A ZX Spectrum loading gets you right in the feels.

Brings back so many memories of loading Manic Miner, the brilliant Jet Set Willy and Skool Daze!

and i still have ptsd from all the tape loading errors.

Oh my days 😱, I’m getting ptsd from it 🥺, waiting 20 mins to load with horrendous sounds and in the end it didn’t load and had to go through the ordeal all over again ………..about 4-5 times

Loved this

Mick Farrow came up with an infinitely better loading screen for The Hobbit.

OMG! Yes! It "was not my first" as the saying goes, started with a Zx 81 followed quickly by a Sinclair Zx Spectrum! Thanks for jogging the memory cells 🙏

Gonna make you all jealous, or realise how old I am... 🤣 Pong, ZX81, Spectrum Plus, C64, Amiga A500, PC, PS1/XBone, PS2/X360, PS3/XB1, X1X, XSX. 1973 through to today 😁

I was born the same year as Pong 😉

I'm '71 so was just about able to play it when we got it. Kinda... 😆

😁👍

Know how you feel

Oh god. I'm ten all over again.

For me, it's the C-64 Ocean Loader. I used to have this as my alarm for years.

Load “” Enter - hit play on the tape recorder

Attic Attack was my fave

Do you still remember TIRNANOG? :)

Of course! One of my favourites although I had no idea what was going on. SIDHE!

@pepeeeee35650 heavy on the magic...! And the bizarre Valhala!

@pepeeeee35650 Don't wind up Mary!

I love the colour pass.

that game sucked for everyone except poofs and autistic 16 year olds. The rest of us were waiting on Bruce Lee and Saboteur to load.

Oh man that game was so hard for little 6 year old me. I remember being at the bottom of some cliff with some magic rope and not being able to do anything. I hadn’t read the Hobbit at that age, of course 😅 #🐹

I can hear that gif. 🤣

At the time the wait seemed unending. Looking back at it, it was so beautiful.

Then a fecking read error B or some shit after 30 minutes 😭

I didnt mind waiting for the spectrum to load as a kid , now I hate waiting for a ps5 to load

My youth! However I was watching it on B&W TV.

I love it. The rendering of the loading screen on first running a game taking so long until we sat there, mouths agave at the awesomeness of the image and thinking “Hell yeah!”

@LasTorresFerrol el mejor….

How I miss those days!

"Go North" You cannot go north "Go South" You cannot go south "Look" You see a door "Open door" The door is locked "Unlock door" You need a key to unlock the door "Pick up key" You pick up the key "Unlock door" You cannot do this here "Fu..."

yep then syntax error

Thorin sits down and begins to sing about gold.

R tape loading error after 25 minutes

Still got mine loved taping my mates games with a bit of cardboard

Mmmmmmm ki Mmmmmm kiiiiiiiiiii *title page loads* *wait further 5 minutes* Resets Fuck.

Oh wow flashback.....it was at this point I'd put front door on the latch walk down to the local corner shop to get snacks come back and it's still going 😆😆😆😆 #BlueMax #HoraceGoesSkiing

As in the 'trying make you mentally ill', feels?

I loved sitting watching the screen reveal the artwork while the gane was loading when I was younger. If you were lucky the loading soud went wonky/computerised like Knight Rider did for a brief few seconds. Good times.