Think it was due to their popularity, everyone had one...although my cousin had sensible

soccer on the Commodore 64, which had proper sounds and great playability. It shat on the Spectrum equivalent.

Also it was pretty simple to copy games tape to tape, where other machines had cartridges..

Posted By: Vivid Data Shark on December 3rd 2014 at 15:52:15

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Speaking of spectrums.... (General Chat) - Bungle, Dec 3, 15:26:32
- I've never understood when Spectrums get so much love. It was the first machine I had (General Chat) - pants, Dec 3, 15:47:48
  - Think it was due to their popularity, everyone had one...although my cousin had sensible (General Chat) - Vivid Data Shark, Dec 3, 15:52:15
    - Wasn't the Speccy a little before the other formats? Therefore they had better tech. (General Chat) - megson, Dec 3, 16:41:24
    - That's it, a couple of my mates had c64's and I was quite pissed off with mine (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 3, 15:58:31
      - The love for the Speccy was the fact that you could get 10 million games for it I think. (General Chat) - Adster, Dec 3, 17:26:15
        
        Yeah, cheaper too wasn't it? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Dec 3, 17:39:51
        
        I think so (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Dec 3, 17:50:25
        
        Yeah quite a bit. (General Chat) - Bungle, Dec 3, 18:45:54

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