Gaming from the Atic (sic)
Influenced by our friend, Julian's impressive (and slightly worrying) collection of retro games consoles plus the recent BBC4 Electric Dreams programming, I raided the attic to find Kerry's ZX Spectrum for some classic gaming. I'd bought this for her birthday or Christmas present some years ago, not the rubber keyboard version but the newer 128k '+2' with proper keyboard and integrated tape deck (according to Wikipedia it cost £149 at launch) plus a heap of games. We were amazed it still worked and the legendary loading sound brought back memories of worry and paranoia whether the tape would load (until we got bored of listening to it).
Over the past few evenings we've tried a Dizzy game (you played an egg character), Manic Miner, Hyper Sports and Atic Atac. Manic Miner is still hard-as-nails to play, Hyper Sports surprisingly addictive and Atic Atac a recurring nightmare with a finger twister to play on the keyboard with all keys on one row. You can even see my YouTube videos of us playing them! We're now trawling through ebay to find other classics such as any Ultimate Play the Game titles like Sabre Wulf, Tranz Am and Jetman, The Hobbit, Daley Thompson's Decathelon and Trashman.
There's some good resources out there including the World of Spectrum if you want to know literally anything about the Spectrum. Alternatively, if you want to remind yourselves instantly of some classic gaming try the Classic Online Games website and their Spectrum section. There's 20 games including Chuckie Egg, Jetset Willy and Jet Pac. You might need to update your browser's Java. Also just found Road Rash for the old Sega!
Can anyone tell me what the game was where you travelled around a forest shooting at other motorbikes?
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Over the past few evenings we've tried a Dizzy game (you played an egg character), Manic Miner, Hyper Sports and Atic Atac. Manic Miner is still hard-as-nails to play, Hyper Sports surprisingly addictive and Atic Atac a recurring nightmare with a finger twister to play on the keyboard with all keys on one row. You can even see my YouTube videos of us playing them! We're now trawling through ebay to find other classics such as any Ultimate Play the Game titles like Sabre Wulf, Tranz Am and Jetman, The Hobbit, Daley Thompson's Decathelon and Trashman.
There's some good resources out there including the World of Spectrum if you want to know literally anything about the Spectrum. Alternatively, if you want to remind yourselves instantly of some classic gaming try the Classic Online Games website and their Spectrum section. There's 20 games including Chuckie Egg, Jetset Willy and Jet Pac. You might need to update your browser's Java. Also just found Road Rash for the old Sega!
Can anyone tell me what the game was where you travelled around a forest shooting at other motorbikes?
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