You can buy the printed manual - it's £30 for the full colour "hard backed" & £13 for the B&W paperback.

cheers mate i am a yank so the usa has to wait for the console.

Amazon dispatched Wednesday, said it would arrive today (Friday). But the parcel tracking hasn't budged. Bah.

Yeah, I'm not so so nostalgic about this one myself, but I'm delighted for you mate. I can see how buzzing you are! Also lovely to get that press version of it, really stunning! Well done mate. Enjoy

Stay well clear of these are 12tb hardrives thrown out by data centres they have been hammered 24/7 and they are end of life re-purposed for these emulators, friend of mines died 3 minutes after powering on. A lot of people have reported loud ticking coming from these drives a sign of pending failure. Just remember if it’s too cheap to be true it usually is crap

great review OG 👍👍

Great unboxing review. My “The Gamepad” was delivered today. The Spectrum won't arrive until Monday. I can hardly wait. Back then, 40 years ago, I loved playing “Cookie”, “Atic Atac”, “Ant Attack”, “Pssst” and one of those labyrinth games on the ZX Spectrum where you had to rescue a prisoner, but I can't remember the name of it now.

Greatt but I can't find one in stock for love nor money

i would have paid extra for a retail version of the press release kit tbh. thx for the vid! still waiting for mine : |

The keyboard may be awkward to type on, but it has a retro charm, which I love.

I sincerely hope WOS (World of Spectrum) doesn't suddenly become unavailable it's been live for probably at least 25-Years, exactly the same GUI front-end as I remember. i have not visited the site for a while but probably will be again soon.

I got one for the BASIC programming. It's hard to program an emulator on a PC without that crazy Speccy multi-code keyboard. My The Spectrum was supposed to be delivered by Amazon today but no show (I got the "Your item has been dispatched" email yesterday but no "Your item is out for delivery" email) so I'm hoping for tomorrow now. The lack of updates from Amazon is rather disappointing. I pre-ordered it in August. It looks good though. I wish I was getting the version you have! But right now I'd be happy to get the bog-standard version I paid for.

Yeah I've got all my roms loading at original tape loading speed, because I'm twisted! I'm making a list and checking it twice, like Santa. A lot of these aren't for everyone, but nostalgia is powerful for me. Monty Mole Laser Squad Chaos The Biz Cookie Trans Am Saber Wulf Underwurlde Doomdarks Revenge Psytron Hampstead Sherlock Travel With Trashman Kokotoni Wilf Gunfright Knightlore Alien8 Back To School Alchemist Urban Upstart Atic Atac Zombie Zombie Planet Of Death Espionage Island Warlock of Firetop Mountain Forest of Doom Halls of the Things Rebelstar Raiders Black Hole The Rats Treasure Hunt Block Busters Bullseye (?) Chuckie Egg Elite Skull Hunchback Jet Set Willy

Never played on a Spectrum. Was a little bit before my time 😂😂.

as soon as you opened the Box my Mind was Blown WOW! clever marketing back in the days always remember on the cassette cover as it looked fascinating, and always remember playing the game once purchased and saying WTF is this??? Atic Atac and that was one of em memories came flooding back WOW!

Nice One OG! I've been firing up 3D Deathchase, Brian Bloodaxe and Gauntlet (Multi-Tapes work fine). Keep up the awesome work!

Just got mine today and I’ve been loving it 👌🏻💖

Only the Brits who don’t know any better would be excited about this piece of crap.

Sorry for the late reply, I've been playing on mine since I finished work at half past five tonight lol

Great review, had a mare getting mine today, Amazon order from ages ago let me down, due Dec 4 - Jan 4, cancelled order I found one instore at smyths, click and collect, loving it 😂

"Is It Worth the Hype?" NO!

From seeing previews, my understanding is it's a fully 128K compatible device housed in the original styled 16/48K machine casing.

Anyone know how to get a controller to work with it? 😡

i had the 128k and my cousins had the 48k, when i opened the box took me right back to when we used to play it, the buttons and size all feel like the original, really cant wait to add oh mummy and bomb jack

Hi! Having received my 48k as a Christmas present in 1983 and being in the retro scene for a decade or so now, I'm with you. "The Spectrum" could become the best piece of kit the retro scene has produced so far. Having been part of the ZX Spectrum Next project starting at 2017 this is possibly a competitor. While being hugely better from the technical point of view, it surely will loose when looking at how easy "The Spectrum" handles and how much nostalgia you will get. Having a big bunch of restored originals and hardware, I'm absolutely sure that "The Spectrum" could be my all day driver when presenting stuff at retro events. (At the moment my favorite is a ZX-Uno XL in a 48k case...) Keep the fingers crossed that mine will arrive pretty soon and THNX for your video... ;-)

Can you save state in games that you put in via USB?

i can see me buying one. remember the old days wen u needed a cassette recorder to load the game, PMSL now those days were Scary

Great video

Can you save games that you put in via USB?

Great video! Always nice to see a rebirth of an 8bit! Great packaging!

First video I’ve seen of yours. Great job.

Kokotoni Wilf 👌

HI Glad you Have the A Special Review Copy, I just Got The Standard Retail One From Amazon, So I Now Have The Vic 20 , The Atari 2600, And the Amiga Mini , So Plenty Keep me Going, Thanks For the Video👍 and i too Miss the the Days of Pregaming Sprites and turning them into Video Games,, Non Of This MO Cap Motion Suits Stuff which is used into Video Games , Enjoy

if I buy it I still don't know played more on the c64 so I have the c64 Maxi and don't like the Mini's but yes this is a toy for you :-)

I am getting mine for Xmas some 42 years after getting one under the Xmas tree last time. The Press Pack edition looks the dogs, question is though are you missing a part. Other reviews I have seen have a USB stick in the shape of the ZX microdrive, I didn't see that on your video?

lucky bastard with some kind of premium box -_-

Just picked mine up from Smyths! managed to get 1 of the 5 they had in stock! well pleased to say the least! Come on Robocop! :P

Not got one yet but will be picking one up. Great to see everyone saying that the rubber keyboard works brilliantly

"You gotta get the birds right between the legs." OGDuffy 2024 ;)

Should have had mine today but Amazon F**ked up!

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My first computer was the x2 so never had the rubber keyed beauty. Looks utterly sexy. So many memories of the Speccy. Great vid as always, Sir.

Top video Mr OG sir! A great review and a very informative tour of the humble Speccy ‘rebooted’ shall we say? Lol 😂 Looking forward to your follow up video 👍🏻🕹️👾

Got mine 2 days ago and still haven't touched it as I'm keeping it for Christmas morning. I'll use the time to knock together a good compilation of stuff on a USB stick.

My missus has ordered me one for Christmas, even though I have Next I'm really looking forward to it. I might now be able to complete Exolon and Manic Miner using the rewind feature

Gonna order it in Holland asap. I almost started to cry watching the video ;-)

Quality t shirt that pal. Happy Friday 🍻

The loading screen stripes fill me with such great nostalgia...... Playing matchday, leaderboard, ant attack and death chase with my brothers....... Great memories and great games, simplistic, but soooo good. Plus the added classic touch of spectrums logo is the same as the Dark Side Of The Moon colours lol.

Got mine ..can't wait to get all my old programming books out and spend hours typing a game out again 😂