General / Off-Topic Mines better...

[Davidtq]

Ok so I grew up with the Speccy's (starting with the zx81) then the tatung einstein. I was quite content with these as a kid. Many happy hours spent programming and playing video games and the graphics always seemed fine to me at the time, I never saw anything overly impressive on the beeb. somehow or another I never actually ended up playing on a C64.

I had a bit of an emulator fit last night.

I got the einstein emulator working, then went on to spectrum stuff and had a few classic games going, all was fine, most of the games were pretty much as I remember them and a happy reminder of my childhood.

Then my wife started to talk about C64 games she played when young. I set out and got a c64 emulator working, I got the summer games package up and running and then compared it side by side with the spectrum version A small part of my childhood died right there...

Luckily Im still 100% convinced even after running both on emulator that the only game that matters (Elite) was better on the spectrum than the c64 although I actually played it on the einstein but it was the same version just on floppy disk!

In conclusion Im pretty convinced as a games machine that mine most certainly wasnt better. Although in fairness I never argues the point back in the day I was just happy with what I had, and I spent more time programming than playing I guess...

 

[Giskard]

It's an interesting debate, Speccy vs C64. I too, was a Spectrum lad. I loved it.
All my friends had one too, so the Commodore was never really in my mind much.
We had one in our 'Computer Studies' room at school and some of the games were very good. Certainly the sound was far superior. Also, those sprite graphics avoided colour clash didn't they?

Despite that, I never wished I had a C64 instead. I was perfectly content. To me, there was something intrinsically more 'friendly' about a Spectrum.

 

[DigitalDuck]

The C64 was years ahead of its time. It made every game brown and grey, which suits most modern games today!


Joking aside, I personally prefer the Speccy. The C64 may have had technical superiority, but it cost a lot more, and didn't have half as good a game library.

I mean, the lack of Chaos alone...

 

[Geraldine]

Rose Tinted Lensloks

I loved the Speccy version. It was my very first contact with Elite and it was really smooth to play.

The BEEB version of Elite is widely regarded as the best of the 8 bits, but I would say the Speccy version runs it pretty close and I would put both before the C64 version and that's coming from a complete Commodore (admittedly Amiga) nutter! Note my avatar

In defence of the C64 version, yes it did have better sound, no doubts there, but somehow it just didn't feel as smooth to play as the BEEB and Speccy versions. Maybe it's just me. :S

Still pretty good tho.