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If you're around the 40 mark

posted 9 years ago by Xerra-Baldy
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For all you guys who had your teenage years in the early 80's and were into this new fad called the home computer, this film will bring back memories for you.

Almost everything I saw had a memory for me and the film's so unbiased - for those of who who remember the playground rows about who's computer was better than who's - that you'll sit through all of it just remembering those games you loved.

I've watched this twice now, and will do so many more times. If you had a Vic 20, C64, ZX81, Spectrum, Amstrad, Oric, Dragon then watch it yourself and bring back some of your childhood.

And the C64 was the best computer ever. I'm just saying!!

[–] federicocristina 9 years ago

"And the C64 was the best computer ever."

Amen to that

[–] federicocristina 9 years ago

"And the C64 was the best computer ever."

Amen to that

[–] Goatlips 9 years ago

Was it *beep* I understand that despite it being 64k the usable memory and processor speed was actually less than the 48k Spectrum - let alone the 128.
The C64 only had more colours - but to use them the pixels/sprites had to be twice the size of Spectrum graphics, thus worse graphics and blocky sprites.
You lot must be dumb Yank fanboys who never even saw a Spectrum. I had a Spectrum & a C64 and was shocked by how bad the C64 was in comparison.
Anyway, computer power isn't how you judge games machines, it's the games themselves! The Spectrum must've had multiplee times more games and they were far better and more playable. The C64 really struggled with fast arcade games and its best rated games were slow adventures. Match Day II (the best sports game) was much better on the 48k and even the Amstrad version played faster than the sluggish Commodore one.
The Spectrum's pinacle in games was Target: Renegade - nothing on the C64 could play anywhere near as good as that.
Fact.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (12526472) 8 years ago

Haha yes, but the Spectrum's frequently monochrome graphics or severe colour clash were bad. But fast games were more playable on Spectrum, Chase HQ was great on my +2 and was even faster than the Amiga version at the time!!!