Commando on ZX Spectrum

I remember replacing the micro switches in a comp pro with ones meant for an electric pallet truck at work but it would have been for an Amiga by then.

Forgot about skool daze and back to skool! god it doesn’t feel like over 30 years ago but on the other hand my god it does

Double Dragon

We had a 16k rubber key, then a +, then a +3.

It was lovely to move from eyore, eyore, tissssshhhhhhh, eyore, scrreeeeecccchhhh, eyore, eyore,

To the chug, chug of a 3″ floppy drive – you know the size noone else seemed to use ever and which it was outrageously hard to find games on. 🙄

We even had one of those little heat and silver printers too.

The Formula 1 game was a pile of fetid dingoes kidneys though.

Does anyone remember those “mystery” books that had a load of BASIC code in that you copied to solve the mysteries?

So who got their code listed in a mag then?

You?

I sent in a simple Penalty shoot out game with stick man graphics to Sinclair user, which to my surprise was published.

Fond memories of film tie ins being amazing on the spectrum. Batman was a favourite along with Robocp.

Flying the batwing to cut the balloons was brilliant.

Ocean were great at these games.

Ahhh, yeah, Robocop was brill on the Spectrum and The Untouchables was pretty good too. I remember the music on the 128 version of Robocop being really, really good. Me and my mam used to play Bombjack for aaaaages trying to better each other’s high scores 🤣

I became obssessed with The Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge. Also in the very way days viking raiders and the monty series of games

Think the very first games I do remember playing were things like Horace goes Sking and Frogger.