me it's Spy vs. Spy

>>11927783
Great game that.

>>11927758
Why are bongs only associated with speccy and amstrad when they made plenty of great C64, Amiga and ST games?

>>11927741
For me, it's Carrier Command
A game that would blow the feeble minds of every nintodler

>>11927787
The spectrum was massive in places like Portugal you never think of, they even had pirate radio stations that broadsted games, you recorded them to tape and loaded them.

All of this is utterly alien to the I had three cartiges and a snes bridage. They've never neven heard of Lemmings

>>11927792
My actual favorites wree games like Vulcan, Destert rats and Lords of Midnigyt of Doomcards revenge but especially the CCS stratagy games like vulcan. If you have never played on give them a go.
>>11927758
Shut the fuck up and go and play some lighforce, since all you can do is simple stuff might make you less lame.

The reason lying tendies always bang on about rare and pretend they know about 8 bit gaming is the later wrotes some n64 shit and the wrote early spectrum 16K games like jetpac but that's all they know.

There wree plenty of people in the US that bhas Atari 400/800, TRS80s etc etc. They were just not normie tendie faggots so they would not bother with this tedious retro hating place..

>>11927753
Because pre-90’s British gaming is absolute garbage.

Ace! Pure ace!

The spectrum gave us Psynosis and rare and many others

Here'es a neat book for all you tendies you you can lie and pretending you knkew all these games and hate them more convincingly

And for the non cunts who actually like retro games its also pretty neat
>>11927792
>>11927783
I thk spy Vs spy and cariier command have a page in it

https://archive.org/details/ZXSpectrumBook1982To199xThe

>>11927731
Someone once said "British people think video games are about making computers do things", and that's exactly what Elite is.
>look, it's a 3D space game!
>okay, is it fun?
>what?

If the Japanese had made that game, it would have been called R-Type.

>>11927819
>Because pre-90’s British gaming is absolute garbage.
The only garbage in this thread is you. if you think Elite or Lords of Midnight etc is garbage get off this fucking board you worthless moron. Piss off and set up a board for child porn and nintendo somehere else for for away from people who actually like retro games

>>11927832
yed sElite is fing, its engrossing as are many of the other games named in this thread but you need to have some ability to concentrate and a brai. the fact is you get filtered becasue you are atarded normie who needs a few bing bing noises on a meh platformer to activate your neuronos instead of a cmplex space trading and dogfighting game

Tell me why mono LCD games on a gameboy are 'great'. Now that;'s actual garbage. Game and fucking watch my ass.

>>11927817
We know about Spectrum games. They're just incredibly primitive, and not very interesting looking.
>Dude, it's Jet Set Willy!
Okay, a platformer where you just kind of walk around and don't fight anything. A kind of really really basic Castlevania SOTN, with almost nothing that makes that game good. Great.

I'm British, btw.

>>11927832
No one in japan was talented enough to create games like Elite or Lord of Midnight. Way beyond the skillset of simple 2D sprite coders.

>>11927841
zzzzzzzz

Such riveting gameplay, innit

>>11927847
It literally doesn't matter. You can have the most talented coders in the world, and it all means nothing without fun design, and artistic flare.

I feel this way about Rockstar now. Okay, that's an impressive virtual world you made. You put a lot of effort into it, clearly. I am having zero fun playing it, and I find myself looking lovingly at those Yakuza games across the aisle.

>>11927845
Yiu know fuck all and are here to lie and denigrate what other people like but when someone laughts at the worthless puke that is gameboy/nes zelda you shit youself with rage. Look at the state of pic related, its shit compared to elite or LOM. Thrash

>>11927852
You've never played it or you would not even post that you'd post a comat screenshot.


DEAD TROLL BOARD

MODS GIVE US A NEW BOARD FOR RETRO GAMING AND LET THIS BOARD BE THE NINENDO SAFE SPACE THEY CRAVE

>>11927854
Zelda is fun tho. Good crunchy sounds when you hit stuff with your sword. Satisfaction of finding secrets. Satisfaction of powering up your guy and shooting beams out of your sword. Good stuff.

What is it you don't like about it? The fact that it doesn't have a 3D shape rotating around?

>>11927853
>It literally doesn't matter. You can have the most talented coders in the world, and it all means nothing without fun design, and artistic flare.
Is that why some bogs wrote goldenete007 the same people who wriote spectrum games. You sad fuck. Your pathetic tribalism has runied this board. Why does the ninedo commnity never produce anything? Why is it so dead and talentless and why are the communities fo stuff like teh spectrum, commodore, Amiga so alive and creating hardware, repositories, books, still coding?

Nintendo should be fucking banned from this baords so it can actually live instead of being SHIT

>>11927741
Yeah yeah whatever. none of that shite means anythign to me. for me its Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Taboo: The Sixth Sense, Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse, and Grabbed by the Ghoulies

>>11927864
It's very evident Rare needed the Japanese to wrangle them into making fun games.

>>11927859
I think legend of zelda is shite and unlike you I'm not lying about that. Its a fucking nothing compared to something like Zork or Lord of Mindnight or Fairlight . Zelda is actual garbage and to me ugly as fuck and coded by someone with very limited skills.

>>11927864
Lay off the liquor mate

>>11927870
Those look like the games they used to put up for free on teletext.

This is povvo shite.

I think Megaman 2 is the best 8bit game ever made
What are some Spectrum or C64 games that compare to Megaman 2?

>>11927865
>>11927868
This board is not the place to tak about retro games. Sit here and rot. IDGAF there are other video game boards and retro threads belong on them, this is the normie nintedo board becausse people are not allowed like other things, especially actual retro games RIGHT?

The sepctrum came out befor ethe NES by the way. Ever heard of the Jupietr Ace, Acorn, Dragon, BBC Micro, Orac? They all had libraries of games too. You know fuck all.

Without the psygnois software development kit the playstation ones libray would have been vastly smaler and much shitter, It was developed in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTAHrrmUOB0
>game where you walk around slowly and can't hit things with the sword your character is clearly holding
okay.
I mean, the art is cute, but why would I ever want to play this?

>>11927882
meanwhile, Japanese games in the 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0FX_w7huk

>>11927878
Yes zelda is shit but thats Lord of Mignight a game loves b y millions to this day you stupid wanker.
>>11927879
You agree that zelda is shit and a technical joke with preschool gameplay compared to LOM or Elite on the spectrum then do you?

What was the best text adventure on the NES? Or were you not able to read and write until you wre equite old?

>>11927891
I mean, there's a bunch of Japanese visual novels on the NES.

>>11927882
Looks a lot fucking better that Zelda given its running on a machine that came out before the NES thats because VASTLY BETTER CODING

>>11927881
Lay off the liquor mate. Shite.

>>11927896
It doesn't look more fun than Zelda.

>>11927895
There's no text adventures? You mean you tendies even got to play Zork or a clone as a kid and no nothing about an entire genre of retro gaming with ten thousand plus games in it? Maybe that's why the all have normie concentration spans and can't into coding.


Enough of this shit. I'm off to do some C on my spectrum next. I feel like writing an adventure game based on the tendies on this board, I'll call it NORMIE CUNTS

>>11927901
>It doesn't look more fun than Zelda.
Keep crying. legend of zelda is inane piss compared to the best of the 8 bit computer library from the UK

>>11927908
I played the Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure as a kid. It was moderately amusing.
I mean, I'd rather play Gradius.

>>11927915
Try lightforce You might even enjoy yourself. Infocom games were golden stuff not 'mildly amuzing'.

>>11927920
is that one of those games with no music, and little fart noises for bullet sounds?

>>11927881
I had the Dragon as a kid
It was shit
Thank goodness my dad came to his senses and bought a Macintosh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbXu3pseYwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KLSmyeKlbw
Y tho?

>>11927923
I wrote a listing for the dragon 32 for Computer and Video games a port and enhavement of something I had done for a Vic 20. It was a beautfully designed machine and the dragon 64 was too but it was oprimarily sold bizzarely as an offcie tool for the agricultural sector and sold through agri co-ops. It got knocked out of the race early and never developed much support so you probably left out in the cold. Were yoru parents farmers? Do you still have it? Id love to find an original dragon 64.

>>11927832
Western insects frequently sacrifice fun and playability just to make their game more impressive on a technical level and boast to their demoscene/engineer friends. The entire Amiga library is basically an example of this. Games all advertising advanced collision, layers of parallax scrolling, scaling, more simultaneous colours, fmv, and all the bells and whistles they could think to jam into the code, without ever considering how it would affect the game design and make it needlessly frustrating for the player.

>>11927891
>What was the best text adventure on the NES
The Portpia Murders or whatever it was called by Enix

>>11927921
Well since you can't play any of the games that the spectrum does best like straegy games, isometric or 3D games or text adventure I had to find a siple shoot 'em up that's great fun for you but if that's yiour attitude you can stuff it up you tedius tendie pedo arse and hop on

>>11927939
That's it? Just one. How did you type by screaming at it?

GO NORTH
you see a door...
OPEN DOOR
the tood opens you see a zelda and some child pronography
TAKE ZELDA
you have a zelda in your inventory
TAKE CHILD PORN
you have a zelda in your inventory
MASTURBATE
'A tendie appears and stars to sing about zelda'

>>11927948
I'm fine with strategy and adventure games. It's just that I have access to the full DOS and Windows library, for starters.
And if you're limiting me to Nintendo, IDK Advance Wars exists. that's pretty good.
You can't realistically expect me to enjoy these Spectrum games as anything more than mild curiosities.
I was born in the 90's. Your pooey childhood harbors the stench of death, to me.

Anyway enough of this shit board. These COMPUTER games are to fucking good for this muh zelda thrash board, I'll leave you to seethe at the fact that the PS1 and PS2 happened. Whhile you hold your swicth 2s and quiver with rage people like other things

>>11927967
You sound kind of angry bro

>>11927963
>You can't realistically expect me to enjoy these Spectrum games as anything more than mild curiosities.
>I was born in the 90's. Your pooey childhood harbors the stench of death, to me.
Han your just a cunt plenty of people younger and older than you enjoy these games. I'll bet you love to wank on about shit like legend of zelda too or monchrome mario on a gameboy (now there's some real shite). Bye! I've C to make.

>>11927976
Those are better games than the ones you grew up with, aye.

No idea if this guy is for real, but I love interacting with him,
10/10 character. Really funny.

>>11927983
[Skyrim opens with an Imperial wagon driving four prisoners down a snowy mountain pass. All are seated and bound; the one dressed in finery is gagged.]

Ralof: Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

Lokir: D**n you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn’t been looking for you, I could’ve stolen that horse and been half way to Hammerfell. You there. You and me — we should be here. It’s these Stormcloaks the Empire wants.

Ralof: We’re all brothers and sisters in binds now, thief. Lok there is zelda and some child pornography
TAKE ZELDA
you have a zelda in your inventory
TAKE CHILD PORN
you have a zelda in your inventory
MASTURBATE
'A tendie appears and stars to sing about zelda'

>>11927832
>"British people think video games are about making computers do things",
https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playstation-1-software-development-kit-(psyq)/

>start the game
>can’t move or do anything
Just some of that world famous British quality. You won’t find THAT on Nintendo!

>>11927731
Ok and wipeout isn’t a computer game copecel

>b-but rare games

Rare didn’t make computer games

>>11928026
Wonder where they got the box art from
It's pretty neat

>>11928029
i have no horse in this race but i'm just dropping by to mention that wipeout came out on both PS1 and DOS/PC in november 1995, so wipeout is a computer game and you're a fag

>>11928026
>>11928026
>world famous British quality.

They wrote the SNES deveopment kit
>>11928014

Ouch.

>>11928029
>Rare didn’t make computer games
Brothers Tim and Chris Stamper are British entrepreneurs who founded the video game companies Ultimate Play the Game and Rare. They first worked together on arcade conversion kits, which were licensed to companies, but later became developers for the ZX Spectrum home computer in the early 1980s. Chris programmed the games, while Tim designed the graphics. They found success as Ultimate with games including Jetpac and Knight Lore. After reverse engineering the Nintendo Entertainment System and deciding to shift their focus to console development, the brothers founded Rare in the mid-1980s. They became Nintendo's first major Western developer, for whom they developed licensed games and ports. Over the next two decades, Rare enjoyed a close relationship with Nintendo and developed multiple major titles for the company, including Donkey Kong Country and GoldenEye 007. Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, and the brothers left the company in 2007.

OI THERE IS A SPECCY IN MY NES

>>11928014
>https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playstation-1-software-development-kit-(psyq)/


"Other SN Systems Development Kits
According to the Official SN Systems “PC Development System for the Nintendo 64” guide (Thanks to Ultra64.ca), the list of SN systems development kits are as follows:

Sony PlayStation (PSY-Q)
SEGA Saturn
SEGA 32X
SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis (SNASM65k)
SEGA Mega-CD (SNASM2)
Nintendo Super NES
Commodore Amiga 1200 and 600
Williams Phoenix Arcade Board
Nintendo 64 (SN64 ProDG)"

>>11928046
>oi cunt some blokes from rare made speccy games before rare existed
>bet yew didn’t think of that one innit

>>11928061
To crawl though life on your belly being dishonest and lying is fine, its where you belong. Imagine all the money you spent on agmes I wrote.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thank you soooooo much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnRi3Sclm8

don't even know what this guy trying to say now

>>11928087
#include <stdio.h>

void main(void) {

printf("10 PRINT \"TENDIE FAGGOTS\"\n20 GOTO 10");


}

>>11928067
Bongoid meltdown

Go play eggy on your ZX Shitrum

>>11928109
Go suck my giant Z80 balls faggot.

>>11928109
LOOK AT THIS SHIT
LOOK AT IT

>>11928107
were Spectrum games even written in C?

>>11928114
Yeah, it's good. Good sense of forward momentum. Memorable music. Varied environments. Fun game.
Like, the second one was better, sure.

>>11928117
No mostly Z80 assembler via toolkits for major commerical games stuff , occasionally in basic for magadine listings sometimes a combination of the two. There were also authoring tools, like for example pic related which could compile executable binaries from assembler macros and wre a game design framework, in this case for test adventure games with some graohics, sabing the time of writing a parser

>>11928127
>No mostly Z80 assembler via toolkits for major commerical games stuff , occasionally in basic for magadine listings sometimes a combination of the two. There were also authoring tools, like for example pic related which could compile executable binaries from assembler macros and wre a game design framework, in this case for test adventure games with some graohics, sabing the time of writing a parser

>>11928119
It came out nearly 8 years after the spectrum but for some reason you don't wank on about its piss coloured ugly monchrome graphics. That's because you;re a hypocritical cunt who wants to tell other people what they can like.

>>11928119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x85vPOCrJI

>>11928130
>pic related

>>11928136
It's a game I enjoy playing, that's still fun to go back to. I mean, the second on is way better. SML1 is really just the bare minimum of what you can do with Mario on a GB.

>>11928142
>super basic space game with no music, that doesn't look very fun
Okay. what do you want from me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKTp_nSkbM

>>11928107
0?"manlet";:gO

>>11927753
Because 4chan is beset by anti-white psyops.

>>11928158
I want you to tell the board you a cunt, a troll who can't let other people enjoy their shit because your a cunt that will stretch yourself to insane levels of hypocrisy and spite to shit all over anything that is not your stupid tendie brand because your a sad little powertripping spastic dipshit who wants to tell people what they are allowed likem oten with a poisions dose of trite braindead enophobia and that you have no concept of truth or honesty and are a sad little cretin.Off you go. I shit on you. You consume what wrote and then try and spitefully attac its far more interesting and fun origins. You're a wanker of the highest order and none of your opinions are worth a fuck because they are all soaked in obvious bitchfaced dishonesty.

And I can say with my hand on my heart pic related is ugly fucking garbage that would not even make the top ten list if it was on the spectrum

>>11927731
>pedo
brits say paedo or nonce

>>11928182
>just let me enjoy what I like ;__;
>anyway, here's why every single Japanese game and everything ever released on a Nintendo system is a piece of shit!

>>11928158
I want you to tell the board you a cunt, a troll who can't let other people enjoy their shit because you're a cunt that will stretch yourself to insane levels of hypocrisy and spite to shit all over anything that is not your stupid tendie brand because your a sad little powertripping spastic dipshit who wants to tell people what they are allowed like often with a poisions dose of trite braindead xenophobia and that you have no concept of truth or honesty and are a sad little cretin plus you know fuck all aboutb retro game.Off you go. I shit on you. You consume what I wrote and then try and spitefully attac it's far more interesting and fun origins. You're a wanker of the highest order and none of your opinions are worth a fuck because they are all soaked in obvious bitchfaced dishonesty.
>And I can say with my hand on my heart pic related is ugly fucking garbage that would not even make the top ten list if it was on the spectrum

>>11928190
Also on NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TyIYxRaYsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edq3CXiklyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IcqoI0d78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUPvwCcUo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GI5ki51aU

>>11928197
You've already prooved your a brainded wanker. No wonder you live on here you normie technically illiterate friendless fuck. Post a text adentture like Zok or an EPIC like LOM? Any 3D graphics? Nope. Fuck off and die. The people who wrote your fucking games started off coding on the spectrum on stuff like Knight Lore. You're such a fucking spastic.

MUH STUPID NINTENDO CARTRIDGE MUH KEYBOARDLESS 2D SPRITE WEEB SHIT
KYS

>>11927679 (OP)
Why were bong games so weird back then anyway? Was Pink Floyd their entire personality?

>>11928207
>post boring not fun games for nerds
Why?
If I want to play adventure games, I have PC for that. I can play something sick like Myst or Gabriel Knight.

>>11928197
Not one decent test adventure or strategy game in the lot. Not a single one.

Elite only released on the NES in PAL regions you dumb fuck otherwise you;d know what a cunt you've made of yourself ITT

>>11928216
No one has ever had fun playing Elite.

>>11928215
You can shove your obsession with nintendo and crapping on everything else and everyone elses fun up your giant pedo arse and sit on it. Fuck knows how much money I've had from your hand but I'm revolted that you play games I wrote.

So like 50 of the 100 replies to this thread are the same guy filling his "nappy" with mushy peas, right?
>>11928136
Probably because it was on a handheld bruv

>>11928218
No one ever had fun with you lying and shitting up this board and attacking everything other anons like.

>>11928219
Mentioning the whole "crapping on other peoples' fun" thing is obviously projecting. I wonder if you're also projecting with the other recurring theme that is in half of your posts. Would be awfully British of you

I honestly can't tell if this guy is real.
Trolls usually get bored. This guy has been doing this for years.

>>11928220
>Probably because it was on a handheld bruv
It came out 8 years afte, you donn;t here anyone saving its piss coloured monochome shit and bing bing is fucking horrible garbage now though do you because its a scared fucking cow. On the other hand shitting on what other whole whole communities of people love, is standard practise for the spastic nintendo brand faggots who won't fuck off to their own board because they have nothing to say except the fap to zelda over and over and over again.

>>11928227
>>11928220
I'm being extremely charitable but its so unhinged that it feels just as likely to be falseflag shitposting

>>11928227
>Trolls usually get bored. This guy has been doing this for years.
Are you the skitxo that tjinks the internet is a guy called Eric? The whole vintage computer scene knows this board is filled with wankers and nintendo cunts and despises it. Its always been shit and always will be and every fucker who worked on the games you pay on your NES thinks so too, in fact the expression was shameful. Fuck you and your shit board,

>>11928234
is the whole vintage computer scene consisting of you and your Sooty puppet?

>>11927679 (OP)
FUCK THIS BOIARD MODS GIVE THE SITE A REAL RETRO AND VINTAGE BOARD AND PUT POKEMON AND NINTENDO ON THEIR OWN BOARD

>>11928241
If they do that, I will go there and talk about DOS games.

Poofter sheeted. I get it, but damn it's hard to watch.

>>11928245
Based

>In Frost Byte you control Hickey the Kreezer, an elastic curve which moves sideways, jumps and shoots. You must navigate your way through planet Cosmica, and rescue your brethren, within the limited 'Twang' energy you have.

>>11927679 (OP)
You know, the funny thing is just from watching that webm I was going to say:
>A platformer that does not scroll and has all sorts of random objects as enemies/obstacles
>Yup, that's a British PC game
Then I actually read the post...

What was with all these games having random objects for enemies/obstacles with no rhyme or reason? It was always just rooms full of random nonsensical crap.

>>11928436
That's the existential experience of being British. Being trapped in a place with nothing but drippy pipes and old rubbish.

It's funny, because when I tried making games as a teenager, I literally included dripping droplets, and old rubbish as obstacles. That is totally something that is in the collective psyche, for some reason.

Just as Japanese games always eventually end up being about nukes or killing representatives of Western power, and American games always eventually end up being about defending freedom from the commies.

>>11927731
We wuz 3D and shiet and we had CHEAP GAYMES on superior microcomputahs innit
(To be fair, it takes pretty high IQ to understand British microcomputer games)

>>11928632
Or how Eastern European games are about how the world is bleak, and everyone is horrible.

>>11928241
you can make one yourself on whatever eight chan clone you can find

>>11927741
>For anyoe who is not retarded
stopped reading right there

>>11927852
>zero g cricket
I'm in.
What game is it?

>>11928619
Why lie though?

>>11927827
Thanks, will read later.

>>11928169
This unironically. Shit on browns more

>>11927993
Please don't tell me Speccymeister likes Skyrim

>>11928046
>Hey, you guys made many beloved hits for our systems! How about we do nothing with you and let Microsoft buy you out and dismantle you??
wtf happened?

>>11928230
He's making a much better argument than you.

Why dont yanks celebrate their own retro computer games? Why is it always japanese console stuff?
Are you ashamed or something?

>>11928836
They copied everything else that people with soul created, then figured out a way to pump out a soulless pablum version for their mass-produced army of simpletons to consume, meanwhile trying to eliminate any competition from enlightening the masses to a superior product. There's a reason places like the UK and Japan are pretty much just quitting gaming instead of going along with the current dogshit.

>>11928836
We do, but we're willing to admit that most of the pre-1990 ones are pieces of shit and worth forgetting. In Bongland they never made anything afterwards besides Donkey Kong, so they have to talk about Eggbert's Eggventure or whatever and pretend they're having fun

For me, it's Lemmings, the crowning achievement of the Commodore Amiga and maybe retro british gaming in general. It's just an elegant, polished game that can't be improved further.

>>11927741
Why so much early 3D? The isometric games are always cool though.

>>11929402

>but we're willing to admit that most of the pre-1990 ones are pieces of shit and worth forgetting

tragically sad to see so little pride in your own country.

>>11929606

nerds flexing they brainpower. Almost always single developer games, and they usually cant draw worth shit. 3D is their jam.

>>11927741
There is one good title in this heap of shit and it was made by Americans. Bongs can't make games, exceptions like Worms are few and far between.

feels like this whole thread is on the Spectrum

>>11928136
Game Boy looks infinitely better than the ugly Spectrum palette with its color clash.

>>11929812
the problem with the spectrum is it wasn't even made to run games, and has all kinds of limitations like jerky scrolling, and music basically not even being viable.
The visuals have some charm. I'd play a game made on a better system to resemble that.

>>11927679 (OP)
What does the twang meter do?

>>11929812>>11929707
Look, Look a seeting lying tendie in the wild? Look at it, see how it behaves!

They like to dish it out but they can;t take it at all. That's always been the natures of bitches and cowards.
>>11929606
Played to the strenght of the ZZ Spectrum, this was mroe down to the machine design that just a simple Z80 Vs 6502 but the rest of the machine artitecture. Clive Sinclair did not design the spectrum primarily as a games machine, he wanted it to be used by people to program and problem solve. There is a great line that sumbs it up in the series 'Micro Men'
"Clive Sinclair: Games! Games! Everywhere I go, games! This is what my lifetime of achievement has been reduced to! Clive Sinclair, the man who brought you Jet Set fucking Willy! Apparently there's even a game now about me trying to get a knighthood, for Christ's sake!"

So what the spectrum excelled at given its low budget were computational tasks that went well with vector and isomentric graphics as opposed to sprites. Have a watch of micro men though its excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGiGrf2YyZE

>>11929740
Kek

Gosh, I love GB games. So perfectly realised and timeliess...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApAmjN8xhw

>>11929812
You need to lie to yourself and voice it because that's the preferred method of all psychotics to seperate from reality, something all tendies did to gain entry to their cult, Imagining affixing yourself to a brand like McDonalds or Coca Cola as your whole sense of self. Well....obviously the first step is to reject reality itself. It's not really that tendies lie all the time, it is that the have compleletely lost touch with observable reality a long time ago in the service of spite and doing evil for a corporation that really does not give a shit about them. The people who wrote the NES library would find your pathetic attacks on the spectrum games as ridiculous and sour as any artitulate observer. You are in a cult but a cult that everyone in gaming dislikes.

Playstation users loathe tendies
Xbox users loathe tendies
Commodore Users loathe Tendoes
Atari users loathe tendies
Amiga users loathe tendies
Spectrum users laugh at tendies
etc

But Spectrum users don't loathe Amiga users
Commodore users don't loathe playstation users
Sega users don't loathe Xbox users etc
In fact even in other systems market rivalries, e,g the commodore Vs spectrum, both communnities respect and like each other. The latest spectrum next even has hardware commodore 64 support in it.


Tendies are hated by the entire gaming world for really good reasons, and your post is a great example, thank you for proviiding it. Tendies try and compulsively shit all over everyone else interests and fun compulsively because they are mentally ill and it seems like its actually their only social outlet at all, pissing other people off for no reason other than this wierd spiteful nasty cult that they are desperate to belong to called nintendo..

The two distinguishinng identifiers of tendies are lyinng and raw spite. It's the essence of tendie.

The spectrum and its library are pretty cool and its community is composed of awesome, the opposite of tendies, very techy and friendly people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5Vhk3AEUc
It seems my superiority has caused some controversy.

>>11929910
Is that because it had a Z80 nlike teh Spectrum or are you just a cultist who would call anythig with a nintendo logo on it as great and better thatn somethinng youo know absolutely nothing about , even if the (tiny) display looks like the bottom of a pub lavitory such as the gameboy ?


I'd say go play some spectrum games, there are some fantastic ones just as there are on the commodore, amiiga etc etc but I have a hunch you don't like games muc at all and really just exist to smear shit on anything other people like. The gameboy in most cases just existed to play tetris at that point anyone who loved games had an Amiga or an Atari ST and though of the gameboy as a pretty crappy toy, which might be unfair but that was its place in the scheme of gaming, a tetris machine.

>>11929925
>>11929925
>The two distinguishinng identifiers of tendies are lyinng and raw spite. It's the essence of tendie.
>The spectrum and its library are pretty cool and its community is composed of awesome, the opposite of tendies, very techy and friendly people.

And who could forget this banger?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O10_gKeV_P8
Imagine playing Jimmy Egg or whatever his name is? LOL

>>11927679 (OP)
you fuck up, you deserve a death loop, which was the style of the tim

>>11929947
You're right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHygXy9WaoA
Ace. Pure ace!

>>11927753
>What is it with this board and constantly shitting on the brits?
>Even as an American it's kind of weird.

Its not just the Brits, the spectrum was the number one computer in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, they even loaned them from libraries in the Netherlands. Neither is it sepecifically an attack on the British, its the trolls from nintendo (sigh goes everyone), the very large very active ZX Spectrum community really upsets them because it shows that their nonsense about 'everyone loved only nintendo' is simply a lie and fundementally untrue. Most people did not give a shit about nintendo at all because they had computers which were generally way better in many ways compared to e.,g a NES, Its a pit like the PC masterrace Vs consoles.Just by the simple fact that micro computers had a keyboard and tape storage. The people who wrote games for the NES wrote them on computers and used computers daily, not the NES

>>11928836
>Why dont yanks celebrate their own retro computer games?
They do, the US has soe wonderful people innvolved in retro games DOS, Atari, TRS etc Its just that no one will ever post here as long as the wierd nintedo cult here is shitting up everyones hobby

>>11929973
Look a tendie cultist with a bitch face. How unsual. Now do Doomdarks revenge. What nasty little people you nintendo spite posters really are.

Do uou think this board should be saved or would it be better to just delete it?

>>11929998
Is that a game or a slide show?

>>11930004
Are you a person or just vomit?
I think vomit.

>>11927679 (OP)
soul

>>11930006
I'm sir Clive Sinclair

>thread that has nothing to do with Nintendo
>people still find a way to bring them up and pee and poop their pants over them
it really is impressive

>>11930059
You just start screeching about Nintendo, as soon as anyone else talks ill of the Spectrum.
You pick fights against better platforms, which you're never going to win. I don't know what you expect is going to happen.

at least nintroglodites got a decent NES version of Elite, in PAL countries that is, they needed the resolution NTSC couldn't provide.

>>11930082
No one has ever actually sat down and played Elite for the purposes of entertainment.

>>11927710
He said average.
How many games like Elite there were?
How many crappy Jet Set Willy/Monty Mole/Dynamite Dan clones?
Elite is remembered because it WASN'T the standard cookie cutter formula that passed for a "game" in the british isles at the time.

>>11930082
Why were there PAL NES when it was never officially released in PAL countries?

>>11930068
no one was talking about nintendo until this post >>11927765 started seething over them out of the blue. stop trying to rewrite the narrative

>>11928436
>It was always just rooms full of random nonsensical crap.
In fairness, in Jet Set Willy the rooms were actually very tightly designed. There was one or two ways to get past the enemies and it came down to careful timing and memorization. The sprites for the enemies were "random" in the sense they were surreal and sometimes humoristic.
In most of these games the enemies just spawned and moved randomly and were more of a constant nuisance than any kind of skillful challenge. And a lot of them just copied JSW's "surrealism" without thought and without Matt Smith's original humor.
Then again I heard the guy was literally on drugs while he made both Manic Miner and this game and doesn't remember a thing about it.

>>11930112
That's literally what I said.
One person says "I don't really like the spectrum", and then he goes on a nuclear tier two day rant about Nintendo. No one's bringing up Nintendo but him.
The NES is better incidentally, but that just goes without saying.

>>11929880
>"Clive Sinclair: Games! Games! Everywhere I go, games! This is what my lifetime of achievement has been reduced to! Clive Sinclair, the man who brought you Jet Set fucking Willy! Apparently there's even a game now about me trying to get a knighthood, for Christ's sake!"
That's funny, and interesting. Thanks for sharing.

>>11929880
>Clive Sinclair did not design the spectrum primarily as a games machine, he wanted it to be used by people to program and problem solve.
People did use it to program and make money selling games solving their financial problems.

>>11928032
>Wonder where they got the box art from
>It's pretty neat
It's a book's cover. The artist used it for Sqij and years later for Obitus, a PC RPG.

Anyone ever play rogue trooper on the spectrum? From the 2000AD comics. I loved that game as a kid .

>>11930143
It had an amazing electronics scene around it too, light pens, light guns, speech synths, serial ports, programmable joystick ports, relay controllers, add on keyboards, rom readers, modems, disk drives of all types, memory snapshots, fast tape drives, midi interfaces. It was an incredible platform for experimenters and makers and doers, even a digital drum kit

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/18600/SpecDrum/

>>11930096
If you are going to bully the Brit, at least post something that makes sense.

>>11929950
If the spectrum community is anything like the amiga community they’re not friendly at all. They’re a bunch of autistic gatekeepers who peaked on a BBS 20 years ago and try grifting each other on a regular basis.

>>11930093
>How many games like Elite there were?
Many e.g starglider. I'm not going to count them out for you, the system was actively developed for from 1982 up until the 90s. Neither did elite originate on teh spectrum it was if I remember correctly originally written for the 32K BBC Micro which has an interesting pedigree all of its own. The arachmedies computer which was the end of its evolution and had a gui

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

Stuff like wolfstein 3D released on it and its the birthplace of the ARM processor( and a port of Elite).

The earier Acorn computers before the BBC were the atom and electron. They tried to tap the educational market for British schools and had some sucess, the machines were notable for their full quality keyboards . The BBC TVstations in the UK also decided to have a show about computing and the BBC micro was branded for it. Again from memory they even had a really cool way of distributinng software, a small flashing square on the screen that if you had a light pen (or maybe it was a DIY project with a photovoltaic resistor I can't remember) allowed you to save the code being broadcast. Fun fact, the UK and the BBC also had probably the first publicly accessably massively multiplayer MUD, called I think shades which was text based and could be accessed by machines like the spectrum and BBC with modems connected by RS232 ports

Looked it up, yup shades.
"'You Haven't Lived Until You've Died in MUD'- so runs BT's ad for MUD"
https://mud.co.uk/richard/pcpsep87.htm

>>11930280
>If the spectrum community is anything like the amiga community they’re not friendly at all. They’re a bunch of autistic gatekeepers who peaked on a BBS 20 years ago and try grifting each other on a regular basis.
Nonsense and BBSs were bpretty dead 20 years ago they really died out in the mid/early 90s as stuff like compuserve and later AOL UK came on, the amiga community is based, as is commodore 64 and spectrum one. They are all packed full of people who make and do really cool things. Even the repairs done to these old machines are pretty amazing.Its incredible they even churn out entire replacement PCBs for different sub revisions of the models. The spectrum one is probably the most commericalised though with The Spectrum and Spectrum Next etc, both very nice machines though. Most people into old 16 and 8 bit computers have several different types and makes, its not tied to one brand like console wars people. There is a massive love for this era of gaming out there for sure.

Worth mentioning the Amstrad CPCs as well cracking machine

Games can have crude graphics and be great fun. This is a peak example of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2TP88hGxE
Its really worth havig a go on, notable because its games workshops first try at video games]
Its a great game, go play it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_The_Battle_of_Wizards

>>11930068
Strage thing to post whenOPs post is a shit on the speccy b8 thread, Then again this board is not genrally know as anything more than zelda spam.

what exactly is wrong with the british

>>11930380
They’re historically faggots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging

>>11927864
jesus christ happy friday don't forget to call your son

>>11930380
>what exactly is wrong with the british
And Portugese and Spanish and Italians and Dutch etc etc?

Does your head fit right the way up your arse Looking at many of the posts on this board about nintendo from americans you have to wonder where these people abused as chilren or something? Are you all tech illiterate xenopbic retards in real life too? Because most Americans are not actally tards you know.

Broke rule one.
Never post about anything unless it's nintendo

>>11930297
>Many e.g starglider. I'm not going to count them out for you,
"Many", I can count them, because I'm a fan of the genre, less than a dozen. There was also Mercenary and Starion and something else, but fucking hell, you can't seriously be arguing that's remotely comparable to the HUNDREDS of nearly identical british flip screen platformers that were flooding the spectrum library.

>>11929850
>music basically not even being viable
The 128k model released in 1985 finally got an actual sound chip and it can sound pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iusxf1gCc

>>11930407
you don't talk about Playstation games either, unless they're made by old Spectrum developers.

>>11930123
I wasn't talking about the level design though, I was talking about the enemies and obstacles, which even you admit were nonsensical.

>>11930546
Jet Set Willy is a sequel to Manic Miner. Manic Miner for the most part is fairly down to earth, at least compared to Jet Set Willy. Kangroos, goblins, jackhammers, and balls aren't that weird of enemies.
Jet Set Willy takes place in Miner Willy's mansion, he's amassed a huge collection of artifacts from his adventures, and after a rough night of drinking they all came to life. Hence the weird crap everywhere.

As for every other game that does it. Jet Set Willy was the highest selling speccy game, for almost two years. Everybody else just copied it hoping to copy it's sales as well.

>>11927679 (OP)
Spectrum games were fucing great you faggot and the bongs wrote a massive about of top 100 games and dev software. Populous was GOAT

>>11930762
They are also difficult games, those old spectrum games are hard, that filters a lot of people, they don't hand hold.

>>11927679 (OP)
Looks comfy

>>11930546
>nemies and obstacles, which even you admit were nonsensical.
What like a plumber jumping all over the place collectig coins ? WTF are you on.

>>11931507
It was an age of comfy before the great uncomfying and the time of no comfy conan-san .

>>11930059
It's just australia-kun's usual out-of-meds antics.
/vr/ has so much newfags lately

>>11927679 (OP)
>average British computer game
You mean excellent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBSRXweG7E8

>>11931516
>THE INTERNET IS A FEW IMAGINARY PEOPLE WHEN I DON'T LIKE IT

>>11931525
I would be very, very surprised if the anti-nintendo, pro-spectrum autism displayed on this board wasn't you, auster.

>>11931529
You live in a world filled with fantasy people and the person you are replying to is not one of your special frens. Now go play populous, written by a British company. It's top notch.

>>11931541
>I don't exist, the world is filled with very specific nintendo-obsessed, pro-brit microcomputer convincing propaganda guys that make autismal shitposting sprees for hours on /vr/

>>11930392
I can tell you the Dutch weren't massively speccying it up. Before the IBM PC, the biggest micros were the C64 and MSX and those weren't hugely expensive.

It's just a market that had an oddly wide selection of computers to pick from and a decent amount of hobbyists for most of them. You don't see the Exidy Sorcerer userclub dragging us out and they've got less options.

>>119315477
Seemingly many people like games you don't, many people don't like games you do, reality, deal with it. Now go play populous.

>>11931548
humm
>Sorcerer sales worldwide, of around 20,000 units
add a few 00s, or one even

>>11931501
I mean, that's just R-Type, which is on everything, and it's a stiffer looking version than even the one on Gameboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiQxq98OYfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aK1WBg09Y

Alternately you could just play R-Type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWtI0426mU
Or play a better port
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCrN8N-mrP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qftjpU5xrPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Br8nOkLkHU

>>11931568
Yes, I said they had less options.

>>11931573
You seem extremly gay and missing the point that some of us don't care for the game boy did not grow up with it and don't like it but liked stuff like the Spectrum or Amiga both of which had great games. Its like you are retarded. Take your shit to another thread, its off topic. On top of that the game oy in your first link did not ship until nearly 8 years after the Spectrum. You're just fundementally dishnest and here to shit on thkings other people like because you are a prick really. Its like you think anns don;t fucking know what R Type ports are as well.

>>11931547
Loads of people commonly hate nintendo fanboys primarily beause of the way they behave. Lot of posts in this thread back that up. Toxic subculture.

>>11931590
You need to understand, from a normal person's angle, you're coming here, ranting madly about how much better than everything else the Spectrum is, and then all you can offer up is games that no one would ever really want to play as anything more than curiosities.
Show me the *good* Spectrum games. Not a port of something else, or a moderately impressive demo of some kid's programming skills.

>>11928724
Elite by Acornsoft/Firebird

>>11931628
Imagine being on a retro games board or any games board and having never heard of elite. You'd have to have lived under a rock for 50 years or know literally nothing about games

>>11931626
If you don't like the games whio don;t you get out of the thread becaus I'm only going to take the piss out of your disengenous bullshit and you in reply. Go play the boggit its right on your level but might be a bit too hard.

The original gameboy fucking sucked.

>>11931657
A text game that's also on the C64?

>>11931662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3oWNm563H4
It's mogging the Spectrum library pretty hard.

>>11931628
>procedural generation in 1984
Damn.

>>11931668
Yes I can see yoiu are a pick. The fact you are a pick is noted and that the gameboiy was bit shit even though it came out 8 years after the spectrum. Stuff your mono gameboy up your ass and fuck off.

Another great and important British computer game, Utopia: The Creation of a Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOlZsCXL0A
Utopia: The Creation of a Nation

>>11931668
Mayeb if it grew a keyboard it might even be able to run whole genres of games the spectrum could and it can't you retard.

>>11931708
the Spectrum has a keyboard because it's a come computer, not a gaming device.
>>11931707
That's very clearly an Amiga game.

>>11931720
Boo hoo it did not have a keybord, maybe because it was a piece iof shit.
The thread is about British compuyer games are you thick or something, that's a british computer game. Take your poxy gameboy and fuck off.

>>11927710
Based. Shown those ungrateful jeets their place.

Brill. Pure brill.
Proper bit of the old ZX banterbox, oioi!
Slap on a bit of cheeky Mr Wino, while the missus is passed out in the other room. Wayhay! Result!

>>11927710

It wouldnt suprise me if they think GTA as american desu. Imagine how angry you would be if someone else did your 'culture' better than you? Damn that would be incredibly embarrassing.

I’ve compiled a list of some of the quintessential ZX Spectrum games, each one better than Mario and all for just 2 quid. You ready? Here we go…
————————
Mr Bollocks' Freaky Pudding
Willy Dicky and the Jammy Dodgers
Manic Bongus and the Penis Pongus
Bubble and Squeak 2: The Sticky Banoffee Whillamawizzer
Chuckie Fuckie and the Argie Bargie
Dizzy Egg vs Margie Thatcher
Turd Trouble (later renamed Eric And The Floaters)
Foetus Faeries
Her Majesty's Nutty Knickers
Todger 2
Wankin' Wally!
Plasterer's Revenge
Big Ben's Big Bong
Demoscene 005

And an honourable mention goes to Plumber's Pipe Challenge (Though you had to program this yourself.)

>>11931626
We've done that a hundred time over the years, every time you little shits are stunned into silence, then return two months later crying "WHERE ALL THE GOOD GAMES AT BOO-HOO PLESE SPOONFEED ANON" as if you didn't already have your shit kicked in the last time you asked you malformed mongrel piece of shit.

>>11931857
We're not stunned into silence. You just keep showing us 3D demos, and story book slide shows, and acting like those are games, for some reason.
Show me literally anything that's as slick and fun to control as Mario. Or something that at least as music and sound effects at the same time.

Is Zork's Quest II good? I tried to check it out and it has some soulful visuals, but I couldn't see what the gameplay was and don't want to look too far in and get spoiled or anything

>>11931707
https://files.catbox.moe/utuu4e.mp3

>>11931593
Fanbases in general are pretty annoying, but, anti-nintendo people aren't any less obnoxious than pro-nintendo ones.
The thing is, here on /vr/, if I see an autistic person having a meltdown over anons not liking Speccy, and blaming Nintendo for it and spending hours (probably the entire weekend, as has happened many times) seething, then it's most likely australia-kun. Don't believe there's that many autists THAT obsessed with nintendo and who want to convince people to stop liking nintendo and start liking speccy britjank.

>>11928114
Unlike literally every Spectrum game, it runs at a solid 60fps. It's one of the worst Mario games and it's still more fun than the entire Spectrum library.

>>11931590
>Take your shit to another thread, its off topic.
NTA but looking at the OP, it seems like the thread was made to make fun of British games in general. Pointing out that the Spectrum version of a game is the worst sounds on topic.

>>11932353
Can GB games actuallh run at 60fps?

>>11932402
They do

>>11927679 (OP)
Well, that looks cool and i am not brittish.

>>11932519
>didn't watch to the end

>>11927710
But enough about (you), anon, what about the OP?

>>11929601
I prefer Lemmings 2: The Tribes. The fact that it grades me for my performance with bronze/sliver/gold medals encourages me to git gud and save everyone.

>>11927679 (OP)
Skill issue, if you want easy games go play Mario. This is my favorite Bong Boinger outside of Frank the Flea

>>11931758
>Chuckie Fuckie and the Argie Bargie
Kek

>>11927679 (OP)
europoors may not have known how to make a good game, but at least they had some high quality chiptunes

Amstrad was so much better than Spectrumshit it's not even funny.
Old micro games were generally very limited but the bongs flooded the market with pure shit. Spaniards had a better run in the so-called Golden Age of Spanish Software

>>11927753
Insecurity caused by how American game development stagnated and died going into the 3D era while Euro development flourished

>>11930407
Why are we so persecuted by the Nintendo bullies? It's not fair.

>>11928029
>Rare didn’t make computer games
Rare literally started out making extremely successful speccy games. Seppos are so braindead they can't even troll properly.

>>11932645
>Amstrad
That piece of dogshit was an even worse piece of hardware than the speccy. You must love playing games at 5fps.

>>11927753
Brits were the idiots who unleashed Indians upon the world.

>>11927679 (OP)
I mean yeah, most British games were made by 1 or two freelance guys just doing it for kicks, hoping to sell a game to a publisher for a few quid, and a lot of them were very badly designed/made. It wasn't a corporate-based culture like Japan or the US. It was literally dudes making derivative broken games in their bedrooms, and pissing up their pay check at the pub.

>>11932624
>europoors may not have known how to make a good game, but at least they had some high quality chiptunes
External 3-channel audio interface
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
>>11933686
no one likes nintendo assholes desu
>>11933772
Amstrad was a great machine as was the spectrum in all it's forms, comodore, pet, vic 20, zx81 etc . Sorry you can't into retro computers or games. Maybe you're a tard.

>>11934042
>It was literally dudes making derivative broken games in their bedrooms, and pissing up their pay check at the pub.
How do you cope with the fact the exact same people wrote the software development kit for the playstaion, SNES and nintendo 64 as well as games like goldeneye, tombraider, populous, utopia, wipeout etc etc? The spectrum has one of the largest libraries of any system aside from the PC, over 24,000 titles Approximately 10,000 commercial releases published for the Commodore 64. The people who wrote the best of it were masters of coding and went on to write much else of the toolkits and games you apparently like. Whether psygnosis or rare or creating the first RTS and God games the UK is up there with the US and Japan in creating computing gaming and networking. Clive Sinclair was a genius as were people like Mike Singleton, Jeff Minter, Andrew Hewson, Chris and Tim Stamper, Mathew Smith,Mark Butler and David Lawson.

Watching all the gonsumers of jap kids toys seethe in this thread and pretend you are into retro games is hilarious
>>11934042
>literally dudes making derivative broken games
There the snarky bullshit right on time. You know fuck all and nothing. Fuck off and spam another zelda thread it's all you know of.

Companies like Gremlin Interactive floated on the stock market, Ultimate, Imagine and Beyond, Durell Software, Psgnosis were serious companies not a couple of guys in a bedroom, Acorn created the arm processor.

Its really interesting that thos board knows so little about retro computers or games. Especially sinnce writinng spectrum games is how companies likepsygnosis and rare started off. There is nothing derivative about games like Lord of Midnight or Elite or the 3D games like sentinel, starglider, I of the mask, deus ex etc etc

You just know very very little. The state of this board. You do;t see much good converstaion about atari, coleco, inntellivsion, vetrex or cp/m either though. Its just a bit shit here.

>>11934089
>talented tech guys needed to be wrangled by the Japanese to understand how to make fun video games
ok.
The UK is a nation of James Mays. I get it. I'm from here.

>Brian from Leicester tinkering away in his garden shed with bits of old wire
>suddenly has to answer to a sake swilling probable Yakuza hard-bastard, who grew up in a country that had nukes dropped on it, who is now throwing him around the office by his hair, telling him that a piece of software that simulates the density of wet sand is not an entertainment product
Is basically what happened.

>>11934089
>How do you cope
Quite well actually

>pretend you are into retro games
I'm into retro and modern games alike, and I grew up with a C64 which I thought was the greatest thing in the world until I got a SNES and Mega Drive. After that I abandoned the Western computer game scene because I recognised it for what it was- a swamp of mostly low effort broken shit with great music.

>There is nothing derivative about
Yes I know. I said most, not all.

>>11931750
>It wouldnt suprise me if they think GTA as american desu. Imagine how angry you would be if someone else did your 'culture' better than you? Damn that would be incredibly embarrassing.
Tards will be tards anon and they sure are showing us how tarded they are attacking the 8 and 16 bit computer scene and the British games authors. I know people who wrote some of the core atari 2600 titles in person and I don't imagine these midwits have any time for them either because they are too busy jerking off to derivative thrash like zelda to know the first games workshop game was on the spectrum called Chaos: The Battle of Wizards and it has simple clear graphics and gameplay is excellent. They've never played it. They don't know the subject of retro games. For them retro gaming is something to do with mario and sonic and thrash like gameboys and pokemon. They don't even have threads on text adventures when the first games were text adventures like colossal cave and there were thousands of excellent ones. Just my precioooossss zelda. The therad makes them seethe with rage like they are becoming aware of how little they actually know.
>>11929601
>Lemmings
Great game. For me either Elite, Lords of Mignight, Doomdarks Revenge, Midwinter, Populous or Utopia.

>>11929812
seething
>>11933752
>Rare literally started out making extremely successful speccy games. Seppos are so braindead they can't even troll properly.
Truth
>>11932772
>Insecurity caused by how American game development stagnated and died going into the 3D era while Euro development flourished

They are not that deep thingking. Its tribalism and mental illness. I've written games for nearly every system and love them all, these guys are defined by the brands their divorcing parents bought them forever.
>>11931880
You're literally too normie to play Lords of Midnight. You got filtered and need bing bing.

>>11934134
You've yet to present a fun looking Spectrum game.

>>11931673
>>procedural generation in 1984
>Damn.
That starts earlier on Unix with Rogue in 1980 which was generating dungeons proceedurally and maybe earlier
>>11934132
>I'm into retro
Nah. You were probably just a kid and got filtered. Otherwise you'd have mentioned the Amiga or ST or Archimedes. There is nothing wrong with playing cartridge games on consoles but you need to know that you got filtered, it really is that simple. People were running CPM on spectrum 3s and loading Zork while you were playing echo the dolphin, games like sim city, utopia, populous and midwiter were not arcade games but they were far better than what you had access to on those systems if you wanted anything other than arcade. You should go play some of them. Personally I preferred actualy, you know, playing arcade machines than shitty derivitive (that's my word for the day) ports onto things like the NES/SNES but each to their own. You should dust off your C64 and play a game of Lord of Mighnight. Sadly Chaos Battle of Wizzards was never ported to the C64 (another lovely machine)

>>11934164
nah you're just a wanker m8 anyone can see that go listen to some bing big noises on loop until you calm down and have a wahey. This thread is out of your depth.

>>11934171
God forbid someone play a really good game like Ecco the Dolphin. Where are all the spreadsheets?

>>11932645

Here's 10 great British games:
Knight Lore
The Lords of Midnight
Elite
The Hobbit
Dizzy
Starglider
Heavy on the Magick
Where Time Stood Still
Total Eclipse
Myth

Name 10 great Spanish games.
That's right, you can't...

>>11934176
>God forbid someone play a really good game like Ecco the Dolphin. Where are all the spreadsheets?
>>11934171
>you were playing echo the dolphin, games like sim city, utopia, populous and midwiter were not arcade games but they were far better than what you had access to on those systems.

Not just that but you are trying to compare teh spectrum and commodaore with machines that came out a decade later like that's some sort of kewl win but again they don;t stack up well against 16 bit peers like the
>>11934171
>Amiga or ST or Archimedes
Aside from the fact you were locked into paying for cartriges.

>>11934186
For me both the Spectrum, C64 and Specrum and others even the fringe ones like the Oric and Dragon were great machines as were the later 16 bit machines and nearly every one of them has absolute corkers. It was an amazineg era for computing and gaming which is why its sad it is so maligned on this shithole of a board for the sake of worshiping bing bing and sonic in a stuck loop until the PS2 and inevitably the 360 washes that away

I would not agree with your list beause elite and lords of midnight and head over heals are missing, if you like Ultimates stuff like night lore you will love head over heels its peak ultimate isometric

NTA but here is some youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqe6AvZQ0G8

The spectrum was also popular in...Russia where unofficial knock offs grabbed a big share of the underground game and coding scene in places like msocow and st.petersberg

>>11934164

Best thread on the board right now though.....by far.

>>11934194
You're the one picking fights. Literally just don't immediately show up and go "roight, Legend of Zelda and Sonic are a load of shit, yeah? Feast your eyes on this beauty!", and the game in question is the least fun thing you've ever seen, and expect not to be bullied a little bit.

>>11934212
>Legend of Zelda
Yup, I think its shit as well. Happy? The thread starts with a deliberate sneer with OP the faggot and you don't like that got shot down by a ton of anons. Tough shit.

>>11934212
MUH BING BING IS...LE BAD?

>>11934224
>tonnes of anons
It's very clearly just you

>>11934201
>The spectrum was also popular in...Russia where unofficial knock offs grabbed a big share of the underground game and coding scene in places like msocow and st.petersberg


https://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/russian.htm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lokKpr4lux0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jVE0_nNvns

>>11934234You're wrog but that won;t stop you form imagainng the world is the way you like it and evryone thinks Legend of Zeda was not shit when its fucking insignificant and its graphics are wank next to something like Lords of Midnight that was out TWO YEARS before it on the spectrum. If you don;t like 8 bit computer games feel free to go and sulk somewhere else or lurk and learn about a world of games and systems you know nothing about.

>>11934241
Lords of Midnight is a series of still frames, and some text.
Also, you specifically jump on Zelda because it's a fairly flat and unappealing looking game even for the NES. Everyone knows that. It's beside the point of why people enjoyed it.
They enjoyed it because of the combination of fun combat, exploration and adventure, character progression, and the earworm soundtrack. I know that because I played it.

>>11934252
>>11934252
>Lords of Midnight is a series of still frames, and some text.
You just prooved your gay and not worth talking to and don't know what you are talking about either. Go off and learn something, at least I've actually played Legend of Zelda and know its shit. Go away and play Lords of Mignight. You might even enjoy playing retro games instead of just lurking here to shit all over the ones that are not your approved spam. The spectrum was fucking massive in places as far apart as the UK, Russia, Spain, Italy etc etc. Mo one who loved playing games on these 8 bit computers gives a shit you were not there and get filtered by them. That;s not even including all the other extremely neat other 8 and 16 bit computers you know nothig about and their classics. Your a fucking bore.

>>11931884
anyone have an answer?

>>11934274
I like really good Japanese retro games, hence why I come to the weeaboo website.
idk what your problem is. You sound a bit mental.

so glad not to be british and have wasted my formative years on shitty games, so that my childhood nostalgia forces me to cope so hard on defending absolute pieces of shit. must be rough not having anything properly good to look back on and feel nostagically fond of

>>11934089
There was more than one type of SDK for all these systems you know. Several in fact. And Intelligent Systems made the official SDK for Nintendo consoles. They would never entrust such an important task to shit Spectrum developers. If people wanted to use an alternative, they assumed liability.

>>11934171
>games like sim city, utopia, populous
You do realize these were all on consoles

>>11934296
>t. African living in London

>>11934028
We kept them in check, notice no one ever thought anything about them even after we got off, they've only popped up in the last couple of years.

>>11934376
I am European in Europe (mainland), malding loser

>>11934382
So am I, Pablo.

Oi that twang looks fun!

>>11934384
Probably from some shithole like Bulgaria

>>11934386
It's a a slightly-against-the-guidelines underrated game of some time. You should maybe consider playing it at some point.

>>11934398
Hello of all time schizo. I play games before I’m killed if they’re underrated but only criminally so.

>>11934405
u gud m8?

>>11930762
>Kangroos, goblins, jackhammers, and balls aren't that weird of enemies
You seriously don't think those are weird? Sentient jackhammers and balls? And kangaroos and goblins in a game themed around a miner? I suppose Star Wars references fit right in too?

And that sounds like a very thinly veiled excuse to just have random crap everywhere rather than something intentionally thought out. Reminds me of when the manual for Adventure tried to explain away sprite flickering and missed collision checks when too many sprites are on screen as "The magic from too many items close together interfering with each other" or something along those lines.

>>11931508
A person jumping around colleting coins sounds like the most generic and standard design for a platform imaginable, you consider that the same as having to dodge living ice cream cones, scissors, flying razor blades, microchips, and swiss army knives just to name a few?

>>11934521
because walking mushrooms, hammer-throwing turtles and huge bullets with eyes make so much more sense

>>11934171
I did have an Amiga, shortly after I got my Mega Drive, but I mainly used it for Deluxe Paint. Frontier was the only game I genuinely loved on it.

>sim city, utopia, populous and midwiter were not arcade games
Yeah well I was a seaside resort arcade kid. The first videogames I ever played were arcade games in the mid '80s. So arcade games are part of my DNA. And I never realised why I prefered them so much (aside from the obvious boost in graphics and sound) over my Commodore games until I found out that all the games I loved had the same thing in common- they were Japanese, developed by teams, and rigoriously designed/tested. Nintendo, Sega or Namco would never allow a piece of shit like Robocop for the C64, which was full of bugs and literally unfinishable, to be released. The difference in quality control between east vs west was stark and after that moment of clarity I never looked back save for the occasional British-borne classic like GoldenEye or Tomb Raider or Arkham Asylum.

>>11934542
an anthropomorphic turtle throwing hammers in a game universe that acknowledges the existence of anthropomorphic turtles does make more sense than being attacked by household items with no explanation

also one can simply be construed as a monster while the other is a hostile vacuum cleaner or some other silly nonsense

>>11934542
At least they're consistent, if this was a speccy game every single goomba and koopa would be a different random enemy or object.

>>11934186
>Here's 10 great British games:
hahaha

>>11927679 (OP)
it looks good for PC for that time period?
>>11927710
Star Glider was the most technically impressive game.

>>11930297
MUDs are cool. but by the time they became popular among nerds because internet connections at home, we had much nicer looking VGA games.

>>11931590
>Lonewolf
the /vr/ Lonewolf was utter shit though?

>>11934607
MUDs are for furries who get fat/ugly from horrifically poor nutrition and inactivity and cope by hiding behind avatars while not even being consciously aware that's what they're doing

>>11927827
Anon, have you had a stroke or is your keyboard fucked?

>>11927827

you are wasting your time. If its not mario, zelda, or mega man, these 'retro' fans dont give a fuck and will never even consider anything else. They dont even like their own history.

>>11931501
Wow I can hear the sound effects from here
>plrrrrrrt
>squip-p-p-p
>pop pop pop
>farrrrrrrrt

>>11934606
Not to worry I've got a better list
>GoldenEye 007
>Perfect Dark
>Elite
>Banjo Kazooie
>Donkey Kong Country 1&2
>Tomb Raider
>Arkham trilogy

>>11927679 (OP)
btw, you wankers still have a week to order ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3, which also runs C64 core this time
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0
or don't and cry in a pillow about it

>>11931626

>>11935028
These are always applicable.

'ate me speccy

>>11935049
Always wished I was a Chadodore 64 owner, but by royal decree it was illegal to own any computer besides a speccy without a loicense until 2014. Then they realized the mistake and added a speccy loicense too...

>>11935036

>>11934276
BLOODY HELL CAN A BLOKE CAN AN ANSWER FROM ONE OF YOU BLEEDING WANKERS I'M ABOUT TO GO APPLES AND PEARS HERE AND I'M ALL OUT OF FISH AND CHIPS AND MY BOLLOCKS HAVE RAN DRY YOU HAVE MEN WALKIN ON THE BUGGERED MOON AND FLOATIN IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SPACE BUT CAN'T ANSWER A GOOD CITIZENS REQUEST FOR A TIDBIT ON WHETHER ZORK'S QUEST II IS WORTH THE INVEST I AM ABOUT TO GO STANLEY KUBRICK ON YA AND HE OLE IN AND OUT IS NOT GOING TO INVOLVE A GOOD OLE FASHIONED REACH AROUND DON'T MAKE ME CALL WILLIAM WALLACE ON YOU ROGER WATER LOVIN' TOSSERS

>>11931758
For me, it's Wankin' Wally!

>>11931707
That Utopia intro tune is so good

in a better timeline where western civilization hadn't collapsed, we'd all be posting on our Commodore 64GBs...

>>11935107
>western civilization
That would be the Philips P2000. Your computer simply isn't western if it doesn't have a teletext mode. Nothing is as western as zipping to your local sportsball results and then playing some teletext games and watching some teletext porn. That is pure headapple kino AND ludo.

>>11935101
>That Utopia intro tune is so good
It is
>>11935107
Spectrum hung in along time and nearly made it, the spectrum +3 had a disk drive and could boot C/PM
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/53/cpm.htm

>>11935120
Minitel in France
>>11935065
>Always wished I was a Chadodore 64 owner, but by royal decree it was illegal to own any computer besides a speccy without a loicense until 2014. Then they realized the mistake and added a speccy loicense too...
That spectrum loved you with all its Z80 heart though.

>>11934705
>btw, you wankers still have a week to order ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3, which also runs C64 core this time
>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0
>or don't and cry in a pillow about it
THIS

The back and forth here between old microcomputer and Nintendo fags is absolutely mental. The fuck is wrong with you people? It's absolutely worse and more pathetic than the system wars banter that people were actually having at the time over this kind of stuff.

>>11936790
I'm just here to enjoy old games and systems, this thread is great as it is full of them, even if it was posted to troll spectrum users.

>>11936879
I mean, I sort of don't blame you given how
entertaining it is to see how mental these people are.

But it's how everything gets pushed towards any excuse to shit on Nintendo that's so schizo-like. Like, any decent dev/programmer/artist is going to respect Nintendo and the efforts the various console devs put into making good games for their respective systems, the jostling for this idea of complete superiority of personal computer systems is almost entirely on the crowd of amateur 'enthusiasts' with a stick up their arse, when actual devs either respected other's efforts or naturally became console devs themselves on gaining enough clout to do so.

>>11927679 (OP)
I hope every British retro gamer has a very nice day today.

>>11937086
The same to you anon, have a lovely day and enjoy life.

Consider this.
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles. 24 different nations and campaigns from Caesar through to Alexander and Atilla the hun. The Spectrum had some great strategy games

>>11937085
Auster has brain problems, and thinks he can reprogram everyone into hating Nintendo through repetition, and when that inevitably fails, he just seethes and posts bait threads for days.

Did anyone else play Operation wolf with a Light gun on the spectrum?

>>11937085
>any decent dev/programmer/artist is going to respect Nintendo
kek no. Stuff like the ganecube, gameboy and gamecube was considered as junk back in the day and no one wanted to work on it, it was fucking awful to develop for even with British authored dev kits and Nintendo are notoriously awful to deal with. Rares games are test platforms for the dev kit. To give you an example of something people wanted to work on in contrast renderware games on the PS2 which wre a dekigh, The spectrum itself was loved as a development system with fantastic assembler tool sets. Do you ahve any idea how litigeous and over bearing Nintendo are? They make dealing with Mircrosoft seem like a leasure cruise. That's changed now After the decades of humiliation when they finally carwled their way back with the switch they have made very sure to have far less PITA dev support and restrictive conditions. Nintendo would rather agame failed or ran worse than have it look better than there stuff on systems like the N64 or GC and they were already getting prickly on the SNES. They've always been abstards to deal with. No one with experience of them respects them much. There are WAY more important companies in the history of gaming. I have respect for people who were OG Atari programmers or Vic 20 programmers, people who could go miracles in a few K. Where did you get the idea people respected nintendo from? Why? Namco wer emaking better bhardware in tehir cabinets, the pole position cabinet was a masterpiece with dedicated processors for audio and IO..anyway Nintendo is so fucking litigeous that;s about as close a peek insid ethe industry thruthfully in the 90s and 00s as youa re likley to get. By the time the wii came around Nintendo was throwing its underwear and bending over to just get a COD port. The ninnetdno fanbase are also notoriously derranged and obnoxious, don't ask the spectrum people ask, amiga, playstation, sbox anyone and they will all say the detest nintendos trolls

>>11937623
how drunk are you right now

>>11937635
That's just his brain deteriorating in real time.

>>11937623
This is really sad, auster. Seek help.

>>11927679 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hG0xk6g-b8

Great games.

Interesting how much they make tendies seethe,

>>11939309
Hm, it’s free so I will try it

>>11938434
You really don't know that one of the main devlopement kids fo rthe N64 was written ny a team from Psygnosis/ OK then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_Systems

"In 1999, SN Systems won a Game Developer Magazine "Front Line Award" in the Programming Environment category for its Nintendo 64 development product called SN64"

"The company was founded in 1990 by Martin Day and Andy Beveridge. Both directors have backgrounds of developing game console software development tools, such as SNASM and Psy-Q, at Cross Products and later Psygnosis."

"The company had provided tools for the Atari ST, Amiga, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES, Nintendo 64,GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS."


You really have nothing to do with the history of gaming and never deveoped for a single retro system did you? You're just an arsehole with his face pressed up to the glass window from the outside.Ninntendo were a cancerous company to deal with back in the day and harmed themslves massively by being so nither did anyone give much of a shit about them for over a decade from the mid 90s until the shitbox that was the Wii.

Yet the ZX Zpectrum Amiga etc were still utterly based. All the shit you fetishise has code from old spectruim programmers in it. Seethe.

The spectrum was and always will be utterly based along with machines like the commodore 64 and amiga and there is absolutely nothing you can do about that except seethe in your discord.

>>11939318
Make sure you get the map and skim through the novelet that comes with it, also there may be a Free PC port on GOG

>>11939318
Oh I forgot about the mobile ports, I did not realise they were still up yeah enjoy anon.

>>11939319
It must be sad to be a bong nostalgic for games nobody likes

>>11939319
why do you always pretend you worked on games? You're literally "bro thinks he's on the team".

>>11927679 (OP)
>NeoGAF boss fight

>>11927741
>tir na nog
Nonce

bump for speccy

>>11937623
How many GameCubes I'm holding up, you Australian bitch?

>>11939703
Calm down Auster