RoseTintedSpectrumHello fellow cheeses! Bearsden Primary School tasks their 10 - 11 year old children with making ZX Spectrum games, but will they stand up to the INCREDIBLY correct opinions of RoseTintedSpectrum? Maybe. But yes. But maybe.
SCHOOLKIDS Making ZX SPECTRUM GAMES?!RoseTintedSpectrum2023-07-01 | Hello fellow cheeses! Bearsden Primary School tasks their 10 - 11 year old children with making ZX Spectrum games, but will they stand up to the INCREDIBLY correct opinions of RoseTintedSpectrum? Maybe. But yes. But maybe.
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#retrogaming #zxspectrumThrough the Dragons Eye is... Certainly SomethingRoseTintedSpectrum2024-09-27 | Through The Dragon's Eye was a Look and Read production that would delight and terrify children up and down the country, either because of the terrifying bad guy or the terrifying good guy. Either way, you were probably going home from English class with the squits.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Through The Dragon's Van 07:36 - The Gang Rides a Dragon 12:35 - When Ewoks Attack 18:39 - Charn Wins Man of the Year 21:47 - Deus Ex Veetina 25:14 - Reading The Mysteries of Biscuits 28:07 - Sick Cave Parkour 34:39 - It's Finally DoneGamesMaster Series 2 is... Certainly Getting WeirderRoseTintedSpectrum2024-09-19 | GamesMaster Series 2 with Dominik Diamond at the helm (we've not reached the forbidden series yet, don't worry). Here we cover episodes 10-18 of series 2, from Gamesmaster reviews, to challenges, to... Well, not much else, that's basically all they did. But this time, IT'S ALL GONE OFF THE RAILS.
#retrogamingCODING MONSTERS: The Horrifying Games of Smith & HowardRoseTintedSpectrum2024-09-05 | Howard and Smith, two ZX Spectrum men with a mission - a mission to make three games that weren't very well received but all featured classic monsters. And they sort of maybe kind of did it; a triple feature bill of Mermaid Madness, Bride of Frankenstein and Werewolves of London await for your halloween viewing pleasure!
#zxspectrum #retrogamingGamesMaster Series 2 Was... Certainly SomethingRoseTintedSpectrum2024-08-23 | GamesMaster Series 2 with Dominik Diamond at the helm (we've not reached the forbidden series yet, don't worry). Here we cover episodes 1-9 of series 2, from Gamesmaster reviews, to challenges, to... Well, not much else, that's basically all they did. But this time, WILDER!
For all the Breaking Bad Influence bingers out there, here's the full 4th Series knitted together in one big old video. Featuring Andy Crane, Violet Berlin, but not Nam Rood, Zed Wright or anyone but a big gaping void of personality. Helping us along is the usual poorly thought out reviews from daft children with no taste.
#retrogamingA METROID For the ZX SPECTRUM?RoseTintedSpectrum2024-07-18 | We never got a Metroid for the ZX Spectrum, but we did get a Frogtroid. Sort of. If you squint.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingBinging Bad Influence | Breaking Bad Influence | Series 3RoseTintedSpectrum2024-07-12 | For all the Breaking Bad Influence bingers out there, here's the full 3rd Series knitted together in one big old video. Featuring Andy Crane, Violet Berlin, Nam Rood, Zed Wright and a massive helping of poorly thought out reviews from daft children with no taste.
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00:00:00 - Episode 1 00:16:23 - Episode 2 00:29:16 - Episode 3 00:47:09 - Episode 4 01:02:29 - Episode 5 01:18:44 - Episode 6 01:35:12 - Episode 7 01:51:57 - Episode 8 02:07:56 - Episode 9 02:26:13 - Episode 10 02:41:47 - Episode 11 02:56:59 - Episode 12 03:26:59 - Episode 13 03:43:42 - Episode 14 04:02:14 - Episode 15Binging Bad Influence | Breaking Bad Influence | Series 2RoseTintedSpectrum2024-06-30 | For all the Breaking Bad Influence bingers out there, here's the full 2nd Series knitted together in one big old video. Featuring Andy Crane, Violet Berlin, Nam Rood, Zed Wright and a massive helping of poorly thought out reviews from daft children with no taste.
00:00 - Episode 1 15:33 - Episode 2 29:51 - Episode 3 46:25 - Episode 4 1:04:38 - Episode 5 1:18:35 - Episode 6 1:33:29 - Episode 7 1:43:57 - Episode 8 1:56:38 - Episode 9 2:09:05 - Episode 10 2:22:46 - Episode 11 2:41:29 - Episode 12 2:55:09 - Episode 13 3:08:15 - Episode 14 3:22:45 - Episode 15Binging Bad Influence | Breaking Bad Influence | Series 1RoseTintedSpectrum2024-06-26 | For all the Breaking Bad Influence bingers out there, here's the full 1st Series knitted together in one big old video. Featuring Andy Crane, Violet Berlin, Nam Rood, Zed Wright and a massive helping of poorly thought out reviews from daft children with no taste.
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#zxspectrum #retrogamingA 90s Arcade Racing Game STILL Worth Your TimeRoseTintedSpectrum2024-05-31 | Ignition for MS-DOS and Windows was a racing game that came and went without much fanfare, but it's still well worth picking up today, especially on sale.
#doscember #dosgames #retrogamingANIMAL: The Peperami Game Nobody WantedRoseTintedSpectrum2024-05-16 | Peperami - It's a bit of an animal, or to take the game's terrible tagline: It's a "byte" of an animal, which honestly should give you some indication of the level of humour on offer here. Ade Edmondson deserves better than being a point and click sausage.
#doscember #dosgames #pointandclickgamesIs This The MOST BORING Game?RoseTintedSpectrum2024-04-25 | Well dang my poons, let's take a little look at Spaced Out for the ZX Spectrum, I game I remember with fondness and now associate with very little fondness. What a surprise.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingThis AWFUL Game GOT A SEQUEL?!RoseTintedSpectrum2024-04-11 | Truly, these are some of the worst games I have ever come across (not just on the ZX Spectrum) - From a time where game design as we know it is floating in the breeze of the future like some magical carrier bag that longs to be recycled.
#zxspectrum #retrogaming7 More Hidden ZX Spectrum Games You Didnt WantRoseTintedSpectrum2024-03-28 | Check out Paul Bradbury Croatia Expert's full video, this man knows his Crotia. And his busses. A genuinely interesting video from a man who got drunk and wrote a purposefully provocative article about Crotia. And its busses: youtube.com/watch?v=TU6FIW6pCcg&t --- Have you ever wanted to find hidden ZX Spectrum gems? Have you ever wanted to come across games you've never discovered before? THEN YOU NEED TO WADE THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE.
#zxspectrum #retrogaming --- 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Ali Baba 06:00 - Apache Raid 09:33 - Atom Ant 14:05 - Amoeba 17:45 - Apage Satanas 20:29 - Aerobirds 21:30 - Agent Blue 24:05 - BYE THENFinally, a Good ZX Spectrum Game...RoseTintedSpectrum2024-03-21 | The best ZX Spectrum game? Well maybe not, but it's certainly stood the test of time. It's Into the Eagle's Nest for the ZX Spectrum and it's all pyewpyewpyew argh boom.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingIs This The WORST ZX Spectrum Game?RoseTintedSpectrum2024-03-13 | The worst ZX Spectrum game? Well I can only assume everyone in the comments is going to say a thousand other games, but I have declared it as this game: Big Foot on the ZX Spectrum from Codemasters. What a massive pile of toilet.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingBad Influence | Breaking Bad Influence | S4:E13RoseTintedSpectrum2024-03-07 | Bad Influence, where TV comes to die. This episode is brought to you by the letter AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Follow me on Social Media Gubbins: 🐦Twitter: twitter.com/SpectrumTinted 🧔Facebook: facebook.com/rosetintedspectrumThis Game Taught Me to Reframe My Depression | ZX SpectrumRoseTintedSpectrum2024-02-22 | It's a video about Riddler's Den on the ZX Spectrum, but it's also a bit about mental health because it's important to talk about innit? And if there's one thing I do; it's talk.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingIs This THE WORST Puzzle Game?RoseTintedSpectrum2024-01-25 | The ZX Spectrum has its fair share of "worst" puzzle games, but King's Keep is quite possibly a guessing game from start to end.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingHow I Became a (mild) SUCCESS on YouTube in Just 4 Human YearsRoseTintedSpectrum2024-01-11 | Channels featured in this video for your clicking delights:
Follow me on Social Media Gubbins: 🐦Twitter: twitter.com/SpectrumTinted 🧔Facebook: facebook.com/rosetintedspectrumThis Game Has ONE FATAL FLAW | Amaurote (ZX Spectrum)RoseTintedSpectrum2024-01-04 | Giant flies! Alien spacecraft! A futuristic earth getting wasted! What more could the Pickford Brothers have brought us? Well... One extra button press wouldn't have gone amiss. Amaurote for the ZX Spectrum, a classic and a pain in my cleft.
Follow me on Social Media Gubbins: 🐦Twitter: twitter.com/SpectrumTinted 🧔Facebook: facebook.com/rosetintedspectrumI CANT STOP PLAYING THIS GAME | Devil Daggers (PC) ReviewRoseTintedSpectrum2023-12-14 | Devil Daggers is an indie FPS with a twist, and that twist is a bullet hell style nightmare world in which you have to stay alive for 500 seconds. Good luck with that.
#indiegame #indiegamesOFF-BRAND POLICE QUEST | Blue Force (PC / DOS)RoseTintedSpectrum2023-12-07 | Jim Walls, writer of the first 3 Police Quest games, takes a shot at writing another game for another studio that definitely isn't Police Quest: It's Blue Force! And it's pump!
Big thanks to my actors on this episode: Officer Ryan: @Yesterzine Barry: @SebsPlaceYT Skip: PrimoKarma Hysterical Woman: @TimberwolfK Officer Doug: @lostretrotapes Bradford Green: @CRG Laura Dixon: @MoreFunMakingIt Criminal 1: @TimberwolfK Criminal 2: @BenjaminBlundell Grandma Frannie: @WhatHoSnorkers Daddy Lyle: @RetroSegaDev Nico: PrimoKarma DA Cox: @BenjaminBlundell
#doscember #dosgames #pointandclickgames1,000 WAYS TO DIE IN DIZZY | A Compilation of FailureRoseTintedSpectrum2023-11-23 | Dizzy the Egg is a ZX Spectrum staple (whether Amstrad users like it or not), I recently played Dizzy games for 24 hours to raise money for GOSH and, during that 24 hours, I may have accidentally died a COUPLE of times. Here's a 24 minute video showcasing that couple of times.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingEdd The Duck Has RUINED MY YEAR | ZX SpectrumRoseTintedSpectrum2023-11-09 | Edd the Duck was the star of CBBC's mid afternoon televisual viewing, presenting alongside such titans as Andy Crane and Andi Peters, Edd went on to release a single before dying in an explosion at a cracker factory.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingASHENS Made Me Do a LIVE TALK! | Videogames are WeirdRoseTintedSpectrum2023-10-26 | Yes, thanks to the mighty Ashens I ended up doing a talk at people for PlayExpo Blackpool, specifically centred for a generalised audience around "Videogames are weird" with a heavy leaning on my own background (PC and DOS). Here, I've reduxed the talk into a more manageable form (It's still 50 minutes though because waffle) and you can watch the original here: youtube.com/watch?v=gNZ2GqYBuhU
Special thanks to @mamehaze for his work on putting this together, and a big thanks to @TimberwolfK, @ashens and @MoreFunMakingIt for providing their video intros. There is a video intro missing, that was due from Kim Justice, but as she was there in the crowd she was just going to do it live... And then we didn't even get to that bit because we ran out of time, so that was fun!
00:00 - Introduction From Home 04:02 - Introduction From Blackpool 11:27 - Games With Very Weird Subject Matters 26:35 - Box Art vs. Description vs. Actual Game 38:15 - Controls, Controllers, and the Art of Breaking Your Hand 46:20 - The Unfortunate World of Arcade Conversions and Knock-Offs 50:25 - OutroThe Most Okay ZX Spectrum Game | Metal ArmyRoseTintedSpectrum2023-10-19 | Metal Army for the ZX Spectrum, the most average of budget games you're ever likely to get. Enjoy it, but don't enjoy it too much, for it is the most ok ZX Spectrum game ever made.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingThat Time a 14 YEAR OLD Tried to Make MORTAL KOMBAT... | Battle of the Eras (DOS)RoseTintedSpectrum2023-10-04 | Battle of the Eras is an MS-DOS game from 1995, initially released as shareware and charging a whopping £30, it's a Mortal Kombat rip-off by a group of 14 year olds and I love that it exists, even if I never want to look at it ever again.
Guests so far: StuTheBrummie Rare's Graeme Norgate @Yesterzine @WhatHoSnorkers @CRG @RMCRetro The Oliver Twin 1 The Oliver Twin 2 @TimberwolfK @MoreFunMakingIt @retrobitstv @TheRetroChannel @YawningAngelRetro Multiplayer Iain @SuperJim @ctrlaltrees @GouldFishOnGames @LTGD Violet Berlin @ashens
Prizes so far: Bitmap Books ITYTD Collector's Edition (Donated by Bitmap Books) Xenon 2 (Atari ST, Boxed) + RMC Book (Donated by @RMCRetro) Free Recapping Service (Donated by @CRG) Zip Stick Joystick (Donated by @leesmithsworkshop) Reproduction ZX Spectrum (Donated by @lostretrotapes) Amiga 500 with PiStorm (Donated by @MoreFunMakingIt) ZX Spectrum DivMMC (Donated by @GouldFishOnGames) Violet Berlin's Fancy Badges (Donated by Violet Berlin) Something Master Systemy (Donated by @Yesterzine) TBC (Donated by @ctrlaltrees) "Jay's Mystery Box" which I'm terrified to even think about (Donated by Primo Karma) Xbox Series S (Donated by @ashens) Boxed and Recapped C64 (Donated by Dan Tootill) 1541 Ultimate II+L (Donated by @retrobitstv) Space Quest IV Reorchestrated Soundtrack (Donated by @TimberwolfK) Custom Dizzy Artwork x 4 (Donated by Dino) Custom Song (Donated by Stu The Brummie) PC Engine Mini (Donated by MunzeeMark) Multiple signed Dizzy books (Donated by The Oliver Twins (1 & 2)) Tiger Game.com (Donated by @RetroKrazy) 10x Steam Bundle of Black Country Games (Donated by @LTGD) 10x Steam Bundle of Infinite State Games (Donated by Infinite State Games) *NEW* Signed copy of Dizzy Panic for the NES (Donated by @RetroSegaDev)
There will also be a heartfelt gift from the Richmonds for the highest donator by the time the donations are closed off (so long as they're not anonymous, at which point whoever is next in line!)
Still a lot of organisation to go, but here's hoping for a good one - let's do this for Aurora, and the Richmonds xoxoIs This The WORST Licensed Game? | Highlander (ZX Spectrum)RoseTintedSpectrum2023-09-14 | Big thank you to the mighty @OneCreditClassics for ruining his life, as well as the voices of @WhatHoSnorkers, @TimberwolfK and @CRG - who all said words with their mouths.
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The Alchemist track performed by the always lovely Stu The Brummie. Check out his EP on bandcamp here: sturat.bandcamp.com/album/sturat
Big thanks to this episode's voice contribution experts: @ctrlaltrees and @WhatHoSnorkers who you should subscribe to otherwise I'm telling your nan.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingKNIGHTMARE DESERVED BETTER | ZX SpectrumRoseTintedSpectrum2023-08-17 | Knightmare, the ITV children's classic game show is turned into a not-so-classic not-so-adventure not-so-fun game for the ZX Spectrum. How about that first room though?
#zxspectrum #retrogamingThis FLINTSTONES Game is NOT GOOD | ZX SpectrumRoseTintedSpectrum2023-08-03 | A big thank you to @Yesterzine who has now voiced a line that will be taken out of context forever. He put his life on the line for this video. Pay your respects.
The Flinstones game is rubbish, and it will always be rubbish, and if you think it's not rubbish then you're a right old Barney Rubble.
#zxspectrum #retrogamingWhy is ECSTATICA 2 so BAD!?RoseTintedSpectrum2023-07-27 | Ecstatica 2, a 1997 DOS and Windows 95 game that is an action-based sequel to a survival horror game that removes everything interesting from the first and boils the gameplay down to swirling in a circle and walking around for hours on end.
Big thanks to the extra voices in this one: @WhatHoSnorkers, @GouldFishOnGames, @MoreFunMakingIt, @Yesterzine and @sirrichardpitchard
#dosgames #retrogamingBad Influence | Breaking Bad Influence | S4:E10RoseTintedSpectrum2023-07-13 | An actual episode of Breaking Bad Influence, who would have even thought it?
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#retrogaming #zxspectrum9 MORE ZX Spectrum Games That Should NEVER HAVE HAPPENEDRoseTintedSpectrum2023-06-01 | Have you ever wanted to find hidden ZX Spectrum gems? Have you ever wanted to come across games you've never discovered before? THEN YOU NEED TO WADE THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE. AND YOU'LL PROBABLY STILL FIND GARBAGE.
It's ZX Spectrum Dumpster Diving and it's now an episode 2 thing, so enjoy it twice as hard.
A big thank you to @WhatHoSnorkers for dressing up and falling over, and go check out @rvgv6523 (as mentioned at the end).
Robin Hood from the Oliver Twins, but also not from them, for the ZX Spectrum is a bit of a floppy dog's dong, but thanks to the power of checking out things after the fact, I tried out the Amstrad and NES versions after this and they are INDEED better. Expect a follow up video. Maybe. I don't know. Who knows? Not me.
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It's ZX Spectrum Dumpster Diving and it's a thing, so enjoy it.
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Big thanks to @MoreFunMakingIt and @okgamergirl for voicing voices in this episode. You can probably make an educated guess as to which was which.
It's another Top 10 ZX Spectrum games list, only the BEST ZX Spectrum games here, but also only the ones that you didn't choose as the best. But it's still better. Shut up.
Huge thanks to my video guests: @RetroSegaDev @BinnisRetro @WhatHoSnorkers @ItsCrapContent @Yesterzine @NaokisRC
And huge thanks to my voice guests: @MoreFunMakingIt @WhatHoSnorkers @GouldFishOnGames @Yesterzine @ctrlaltrees youtube.com/@CRG (Because for some reason YouTube won't let me tag him) @retrobitstv @aBadEducationTV @RetroKrazy @OneCreditClassics