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Lol, I forgotten that holding upside down. Mind you we'd try anything to get the javelin to go further.

For me, on the Spectrum, it was anything that used the Kempston interface. Daley Thompson Decathlon, being the joystick breaker. I pretty much used keys on a lot of games on the Spectrum though. On the C64, hands down for me the best joystick, was the Zip Stick Pro, with it's microswitches, yellow responsive buttons, firm grip handle and auto fire switch option. I got one, after a joystick round up review in a magazine. Me and a mate, had thought they looked shite before. But on the basis of the review, we decided to try one, as soon as we played Bubble Bobble with it, we used no other joystick. Sure it worked on the Amiga A500 and A1200 also and I still have a ZIp Stick Pro somewhere. Perhaps we are going a bit modern here, but after getting into the WII Emulator, Dolphin, I found the Nunchuck is a great joystick for simple games and racers in particular. It reminds me of those Konix joysticks and now seeing them again, it makes me wish I had had a go on the 8/16 bit computers with a Konix stick.

Here's a version that works in v6.1. I've probably made other adjustments to it as well. But obviously all credit to original DX'r Pink_Panther.zip

None would be my answer. I had a ZX81, Spectrum 48k and C64. Very rarely I might see a game screenshot from another computer and think wow that looks better than my version. One such instance was a game called Savage iirc. The Amstrad version looked excellent. I also when I owned a Spectrum, craved getting a C64 which I did in the end.

If it was I would imagine it was released as a classic layout. I've been around since virtually day 1 and I don't recall any release, but my collection is nowhere near complete.

Never owned either, but via emulation on my PC, I discovered Donkey Kong Country. Played it for hours and hours, not playing anything else on my PC for a few weeks. Sadly it got too hard towards the end for me and I never quite finished it. Played some games via emulation over the past couple of years on my GPD XD, but none I can recall getting that much into. I also remember having a good laugh with a few teenagers on one of the Street Fighter games on the SNES around an old girlfriends sisters place. I recently decided to collect the mini console/computers. So I got a NES and SNES mini, but haven't even opened them yet.

Enjoyed this video and the Rally X one on the channel. Hopefully you'll get a few more subscribers to the channel. Not my sort of game Gangsters, but would have been one a mate of mine would have played. Remember Mugsy, great graphics for the time, but very little gameplay underneath.

Another great video. Agree with the order of greatness. Shows that there is still plenty of old stuff that could do with an update or even a DX. The older a machine is, the more it needs a DX otherwise it's like searching for an old game and overlooking it because there is no case to show gameplay and graphics to draw the player towards it. Recently I was trying to remember an m1a/b mid tech game which used the 7 symbol from m1a/b Monopoly. Turns out it was Omega. https://www.fruit-emu.com/forums/topic/10654-brought-to-you-by-the-letter/?fromsearch=1 Incidentally the link on the download page is broken on fruit-emu. I would have overlooked it had there not been a picture of it on Reel Fruits.

I remember Super Trolley, not that I owned it, I think. There is possibly a video of the program somewhere on the net I guess. But the story behind it, is a kid wrote in, saying they wanted to write and publish a game (or words to that affect) and naturally Jim fixed it for them. I owned Mad Nurse, it was one of many crappy £1.99 titles and play them for less than 30 minutes.

You can get MFME v5 and v5.1 from The Mecca, in the release threads for the emulator. https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?/forum/31-mfme-development/ From v6.1 onwards, they are hosted on Desertislandfruits.

Simply press f8 and it will take a screenshot of the layout you are or have loaded. That screenshot will automatically appear in the game tab. So you could take a few if you want and it will flip between them. I tend to wait until the machine has loaded up and before the attract mode has started. But it's entirely up to the individual.

Here's mine. Served me so, so, but I made the mistake of going back to Mesh Computers some years later, as FF oldies would remember

I remember we use to find a part, put it by the exit, then go find the next part and repeat. The first time we got them all, we put them together. I vaguely remember some sort of pick/drop/pick/drop panicked sequence of getting it to look right and then us wondering why it wouldn't work. Eventually after a few times of getting all the parts of the key, we figured we had it the wrong way around.

My first magazines were the typing ones like Sinclair Programs. I remember sometimes the ZX81 games looked good, so me and a mate, would spend hours typing them into the Spectrum, hoping they would work. Amazing to think we would finish, see if it worked, if it didn't and couldn't see why, we'd just move on to the next one, saying oh well. Never mind how much time we had spent typing it in. I pretty much bought nearly every mag for the Spectrum and C64. Wasn't overly keen on multi format ones like C&VG. Favourite Spectrum mag and computing mag of all time is/was Your Sinclair. Zzap was great for the C64, Amiga Power best for the Amiga and then PC Zone for err the PC. I have subscribed to Retro Gamer for years. I'm about 2 issues behind at the moment, as I get bored of reading it sometimes, then end up binge reading a couple of issues.

Loving this. So many memories already.

Super Locomotive by Sega. I believe it's one of the rarest arcade machines. I remember we played it to death in an arcade in Belgium (Blankenberge) on a school football trip. The music was so memorable and many of us were whistling it for days. I later discovered it was Rydeen and used on the C64 Daley Thompson Decathlon game and then found the video on youtube of Rydeen.

Yep, I'd load up the game, just to hear the Commando music, the game had terrible flicker problems.

I've got some old ZX81 games somewhere, I think 3D Monster Maze is amongst them. Also I swear I bought Great Giana Sisters, from a market stall back in the day, so might have that amongst some old tapes.