What's the Best ZX Spectrum Game... Ever!

it’s simple to do that, you can create a loader that applies ulaplus palette in zx-spectrum basic

something like:

10 restore 30

11 out 48955,64:out 65339,1

12 for i=0 to 63

14 read u

16 out 48955,i:out 65339,u

18 next i

30 data 0,11,52,82,104,103,148,183

31 data 0,11,52,82,104,103,148,183

32 data 0,67,88,118,204,163,185,255

33 data 0,67,88,118,204,163,185,255

34 data 0,11,52,82,104,103,148,183

35 data 0,11,52,82,104,103,148,183

36 data 0,67,88,118,204,163,185,255

37 data 0,67,88,118,204,163,185,255

50 load ""

and you can create a .tap of it using zmakebas, and concatenate before whatever .tap file you have available (just like using “cat ulaplusloader.tap yourgame.tap > yourgamewithulaplus.tap” on the terminal)

Trabajo Basura (Dire Job) - Mojon Twins Dome

Gotta be elite. The spectrum port kinda sucked, but the game itself? One of the best of all time.

I imagine any of these games ported to the new ULA+ color palette. Any of these would look amazing with the new colors.

Jim Bagley's Cabal, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk!! I'm shocked - why aren't any of these ones in the list!?!

My favourites to play were JetPac, Chuckie Egg, Gauntlet and Hero. Renegade was what inspired the graphics and game play on my King Penguin game. At the end of the day the creative genius combined with great playability makes Head of Heels my overall winner.

Brilliant - if I close my eyes and think of the Speccy, Manic Miner comes to mind first every time.  I voted for the game that reminds me most of the Spectrum - not necessarily the 'best' game in the technical sense, but probably the one that frustrated me the most yet kept me playing.

Matthew Smith... brilliant.  Imagine if the 'net and online gaming existed back then.

Had to be Target: Renegade for me. Not that it was super-amazing, but the timing was spot on. All the Double Dragon home conversions were atrocious, and tanked badly. And then Ocean (of Manchester fame) stepped in and filled the need for a co-op fighting game on the home computers.

Nuff skill!

Several top games there, it was hard to pick just one!

I'm relatively suprised that Elite isn't running away with this! Never played it myself but folks still talk reverently about it now!

I do remember a Manic Miner clone that had Arthur Scargill's hairspray that you had to avoid, fairly sure I didn't dream that!