November 25, 2005
ZX Spectrum Blues
I miss my ZX Spectrum. I've been avoiding downloading the emulator because the last time I did (before having to format the disk) I spent a weekend in my pajamas playing Chucky Egg II, jumping over spiders and rats, finding milk and cocoa.
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I miss Lazy Jones (a video game using the Linking Room narrative device :-). My very first game after Pong.
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I miss Hungry Horace, that incipient, fruit eating version of Pac Man.
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I miss Auf Wiedersehen Monty, where Monty Mole goes around Europe collecting money to buy a greek island.
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I miss Daley Thompson's Decathlon (desperately pressing "O" and "P" to make the characters run).
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I miss Jet Set Willy II and its maddening, annoying background music.
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I miss Herbert's Dummy Run, a toddler looking for his parents inside a department store.
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I miss typing LOAD "" and hearing that awful sound coming from the tape recorder. I miss POKE.
( so 80's)
Posted by claudia