ZX Spectrum Arcade Ports Compilation - Sega, Capcom, Konami and Taito | Kim Justice

A compilation that brings the four videos I've done for Sega, Capcom, Konami and Taito's ZX Spectrum arcade ports all together! Way too many games to list here, from the best to the worst, various clones and some weird homebrew. Enjoy!
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0:00 Sega Arcade Ports
59:32 Capcom Arcade Ports
1:42:57 Konami Arcade Ports
2:27:28 Taito Arcade Ports
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[@TheInfiniteMiseryJumper]

For God's sake, stick a doily on the telly, it's three and a half hours of classic Kim!

[@ultra_marcus]

What a lovely spread you've laid on for us, 3 and a half awesome hours, thanks Kim.

[@newsbender]

Lovely spread! Not heard that for ages. Are you from Edinburgh?

[@ultra_marcus]

@@newsbender I'm a couple miles east of Swansea, down in South Wales. My Gran used to use the phrase, it's a lovely one too.

[@satan3959]

The Commodore 64 actually got two official Frogger ports, one from Sierra, and another from Parker Brothers. Both of which were released in 1983

[@Matthew6248]

Probably due to Parker brothers having the Cartridge rights to frogger. This may have also been why the 2600 had two Frogger ports: a P.B. Cartridge port and a port for the Supercharger Add-on for the 2600

[@stuartchapman7934]

Dude, you sound just like Stop and Step!!! Great Video about ZX Spectrum Home Video Game Ports!!! Very Detailed, Thanks!

[@Peter-MH]

That Turtles game where there’s no colour clash is unbelievable! If that was possible, why were so many other games not like that?!

[@newsbender]

It was difficult to do. Much easier to knock them out in monochrome to meet those notoriously tight deadlines.

[@gipgap4]

I’m guessing that’s a David Perry and Nick Bruty conversion who produced the likes of Savage, Trantor and Dan Dare 3 amongst others.

[@scottbreon9448]

To be fair, I don't mind monochrome as long as they use the right color scheme. Way too many Spectrum games use garish yellow...why? What's wrong with black and white? My favorite games on the spectrum either use black and white or they use blue and white. It's not that the yellow was bad per se, but it was overused

[@arostwocents]

Yeah it took too much skill. Check out a modern game Gandalf and it will blow your mind for what the Speccy can handle

[@rubberduck306]

Fantastic video! Seeing these Spectrum-rendered titles after so long takes me back to my pre-console gaming years. Great to see some love for the humble Spectrum. I had a 128k+2 in the late 80s. Space Harrier, Spy Hunter and Chase HQ were favourites in the arcade and on the Speccy. Thanks for posting 👍

[@f1nkangel]

Just looked up and realised I've been watching this for almost an hour and a half...! Carrying on...

[@t.a.sgamezone5037]

Outstanding coin-op conversion breakdown.

[@KAZ3EM]

It's funny how you call it "Speccy", like greeding an old friend from better times in life and history! Like your content and left a sub. As an 40 year old german 90's SNES/Nintendo fan boy and retro enthusiast,I have to love channels like this!

[@loganford3921]

Midnight Resistance is amazing on the old spectrum. Rainbow Islands and Ghouls and Ghosts are up there with it as well.

[@retrogamerecluse]

Hehe, 3.5 hours of ZX Spectrum footage. That's my Friday night sorted 👏👏👏👍

[@Sabre_Wulf1]

My mum sent me a picture of me from back in the day playing buck Rogers on my spectrum + on a cheap black and white TV. I'm 50 now and still remember all these games like they were yesterday. Great video for the memories. Time to boot up my speccy emu.

[@paulwilson6357]

Good lord, Kim! On Spyhunter if you shoot the good guys you lose points. You can tell which is which by the colour your score flashes when you make a kill - white is going up, cyan is going down. Although hitting the bikes will always be fun, whatever it does to the score.

[@alk7934]

Your videos are great. Always a ton of effort put in. It's people like you who got an American like me to get interested in these great 8 bit computers. I love to see all the different games and get to see which are worth giving a shot. Thanks for the video.

[@jedediahreaver210]

Kim is awesome .ZX is such a nostalgic computer

[@leahwells5692]

the in game pixel art for street fighter 2 on the spectrum was done by Adam Steele. A north east artist who started out in the mid 80's on a 16k spectrum and some graph paper doing posters on a thermal printer. I knew him at the time in the mid 80's and he got me into computer art using the rainbird opc art studio. I later became an artist on triple A titles on xbox and PlayStation and still thank him for getting me started. He is alive and well in the north east today

[@paullee3660]

Excellent video. May I recommend putting a top 10 or 20 game recommendations from the video into the description in videos like this, as there are loads of games I didn’t know that I would want to play. And it’s a lot of video to crawl through afterwards to pick up some games to try out.

[@Ross6041]

that brought back some childhood memories. I remember midnight resistance being particularly good on the spectrum, for arcade conversions.

[@muttley00]

Turbo Esprit, Quazitron and a space game I cant remember the name of, where you go to different planets trying to collect rods for reactors. On the planets you used a hovercraft to go to different reactors, and had to fight robot defences. I remember it being quite cool in battle, very absorbing. Edit: Just googled it, Tau Ceti.

[@ayecarumba6879]

Thank you for these nostalgic trips down video game memory,all presented and voiced by a true gaming guru,your videos are what I search for after a stressful day,and they seem to calm the storm ☔️🙌

[@HiyaEverybody.]

See I don't even think it's bad that I clicked "like" before I started watching because I already knew this video would be a blast 👏😊

[@RapideWombaticus]

Your work is phenomenal. Well done Kim and Thank you 👍

[@f1nkangel]

Man, Hypersports...when I was growing up, living in Wimbledon we had an ice cream parlour at the end of the road - Dayvilles - I think - 32 flavours (including irresistible bubblegum) and they kept about 8 arcade machines in there. We had Gravitar, Hypersports, Spy Hunter, Galaga and an Enduro Racer stand up cab that would give you credit if you aggressively introduced your knee to the coin slot mechanism...Still loved playing Hypersports on the Speccie though...

[@gordonwalker1975]

Helluva resource here, Kim! Brilliant, and nice to have all in one place.

[@komemiute]

This compilation of video is *JUST SO GOOD!* thank you so much for putting it together.

[@michaellitten4538]

Great video as always Kim.

[@TheAspiePainter1851]

Fantastic video! Really miss those days of biking into the arcade on a Saturday morning to spend my saved lunch money 😊

[@wardyx360]

Brilliant video, brought back so many memories from my childhood, pretty much had all these games on my specy growing up.

[@Rosco1973]

Absolutely adore your videos Kim Justice, probably my favorite ever retro gaming presented of all time on here ❤

[@LlorDrei]

I played the NES version of Trojan. One of the few games I was able to beat. Ran through it over and over, at least three times, that I can remember.

[@markjones5647]

All ready for this Kim great stream last night best wishes Elvis

[@Hallowed_Men_Band]

I played spectrum Power Drift a hell of a lot when I was a kid, I even had the big box version.

[@ninjawacker5442]

Fantastic video again Kim. Love your gaming content and especially the Speccy stuff as I owned a 48k in the day. Keep up the great work.

[@mustaffaleak9247]

3:00:35 Bit of a flub there Kim. One got past you 😛 Great vid though. It's always a good day when you upload a vid. Even a compilation. Keep up the great work. You deserve far more subscribers.

[@zenksren8206]

Been happening a few times in Kim's videos lately

[@zamiadams4343]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!

[@weirddudehi]

The Pixel perfe,i mean the pixel perversions,the ZX was my first Computer,what a hard childhood.

[@stevieboyXI]

My God Kim, what a monster video. ❤

[@johnebbs3819]

Fantastic video.

[@harrygreenfeld4964]

Thank you for this.

[@marcgoesblindgaming2076]

Kim this was fantastic, I'm amazed by the amount of work you must Put in To get a video like this made, I know you're really knowledgeable really knowledgeable about the Speccy But you must have to do a lot of research To make sure you're getting your facts right And scripting a 3 hour plus video As well As getting all the game play Footage you need And editing it Deserves high praise , Always a joy To watch your videos Kim and I always feel like feel like I'm learning so many facts I never knew before , Have a wonderful weekend

[@Evilkingus]

Not really that much, since it is a rehash-compilation of older videos. Kim has become Aerosmith, resting mostly on his/her (sorry I really don't know what to state here, in this day and age) laurels. I don't say it's a bad or a good thing. I would probably also like to live by mostly releasing greatest hits - I believe it is a sign of quality that you are able to do that.

[@ShadowAngel-lt8nw]

@@Evilkingus Should be obvious that he is a male with the voice and watch the older videos were he puts his fat face on camera (at least he got the memoe that he shouldn't do that), it becomes even more obvious.

[@alyndavies]

2:49:52 That's very interesting, I loved Double Dragon as a kid, so much that I even became General Manager of the company that built the arcade machines for the game in 1987! I remember buying the game as apresent off my Grand Mother for Christmas and it cost £10 and came in a big box, I had always had £1.99 or £2.99 games up until that point. I was so disappointed initially with the game and it was the first time I realised about the difference between arcade and home computers. I did however play it a lot of times.

[@ianthompson6288]

Thank you 3 hrs well enjoyed ❤

[@ihateevilbill]

Woohoo. A new video and its all about my first computer...awseome :)

[@DJTwenty2020]

Excellent!! 🕺

[@skywalkerranch]

Kim, it would be interesting to hear from some of the bad game developers that you mention in this video if only to get their side of the story. Canvas, Tiertex, etc. Thanks again for all your efforts.

[@50factsabout]

cheers Kim :)

[@megadruretrogames]

Power Drift was incredible, what a port!

[@jasonrockley3724]

Cheers Kim.

[@roywilson4514]

Excellent

[@biteme9593]

I wonder if I can have your permission to use the phrase 'like a dog eating a wasp'? great channel, deserves a lot more subs

[@azzawhite2946]

Never owned a spectrum back in the day and as you know I’ve always been a C64 owner but really enjoyed the video

[@simonebernacchia5724]

I did realize that most of the ports here were mentioned in The Games Machine arcade section some time earlier - might be that US Gold did use TGM as porting guide?

[@jal051]

Match Point was great. One of the best tennis videogames I ever played. On the arcade ports subject. I don't think I ever enjoyed a single port in the Spectrum. All my favorite games were Spectrum originals.

[@siege-79]

Thank you 😊

[@vitorsousa8172]

Spot on with Golden Axe port shortcomings. Such a great game to play in arcade but with zx you could never know what your hero was hitting 😂 Arcade was indeed better and so much fun to play with my friends, together with Golden Axe II

[@franktriggs]

There's a coloured version of Outrun Europa. The code for colour is in the game, they just left it out. Someone from the WOS forums added it back in and I did some AY music for it.

[@alice-pz1kf]

my jaw dropped when i saw the power drift port, especially compared to the preceding games

[@Metalchip1989]

The players premier video seems like like a good idea (like joe blade)

[@cathalssupermegahappyfunti223]

I must have had a later re-release of out run on a compilation as I swear these slow down issues were not on mine.

[@simonebernacchia5724]

@2:49:00 the HURG! Never really understood how to use it (did not speak english at the time plus was a "parallel" version)

[@user-ct1mq4vz9p]

Does anyone know the name of the song playing at the credits? So soothing!

[@drewnorthcott6268]

Shinobi 1:22 -31:47 I made that, the graphics anyhow. The second year I was freelancing IIRC. I also did the Flying Shark loading screen,

[@HairDom]

Great compilation video 👍 on the subject of Outrun, content wise it’s closer to the coin op than the C64 version, and I think that’s its downfall. Reducing the roadside objects on stages like gateway and Grand Canyon would have kept the frame rate at frames / second instead of frames / minute. Probably why the truck sprites shrunk in between the preview press release and the actual game. Still it’s less disingenuous than the ST screenshots which were shown a good year before the game and have zero resemblance to the finished product, mainly because they were mocked up on Degas Elite using the arcade as a reference. Space Harrier is bare bones but quite an achievement as a 48k single load game. A lot of the best 8 bit conversions are those that play to the strengths of the system rather than trying to copy the arcade (think Power Drift compared to SF2).

[@BrenTenn]

Spy Hunter is James Bond on the C64

[@LiamGoodison]

Oof Zaxxon on the speccy, but Space Harrier made up for it

[@leewiscovitch]

Yes, teardown of the portable GameCube please!!!

[@AngryBootneck]

Back in the day it took real skill to make an arcade port that was actually good! 👍👍

[@richardcoles9985]

Love how when I watched this there were “16k views”. Nice 😅

[@schneil]

47:41 didn't the Sinclair magnum come out in 1989?

[@mrdsjenzie]

oh gawd three and a half hours on MY tv??? welp, better sit back in my chair then ... in about eleventybillion months when i GET to see this!!! as backlogged as us gold were rubbish in coin-op conversions teehee

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Rainbow Islands is the best port on the speccy, I don't know why they didn't do a port of Parasol Stars...think the system could have handled it.

[@jimc9183]

Wish I could like your videos each time I watched them... You'd be a damn millionaire...

[@jamesburchill7522]

I've watched these individually...but eff it. I'll bite

[@roythomson555]

Chase HQ2 was released around 1990 or 1991 not 1987.

[@scottbreon9448]

To be fair to Alien Storm, the only decent port of the game is on the Megadrive (or as we call it here, the Genesis), haven't played any other ports of the game that I like unless it's on one of those compilations on stuff like the PS2 (but that's pretty much emulating the arcade version) Most, if not all ports of Rolling Thunder were also lackluster. I just play that game on MAME these days

[@SkepticalChimp]

Do you realise you have a billion outtakes left in this?

[@videogamesruinedmylife3769]

Spy hunter on the spectrum is the only game that I would say plays better than the arcade version imo

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Salamander was totoal bollocks ha!

[@Feenix102]

How come there was never a Power Drift port to the Mega Drive? I would have played the ass out of that.

[@f1nkangel]

Forgotten Worlds was going to be an L from the start, it requires the twistable arcade stick, emulation is impossible without two analogue sticks (and still not ideal)...

[@Aintyourbuddy_guy]

I feel sorry for people that had the spectrum.. Yikes

[@lordevyl8317]

To be fair to the Spectrum port of Jailbreak, it's still not as dire as the Commodore 64 port, but they are both poor ports of a rather mediocre game to begin with.

[@paulahaunt]

2:04:46 okay what's up with this dude's hands?

[@JanetStarChild]

1:11:25 ...Look at that face...

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Arrghg, Renegade 3, I don't mind the setting and time travel shit but why not just keep the same fucking engine? You can have your captain caveman sprites or whatever crap but the gameplay is broken. Just run through the level, get to the clearing where they all come at you in 2 waves and duck and punch and you're sorted. At least the music is great.

[@vitorbonifacio3550]

yeeahh but back in the day we eat it and like it regardless :D or i was too young to notice lmao we played the bad and finished the good like cheap drugs thanks to pie rats lol

[@error4159]

As an American, I'll never understand how y'all enjoyed these games cause to me they all look like shit, lol. But, I love the videos about the dev's, publishers and hardware makers.

[@simonebernacchia5724]

Thunderblade was another Tiertex crap job

[@scottbreon9448]

To be fair, though most, if not all ports of Thunderblade were awful, apart from the Megadrive/Genesis version

[@mikeuk666]

00:58:57 Amstrad?

[@gipgap4]

They owned the spectrum brand and machines in the period Kim is referring to. Amstrad took the reigns from 1985 I think. Certainly by 1986.

[@taecentro6169]

At least the spectrum tried... the nes could do better

[@theatheisthammer]

@kim justice. Its G- LOCK PRONUNCIATION NOT G LOKE 😂😂😂😂

[@manicpanic4486]

Thanks for my spectrum porn video Kim,....3 hours of pure nostalgia and as always wonderfully written & narrated 😊

[@meh3247]

The answer to your question in the first few seconds of this video is, "Enshitification".

[@cloudskipa]

Super video except the bit where you say; "Ghosts 'n Goblins' on Speccy is definitely the best when it comes to 8-bit micros". I appreciate you're a Speccy fan but the C64 version destroys it on all levels. Not sure how you even arrived at that conclusion lol. Ghouls 'n Ghosts did actually play way better on Speccy though.

[@richardnelson3507]

I truly appreciate your work, but COME ON MAN!!! The Speccy was obsolete before it was released. EVERY micro at the time simply CRUSHED the speccy in EVERY WAY. There were no monochrome "Rainbow Islands" games... The speccy didn't sell in the US for a reason. It was TERRIBLE. It simply blows my mind how people praise this thing. I would have been embarrassed to own this thing when I was a kid. The system is simply unacceptable for gaming. I can see people loving it for its quirkiness, but I can't understand how on earth people would choose this thing over the C64. I always thought Brits had more class than that! Every compliment you give it is like telling a special needs kid "good job" for doing something simple like washing his / her hands. Is this really all that the UK had back then??

[@peterainsworth8026]

Never under estimate the power of cheap hardware and free games.

[@medes5597]

Fun fact - the UK was the most computer literate nation on earth and proceeded to have a large computer industry in terms of percentage of employment than any other country. There's a reason games like Tomb Raider and GTA spawned from the UK. And that reason is the Spectrum.

[@sky37blue]

I just feel sorry for you when I read your comment. You have completely ignored everything which made the speccy amazing. There were plenty of people at the time who had the C64 but the Spectrum was far more ubiquitous. That's part of what made It so fun, lots of your friends had them and you could copy each others games. Nobody cared about the graphics in 1983 when you had games with great gameplay. I feel like a lot of modern games have missed this point. To me it's similar to the I've got a big TV or monitor argument. When I'm engrossed in something I don't notice whether I'm watching a 20 inch or a 70 inch TV. Same with games back in those days on the spectrum, the good ones were engrossing.

[@stevensgoodallsg]

Truly awful conversions on a rather awful microcomputer. Beep

[@newsbender]

They were usually good enough back in the day as a substitute for the original arcade games. But I can't imagine wanting to play them now when the far superior originals are so readily available via emulation.

[@mikeuk666]

Awful computer? There were some great games back then on it....

[@gipgap4]

@@newsbender well I like playing the speccy versions of bombjack and commando over the arcade originals.

[@newsbender]

@@gipgap4 each to their own 😀 I can’t think of a single arcade game where I’d rather play an 8-bit conversion. But that’s just me.

[@gipgap4]

@@newsbender I think it depends on what you played first. I played the hell out of Bombjack and Commando on the speccy back in the day. I didn’t play the original arcade versions until many years later. The nostalgia lies with the Spectrum versions for myself unlike the arcade games.

[@sebastianbattaglia6330]

Thunder Blade for the 8-bits has the PEPSI logo at the beginning....(at least for the c64) also, the c64 version of shinobi is great!

[@_.OX._]

Bloody awful genre on the Spectrum or most 8 bits for that matter but monochrome graphics and Spectrum beeps were never going to be a winning formula despite some sterling efforts.