Finally, a Good ZX Spectrum Game...

[@penguincustard1]

Wait, at 5:51 does that really say "EXPLOSTIVES"?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Well spotted!

[@SebsPlaceYT]

This game was my Guantlet. I flippin loved this game. I'm scared to play it now in case it doesnt live up to itself but I might now. Thanks.

[@2010dame]

Thanks.......... now I find myself wanting to watch Denver The theme tune is burned into my mind AGAIN

[@misjavanlaatum]

Nice review! And let's be honest: this game is one graphics overhaul away from a Speccy version of Alien Breed. 'Into the xenomorphs nest' as it were...

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

It's kind of interesting how much this resembles Catacomb, the game that Id software remade as a first person action game shortly before obtaining the rights to Wolfenstein. It's like a weird evolutionary offshoot that never actually existed to bridge the gap between the two series (Wolfenstein being a stealth series involving wearing disguises and obtaining papers to get past checkpoints and Catacomb being a home computer version of Midway's Gauntlet series of arcade games

[@penstroke2536]

Loved this game.

[@primokarmasilver]

I really fancy playing the original zombie mode on Call of Duty now

[@arostwocents]

The explosions are very, very nice!

[@Dombalurina]

3:07 I had an etch-a-sketch with Nazi iron filings in it once. It would only draw on the far right of the screen.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Aaaaayyyyyyyyy

[@atom_zero5413]

This game was legit AMAZING! I remember having tons of games but getting back to this one everytime!

[@scousebadger0077]

This is a showcase of my childhood 1:41 I sing the version of Denver theme with my children’s names. This is the only other place I’ve ever seen Denver mentioned haha

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Whenever I tried, I would end up shooting EXPLOSTIVES and dying. Sometimes the EXPLOSTIVES were off the screen so I didn't know what on Earth had happened. I also got confused with the film Where Eagles Dare. To be fair, it IS quite a complex plot. Also there is Ingrid Pitt who ALSO does not like Nazis.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Where Eagle's Dare to be Nazis

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

@@RoseTintedSpectrumand they get their gold from Alchemists who are also Eagles

[@Timotei75]

Great review, very amusing!

[@gk73man51]

I think I got this and Uridium on original for my 11th birthday. Other than the ever present worry of detonating some explosives off screen it was pretty solid for the time. Not a huge amount of variety but looked good and offered a solid enough experience. Like a lot of later 8 bit games it did turn up on the ST and Amiga and lost most of its charm in the process.

[@maxabillon]

The enemy moment reminds me of another game "How to be a Hero"

[@Chamber2020]

No-one else binge-watching Superted? Just me?

[@Chamber2020]

ps. Great as always, RTS - thankyou!

[@shizzay]

I remember this game, was on a C90 megamix from one of my brothers friends so never had instructions but was quite easy to pick up, also had Green Beret and Rambo First Blood on the same tape....loved this and Beret...Rambo, not a bleddy clue what I had to do, so just made up some rules myself and see how long I could last in the jungle

[@mikeleighton4453]

Watch out for those explostives!

[@TheOriginalChazno5]

Wow, you know what, I completely forgot all about 'Into the Eagle's Nest'. It is a great game however and I really liked playing it when I got it for Christmas in the late eighties! Strangely though I have no other memories of playing it after this which is strange for such a good game? I agree with you, it's definitely a 'Good one'. Great video as always! 👍🥉🎖

[@plisskensghost2951]

Loved this on my CPC back in the day.

[@sheets75]

I played the C64 version and...I don't remember there ever being an easy mode? It was just really tough because you have a finite amount of ammo but an infinite number of bad guys to shoot because they would respawn off-screen constantly, and then of course you have the multiple shots to kill each of them. I think I might have to play this one next time around.

[@jimkrom]

I had this back in the day and I thought it was awesome

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

I always wondered what the line "... He's my friend and a whole lot more..." meant even as a baby monkey I knew it had connotations. Also the CPC version was far superior.

[@veejay_hypo]

I make this comment to feed the almighty algorithm. May it be sated.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

All hail mighty algorithm, he who has forgotten I exist

[@Chamber2020]

Is it the number of comments or are there certain trigger words? Like *Top Ten Sohail Reviews* or *Internet Superhighway* ? ps can I use Internet Superhighway as a text alert? Its a banger...

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I'm sure that's perfectly fine, I wouldn't know where to send the CRIME POLICE

[@Chamber2020]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum Yes, if only there was some sort of digital thoroughfare you could send them down......some sort of network-based traffic management system...

[@mr.a8315]

Desserts for the algo. 🥮🎂🍰

[@VaterOrlaag]

Ahh, a classic ragequit game for me. Never finished a mission, always ended up explosting myself. That sort of thing can become annoying quickly.

[@mr.a8315]

Fab review! :) Great Gauntlet clone. Oh my, there were many! Perhaps they themselves were pouring out of Gauntlet generators.

[@TimberwolfK]

I mean, if Denver isn't someone's friend with benefits then he's definitely going to be the last dinosaur.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

He'll show YOU a world you've never seen before

[@jboneds]

Oh my god... I didn't expect to watch this and find out about a dinosaur led grooming ring. It's saturday morning.

[@SmoMo_]

Another great video, thanks for making it. What are those two graphic novels next to your Watchman behind you? Is it the manga Apollo’s Song?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Those are the Hate Comic anthologies: Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey.

[@GenerationPixel]

Huh, Into the Eagles Nest is the blueprint for survival horror 🤯 "wandering blondies" made me chuckle 😂

[@arostwocents]

There's a modern homebrew that's very similar to this but I can't recall the name so not sure why I'm saying this 🤔 it WAS good though! Lots of different items and the same fun action. Without keys you can dynamite your way through doors and take out a bunch of guys too which is cool 😎

[@jacktheripper6716]

Gaulet inspired maybe but could have been the original concept for Wolfenstein?

[@arostwocents]

Wolfenstein was American wasn't it?

[@cygil1]

Castle Wolfenstein was released in 1982. This is Castle Wolfenstein with nicer, gauntlet-inspired graphics.

[@jacktheripper6716]

@@arostwocents yes

[@mucy2807]

Manic Miner. OK….don’t kill me 😅 love the channel 👊🏻👍🏻🤩

[@Quimbyrbg]

As the venerable Norm McDonald once said "You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.”

[@TomMannCenturia]

I love this game, I prefer it to Gauntlet (on the Spectrum at least), haven't played it in years which I must remedy.

[@RetroBytesUK]

I played this at a mates house, could not remember the name of the game for the life of me. I've occasionally tried to find it on Google, but "Nazi themed gauntlet for the spectrum" was not as helpful a search term as I thought it was. So I gave up. That was my TED talk for 2024.

[@uttridge]

You leave SuperTed out of this! Although now I come to think of it, it was a bit... Odd.

[@AlekseiTepljakov]

This game is on my personal review list, wonder if it's a coincidence :) Just happened to be on THAT tape.

[@SaintAlecz]

Wonder how much this influenced Alien Breed - banger video btw

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Good shout, I know it did get ported around to other home systems (The Spectrum may not have even been the original now I think about it) but I'm not 100% sure how influential it was

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Strangely, I was thinking about the theme song for "Denver The Last Dinosaur" over recent days...how odd! Used to watch SuperTed as well - I think they used to sell SuperTed branded vitamin tablets at one time - a brilliant way to get kids to take supplements. There was a copycat of Into The Eagles Nest several years after (which I can't remember the name of) but the objective was to rescue the president's daughter. The game was almost an exact copy of this one (same overhead style, same game mechanics etc.)

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Oh god, that unlocked a memory! I totally forgot about those SuperTed vitamins

[@steve16384]

The fact the bullets are invisible make it look like the player is casting magic spells that make the Nazis disappear into thin air.

[@johnm0jfe]

Loved this on the Atari ST

[@al3k]

Nice. Never tried this one much. You still haven't said what you think of the Custard Kid though...... :)

[@ashleykingston1980]

Feeding the algorithm! A good game? Thats a first! 😂

[@MrYossarianuk]

Id like to see you compare the c64 version of this one (i know you have ventured to c64 games in the past )

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Someone just sent me a few screenshots of other systems, some of them didn't even include the ammo counter! What on earth were they thinking, haha

[@MrYossarianuk]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum it's all about the sound of gunfire... (I was a speccy owner , but my dad who was separated had a c64 and this game, meant I had a whole different set of games when I stayed with him ..)

[@carn9507]

@@RoseTintedSpectrumCPC version is great but there's two (maybe three) versions. First one had the counters appear when you pause the game. The later budget version has the counters appear on the bottom as it should (also has an original tune instead of 633 Squadron). :)

[@v.m.9198]

I bought denver the last dinosaur on dvd from a dollar store and played exact,y 2 episodes before my gf begged me to stop watching it. I think im immune to its brainrot

[@GigerPunk]

I had exactly the same issue with the C64 version. That is, the 05:51 "Explostives" knackering up my game, rather than a lack of actual eagles. Other than that, always found it good fun. Unlike nazis, aptly enough :)

[@devilprooftiger]

Bit of a Gauntlet II clone. 8 Bit wise, Amstrad version way better...= full colour.and actually looks like WW2. Great game, thanks for memories.

[@retrogamerecluse]

Is the game completable or does it go on forever?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

It is, from what I can tell, completable... I've generally just sort of petered out before that point

[@retrogamerecluse]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum i may have to try and complete it (not that i ever managed Gauntlett!)

[@ChrisFranklyn]

Weren't too many grammar Nazis in the castle with all those Explostives laying around...

[@marcgoesblindgaming2076]

I actually had this game as a kid And had a lot of fun with it But I was also a fan of the arcade snd Speccy Versions of Gauntlet 😂 I also watched the last dinosaur cartoon And the Benny Hill music you added was hilarious But I'm absolutely shocked and offended That you are not a fan of the N@Z1$ 😂😂😂

[@firalanger6850]

Charming!

[@robrankin5792]

Looks like Alien Breed on the Amiga…

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Damn, going gun crazy at CPAC? Talk about ironic. Oh, this was before Nazis were welcomed by the party of Lincoln and the confederate cause? Damn. I miss those days. That specific part of them, anyways. Anyways, your story about looking for an eagle reminds me so much of how I handled "Watch the birdie!" when getting my picture taken for the first time. There was no bird! And I only just discovered that there actually used to be one! The bird was real all this time - meaning a century before mine - I was just being ripped off.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Those birdie lies were paid for by Big Photography. Was all a conspiracy.

[@jarrodbentley903]

surprised no one has ever modded the graphics to make it more Alien Breed...hang on that gives me an idea.....

[@ZXSpectrum128K]

Roll on wolfenstein on next!

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

I did nat zee that coming 🙀

[@WojciechPietrzok]

German castle? Is this Schloss?

[@ChknHugga]

What are you talking about? Denver was cool af

[@SmoMo_]

Is it ironic that while in reality ( the one made of atoms) real soldiers were sneaking around German castles shooting Nazis, the real Alan Turing was secretly inventing the computer. Then 45 years later, the computer technology he invented had won the war, and then advanced to the point at which you, a young still English speaking child was able to play a virtual reality version ( now made of pixels) of same Nazi castle experience. If not ironic, then at least worth pointing out in a KZbin comment?

[@ValChronification]

No comment.

[@himselfe]

A good spectrum game? And it's not even April 1st! On a more serious note, and I loath to make a serious point on what is obviously intended as comedy, but the problem with the whole "punch a Nazi" meme isn't that it's about hating Nazis. Nobody objects to hating Nazis other than Neo-Nazis, so on the surface such a statement is uncontroversial and seemingly reasonable. The problem is that in modern parlance, the standards for who is a Nazi is rather flexible and subjective. Suddenly you have a seemingly obvious statement turning into a meme as a tool for control and suppression, and a justification for committing actual violence. Anybody objecting to the sentiment must surely be a Nazi and therefore, at best, undeserving of consideration, and at worst deserving of ridicule and violence.I hesitate in writing this because I'm aware that even this comment is sufficient in some minds to label me a Nazi, or right wing, of which I am not remotely either. My protestations of course, only serve to solidify the idea that I am a terrible person in the minds of those who subscribe to the meme. It's no longer necessary to affiliate or even behave like certain tribes to be labelled such, simply not toeing the line or disagreeing with other tribes is suffice. Reasonable discourse is reduced to mockery and name calling, and everyone is shoehorned into a neat binary of positions. Black or white, good vs bad, with or against.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I mean, I don't disagree. I am left-leaning with a mostly socialist bent, but I'm also exceptionally level-headed when it comes to other political beliefs. I've friends across both left-wing and right-wing spectrums, some further to the left than me, a lot further to the right. I don't agree with labelling everyone and everything a fascist because it reduces the term down to mudslinging and is, ultiamtely, pointless; it also tends to push people further into their beliefs to a dangerous degree because they are likely to squirrel away into an echo chamber of gradually exclusive political hotpoints (this also goes for the other side of the political spectrum). This is the internet, however, and unfortunately: Discourse is black and white. There is virtually no point arguing anything on the internet because you're essentially arguing with someone who has already decided their opinion is correct. Two megaphones yelling past each other. You're better off farting into a teacup.

[@himselfe]

Precisely! Traditionally I vote left-of-centre, and there was a time I considered myself left-leaning with a somewhat socialist bent. But in reality if I _must_ adopt a position on the political spectrum I'm a centrist, which makes me persona non grata to both extremes, and a favoured pinboard for labels and mischaracterisations. I'm just wary of certain memes because they can be unnecessarily polarising. From your comment I think we are mostly of like-mind. There will always be extremes, and ultimately they're in a symbiotic relationship with each other. It is the pushing of reasonable people to align with either extreme that concerns me. I try to find safe havens from politics in the online media I consume, but that has become harder and harder to do, and thus I find myself feeding it with my recoiling. Can't escape the storm so ima just sit in my boat and ride. 😮‍💨

[@johnm0jfe]

You run out of ammo you can stab them

[@RunOfTheHind]

All the Roganbros are very upset.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Some things never change