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My Kindergarten classroom used to have a lot of these computers, for educational purposes of course.

Bentley Turbo R (1985-1997)🛞

Too bad they fumbled so much getting this out onto the marketplace. If it came out finished as announced it could have sold a lot in EU and not ending up getting dumped in Jugoslavia to save some cash before they went belly up. The games looks great compared to Amstrad and Spectrum games.

Gravity Force II / Gravity Power not even in the top 50 :( IIRC Amiga Power rated SWOS and GF2/GP their two best games of all time. It was probably the game that we played the most.

This machine really should have been retired by the time Street Fighter II arrived, yet it got a version of the game which looks like it's running on an Etch-A-Sketch. Even the Commodore 64 didn't have the oomph to handle Street Fighter II, but the ZX Spectrum?!

No Grandia?

Congratulations on the 15K subs! Like others in the comments have said, you should have over 100K based on how great your content is. You are a veritable fount of knowledge on all things retro gaming. Informative take on the idea of Atari buying ColecoVision. I was also thinking they should buy them next. I would just love to see a ColecoVision+ as the original console is notorious for being very unreliable (I've never owned one myself). I also strongly agree with your argument that Atari should acquire Atari Games & bring all those great Atari arcade games back under their umbrella! This should be their top priority when it comes to acquiring IP - I've been wishing this for years. Some other big Atari Games IP you didn't mention is Rampart, the SanFrancisco Rush games, Area 51 & its sequel, Maximum Force (published these last 3). I would also love to see a video of your take on The400 Mini.

A nice trip down memory lane. I went for the C64 in3 because I hated that rubber keyboard. I ended up getting one later for some of the games. It was certainly a very big seller that very quickly became more of a games console than a computer for most people.

Hey ho guys! Maybe one of you can help me with a question. When I was a little child, I had a gaming console that looked exactly like the 2600 jr. long rainbow. And I mean exactly in every detail. But I remember that I needed no cartridges to play. I just turned it on and there was the game. Turned it of and back on, and there was another game. If I remember correctly there was a total of maybe 20 - 30 games. Even the controllers looked the same (black rectangle, two red buttons and a D - Pad). What do you think? A blunt clone or was that some kind of exotic Atari test console?

In America during the early 80s, the Timex Sinclair 1000 was definitely recognized as the least expensive possible option for getting a home computer, at $99.95. The 1K of RAM in the first model jumped out in its specs. I hadn’t realized until now that Sinclair enabled you to use your own tape recorder! I had only known of the ones sold by computer manufacturers such as Commodore.

For me the 48k spectrum is the only spectrum and is the by far the most iconic spectrum

I first computer was a timex sinclair. The keyboard suuuuucked and never fully worked right

lol stunts racer was so much fun, i remember making a really long square track with just one jump to see how fast and how high we could jump the car

48k rubber keys was my first computer followed by a plus 3 but truth be told I always secretly wanted a c64. The spectrum hardware wasn't great

I have all 4 Telstar carts. I was surprised to see the advert in this video that showed 6 carts.. I guess 5 and 6 were never released

The scrolling on that driving game is pretty good.

i guess them going with z80 ended up being a mistake since it was one of the best options when the first msx came out but zilog didn't believe in backwards compatibility like most companies back then .so the msx had to switch to another architecture but then it wouldn't be backwards compatible. the only cpu architecture that was used back then and is still used in modern computers is 86x. but in the early 80s they were bad and expensive so most companies went for z80 or 6502 or 68000 but they all didn't make it far .i think that is why a lot of early computer companies didn't make it past the 90s.

Just after you said Atari 8-bit was un-affordable @28:18 you showed an advert for an Atari 800XL with cassette recorder and joystick for £79-99. That was the "price crash". Many of the better equipped 8-bit computers were heavily discounted by the mid-1980s. The breadbin C64 was £350 with tape drive in 1983, but down to £200 with a tape drive and software pack at the end of 1985. Sinclair marketed the Spectrum as having hi-res graphics with colour. That wording was important. It's like saying soup with beef, when there's not enough beef to label it beef soup. The Spectrum was hi-res monochrome, with low-res colour. It had sound, but no sound chip, so the CPU had to drop everything whilst the buzzer made a fart noise. The Spectrum was just good enough, but the huge range of software distributed cheaply on cassette was attractive. The BBC micro was attractive, but for its build quality, speed, and great version of BASIC. Shame it always seemed to cost £399, which was a lot for a computer with just 32K RAM. You needed a disk drive for multi-loaders, such as Elite, and a drive cost another £200.

I had the original 48k after a ZX81 - so the keyboard and the input was second nature. actually a pain in the a** using a proper keyboard like on the BBC, because it was slower.

The graphics were really underwhelming for an expensive 1990 release. You had much cheaper gaming consoles for cheaper and I don't see much on the non-gaming side making it superior to other available computer models

I had an Issue 2 16K Spectrum for £125, early in 1983. Much of the software being sold at that point worked on the 16K. After a few months I noticed most of the new titles were for the 48K only, so I bought a cheap 3rd party RAM upgrade. The chips just plugged into sockets on the issue 2 circuit board.

3:40 wasnt the 16 bit apple IIGS backwards compatable with ii+/iiE/iiC software?

I remember getting this as a hand me down from my cousin how was living in the UK at the time. I already had an MSX and the Speccy had inferior specs compared to the MSX but the games were awesome which I kept getting games for until the summer 1990 when I got the Amiga A500❤. Thanks for the video. Much respect for this little machine which offered computing for the masses.

I think many Americans know very little about the more advanced Sinclair machines. In 1982, Timex brought the ZX81 to the USA as the Timex Sinclair 1000, but by 1982 that computer was woefully underpowered relative to the popular Atari 8-bit computers and the Commodore 64, and Timex quickly got out of the computer market. That said, this iteration of the Sinclair is a remarkably capable computer for its day.

I may be wrong,. But I dont think there were ram packs for the Spectrum. The shop I worked in had to send to a nearby service shop to have chips installed. The only ram pack was unique to Shadow of the Unicorn.

Owned a Plus back in the day. What a new world it opened my eyes to!

yay speccy time.. i own three of them, spectrum + and microdrive, spectrum +2a and Spectrum Next.

THREE 60 minute Cassette Tapes in a cellophane pack could be purchased for IR £1 at my local Quinnsworth back in the day ( which ultimately became Tesco )

as an american, I REALLY appreciate the appeal of the rubber key speccy! affordability was soooooo important back then and the fact that sir clive actually cared about accessibility was so huge. and this is something I can only appreciate now but limitations give these 8 bit machines CHARACTER. when I was a kid, I always wanted the latest and greatest and lusted after the newest features on the newest machines but folks who contented themselves with what they had ended up having a lot more fun! I go back to stuff like vic20 now because of the charm of it being so limited and the amazing ingenuity on display when coders were able to squeeze lode runner onto a machine that didn't even have a graphics mode! and the spectrum saving on memory by using the keys as basic tokens, I just consider it that kind of ingenuity - especially since it more or less directly addresses the limitations of the rubbery keyboard. and the fact that basically every kid had it must've created an amazing community where everyone could share and chat about this one unifying aspect of their lives. I don't think any american machine could compete for having THAT level of cultural impact and ubiquity.

Sad to relate, all I have of my original speccy is the outer box (with all my original games inside it)

I paid £139.99 for mine… week after it went down by a tenner 😢

Germany always wins. Cough world war one. Cough world war two.

One of my childhood friends had this beast (another one had the C64 and I had the Atari 800XL) - we enjoyed playing games on every computer any of us had, but this machine was the only one I did not enjoy trying to do any programming for. I still recall how I hated the keyboard and how much I was frustrated by the input system as such. Just like you said, the 128K was a huge improvement, especially with the keyboard being at least somewhat tactile, though it still kept the input scheme. If I recall correctly, one of my elementary school classmates had the "+" model, which was also better for non-gaming usage.

Had one. Donated by an old man that got dementia... probably after using this computer.

1st hell yeah a specy vid my first computer i have got 1 still till this day i play my spectrum vega more for convenience...any chance of a future review on the spectrum vega?? Love the content ❤ keep up the good work

The instruction manual is the size of War and Peace. 🤣 Loved the video.

I had the 48k model. I remember getting this as an upgrade to the zx81. Colours at last! However there was only the spare black and white TV which was unfortunate! The keyboard was a nightmare. I think I had to get the membrane replaced due to non functioning keys. Perhaps killed them with Daley Thompson's decathlon. The manuals were really good from Sinclair. Was nice getting away from the plug in ram pack on the zx81 which wobbled about. Most played games were manic miner, jet set willy and Elite. Ah the memories! Thanks for bringing them back!

The v9958 is not a stripped down v9978. It is an upgraded v9938 and was introduced in 1988 for the msx2+

V9990 was released in 1991 also it never had the compatibly with the v99x8 . It is not removed . They left it out in the design , greatly frustrating nishi

y donde estan los remakes???

i had never even heard of MSX until about 10 years ago

LOL, I definitely remember those Sega Master System TV commercials starring a super-young Stephen Dorff back when I was in grade school and middle school. Great times.

The A1ST also does not have tape support.

I bought / imported this computer in 1992 to the Netherlands where I live. It was very expensive and also had to buy a 220v to 110v converter as the computer run on 110v. I had a lot of fun with this machine and now it has its final rest place in the HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond, the Netherlands so all the visitors can play with this remarkable machine

No wonder Sega lost this generation.

There is something fascinating about a machine that was a relative success elsewhere, especially as it was the incubator of some franchises well known today.

not sure if you're aware, but I'm pretty sure the art at 7:25 is not official msx art, and is actually concept fan art by arne jensen of android arts. I don't know if this matters, but fyi anyway...

Great work thanks for sharing

all versions are good the zx spectrum versions is the best but its a home brew and homebrews on zx spectrum are almost always better than the games that came out when it was new .but this home brew is from a unique period 1995 .so while its from after the zx spectrum got discontinued it was only 2 years later and many people were still using it as their main computer because it was cheap in a time when a new pc was still too expensive for many people. and the internet was just getting started but wasn't seen as essential yet .so its hard to judge it as a modern game or a true retro game. but if it was ported to the zx spectrum at the same time as the other versions it wouldn't have been this impressive .but it could have still been good since its quite a simple game even if a lot of the zxspectum ports were bad even by the standards of the time .

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