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Jason (09/03/2007)
Still felt superior to the Commodore rabble, though... Yes, all the Speccy owners felt like that. Whilst they were turning green with envy. 
Ha! I don't remember ever feeling envious of any Commode64 owner, because none of them had a tape deck that lasted more than 5 minutes before breaking down... 
I did envy the very few whose parents were wealthy enough to afford a BBC Micro though...
My parents originally bought me a 16K Spectrum, which I kept switched on for so long that first week, the keyboard went kind of tacky and it expired...
It was replaced by a second 16K, later upgraded to 48K. A MK2 model in point of fact. Still got it complete with all packaging/manuals/etc, along with all of my cassettes, my Binatone tape deck (still works - suck on that Commode owners), Kempston joystick interface, one completely badgered QuickshotII joystick and a home built (thanks to Everyday Electronics Magazine, remember them) Speccy amp.
Oh, and a few select Speccy magazines of the day, including one special Sinclair User which published a (very first ever) letter from a very young yours truly...
Fave games? Well, top ten in no particular order:
Manic Miner
JetSet Willy
Jet Pac
Ms Pacman
Atic Atac
Gauntlet
Horace Goes Skiing
Dan Dare
Zzoom
16K SuperChess
Still occasionally fire up the emulator for a bit of Speccy action on the pc...
Ah yes, back when computers were actually fun... ~sigh~
Can it really be that long ago...
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i had a zx81 to start with but at school we had a zx spectrum the games i used to love were jet set willy , jumping jack and my all time fav chuckie egg
Cheers Mark
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| zxSPECTRUM - So many memories I think it was about 93/94 with me mate jay around may mate james' house playing supertest on a +3, I think it was bundled at some point along with other ocean games. Anyway, we had no joystick - so were button bashing to hell and beyond!. After this I really wanted a speccy, and I eventually bought a +2 with pocket money saved over about 10 weeks = £15. this came with a box of tapes (boxed and otherwise) including a few ((dizzy) games: fantasy world, spellbound, magicland dizzy), Nemesis, Some platforming scooby-doo game, Matchday, Gauntlet, Everyone's a wally (with that dodgy song on the b-side), Gunship? made by microprose (really hard controls if I remember), and a couple of 3D games that were very much like the 'StarWars') coin-ops of the time. And a few more I can't remember. - Actually: Sweevo's world, - To much to be able to write properly after a few beers!. A lot of memories, and a lot of cups of tea (while the games were loading!) Lyndon.
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| has it really been 25 years ?? remember these very well 16k later 48k good basic plenty of fun and head cleaning on the tape deck fixed plenty of these in my time old z80 and a custom ic ( ULA ) made by ferranti i think i still have some basic roms for this machine somewhere after that i moved on to the c64
Thats the way I like it!! 
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shem (15/03/2007)
after that i moved on to the c64![[ Yoda ]](http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/yoda/img/movie2_sm.jpg)
Gone over to the dark side, you have.
/\/\athusalah
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I had my first speccy in March 1983 (or was it 1984?). It was a 48K mark 2. It was a belated Xmas pressy as they were totally sold out beforehand.
My sister had been with my Dad when he bought it and wisely she got him to buy a game - Jetpac, which we played for hours. Then my friend, who was still awaiting his speccy, rushed home at about midnight and came back with the Cascade Cassette 50! We played just about every crap game on it and loved it. We finally got to bed at about 3.00 am.
I eventually killed it playing Elite for about 3 days non-stop (literally) over the summer holidays. We went on to kill another two of my mates speccy's playing Elite.
Aaah them was the days!
Bombus
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| My first computer was a Spectrum+, which I bought early in 1985. I thought it was the dog's do-dahs and never suffered from C64 envy at all. (Well, maybe a tiny bit when I first saw Uridium and Exploding Fist). That particlar machine went the way of the Dodo many years ago, but I have managed to aquire several nice examples since then, (I currently have six). My favourite games included: Knight Lore (Ultimate) Highway Encounter (Vortex) Way Of The Exploding Fist (Melbourne House) Fairlight (The Edge) Exolon (Hewson) It still surprises me how much programmers back then used to cram into just 48K - they've got it easy today... Lee.
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For those of you who are interested, the electro-zine ZXF (edited by Colin Wookcock) is available again and issue 11 celebrates the 25 years of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. A cracking read it is too. Get it from www.cwoodcock.co.uk and follow the relevant link :-D
Regards,
Shaun.
http://www.commodorecomputerclub.co.uk
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