My favoutite gaming youtuber tak, kim does great vid's.
Much as i loved my speccy the C64 was a beast compared to it, got mine for xmas 1984 maybe 85 and there was no going back.
Switched to the amiga in 88 and that kept me away from consoles untill about 1990 when i finally gave in and got a megadrive.
I also had a BBC B at one point and that was an unbelievable games machine as well for the time, elite, chuckie egg, galaga, great asteroids port are a few i remember.
Yeah, subscribed to his/her channel quite a while ago, specially the documentary vids have really high production value and are very well researched.
I got a C64 in '84 and bought a used rubber-key 48k Speccy a year later. The previous owner got bored with it, the PSU also was broken. He sold it to me for 50 Deutschmarks (about 10 Pounds at that time) together with a dozen games. Sure, the Commie had the benefit of proper pixel-by-pixel hardware scrolling, an enhanced instruction set, a more effective use of memory and of course the glorious SID but the Z80 CPU of the Speccy was faster which makes some games more agile and responsive, specially if you compare games that came out on both platforms.
I'm in a really intense Speccy phase at the moment and switch on my +2 whenever I have a bit of free time, now that I also have a SD cart (DivMMC Future), loading and playing games has become more convenient. I don't mind loading games from tape, tho, most games are quite short anyway and generally load faster than their C64 tape counterparts.
If I had to decide between the two systems I'd probably chose the Commie as it's a bit closer to my heart than the Speccy. However, I wouldn't want to miss Sir Clive's (or Baron Sugar's, in my case) little computer, there are many brilliant games on it and many of them are still a blast to play. There still are 50+ new Speccy games coming out every month, the scene is very active, specially in Spain. 35 years and counting, not bad for a rotten old personal computer, eh.
Always wanted a Beep or Master but couldn't afford it back in the day and still can't, used prices for B's and Masters in good condition went through the roof a few years ago. It was one of the best 8bit computers ever made, very powerful and easy to expand. Elite came to life on it and that's reason enough to hold it in high regard but it also got tons of other cool games.