Spectrum Days: retro games and movies
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Episode 6 – The Way of the Exploding Fist: Roundhouse Zen
In this episode we go back to the ZX Spectrum and play The Way of the Exploding Fist for this episode. Do you remember the keys? Could you get the flying kick timing right? Is it better than Street Fighter? Join us this episode and hear what we can half remember, and then how we…
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Speedball- it’s brutal!
Its hard to believe that the Bitmap Brothers weren’t sitting around in their pajamas eating cereal on a Sunday morning back in the 70s whilst watching Rollerball, thinking, “one day, we will make computer games based on this film on a computer that has yet to be invented” Obviously, none of that happened. The Bitmap…
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Not the movie! We, if you are of my era, are getting to that age, who am I kidding?…we are that age! The age when every day an anniversary of some amazing, influential or simply well remembered and loved game crops up in your various online feeds. Gaming is such a new…hobby? That’s what we…
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What is `Retro`?
A quick Google (or Excite as I think I used in the 90s) search for the term retro brings forth the result… Accompanying it is a load of pictures of women wearing clothes from the 1960`s and a load of links to retro toy shops, not a mention of our beloved hobby/passion (passing interest) of…
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Horace goes skiing: a slippery slope
In our third episode we finally cover a ZX Spectrum game. We took our sweet time considering we are calling our podcast “Spectrum Days”… But we finally got there and we chose a classic to cover. Actually, we chose three classics as we take on the legendary Horace Trilogy: Horace Goes Skiing Hungry Horace Horace…
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Mega Drive 2 Mini
…or is it the Sega Mega Drive Mini 2? as it says on the box! Well, technically it is a Mega Drive 2, or at least a mini version of one, so in summary, it’s a mini Mega Drive 2 and the 2nd mini Sega have made…got it? Being a collector of retro gaming stuff…
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Ghouls ‘n Ghosts: Terrifyingly difficult?
In a nutshell… yes, it’s very hard. Too hard. When discussing games apt for Halloween we jumped on Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. Surely this was one of the best Sega Megadrive games from our youth. An arcade port that would survive the test of time we thought. At the time it was the best game for…
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Welcome
The podcast where we ruin our childhood memories of games we used to play. Join Phil and Chris as we take look at the video games we played as kids back in the late eighties and nineties. In each episode we start by talking about a game from memory – then we play it and let…
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