Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░Growing up in the US, it's unsurprising that I wasn't intimately familiar with the #ZXSpectrum until sometime in the last 10 years or so. (But my first computer was a ZX81!)
But I've come to appreciate the machine and the history of it's lineage over the years. The Speccy's graphics have a very distinct style, of course. And going over the games from it's earliest entries, down through to the early 90s, you can see a great deal of effort goes into stretching those very limited boundaries as time goes on. But it feels like it hits a plateau in the late 80s, as even it's best efforts struggle to break through the limited colors and the heavy attribute clashing.
Then I saw this, earlier today; a port of the NES #TMNT game. Holy crap, surely this has to be the most visually impressive Spectrum title from the original run of games, no? Or right up there.
It's not all perfect, but the clip I saw of it in a compilation video certainly caught my attention.
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