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Haha... 10 minutes though?

I never played them that much, but I'm sure I can remember playing some that seemed to take about 30 or 40 minutes to load

(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 18:17, archived)

I might edit it

for the sake of historical accuracy in that case. 30 bloody minutes! pfffft with no guarantee of a game at the end of it

EDIT: edited and renamed the filename in your honour

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Clay hopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 18:22, archived)

I may be wrong, but that's how I remember it.....

I only had one friend with one, and I can remember we used to spend all night playing them, up till 8 in the morning type things, he only had three games, but happy times were had by all :-)

Edit to your edit: HAHAHA.... I'm deeply honoured and thank you kindly sir ..! (just hope I was right.!"

NOW WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY LOZENGES ! ;-)

(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 18:27, archived)

Actually

Most games took about four minutes to load - it just seemed like hours to our impatient child minds.

Later on, with the 128k speccy and multi-load games, they started to get a bit longer, but no game ever took half an hour!

There are, bizarrely, some examples on youtube: Stick in 'spectrum loading sequence' and you can see the vids are mostly about 6 minutes long, including a minute or two of gameplay at the end.

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Zoroastermouse thinks therefore he am, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 13:41, archived)