The Story and Games of Telecomsoft – Firebird, Rainbird and Silverbird | Kim Justice

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1. What are your favourites from the almighty library of Telecomsoft, and your enduring memories of them? Have a shout about it here, and thanks for watching. 🙂

2. Mixed feelings here. Nice video, as usual from this YT channel, but… I fail to understand why Carrier Command & Starglider 2 have so little coverage in the video, while these 2 were (and still are!) absolutely game changer.

3. My favorite episodes are these historical ones, full of late 70s and 80s British tv clips

4. As an American with absolutely 0 micro experience, anytime Kim uploads a deep dive on the Micro devs, it's an instant like from me.

   Genuinely love these Kim

5. Enjoyable Episode Kim!. Thanks!.

6. Love you videos. No-one else comes close for the detail you include. A joy to watch and listen to. Thank you x

7. That's my late night viewing sorted, cheers

8. I really do love your content Kim. One of the very few YTubers I know it's gonna be good:)

9. Starglider theme song still stuck in my head!

10. Whoa Savage!

11. Boredom struck again but Kim saves the day again 😊 with an epic hour plus video.

12. The sound of the sword going up your arse in Booty will stay with me till the day I die.

13. Stunt Racer on a micro computer still runs infinitely smoother than Hard Driving on consoles a few years later

14. Having "5th dream about happiness" as the end music was excellent! 😀 Thanks for the awesome video once again.

15. Cholo was one of my favourite games as a kid, and one almost nobody seams to remember. Such an ambitious idea, an executed about as well as it could have been at the time.

16. Thanks

17. I worked there from very near the start until the end. It was an epic place to work and so many brilliant games.

18. Another great video BUT I can't place the Background Music during the First Chapter – and it's driving me mad! Help!

19. Great work Kim, can't wait to see the rest. Hopefully Mike Singleton's Whirligig will get a mention – I found that game fascinating, though I don't recall if it was any good or not!

20. Another brilliant video, very informative and also brings back so many happy memories form my childhood. Keep up the great work

21. Always loved the Rainbird big boxes. Beautiful art work.
    Good stuff. 🙂

22. Loved it. Took me a bit longer to get to watch it than i had planned.

23. Your attention detail, clear and concise journalism, and sheer depth of knowledge of this golden era is beyond anything anyone else out there has.

24. Another great video. The spectrum reminds me of such simpler times, and the era in computing has influenced so much in today's world.

25. so many great games, Weird dreams was such a, well, weird game to play without knowing what to do, we had to use a magazine solution to take us through it, especially because the massive amount of dream logic like the cotton candy sticking to the player used as bait for the bee, or throwing the murder ball back to the knife girl in the garden.

    Also there would be no X-Com without Chaos

26. Booty was great!

27. I seems the micro computer "crash" was more "dump" induced by many companies soaking up others, to the detriment of the user (or software supply). It seems we lost a lot of potential releases over the years after publishers "abandoned" platforms (or series of platforms). And who do we have to thank for software preservation, those "pirates" they bhitched and moaned about .. meh, they just didn't certain platform user groups and "bottom-less money bags" they once had .. interesting to see a couple of "Oliver Twins" games in this documentary, just finished watching their presentation at RMC's Mill .. (thats how I recognised a couple of games) ..

28. Yes! So excited about you doing a piece on Odin Computer Graphics! ❤

29. Fantastic documentary as always Kim. Appreciate all the research involved and was a great trip down memory lane 🙂

30. Great video. Small thing. Vectron was a re-release, it originally came out in 1985 on the Insight label.

31. Zarch/Virus was bloody hard, it's just so hard to shoot them, you have to spray and guide your fire some of the time.

32. It blows me away – even though I was a teenager around this time – that in the 80s a division of a huge corporation would routinely assign game development to single creators. Obviously games then were nothing like the scale of today's AAA titles, but it still feels odd.

    I suppose that helped to drive the more quirky and original games then. One person can head off on their own tangent quite easily. Of course we have plenty of one-person creators making indy games today, but not for the giants of the industry.

33. Never tire of these full featured documentaries…you are undoubtedly YouTube's retro gaming community's answer to the BBC's David Attenborough for wildlife… Top stuff

34. Always happy to see a new KJ doco pop up 😊

35. Another masterpiece. Cheers Kim

36. Stunt Car Racer was a favourite of mine, having it on both the C64 and Amiga.

37. Chaos: The Battle of Wizards sounds legitimately like something I'd want to play, right up my alley! 😀 I might have to see if I can emulate the title or even have a gander at that Chaos Reborn remake.

    28:26 I have a real soft spot for Xenomorph rip-offs xD It was such a strange era in media, when everybody could just have a starkly and blatantly obvious "tribute" to the Alien alien on the cover art or whatever, and seemingly no one batted an eyelid.

38. Hero…..wasnt that on the atari vcs/2600?
    Fir some reason I thought this was an exclusive.
    It seems it isn't which makes it an even more technical marvel fir the 1977 machine!

39. With every mention of Lords of Darkness I get intrigued, I'd like to see a video on that and on what other RPGs the Spectrum had. It seems like they never got any of the early Wizardry or Ultima games, and that there was sort of a paucity of games of that type; were they just not as popular in the UK?

    The mention of Star Trek: The Rebel Universe also interests me, as I played the DOS game- it was clunky but compelling, as it was years before the Trek graphic adventure and in my youth I could never figure out the classic unlicensed Star Trek game that dates back to the mainframes.

40. awesome video, as usual !

41. So lovely waking up to a Kim Justice mega-documentary. Consistently great. Thank you for highlighting the C64 "The Sentinel". It was quite the oppressive atmosphere, particularly as a child. Nothing quite filled me with such existential dread as seeing the Sentinel's silhouette fade in and out with that SID music playing! 🥶

42. What a great piece of work, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. I never got into Stunt Car Racer, I just never found it exciting enough for me personally. But I played both Rebelstar Raiders loads on my then Sinclair ZX Spectrum+. Enjoyed Elite, The Wild Bunch and Booty. Was indeed good times.

43. This was fantastic!

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