Your Sinclair Rock n Roll Years 1987 is out!
Posted on January 6, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Technology.
As with all the previous episodes, this one is a zinger even if you were a C64 or (god forbid) Dragon user. I had stopped my involvement with home computers by 1987, what with being in college and discovering drink instead. So I found it particularly interesting that they mention a game called “Head Over Heels” which was considered by many to be the greatest example of its genre ever created.
I’d never heard of it so I’ve just grabbed it from World of Spectrum to play on ZX Spin and they weren’t joking. They did this with 48K of RAM. I think my watch has more than that. Never a huge fan of the 3-D isometric games but this is bloody good.
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5 Replies to "Your Sinclair Rock n Roll Years 1987 is out!"
conor on January 13, 2007
Between loading games and holding it up to the speaker of the radio to record songs off the top 20, we had it tuff.
I may still have my old silver tape recorder in the attic. My Spectrum still works but it sits inside a full sized keyboard so never going to be any joy on eBay with it.
conor on January 13, 2007
Now if only someone would do this with a Spectrum, I’d buy it tomorrow.
John Henry Donovan on January 15, 2007
Never mind the Speccy. This product is gonna let me relive all my teenage years. All those mix tapes will finally air again!
conor on January 15, 2007
Nice! I used to wire up my old walkman to the sound card to get the old speccy games onto the PC but that is a lot slicker. I have a few great tapes I must get into MP3 format before they totally deteriorate.
John Henry Donovan on January 13, 2007
God how I miss my Spectrum 48k. Head over Heals was great. 45 minutes of tweaking the heads of a tape player through a little hole with a screwdriver to get the game to load. 10 levels in and your father slams a door and resets the computer. Much more persistence in those days!