Silentstorm
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I think we all have those here, those old retro games we used to like or we hear a lot about, that we decide to replay or finally play and then end up being dissapointed and wondering why you either liked the game to begin with or why it's so loved, so why not ask people here to share their experiences regarding that?
As for me, i recently decided to try the ZX Spectrum, it's a computer i never grew up with, but it was really big in Britain, was influential to many people, had a lot of games, and i saw it being mentioned in quite a few videos, so i thought, why the hell not?
I had also remembered it being mentioned a lot in the Retro Gamer magazine which makes sense since it's a british mag, and two games they constantly mention are Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, it's the favorite games of some of the writers, Spectrum fans love those, there were people who made multiplayer versions of them and there are communities dedicated to modding those games or making ones like it to the ZX Spectrum, for those games to be mentioned so much, there must be something to them!
So, i tried them, they were the first ZX Spectrum games i tried, and then i quickly found myself thinking why the hell the games were so popular.
Oh, don't get me wrong, they are creative, it's just that i find them slow, a bit clunky and really not that much fun, particularly when there are many platformer games i would rather play made since then and i found other Spectrum games having aged better.
I don't know, maybe there is something off about me, but i just can't get into Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy at all, i really don't find them all that fun.
As for me, i recently decided to try the ZX Spectrum, it's a computer i never grew up with, but it was really big in Britain, was influential to many people, had a lot of games, and i saw it being mentioned in quite a few videos, so i thought, why the hell not?
I had also remembered it being mentioned a lot in the Retro Gamer magazine which makes sense since it's a british mag, and two games they constantly mention are Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, it's the favorite games of some of the writers, Spectrum fans love those, there were people who made multiplayer versions of them and there are communities dedicated to modding those games or making ones like it to the ZX Spectrum, for those games to be mentioned so much, there must be something to them!
So, i tried them, they were the first ZX Spectrum games i tried, and then i quickly found myself thinking why the hell the games were so popular.
Oh, don't get me wrong, they are creative, it's just that i find them slow, a bit clunky and really not that much fun, particularly when there are many platformer games i would rather play made since then and i found other Spectrum games having aged better.
I don't know, maybe there is something off about me, but i just can't get into Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy at all, i really don't find them all that fun.