Half way Decent ZX Spectrum games?

There were LOADS of good Speccy games. Just about anything by Codemasters was great - of course the Dizzy Games but stuff like the Seymour games, Slightly Magic, ATV Simulator. There were lots of good text adventures like Moron, The Hobbit, Bored of the Rings, the Ket trilogy. Lots of love for Ultimate Play the Game games, too e.g Jet Pac. Skool Daze / Bak to Skool. Most would say Elite. All the Horace games. I liked Joe Blade. Some good coin-op conversions like R-Type... but you have MAME now so they'll look bad. The Monty games. Riptoff on the Crash tape was a good Repton clone. How to be a Complete Bastard. The isometric games like Ocean's Head Over Heels and Bat Man or Ultimate's Knight Lore were good.

Yeah, so many good games... although you may struggle with them if you didn't play them in the day. Especially if you didn't have something like a Commodore 64 or an Atari 2600 to appreciate the basic limitations.

 

I had an old Tandy computer with shitty graphics and before that a Radio Shack computer with Monochrome monitor. I played a few Speccy games in browser and found them to be fun. I'm at around 97 games now with more coming.

 

How bout Laser Squad? I heard good things about it and it was made by the same guy who later made UFO/X-COM for Microprose so it can't be bad.

 

I have all the laser squad games in the Speccy folder

 

3D Ant Attack
Way of the Exploding Fist
The Hobbit
Skooldaze

 

YES I NEED way of the exploding fist

 

Feud
Stop The Express

Popeye and Trap Door are really technically impressive.

and as has been mentioned Chase HQ is amazing. Incredible conversion. The guys that programmed that were ninjas.

http://reassembler.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/interview-with-spectrum-legend-bill.html

 

QUOTE="LainPW, post: 895660, member: 103134"]Jet Set Willy! Hope you don't want to finish it, though - it's impossible![/QUOTE]
I couldnt get through the 1st level

 

Are you kidding? Just looking now and there's no 1200 for less than £200 for a basic machine, devoid of cables or WHDLoad. It's why I opted for a 500 - has most of the games for a fraction of the price...

 

That's why I said "commands a good price", meaning you're going to have to dig deep for a decent A1200 setup.

 

Ah...I interpreted that as meaning reasonable price. A 'good' price would not be expensive, to me!