I have not had a Sinclair ZX spectrum for years now. But I kept these games in my garage and found them today upon a clear out.
History -
"Ultimate" are now known as "RARE", the company who were eventually bought by Nintendo and subsequently Microsoft who make games such as Banjo and Kazooie. Its interesting to see that the cassettes are all copyrighted 1984.
I bet some UK'ers on here haven't seen these for a while.
So I urge you to dig something from your gaming past and show us all.
regards,
Richie.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
I dont have anyhting from my past when i moved to hong kong the Humidity pretty much distroyed all my ZX tapes. I know evil funkster has a pretty awesome collection of ZX stuff along with some really old school magazines. I will notify him of this thread tonight
What about ZX spectrum cartridges?
How many exist? Which titles?
These also existed for the MSX.
That would really rock not having to load the games from tape.
when i was in flordia i recall it being a tad pricey it was two bucks to play as where most things were a quater. I recall scoffing the the price of a game of NBA jam which was one quater per game quater (buck a game) that is until i saw this machine.
Lordstar wrote:when i was in flordia i recall it being a tad pricey it was two bucks to play as where most things were a quater. I recall scoffing the the price of a game of NBA jam which was one quater per game quater (buck a game) that is until i saw this machine.
That's a tad bit excessive credit pricing for a single game of Time Traveler. At my local arcade, a single credit of TT would set you back at 75 cents. Considering that TT was a joint collaboration between Rick Dyer Incorporated (RDI) and Sega Enterprises...it was a very expensive endeavor to produce and to market in the first place. It sold quite well upon it's intial debut due to the unique and innovative holographic-like display used to project the imagery in real-time -- it was so unique that Sega & RDI got a patent on it. You can watch some more interesting videos about this TT cabinet in the Digital Leisure released Time Traveler DVD game (that can be played in a regular DVD player unit in either 3-D or traditional 2-D viewing modes).
Only one other PCB kit upgrade was released for the TT cabinet and that was Holoseum -- a 2-D based fighting brawler. I recall a used video game store that was going out of business back in mid 1995 was selling a mint TT cabinet for a mere $250.00 USD. But it took up some considerable space compared to a candy cab or a traditional generic American "woody" upright cabinet setup. ^_~
Chaos on the speccy was the first game I ever loved, 8 players at once and much cheating and hiding button presses went on. Looks like ass now obviously, but me and a mate dug it out a few years back and it was still a riot. I think it came on the front of a magazine as well which was even more awesome.
DJ Incompetent wrote:Played that shit back in the day and it was awful.
Dunno why everybody thinks Time Traveller is shit. Back when I was a kid everybody enjoyed it at my local arcade, myself included.
Hey, I kept puttin' money in it when I was a kid. Because it was purdy. And it was. But C'mon. It was lacking in everything else.
Now the one I was playing wasn't TIme Traveller, but some street fighter-ish type game from what I remember. You need the game to at least function when attempting somethin' like that, ya know?
Heh, the style of letters in the Ultimate logo must have been commercially available. I'm trying to figure out where I've seen it elsewhere - on the title for some SSI game or other.
Speaking of SSI, then, does anybody know which port of the Phantasie games is best? I always kinda liked the AD&D Gold Box engine games and so I should check these out.
This thing wasn't big in Canada... if sold at all during its time. I quite liked the original Jetpac that came with Jetpac Refueled or w/e the fuck it's called on xbla though.
