Spectrum Computing

I've watched quite a few of Nostalgia Nerd's and Kim Justice's ZX Spectrum video's and those are great, but are there some youtubers that specifically make review- or "let's play-" videos of new and old Speccy games?

I tried to look but I found mostly "silent" gameplay videos without talking/commentary. I've quite enjoyed review videos of new games for some other old systems so I was hoping to find some good ones for the Speccy too.

Mozartkügel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:17 am I was hoping to find some good ones for the Speccy too.

I am a fun of BazzaH. He test a few-games

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/v74wLD5tYaY

Zeus has done a few with commentary. Look up zeusdaz on YT.

There's ChinnyVision, who does reviews for a variety of platforms (mostly on real hardware) including the Spectrum. A fair few of his videos are multi-platform comparisons, but he does do the occasional standalone review now and again.

Also Villordsutch, who mainly does a mix of ZX81 and Spectrum reviews.

If you can understand Spanish, there are some very interesting channels in that language. They also interviewed several authors of the homebrew scene, which is strong in Spain. (I have been interviewed, too, although my knowledge of Spanish is ...sketchy).

Arnau Jess
El Spectrumero Javi Ortiz
Juanie Juega

Here are some other good channels:

Geoff Neil
Paul Jenkinson (author of the great 'Spectrum Show', not only review of games, quite interesting to watch)
Collie UK
ZX Spectrum User

As this place isn't WoSF and we're not banned from mentioning certain topics/people/whomever-admins-have-decided-is-the-spawn-of-satan then George Bum' s FunkySpectrum channel has loads of Speccy reviews.

Personally I find many of George's views questionable at best. I have little sympathy for people who fuel anger and resentment on the Web, even if they start from a theoretically agreeable point of view. I also find his practice of "pushing" homebrew developers to release their games under his label quite annoying. See them and judge by yourself.

My personal favorite is Nick Jenkin. He provides the most entertaining and yet never over-the-top commentary, and does a great job trying to show you every aspect of a game. I love his style.

He recently branched out and now covers platforms other than the Spectrum, and even though I don’t have any special warm feelings toward them, I enjoy watching those videos anyway.

I highly recommend him.

I saw one come up recently on Facebook of a guy 'reviewing' Buzzsaw+. He played one game of it, and lasted quite a while, but just kept swearing at his own mistakes. No commentary or criticism. Just an averagey score number that pops up then almost immediately disappears as it's right at the end of the video! I'd give his review 5/10 myself, and that's only because I enjoy watching people gradually figuring out how to play it. And did I mention there was a lot of swearing?

Joefish wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:57 pm He played one game of it, and lasted quite a while, but just kept swearing at his own mistakes.

Incidentally, Nick reviewed Buzzsaw+ just a few days ago and he thought it was absolutely brilliant. It was on the long side, too, about twenty minutes.

Thanks for the link, I've enjoyed watching Nick getting to grips with Buzzsaw+!

Yay! Thanks everyone, now we've got a whole bunch of Speccy Youtubers to watch!

ZXDB currently stores Youtube reviews from "The Spectrum Show". You can see these links near the bottom of Spectrum Computing pages when available, for instance:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30139

We will gladly add links to reviews from other Youtube channels too, if anyone is willing to collect this information!