Wednesday 22 May 2013

Speccy



Made this over the weekend. It's the first time I've used the old ZX Spectrum music engine for music, and it sure is quicker to make things in, forcibly so, as you have limited options to fiddle about with. Its fun in a nostalgic way to use this system as it was my first exposure to videogames. My brother and I used to play the spectrum decades ago, waiting sometimes for 20-30 minutes just for a game to load from the tape cassette, even turning it round to side B if it hadn't finished loading by then! Half the games we had weren't all that much good, but we forgot which ones were, so I remember trying out all of them one by one and occasionally stumbling upon a great game. Dave enjoyed a Brian Clough Football Manager game, I seem to remember being happy when he decided to put me in his custom team once, only to find out to my dismay that the first game of the season gave me a career ending injury!