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 Spectrum Memories Part 8
Posted Apr 16, 2011 19:40 (294 days ago)
I bought a +2 in March 1990 and for a while I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. My 48k+ model had started to become increasingly tetchy as had its cassette player with games either not loading properly or crashing at a crucial stage. A [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 7
Posted Feb 14, 2011 22:19 (355 days ago)
Shooters were the genre of choice for many a Speccy owners. You could keep your platformers, strategy titles and racing games; we just wanted to shoot, shoot and shoot!From the very beginning videogames have featured a heavy shooting aspect. The Spe [...]
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 Spectrum Memories Part 6
Posted Feb 3, 2011 21:39 (Feb 3, 2011 21:39)
Film licenses hugely varied in quality on the Spectrum; obviously the desire to squeeze huge Hollywood blockbusters onto a meagre 48k meant results could be anything from superb to disastrous. They tended to be less common than nowadays when ev [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 5
Posted Jan 25, 2011 23:25 (Jan 25, 2011 23:25)
Codemasters - Absolutely Brilliant!The Codies came late to the Spectrum party with their first games released in early 1987. They were an instant hit in no small part to the price: all their titles cost a pocket-money friendly £1.99 and general [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 4
Posted Jan 19, 2011 19:43 (Jan 19, 2011 19:43)
Budget Re-releasesWe're not talking Playstation platinum here, where re-released games still cost a pocket-money busting 20 quid. These were proper budget prices!As the Spectrum entered the beginning of the end, the major publishers all gradually re-r [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 3
Posted Dec 30, 2010 23:40 (Dec 30, 2010 23:40)
Crash Magazine December and Christmas Special Issues, Winter 1986I read all three of the three main Sinclair Spectrum magazines, devouring each page of reviews, letters, previews and other assorted nonsense. Crash was my favourite though, and th [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 2
Posted Dec 22, 2010 21:44 (Dec 22, 2010 21:44)
Most early Spectrum games came in the regular single cassette box. Well, why wouldn't they? The box did it's job, held the cassette and an instructions inlay that could be folded several times and still fit comfortably within the confines of the [...]
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Spectrum Memories Part 1
Posted Dec 17, 2010 20:19 (Dec 17, 2010 20:19)
Spectrum Memories Part 1: The first SpectrumI still to this day don't know where my Spectrum 48k+ bundle that I received for Christmas 1986 came from. It could have been Dixons. Or WH Smith. Or Harrods, for all I know. Certainly my parents ca [...]
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Re: New Job
Posted Oct 10, 2011 18:45 (117 days ago)
I 've been to stockholm, lovely place. Bit cold though in February! |
Re: New Job
Posted Sep 27, 2011 21:56 (130 days ago)
How's it going Chris? |
Re: Replay
Posted Sep 27, 2011 21:55 (130 days ago)
Can't make it this year alas away on business - already down for next year tho! |
Re: Cars 2
Posted Sep 27, 2011 21:54 (130 days ago)
Haven't the reviews been a bit sniffy?Still if the kids love it, so what! |
Re: *shakes head*
Posted Sep 27, 2011 21:54 (130 days ago)
that is very sad! I love Chuckie Egg :-0) |
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