Why do brits like this so much?
>Affordable, so much that even a broke bong could afford it.>The games were affordable too>Even an 8yo bong could create something cool with it.Is pure soul, Anon. I hope some Brits share their thoughts and memories about the Speccy.
No Brits born in 1990 or after saw one of these things let alone touched one.
You've been at it for five years. Give it a rest. Seek a therapist.
>>12031071Not only the Brits. Portugal has their own ZX Spectrum museum, Spain has several ZX Spectrum games, and a lot of Eastern Europe owned them during and after the Soviet Union, because those were cheap to own, bootleg, pirate, and clone across borders, just like the games being stored in regular tapes.https://loadzx.com/en/
As a burger, i spent the early 2000s fascinated by it when I first learned of it from import retro gaming mags. I eventually got a +2 and I can absolutely see the charm. I imagine to britbongs, their micro scene was equivalent to the popularity of the nes and famicom in burgerland and sushiland, rather than the more computer nerd niche of micros in those countries.
>>12031107>5 yearsTime flies on this hell site, sometimes I forget that it's already been that long since the canton coof lockdowns
>>12031126>sushilandSurprised I haven't heard that one before, A+.
It was the standard in Europe back in the 80's, the same reason why Americans love the nes
>>12031126yurop had the nes and atari 2600 like America, in America they sold the TI computer, Vic 20, Tandy Coco and Timex for $100 but Commodore put out ads saying that you would look like a tip rat if you brought those computers. In 80's it was so hard to find information on what was a good computer and what was a scam, I knew someone with a very old coco, the whole concept of using tapes was so weird and I wondered if all these computers were scams.
>>12031107Retard.
>>12031225Seek help.
>>12031176Europe isn't a single country.In many European countries the C64 dominated and the Speccy was obscure.
>>12031107>>12031231OP here, this is the first thread I make about the ZX Spectrum. It's not a troll thread, I'm genuinely asking what made it so special to British people.OI ME SPECCY is just a funny phrase, please contain your autism and stop trying to derail the thread, already got some pretty cool replies.
luv me speccy'ate 'tendosimple as
>>12031245OP admit it, you're a You farming piece of shit.Got caught in the act I see.
>>12031071i don't get it. where's the screen?
>>12031107what choices does one make in life that leads them to having a meltdown over 7 threads over a 5 year period?
>>12031238And then you have outliers, like commie Hungary, where Tramiel dumped the unsold Commodore 16 stock.
>>12031247What's the story behind the fixation Speccy fans have with Nintendo?
>>12031245It was cheap.The games were super cheap.Huge hobbyist culture around it.>>12031307It's an artificial rivalry created in the minds of American zoomers.Similar to how Brits believe that Germans really care about the British national soccer team.
>>12031261You connect it to a CRT TV.
>>12031325>an artificial rivalry created in the minds of American zoomers.Isn't it the other way around? Speccy fans crying about how Nintendo "stole" the public attention away from bong speccy games.American zoomers don't know what a Speccy is. The only reason Speccy became a meme on /vr/ is because a bong had a meltdown on a Famicom thread once
>>12031358Wasn't that auster? Not a bong.
>>12031325>created in the minds of American zoomers.shut the fuck up about zoomers you FUCKING FAGGOT. zoomers are not even aware of what a speccy is much less anything made by sinclair or what sinclair even was
>>12031394Zoomers here believe they know everything about the speccy because their favorite youtuber talked about it once.
>>12031395Youtubers outside of that one guy is in every comment section and that one ugly tranny (both bongs and not any zoomer's favorite) do not know what a Speccy is.
>>12031420I'd be very surprised if popular retro youtubers like 8bit guy and LGR never made a video about the speccy.
>>12031071When they hold it up next to their snaggleteeth it makes them look whiter.>>12031082>I was born in 2020 or after and have never touched my thing
>>12031307All the speccy devs went on to make tenide games.
>>12031420Larry and Kim Justice?
>>12031071It and it's peers taught millions to code and they did it by typing in code from magazines to play games. The spectrum was affordable to millions of people at a time when computers were very expensive.
>>12031082>No Brits born in 1990 or after saw one of these things let alone touched one.There were miltiple spectrum versions, the last one had a full size keyboard and a 3 inch disk drive and could even run CPM. Amstrad bought Sinclair and released a 128K model with a full keyboard and a tape deck built into it and they were very common in the late 80s. They were still around in the early 90s. The OG rubber keyed ZX 48K model is the iconic one though and for good reasons. It was designed to me affordable with mazimum bang for the buck and was really popular outside the UK too. Games were easy to write and cheap and easy to pirate and its limitations caused people to push the boundaries and create some very cool stuff. It was a machine for coders and nerd kids who loved games. The commodore 64 was also an excellent machine but it was vastly more expensive.
>>12031071There was a thread here (made past 2020 and before this year) where a very generous bong just posted screenshots and descriptions of the best ZX Spectrum games. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>12032742LORDS OF MIDNIGHT
>>12031071It was also infintely extendable via the sheer innovation of the sene at the time, light guns, speech synths, fast tape drives, disk drives, cartridge ports, joystick ports, memory snapshotters, full size keyboards, sound chips, speech sythesisers, robotics controllers with programmable relays, drum machines, printer and serial ports even LAN via the sinclair interface one, the oddball game even came with hardware expansion cards look up shadow of the unicorn etc etc etc all programmable by kids in BASIC and assembler. Modding it to composite etc etc The thing was fucking amazing even in its earliest incarnation and it came with a thick ringbound manual on coding that was brilliantly written. Clive Sinclair was fucking legend.
>>12032742I'll be back later to do you a list if that anonn does not surface but start with Lords of Midnight and Elite. What kind of stuff do you like, text adventures, platformers, arcade, 3D etc?
>>12032932BLOODY LEGEND MADE ME SPECCY!
>>12032950HE BLEW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF!
>>12032932>it came with a thick ringbound manual on coding that was brilliantly written. Clive Sinclair was fucking legend.https://worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/Thus were many of the coders who went on to write games to this day made.
It was the platform that brought everyone's favorite Willyvania clone..
>>12031079>The games were affordable tooMore like free lmao
>>12032742See I think that was my thread, except I'm from NJ and it was in December 2019. Honestly the Speccy is ass in a lot of ways, but it has lots of interesting titles if you can look past the inherent ugliness of its color palette. Hell I still have the list of Spectrum titles (with some updates from the recent homebrew scene) even if I don't have the screenshots anymore.
