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Huge playlist archive with lots of similar videos: This is a tribute video to 5 extremely important ZX Spectrum releases, which all pushed the limits for their genres, and became very important for the future developement of games. Explanation for why these 5 games was so important can be read below: 0:03 1982 THE HOBBIT (Melbourne House): One of the first 48k games and a milestone for illustrated text adventures. The parser was very advanced for the time and used a subset of English called Inglish. The game is also in real time, insofar as a period of idleness causes the “WAIT“ command to be automatically invoked and the possibility of events occurring as a result. There is no records of sales figures but the game was ported to almost all other computers and and a figure of 500,000 copies is possible, making it a candidate for the bestselling text adventure of all time. Because of the huge success the games “Lord of
