this motherfucker right here
a gateway to misdeeds
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I dream of a new microcomputing era (one that doesn’t mostly depend on the raspberry pi foundation and the continued use of conflict minerals). Gimme my cute lil keyboard that does cool stuff!!
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I want to make the case for Wriggler balancing cartoon innocence against a pastoral Hellscape where everything will kill you
but I won’t!
Once again linking the definitive document on computer games: Eleven ZX Spectrum Games of Interest
Batman for ZX Spectrum is playable and I proved it by setting the world speedrun record that still hasn’t been beaten (or recognized by the powers that be but that isn’t my fault).
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I have! I still think I prefer ArcElite to Oolite, Oolite is just a little too aesthetically mid 00s freeware pc game so its not my thing as much, though I respect the effort 100%
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Halfway through reading this I realized these are real games that exist and not parodies of what Spectrum games seem like.
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It’s probably worth saying that the Gameboy version of Robocop is a port of the Spectrum Robocop game, which probably makes it easier to play.
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Having a top 11 list and then making one of the “11 games” an ad for your own indie game that isn’t even released yet is some top-tier clickbait.
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Ah Diddums
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My best ZX games list
- Deathchase- there’s a remake of this and it’s good, but the original is still good. It’s pretty much the speeder bike chase through the forest scene from Return of the Jedi made into a whole arcade style game.
- The Great Escape- a pretty tight isometric adventure game about escaping a nazi pow camp.
- La Abadia del Crimen- Spanish language isometric adventure game mentioned by Tulpa earlier. Probably better than the Great Escape, and it has a remake worth playing.
- Renegade series- somehow this originated as a Kunio port. The sequel Target Renegade got an NES prt and it’s not good. Third game in the series becomes single plane and includes time travel for no reason other than karate vs dinosaurs.
- Ping Pong- Konami brings table tennis. It’s technically very nice for the time, worth a bit of a look just to prove that the machine can do things.
- Robocop- Play the gameboy version and know that you are playing the spectrum version minus technical jank. It’s still hard and maddening and feels very Robocop.
- The Sentinel- weird proto 3d game where you have to use stealth to avoid the Sentinel, and teleport across the map to higher ground to take out the Sentinel. Absorb energy from trees and rocks to destroy them and use that energy to make new landscape elements to move to. There’s ports that are easier to get running but it’s a definite euro weird game.
- Saboteur and Saboteur II- Ninja exploration and action. Side scrolling
There was one I played when younger that was an isometric hang giiding game that may have been a type in game. It was all about travelling from the bottom right to the upper left and trying to get as much distance as possible. I can’t remember the name of it but it was pretty neat on my neighbor’s sinclair.
Tulpa already mentioned Elite. I never got into it so I can’t vouch. I can say that the ZX had a lot of isometrci action adventure type games and arcade racing games and that was the main appeal to me, not the platfomers that looked like they belonged in some space between the Atari 2600 and the NES technologically.
Honorable mention for eurogame of worth is Exile for the Acorn and BBC Micro, which got remaid by Ovine Design and honestly a lot of games have been remade by ovine and that’s probably the best way to experience most of these games https://www.ovine.net
edit: the dl link is down on ovine dot net, not sure if they are still active
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this 1985 Czechoslovakian 8-bit micro is so obscure, Wikipedia doesn’t even mention it
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