Comments on: 10 RUN

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:35:56 +0000

I miss my Speccy…very happy memories indeed. Even the trauma of a game flunking out after fifteen minutes of loading has now been dulled by a nostalgic mist…well, maybe!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:51:16 +0000

I had a game called “Give my regards to Broad Street” on my C64, and it honestly took 40 minutes to load. I wish I was kidding.

By: The Rook

The Rook — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:04:42 +0000

Shift + Run/Stop. That was the Commodore 64 way. Ah, that takes me back. I actually started on the Commodore 16 and took a while to figure out how to load my first game.

It is amazing how games have changed amd improved so much since then. And the games may have taken longer to load from cassette but it was still better than typing in the program listings you would get in the magazines, that never worked.

The flashy lines on screen, the line by line drawing of the loading pic, the joysticks with only one button, fond memories. :D

By: Dave G

Dave G — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:40:04 +0000

Hang on…the photo of the Jet Set Willy game, isn’t that the code card that they included to stop people copying their games? That REALLY takes me back!!

By: MrCuddleswick

MrCuddleswick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:22:29 +0000

Ha ha ha the Resi loading door of pain!

I had a Spectrum, and there was a space fighting game (called Space Invaders but it wasn’t the one you think), and the loading screen was Thunderbird 5. Happy memories.

Kids don’t know they’re born these days.

By: Darach

Darach — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:00 +0000

The ‘Spectrum Screech’, eh? :D I’ll never forget it.

It’s interesting you mentioned Arkham Asylum – cos it does exactly what Resi did all those years ago :)
It uses a short animated door-opening sequence to cover the loading time :)
Difference is, now we get to watch a painstakingly detailed Batman open and walk through said door :) Makes it a whole lot less dull, don’tcha think? :)

By: arc14716

arc14716 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:59:28 +0000

I remember doing all that. I had a commodore Vic-20 that had video cartridge games that you could plug into the back of the console.

It also could play games loaded from a cassette, provided you had the special cassette player that you had to fork over maybe less than $50 for.

The load times on those were long to say the least. The graphics were good given that it was the 80s. Thank goodness I graduated to a Tandy 1000HX which had superior graphics. Well, superior for that day, given that it was the late 80s.