CLOSED: ZX Spectrum Competition : What's your favourite Spectrum game and greatest gaming achievement?

A winner has been chosen: but not yet replied with details! If they haven't replied in 3 weeks then another will be chosen!

What's your greatest gaming achievement?

Have you managed to get to the kill screen on Donkey Kong or Pacman ?

Perhaps you own the fastest speed run on VVVVVV ? Or do you currently hold the greatest score on ninja mode in Audiosurf ?

Perhaps you've taken part in an international DOTA 2 or League of Legends tournament ?
Or just managed to finish the seemingly impossible to some, Manic Miner.

Whatever the achievement, great or small I want to hear about it and what your favourite ZX Spectrum game was or still is. The one I consider to be the greatest or best in a weeks time will be chosen to win an amazing ZX Spectrum satchel/bag and gloriously made mug (don't enter, I want them for myself .... just kidding (maybe ;)).

Favour will be given to those people who post proof of their gaming achievement, maybe with a youtube or twitch.tv video; a screenshot or recording.

Remember, this is your gaming achievement. Not someone else's !

The best gaming achievement will win a ZX Spectrum mug and bag!

It's Simple to Join in:

Register or log on to the element14 Community.
Select your vote option and click "Add Your Comment" at the bottom of this post to post about your gaming achievement! (only appears when you're logged in!)

What Happens Next?

The element14 Team will choose an entry after the 8th of August when the competition closes
One winner will be announced on the 11th of August

Important Note:

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Only submit one gaming achievement, if you submit more than one, it is at the discretion of the element14 Team to ignore or disqualify your entry/entries.

The element14 Team will have a preference for achievements which include screenshots/photographs/videos of the gaming achievements; if there's any evidence found that this is not your gaming achievement then the entry will be disqualified. This decision is at the discretion of the element14 Team.

If you are selected, you will be contacted via instant message on the element14 Community site to confirm your details.

Detailed Prizing Info:

The winner will be sent a ZX Spectrum Bag and Mug. Entrants who post up to 10 words describing their project and post pictures/photographs/diagrams/schematics planning their project will be favoured to win the competition.

Terms and Conditions can be found here: Terms & Conditions: "ZX Spectrum Competition : What's your favourite Spectrum game and greatest gaming achievement?"

Timeline:

During the period from 9am BST (United Kingdom British Summer Time) on August 1st 2014 until 5pm BST (United Kingdom British Summer Time) on the 8th of August 2014, any registered community member can participate in the competition.

Top Comments

michaelwylie over 8 years ago

Final Fastasy - 15 years or so after I first played it.
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Former Member over 8 years ago

my best achievement was to finish target renegade without any poke, it was really hard as far as I remember it!
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Former Member over 8 years ago

My favorite game is Mike Tyson's punch out on the NES.. I finally beat Mike Tyson's punch at the end without any cheatcodes
That game haunted me for years.. http://hackinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BuXz1g4CUAApxJL.jpg.
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Former Member over 8 years ago

I found Paul Shirley's initials in my favourite game Spindizzy. Also the message "hi mum". Can't do it these days without a poke or two so no proof. Delighted to see the brother of Spindizzy coder Phil Churchyard in this section. Spindizzy is my favourite game of course.
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fvan over 8 years ago
I consider my greatest gaming achievement the fact that I got my kids interested in the games I used to play as a kid myself on the Sega Master System.
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Frederick
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Former Member over 8 years ago

My brother Phil provided pokes for Crash Mag, he converted Spin Dizzy for the Speccy. I was not a great game player, I was more interested in 'hardware hacking'. Built a ram overlay for the Speccy ROM and video ram shadow and with an Opus One disc interface was able to write a CPM bios and run Wordstar and play Zork adventures.
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kidiccurus over 8 years ago

Biggest gaming achievment: 100% on both Lego star wars one and Lego Indiana Jones. I never want to see a stud again. A bit rubbish but I don't have the time or patience to try and speed run or high score something. Unfortunately I am too young for zx spectrum but a friend has recently given me his old 128k toastrack model. Unfortunately age has killed the keyboard membrane so my new project is to fix that. He also gave me a z88 with the same problem. He actually designed the electronics for the z88 way back in the day so any questions, please ask and I may pass them on to him.
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dragonstyne over 8 years ago

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81, I had to build it from scratch as a kit.
Good times...

-Steve
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Former Member over 8 years ago

My biggest achievement on games was to daily complete Resident Evil 2 for PSX with both characters in less than 1h30m each without saving, using only the pocket knife and without using any spray aid. I was trying to achiev some special character like TOFU until someone told me that those characters were only available in one version (US, UK or something) of the game that wasn´t mine. I liked the game so much that i kept doing this every single day after school and more than once at weekends until I sold the PSX and games and bought a PS2.
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Former Member over 8 years ago

I think my best achievement on the dear old 48K ZX Spectrum was to complete Atic Atac with all three characters - Wizard, Knight and Serf.
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