Wifeys post on all things nostalgic reminded me of my youth and the days I spent hunched over the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum. My career as a programmer lasted but a brief time as I ended the two hours of typing in a programme from the back pages of Sinclair User magazine with the “run” command, only to see it crash and reset itself. Hmmm, I thought, I could have spent those two hours playing something fun, blow this for a game of soldiers.
And so a life long addiction began. 27 years on from playing Space Invaders on the Speccy, I still dabble when time permits with my Xbox360 or the Wii (when M’laddo lets me have a go anyway).
Which brings me to Spectaculator, a rather nifty programme that lets you play all those 8-bit Speccy games in their glory.
There are plenty of games I played to death when I was a nipper- Thru the Wall, Space Invaders, Eliminator, Xevious, TerraCresta and so on but the one that still haunts my dreams is the Hobbit.
Well, let see if as an grown up I can progress a bit more :)