The Spectrum Show EP131

[@HappyCodingZX]

thanks for having me back on the show Paul, I really enjoyed our chat.

[@philharrison5]

Thanks so much for rekindling my love for my first computer. I'd forgotten about it when it was traded in for an Amiga. I fired up an emulator and played thro the wall. Suddenly I was 15 again but not hogging my parents only TV! I've enjoyed every episode and look forward to future ones.

[@al3k]

I'm a non-regular lurker here and I joined late but I just thought I'd say that I love that this show is around, and thank you so much for making it and sharing, it's very much appreciated. It kind of reminds me of the times when The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick was airing.. it gives me the same kind of feeling. :) I'm looking forward to going through every single episode in series one day as I rediscover these best times of my life more and more as I get older. Thanks again. :)

[@TheCaffeineKid]

That was a great feature about PCW show. I almost felt like I was there. :) TSS always delivers.

[@Dolphination]

'Feeling like you were there' is precisely what I was aiming for' 👍

[@robm8809]

​@Dolphination Cheers, I enjoyed that part too. :)

[@xavierzander4201]

Great report-video ! decades ago i went also to this kind of event(s) at Hammersmith in Londen, Sir Clive was also there, still have some analog pictures from that, on a smaller event, i even shake Sir Clive's hand, and he signed a book about the history of his company for me, i have some found memories from that time, the special hardware for the ZX Spectrum was not cheap, so mostly bought the software or the public domain software, and also later for my Amiga, so Sir Clive gave a lot of people fun, and an easy way to start in computing, and still does that even now, after his death. Thankyou for this video Paul, keeping the memories alive !

[@Dolphination]

awesome

[@robertsturt5300]

I attended the PCW show in 1987. I was 14 and went on the bus from Norwich. I recall seeing Jeff Minter’s rainbow coloured AtariST and his Camel cigarettes! And, bought Arkanoid!

[@Dolphination]

Awesome, 1987's coming up soon - stay tuned!

[@Dolphination]

A bus from Norwich? Impressive effort!

[@raithrover1976]

Lol! I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor after the Mad Nurse section. Clearly from a time when computer games went under the Daily Mail's radar😂

[@AllOuttaBubblegum123]

I loved the PCW show at olympia. I would wander round, gathering all sorts of promo stuff. Most of which I still have

[@GadgetUK164]

Loved the part on the Olympia! Great show again =D Great to see Allan on the show too! Amazing use of the red and blue on that title screen for Lunar Lander remake! It gives that 3D effect (at least to my eyes it does).

[@montymole7114]

Mark Haigh Hutchison was a fabulous programmer and was lost to us far to early. RIP Mark. And your first segment was fantastic. Really enjoyed that.

[@SpaceDave3000]

This show is always such a highlight, thank you for all the work you put into this!

[@kellerkind6169]

Wow, the graphics of Seraphima are truly stunning!! The game would've blown my mind back in the days. A real piece of art.

[@jexthegamer]

I really enjoyed the virtual tour. That would have been so incredible to be there.

[@Dolphination]

more virtual tours coming up...

[@NomenLuni1975]

Seraphima is absolutely stunning. Zosya have made some of the most amazing Speccy games I've ever seen in the last couple of years. Valley of Rains and Travels Through Time Vol. 1 are also wonderful to play.

[@stevenice8320]

Thank you for another great show Paul. These always take me back to my teenage years.

[@paddycoleman1472]

Love the PCW Show feature as it brought back memories. I was an exhibitor at the show primarily selling Atari ST hardware. Great days.

[@Dolphination]

Yes there was an 'Atari village' at that show.

[@TruculentSheep]

"Baby Death Overload" is surely the greatest band name ever, and I'm officially requisitioning it. And as for the 1986 PCW show... All those games companies, faded away. It's worth visiting the former addresses of Electric Dreams, Gargoyle and so on, just to see how few traces they have left behind. If it weren't for the merch and the swag and the games themselves, we'd never have know they had been there at all.

[@Dolphination]

On the faded companies, totally agree. This was the main thing which triggered me to document the contents of all the show bags.

[@TruculentSheep]

@@Dolphination It's a fascinating, intense but relatively brief moment in UK cultural, business and social history. It needs more attention, so thanks for preserving as much of it as you can!

[@Dolphination]

@@TruculentSheep at least 3 more show reports coming up in future episodes.

[@meetoo594]

I went to the 1987 pcw show, first time I had been to London. Highlights included the hydraulic flight sim on the Microprose stand, seeing the Archimedes' for the first time (it digitised you and threw up a distorted view on a monitor), spending too much time in the Sega booth playing a 3d missile command type game with 3d glasses and light gun and chatting to Alan Sugar who was milling about near the Amstrad stand. There were a gaggle of very scantily clad young ladies on the Domark stand promoting something, which was nice to my teenage eyes. Still got loads of merch from the show in the loft somewhere.

[@Dolphination]

Hello! Microprose had a simulator in 1988 at Earl's Court. Did you go to more than one show? 1988 also featured a Domark london bus driven by a Spitting Image puppet of Rambo.

[@meetoo594]

@@Dolphination hmm, Im pretty sure it was 1987 but could well be misremembering. The master system had just been released and there was a booth advertising us golds masters of the universe film tie in with a guy dressed as he-man and trailers for the upcoming film playing on big screens. The film and game were both released in 1987 iirc. I bought issue 1 of the games machine at the show which is dated October/November 1987 and the show was in September so that ties with it being 1987. The simulator was an egg shaped thing on hydraulics, maybe Microprose took it to the show in both 87 and 88.

[@Dolphination]

Must be 1987 then, because that was definitely when The Games Machine was released.

[@gavsparky]

Always enjoy your show. Loving the Mad Nurse game, thanks for sharing.

[@AmbersKnight]

Great to see a new episode. Seraphima looks stunning I may need to check that out and I like the Lunar Rescue one as well. Welcome back Paul.

[@al3k]

What you said there @ 16:58 - only a few enemies and all about timing and jumping.. isn't that what Indy was all about in his films though (plus a bit of hollywood magic luck, of course)? :)

[@oliverbehegan]

Brenda Bumwasher - what a time to be alive!

[@darrenporter1850]

I remember getting that Ocean bag

[@kristianTV1974]

I had a cocktail cabinet Invaders Revenge in the 80's & can confirm the 'colour' was provided by several horizontal gel strips loosely adhered to the CRT surface.

[@craigwalker3194]

Great Episode as ever Paul.

[@billybollockhead5628]

I had that indiana jones game as a covertape demo.. Child me really liked it, i played it to death, but I never beat the first demo level, so the demo was enough for me...

[@stuartsinclair6269]

Great seeing this, so intriguing about new games for the Speccy, still want a next, how is this going was there many games made for the Next….

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

Loved the show report, made me very nostalgic for the one show i attended there. Came home with barbarian and sam fox strip poker that i had to hide from my parents

[@Dolphination]

lol! I'm guessing that would be 1987 if it was Olympia, or 1988 if it was Earl's Court.

[@thebaron9059]

I played Sam Fox on an emulator a few days ago. I had forgotten how hard it was to finally unleash Sam's pixellated saggy, black and white bangers! It was far easier to just buy a copy of The Sun back then!

[@shaunfossett]

Great work. I really enjoyed this one, Paul

[@retrohoundstu]

My favourite game on the spectrum was from Fantasy Software called the pyramid, it was hard work avoiding the aliens (especially at the lower levels. I completed it quite a few times, I even got a prize from Fantasy. I think you should ask someone you know to do a homebrew of this classic & send me a link so I can use an emulator, thanks Paul & keep up the good work

[@frankowalker4662]

What a terrible word processor. Ha ha. Seraphima blew me away. How did they do that on the Speccy ?

[@jonorgames6596]

magic?

[@frankowalker4662]

@@jonorgames6596 It must be. 👍

[@davarosmith1334]

The great Spectrum show! My Speccey is redundant at the moment, because of space.

[@dvdwllc4881]

Mad Nurse! A cot next to the lift, especially in later levels, was quite infuriating.

[@thepumpkingking8339]

30:30 Take a key for coming in... 🙂

[@andrewdunbar828]

I had an AMX mouse! Waited for aeons for it to get delivered to Australia (-:

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

I went to that as wee bairn

[@bevis9877]

That word processor looks like a cross between VI and ED.

[@Edsshed]

Hi Paul, love the show. Sent you an email the other day, did you get chance to read it, cheers keith

[@kennethgibson456]

Awesome as always!

[@kristianTV1974]

Was more a ZX Microfair at Ally Pally man (boy) myself..

[@HLubenow]

The Indiana Jones-game of 1989 seems to be a port of the Amiga version. Its gameplay can be watched in a KZbin-video called "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Amiga arcade Walkthrough" (gameplay starts at 01:52 there). Kind of interesting. Seems to have been a cross between "Barbarian" by Psygnosis (one of my favourite games on the Amiga) and "Rick Dangerous". Wood-, stone- and metal-surfaces looked really good on the Amiga. I didn't have that Indy Arcade game back then though. Only the adventure, on a PC (bought it cheap in the mid-90s in a magazine with a CD). The Indy 3 adventure wasn't that great though, "Fate of Atlantis" (Indy 4) was way better. I wish, Hollywood had made "Fate of Atlantis" into a movie, instead of the two later ones we got instead.

[@Dolphination]

I'm really going to have to play Mad Nurse.

[@stevenwall2317]

You’re mad you are

[@bryngunn]

Is “Brenda Bumwasher” The greatest name of any Spectrum game character? 🤣

[@stevenross-watt8640]

I was watching a video explaining the full story of the dark souls trilogy and they mentioned that From Software didn't dare have a baby in the Ocelot boss fight as killing s baby is a guaranteed way to get your game banned. I guess times hsve chsnged :))

[@kins749]

Mad Nurse must have been inspired by Tapper, the vertical movement, collecting things on rows (think beer glasses before they smash on the floor). Not quite the same and nowhere near as good either.

[@syrus3k]

That word processor looks very much like it was created by an emacs user.

[@apppc.celulares6808]

SHOW MY BROTHER....Bora BRASIL😂

[@mvl71]

4:38 A Discworld game! Is it any good?

[@Dolphination]

It got good reviews at the time, and a Sinclair User Classic.

[@mvl71]

@@Dolphination Thank you, I'll give it a go!

[@apppc.celulares6808]

TK90X-Microdigital

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

Yes. It's a Brazilian clone of the 48k Spectrum. See episode 52 where I cover it.

[@Ianep1]

Was the Star Trek game ever released?

[@Dolphination]

Yes but not on the Speccy.

[@Ianep1]

@@Dolphinationshame, looked interesting…

[@billybollockhead5628]

And I thought TasWord was awful.. lol