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There's something about the ZX Spectrum that lends itself to easy feel-good nostalgia for sites like BBC News and Sky. There have been loads of these things down the years and you hear nothing.
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Not really understanding the hype surrounding what is essentially a Spectrum DTV. If there really are people out there wanting to do that I would guess they'd either be playing Pac-Man on their phone or would have bought one of those Pac-Man joystick things, and not paying £100 for a mediocre port of it. There's a quote that wasn't in the BBC article that says "The graphics these consoles deliver may require you to buy a new TV but what about the huge market for Joe Bloggs who just wants to play Pac-Man?".
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Otherwise I'd say they're chasing a market that doesn't exist as anyone who really wants to play Spectrum games would preferably have the full experience given the choice. The only logical reasons I can think of why they wouldn't go down the full keyboard recreation route is because of whatever license Elite Systems had to recreate the keyboard in full form for their project, or cost as the controller version would be cheaper and easier to assemble. The article incorrectly refers to the ZX Spectrum as a "console" twice so I wouldn't say the writer of the piece has a huge grasp of what they're writing about. I think they're just using a stock image to illustrate what the ZX Spectrum was rather than a change of heart from the current developers. Even if they get more sales out of it from this report it's still going to be a niche item, especially at the current price point. There is an on-screen keyboard, but you're not going to want to keep bringing that up during gameplay, and you certainly wouldn't want to bother with a text adventure.Įdit: The " massive employment opportunities" sounds complete bollocks, but sounds nice in a BBC article to anyone that wasn't already aware of the thing. It still hasn't been addressed exactly how the pad will handle games that involve more than five buttons (9 if you include the D-pad, 13 if diagonals count).
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They'd probably test it with the more popular games, and if anything more obscure turned up that didn't run they could probably fix it with a firmware update or something.Īlso, as Goose says, running and playing are different things. If they had anything decent on board at this point they'd presumably be mentioning it. It's a hefty claim, but then so is saying it coming with 1,000 games when it appears they're no nearer to actually sorting that out other than saying it was still being "finalised".