Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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.
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.
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I am a fun of BazzaH. He test a few-gamesMozartkügel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:17 am I was hoping to find some good ones for the Speccy too.
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Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
Zeus has done a few with commentary. Look up zeusdaz on YT.
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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.
Also Villordsutch, who mainly does a mix of ZX81 and Spectrum reviews.
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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
Arnau Jess
El Spectrumero Javi Ortiz
Juanie Juega
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Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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
Geoff Neil
Paul Jenkinson (author of the great 'Spectrum Show', not only review of games, quite interesting to watch)
Collie UK
ZX Spectrum User
Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
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Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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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?
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Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
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.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
Thanks for the link, I've enjoyed watching Nick getting to grips with Buzzsaw+!
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Re: Youtubers that review and/or play ZX Spectrum games with "commentary"
Yay! Thanks everyone, now we've got a whole bunch of Speccy Youtubers to watch!
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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!
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!