ZX Spectrum Vega Plus Portable Handheld

GooeyBlob

Any retro gamers here thinking about getting one of these?

Not cheap at £100, but comes with 1000 games pre-installed and the ability to download thousands more for free and put them on via an SD card.

onomatopoeia99

If it doesn't have rubber keys and a dodgy power supply that reboots the thing if you nudge it, I'm not interested!

Also, the SD card slot will need to be wobbly, so touching it while plugged in with make it crash, so the full ZX Spectrum experience

motorguy

If its the 1000 games that come with the console version then 900+ of them are crap and / or are unplayable due to key configurations.

Reduce that 100 or so down to games that actually translate well to a small handheld screen and how many have you left?

Certainly looks the part, but you can get much better games for your phone for free. Nostalgia is overrated IMHO for stuff like this.

Kernow666

I got the plug in to the TV one although I got it for a bargain £50 I have hardly played it was a novelty purchase and 90% of the games I have never heard off , downloaded a few classics like daley Thompson and bombjack which are good

Johnmcl7

No interest at all, if I have a burning need to play a game from that era I'll fire up an emulator or similar but while it's fun for an occasional bit of nostalgia I don't find the games hold up well.

John

motorguy

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

No interest at all, if I have a burning need to play a game from that era I'll fire up an emulator or similar but while it's fun for an occasional bit of nostalgia I don't find the games hold up well.

John

+1

I LOVED Jetpac when it was out on the Spectrum and was overjoyed when they brought it out for my computer of choice at the time - a Commodore VIC-20.

Reminisced about it ever since.

Got it on the Rare Replay games pack on the XBox One. Played it for all of five mins and havent played it since.

alexani

where do you buy these

gr1340

alexani wrote: »

where do you buy these

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega-plus-console#/story

Ames

Does each game take three hours to load whilst making a noise that will repel anything from mice to burglars?

Compo88

The ZX spectrum was my first ever computer (so my computing career got off to a bad start then!). Once you get past the basic graphics the game play is very addictive. Defo recommend :-)

Lumstorm

More excited by the Spectrum Next http://www.specnext.com/ the final board has now been designed just some prototypes to be made for testing and hopefully they'll then start the kick-starter.