The ZX Spectrum can boast some 15 thousand titles, which is about ten times more than what is currently available for either GBA or NDS alone. This is quite a lot of games to choose from. To put it into perspective, if you try out one title each day, it will keep you occupied for more than forty years. So, where do you start?

It's almost 25 years to the day since the ZX Spectrum home computer captured our hearts and relinquished us of any social life back in 1982.

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Sir Clive Sinclair's greatest invention, the ZX Spectrum, is twenty-seven years young this week and to celebrate we've compiled our list of the top twenty-seven Speccy classics. The games that lit up our childhood!

The 8-Bit Book - 1981 to 199x completes the 8-bit home computer trilogy of the acclaimed Golden Years series, covering over two hundred of the most influential, inspiring and downright interesting computer games of the 8-bit era.

The Nintendo Entertainment System gets a lot of praise from gamers. And why not? It had great games, introduced a bunch of classic franchises, and revived the video game industry after Atari went ahead and screwed it up. It deserves to be celebrated. We may be on a budget, but don't worry, we're going to have confetti. Just remember - clerks want you to buy the candy first before you take the wrappers.

You may remember that I had a Sega Master System growing up. Well, that wasn't my only way to play games back then. We also had a family computer, and Dad would install computer games on it to keep us entertained. They were always free games - Dad hated spending money. He wouldn't buy gas, the car would move by itself to try and earn Dad's nod of approval.

Well I've tried many games already too, my review focusing on this aspect: Emulators

A long time ago, there was a heartwarming Nintendo game full of potential, despite the limitations of the 8-bit system. We're speaking, of course, about "Wall Street Kid." Wall Street's still cool these days, right?

A couple of years ago I wrote up a piece called Closing Time which examined the last official releases for popular game consoles, and some no-so-popular ones too. Earlier this year I finally got around to adding a Game Boy Advance entry. Yeah it had been over a year since the last game was released but I just kept hoping one more title would sneak out. If another game had been released after July 31st 2008 then the Game Boy namesake would have made it 20 years. Now of course this wasn't one single system that lasted 20 years, three distinct systems were tagged "Game Boy" over this span. Most of the longevity can be credited to the original B&W model which had a shelf life of just over a decade. I bet that little guy had the longest lifespan of any game system... well, did it?

Whether you fancy Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, or Contra, surely there is a great deal of credit to be given to the classic titles that remain enjoyable and challenging.

  Remember the '80's? Odds are if you're a gamer just hearing that makes you think of the good old Nintendo Entertainment System. The big N's first console to ship to North America, the N.E.S. was one of, if not the, most important game console of all time. It single handedly rejuvenated the video game market after the crash of 1983. It also was the birth console of some of the biggest names in gaming today. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Contra, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, they all started on Nintendo's gray box.

In no particular order, presenting some of the greatest games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) spanning nearly every genre of play.

The Nintendo Entertainment System, in all its 8-bit glory, began my exciting love affair with the great indoors. The video games on this list kept me company through many an elementary-school sleepover at friends' houses, provided endless fodder for recess playground conversation and even inspired a few short stories from yours truly (each plot revolving around the fantasy of getting sucked inside a video game). In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, I dedicate this list and to Shigeru Miyamoto and all the other folks at Nintendo who made all that fun possible...oh, and of course my beloved aunt Jean who sent me and my siblings our first NES console.

The "last" commercial game for the ZX Spectrum was Dr. Who - Dalek Attack in July of 1993. Although the straight decline was easily noticeable from the beginning of that same year, which can be measured by the number of published software. From this year's spring software companies did not accept any new Spectrum games from developers as well the last of Speccy magazines disappeared. New games release section of still alive press were practically empty, or even cancelled. In May Sinclair User, and in September Your Sinclair was also exiting.

I'm still not sure how I convinced my parents to buy an Intellivision. Maybe it was the fact that Atari seemed like such a kids' toy, but Intellivision had all of these promises to teach your children things (completely untrue), and would soon be able to be expanded with a keyboard (bupkus), eventually making it as powerful as a home computer (at this point, the marketing department was pretty much just conjuring crap up).

Odyssey2 fans have always had to deal with a lot of crap from the people who play the "mainstream" machines. "Haha, your system doesn't have cool arcade games!" or "Tee-hee, your game console only has one sound channel!" or "Ho ho ho, you spent $39.95 for Out of this World!/Helicopter Rescue!" are just some of the barbs we have to take with gentle good humor. And they hurt, dammit -- that one about the $39.95 cuts to the bone, let me tell you. Yet we persist in playing the Not-quite Ultimate Computer Video Game System because we know that beyond the lackluster educational games and mediocre sound effects, there are some truly good games on this bulky silver beast. Yes, we've learned to appreciate the Odyssey2, and with an open mind, maybe you can too. I'm here to help.