Top Games For The BBC Micro

[@nicolesproducerpack]

Really great video! Thanks again Colin for having me onboard making the music 💜

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you, Nicole, for your amazing work! It was a lot of fun collaborating on this 😊

[@cruxinc]

the music is great! you are a very talented musician! :)

[@nicolesproducerpack]

​@@ColinHoadyay thank you, and likewise! 😁

[@nicolesproducerpack]

​@@cruxincthanks so much!! 😃

[@nicolesproducerpack]

​@@cruxincthank you!! 😃

[@WhammyBamber-wn2jv]

I remember this like yesterday....in my physics class we introduced to the recently released BBC computer....if id only known how this was going to change everything i may have listened more intently...

[@ColinHoad]

Even I could never have predicted where this marvellous machine would take me - indirectly, to a career in IT! An amazing machine, we never knew quite how fortunate we were to live during its time in the sun!

[@SoozeC]

Fantastic video. And I'll never tire of seeing my favourite room from Palace of Magic - the cellar that contains the miniature tree!!

[@ColinHoad]

Haha yes, when I was picking the clips, I just had to feature that room to represent Palace of Magic 😁

[@andrewduff9178]

Ha yes, I love that room too. I wonder why it is so popular?

[@SoozeC]

I think it's like a little sanctuary! The water doesn't harm you. No killer bunnies. And the wonder of how the tree managed to grow there!

[@RogueAndroid]

First of any sponsor promoted video that i genuinely like, great music with some awesome old game clips. Zaxxon, Last Ninja, Space Invaders, Frogger, Paperboy... Really cool!

[@ColinHoad]

That's extremely kind of you, I've not tried promoting my videos before but I'm so glad I did after hearing this feedback 😀

[@dw1664]

Colin, I don't know if you've seen this already, but a KZbinr named Hypo uploaded a complete playthrough of Elixir a few months ago. I agree with him that this was an underrated BBC Micro game which I used to spend hours on (but never completed despite the effort). I always appreciated the creative graphics and clever use of colour, but the gameplay was somewhat hard. This Hypo guy completes it nicely! The title of the video is "Elixir - Playthrough with Commentary - 80s Retro BBC Micro Gaming". If you haven't seen it already, I think you'll enjoy it.

[@ColinHoad]

I'd not seen it, thank you for the pointer! 😀

[@MikePerigo]

Great recap and great music. Very entertaining yet also mildly traumatic. It summarises how many games were remakes or variants of original classics from the arcades before home micros were a thing. That was one of the reasons I loved the Beeb so much. It was the best machine available that allowed me to relieve all the time I had spent playing the originals without having to constantly feed the coin slots. We have come a long way since Pong was such a magical wonder!

[@ColinHoad]

Yes, even for me, seeing them all together like this is a joy - as a child I wasn't even aware of just how many of these games were arcade clones / variants. The Beeb will always be king of the 8-bits for me!

[@aidanodonnell2490]

Thanks for putting together all of these videos Colin. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but you've brought my attention to some gems that I didn't know about and wouldn't have discovered by myself. Many thanks.

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you, that's lovely feedback! I'm glad to have helped in my own small way 😀 I've also learnt about other games from suggestions I've had from others, so it's been just as informative for me, too!

[@MrKarateEd]

What a great way to finish it off Colin. Before I was doing the HSC on *. I would probably only recognized about 7 or 8 of those games. Now I know most of them. Good job!!!

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you very much! 😀

[@sassquadsteve]

Great video, and great music. A nice early Christmas present!

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you! 😀

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

Wow! Some really cool looking games on this machine….especially the shoot ‘em ups. 👾

[@ColinHoad]

Absolutely - it might not have had the same range of games as a Spectrum or C64 but what it did have it did exceptionally well 👌

[@Tetlee]

Nice seeing all these together, what a fantastic selection of great games the Beeb had. Great vid as always Colin.

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you very much! Yes, I also love seeing them all together like this 😁

[@cruxinc]

this is great! the musician is very talanted! great editing as well!

[@ColinHoad]

Thank you! Yes, she's very talented - I'm so pleased with the music 🎶

[@michaelburnside8034]

Great seeing all these games again

[@ColinHoad]

Yes, it's quite fun even for me to rewatch! Mainly because of the music 😁

[@richbunnett]

Nicely put together. I would have a lot of different ones on there, not to say anything "wrong" with your choices, I suppose it is more to do with my memories of what I played all those years ago.

[@ColinHoad]

Yes, in many ways, it's a very personal thing - but hopefully there's still a good overlap with some of your favourites 😅

[@jameswestgate416]

All the old favourites … starship command, thrust, meteors, planetoid, tens and of course Elite. I think the only one I would have added was Ghouls for its amazing sound track.

[@ColinHoad]

Ah, interesting! Ghouls is a regrettable hole in my Beeb gaming history, but I have heard good things 😀

[@garrkell]

The Last Ninja....I refuse to believe anyone beat it. 6 year old me really threw himself into the deep end with those games.

[@ColinHoad]

It's a tough game, no doubt about it! Properly engrossing though 😀

[@michaelburnside8034]

Did you ever play Twin Kingdom Valley? Think that, Palace of Magic and Imogen were my favourites. It was a text adventure...but with graphics.

[@ColinHoad]

No, I've not played Twin Kingdom Valley - I'll have to give that one a try!

[@Nomad5oul]

I feel Shark by Audiogenic in 1988 should have made the top 85. It's a superb arcade platformer with great graphics, design and gameplay.

[@ColinHoad]

I sadly didn't have many of Audiogenic's titles when I was growing up, but having come to them as an adult I love them - tremendous creativity and very playable games!

[@Colin_Ames]

Very nicely done!

[@ColinHoad]

Thanks 😁

[@atiedebee1020]

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[@ColinHoad]

Thank you! I'm glad I decided to give promotion a try, I am pleased with the video (especially the music!) so I'm glad you liked it too 😀

[@Lezzyboy87]

Hope this has the game i remember from school that i figured out how to skip levels lol

[@ColinHoad]

I hope it did too - let me know if it was missing! 😅

[@Lezzyboy87]

Thinking about it, was some kind of gane where you went round digging up artefacts I think, but may be wrong I was 5 😆

[@Vectrex-pi5ib]

The names of the game are in a very irritating spot. Constantly covered by KZbins interface if I skip back or forward.

[@ColinHoad]

Sorry about that - if you go to the main playlist you should be able to see every game and title featured in this video