A pleasure, sir! Such a fun little game it is!

I'll most likely do a run of Turrican 2 as well. :)

Playstation Fanboy you are?😂😂😂

@@CHO81WSERPENTBROTHERyup. I’m trying to earn said trophy, but I can’t beat that cantina boss

I have played it, yes. It's sooo much harder than this one!

Although I'm running it on an emulator, it is accurate to the Spectrum's processor speed. It is the exact ROM file of the game.

Yeah, it's running on an accurate emulator. It ran exactly the same when I had in the actual Spectrum in the '80s. :)

Thanks! Still getting comments after all these years!

Actually, the time from gaining control to losing it is 9:03.95! This version is running much faster than the original; there would be no way to beat that in under 10 minutes. Plus, I've never done a deathless run of the original.

The Genesis/Mega Drive version is excellent.

It’s got similar game physics to Turrican I think.

They don't feel the same to me. You have much more control over your jump in Turrican. I might get around to doing a Turrican game at some point.@@eelponna3145

I can't imagine any other version being much worse.

No, just this one. I played The Real Ghostbusters on the Amiga, which is one of the worst games of all time, and Ghostbusters - The Video Game on PC. That one was pretty good.

No, it's a PC remake of the original.

It was adapted from a cancelled racing game, hence all the pointless driving and the bit at the start where you add modifications to your car.

Yes. There was no in-game music on the 48K version.

There must've been an early form of sound sampling hardware (although I'm not sure if it was ever available to the public). You can also hear some at the beginning of Fantasy World Dizzy, Fast Food, Nodes of Yesod and probably many others.

On my Spectrum 48K clone, I'd simply played a tape on a connected recorder, and read MIC port using an assembler program, then played the result back over beeper. That filled memory up pretty fast, and that was 1-bit sound. :D On 128K models, digital samples sometimes were played using software tricks applied to AY-3-8910 sound chip -- see, e.g., RoboCop or Chase H.Q. in 128K mode.

@@MendelsonShape Cheetah Sound Sampler was certainly available to the public. Never had one but remember the magazine ads.

OK, there's someone in the know! Cheers!@@sergeidubarev5079

Now that you mention it, the name Cheetah does sound familiar. (Although I might be thinking of the joystick!) @@dabe1971

i think it was more that there wasnt much actual game (it's a port from the c64 version) so the programmer put a load of samples in :)

@@jaycee1980 But the c64 version also had samples (and much clearer ones too)

Oh, no. You got it for Christmas?!

@@MendelsonShapeyes, and it cost almost as much as any other two games from anyone else!!!

Yeah, it depends on how long you've spent moving around the map screen before selecting a building to travel to.

ahh that makes sense. It's been a few years since I placed it last!@@MendelsonShape

14, I think. There was the series (Dizzy I - VIII) and a few spin-offs, like Dizzy Down the Rapids and Kwik Snax.

I remember Deviants and liked it, but it was really hard I think. Dan Dare 3 looked good for a Speccy game.

All very challenging, too.

I'm concentrating on games I played as a kid. In particular, I like to go back and beat games I didn't beat back then. I did do a no death run of the newest Dizzy game (Wonderful Dizzy), so I'll have to see if I can dig out the rzx file and make a video.

@@MendelsonShapethat’s fair enough. Some of the new speccy games look amazing (if you ever get the chance). The Sword of Iannain in particular would’ve blew my mind if I played it in the 80’s!

No worries! More coming.

Never really tried it. I might have a look.

Ok dude btw what was Robocop 2 like on the speccy? It was probably bad. There was an Olli & Lissa 2&3 too wasn’t there?

@@eelponna3145 I had Robo 2 and yes, it sucked. Olli & Lissa 2 exists only under another name (I forget what it is). I had and completed Olli & Lissa 3 when I was a kid, but it's nothing like this one. You have to build cars by finding the parts, for some reason.

@@MendelsonShapeOlli and Lissa Halloween

@@eelponna3145 Weirdly, it was published under the name "Halloween", so if you saw it listed you'd have no idea it was an Olli & Lissa game.