>friend drags his cumbersome sega meggy over>wants to play sonic pointyhoggy>i go "nah bruv speccy got soul">the soul:
do you have a license for that speccy op
>>12039664>code master'sthis implies there is a single code master, not a team. was this true?
>>12039664strawman bollocks threadspectrum 48k 1982Mega Drive 1990 (1989 in the US)Yet it still had no keyboard. Meanwhile Scuba Dive by durrel soft released in 1983 and eco the dolphin was 1992. Get the fuck out OP.
Is it true that Sinclair hated videogames?
>>12039723>strawman bollocks thread^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>12039668>mfw me speccy loicense experied 7 fortnights ago
>>12039664Sorry but no sega fans or speecy fans were able to answer your call. They are all busy laughing and pointing and tendies and unavailable to reply to b8 threads out of mutual respect and shared loathing.
>>12039726What
>>12039664OI mate shut the fuck up
>>12039743fawk off with your soggy meggy mate
>>12039723I don't buy it, so probably
>>12039723yes. until he realized it was his gateway to making money to fund his real passion projects.https://youtu.be/V3l_NV9oQ1c?feature=shared
>>12039721>taking bait this easilyhello autism.OPs post is JOKE
fokkin ell it's dizzy me old lad
ME OWN SON A FUCKIN MEGADRIVE GAMER
>>12039664Why can’t British “people” stop making games about eggs?
>>12039723it's like how Ford hated racing
>>12041014OI ME EGGY
Best of all, the waitresses and showgirls are all real brits, fresh from the streets of Sussex they are!
>>12039664>What kinda palette you want?Just fuck my shit up
>>12041014eggs are easy to draw
>buy a loightknoife for me speccy at tescos>gonna play so much operation wolf>oi mate, got a loicense for that loightknoife?>fuccy, forgot to renew me's permit last half fortnite
>>12043836>>fuccykeeek
>>12045125interesting cover art
>>12045714he's off to groom miners
I'm Mexican, and back in 1985, I had a Sinclair made by Timex. It was "rare," but not in the "expensive rare" way, more like "nobody wants it, rare." I can’t remember how much I paid for it, but it wasn’t a lot. It came with a manual, not an unofficial one, but a guide on how to operate it and how to program on it. As for its construction, it felt cheap yet well-made, kind of like a Casio wristwatch.It didn't have a scene; there was just a columnist who shared stuff about it in a local magazine, and that was it. In '86, I got a Sony Hit-Bit and completely lost interest in the Sinclair. The MSX had a scene, and a few of faggots at my community college owned one.I think the Sinclair was a massive failure in America because consumers weren’t interested in microcomputers; it was too niche. In the UK, they had a TV show about programming and computer science, and even an official British Broadcasting Corporation microcomputer made by Acorn. The Speccy was a hit because it was the most affordable way to get into that new technology, which is why kids created so much with it. Their government encouraged children to learn how to code. Europeans have a different way of viewing the world, and I think it’s evident in engineering.
>>12045819It had a scene in europe.
>>12046721Not in America, that's for sure.
>>12045819>I think the Sinclair was a massive failure in America because consumers weren’t interested in microcomputersThe Commodore 64 was a massive success in the US. People just didn't want something that was worse and offered nothing the C64 couldn't do, which was already relatively inexpensive.
>>12048186>People just didn't want something that was worse and offered nothing the C64 couldn't doBy "people," I think you mean college students, hobbyist and white-collar workers. The Commodore 64 cost four times as much as the Sinclair, targeting a different market. The Speccy was designed for children to learn coding, experiment, and have fun, but the concept of kids tinkering with computers was niche in America. In the 1980s, an American kid was more likely to play games on videogame console rather than to learn BASIC on their own computer; Nintendo had a reason for not bringing Famicom BASIC to America.Sinclair could have been a success with better marketing. The Speccy rode the hype train of the BBC Micro, but Sinclair had nothing, it was so niche. It was affordable and easy to use, but no one knew about it, and it never developed a scene in America. America lagged behind Europe in this regard until MS-DOS and IBM PC clones emerged.
>>12048491College students had their own computer halls where anyone could go to get a computer, and students were more likely to invest in a full fledged desktop computer, not a micro. An IBM PC or an Apple IIe were the computers for college students. And white collar workers, are you high? They had their own office standard to work from, IE, also buying Apple II's or IBM's, mostly IBM's.The primary market for the C64 was "families", where it was marketed as being able to do finances, perform coding functions, and work as a gaming system. Teenagers absolutely used it for coding. Its versatility is why it became the top selling independent computer model of all time.>an American kid was more likely to play games on videogame console rather than to learn BASIC on their own computerEvery group of kids is more likely to do that.>Nintendo had a reason for not bringing Famicom BASIC to America.The They didn't bring it anywhere outside of Japan, and even if they had, it would've been smoked by the Commodore, because it was shit.
>>12048530You misunderstood a simple two-paragraph post. My point is that the Speccy (Sinclair) had a niche presence in the American market, so there's no reason to bring up the C64 in the discussion, especially since you admitted it didn't share the same market with the Sinclair. The American cultural counterpart to the Speccy is MS-DOS and IBM PC clones.>Every group of kids is more likely to do that.The Speccy became a cultural phenomenon in the UK and Europe for a good reason....>it would've been smoked by the CommodoreYou might not realize it, but you're comparing different markets. I don't think you understood it.>are you high?There's no point in discussing a topic if I'm just going to be insulted and suddenly labeled as a druggie. This conversation holds no value, and you're not even aware. God bless.
>>12048560>The American cultural counterpart to the Speccy is MS-DOS and IBM PC clones.You're high, my dude
>Oi, we 'ave reports of unauthorized Mega Drive operation
>>12048573kek
>>12039697Four people made that game. Check the OP screenshot.The Oliver twins made a lot of money out of this.There was at least three years between Sonic on the Megadrive/genesis and treasure island dizzy so the comparison doesn’t really work for OP’s image.Also there would have been a significant price difference. Dizzy games were usually £2-3.
>>12048843One Code Master and three Code Apprentices
>>12048573I'm surprised how fast this meme has travelled to other boards.
>>12048560I didn't "misunderstand" anything, you're just deliberately trying to push a narrative that you have no understanding of as you clearly are not American. And I never said anywhere that it didn't share the same market with the Spectrum, I said that it was simply not as good of a choice. And yes, the primary competitor of the Spectrum WAS the C64. The Spectrum caught on more in Europe because generally in the 1980's, and still to this day in most of the continent, they were poorer than Americans, so the Spectrum's cheaper price tag and similar versatility was more attractive. >The Speccy became a cultural phenomenon in the UK and Europe for a good reason....Because it was cheaper than the C64, while still selling less than it....I genuinely don't understand your argument, are you trying to somehow, through some retarded leap of logic, trying to say that the ZX Spectrum is evidence that Europe has better programmers? Most of the technological leaps in software and hardware computing have been the result of American involvement.>You might not realize it, but you're comparing different markets. I don't think you understood it.So now we're using motte and bailey logical fallacies, are we? And I understood it perfectly well. The Nintendo Family Basic was not particularly amazing, nor well designed.>There's no point in discussing a topic if I'm just going to be insulted and suddenly labeled as a druggie. Well it's hard not to respond with hyperbolic rhetoric when something so mind numbingly obvious is suddenly thrown out the window for fan fiction.>This conversation holds no value, and you're not even aware.Yes, you are NOT aware, clearly. Anyone who thinks businesses were buying up C64's for their workplace clearly has absolutely no understanding of the clear delineation of who was buying what when and where. Not apologizing for not going along with your revisionism of what actually happened.
>>12048970ive even seen it on youtube, 4chan has rapid cultural impact these days
>>12048530students could not afford PCs in the 80s they cost a fortune you are full of shit>>12049381You are right he is wrong, he's full of shit
