We're talking about the game where you hit balls through hoops with a mallet right? It just doesn't seem like the type of game to generate a lot of excitement. Then again, Ashley Greenup has produced about 10 million* text-based train simulators which, in my opinion anyway, are the most boring games available. :)
Necros what are you doing playing train simulations? Aren't you supposed to be an assassin or something or have you retired?
I'm between jobs. My last employer was killed in a nasty accident while organising terrorist activities in Afghanistan. I was nearly killed myself when I fell from a plane but luckily I survived. After that I spent several years slowly regaining the use of my limbs which were badly damaged in the fall. I'm available for work if you know of any. :)
I'm on it. Just give me about three weeks to properly train for the mission and to source a supplier of exploding milk bottles on the internet and I'll take care of them for you. :)
I'm on it. Just give me about three weeks to properly train for the mission and to source a supplier of exploding milk bottles on the internet and I'll take care of them for you. :)
Just reverting back to the original theme for a moment, I would have to agree with Camel in vouching for croquet as a fantastic game!
It has the popular misconception of being a garden party game for vicars and socialites, but in actual fact it is one of the best games around for being thoroughly vindictive towards your opponent. Don't believe me - then go to one of your local council adult education classes that teaches the game and see for yourself.
I was lucky enough as a kid to live in a house with a long garden, and my parents borrowed a set from a friend of the family which seemed to reside with us permanently. Brilliant game!
Sod all on the Spectrum for it, though, I suspect :lol:
I was lucky enough as a kid to live in a house with a long garden, and my parents borrowed a set from a friend of the family which seemed to reside with us permanently. Brilliant game!
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posh bugger, me and my brother used to push a lump of coal around in a muddy puddle while our dad would watch, taking score.
none of us could figure out the rules, but the winner was given some dinner. (a few warmed through dock leaves) and the looser had to guard the coal shed all night form thieves and randy foxes.
Please write a croquet game and convert it into tzx or tap, so I can download and play it on my black spactrum plz. If you want to know the rules, I can explain them to you.............
We're talking about the game where you hit balls through hoops with a mallet right? It just doesn't seem like the type of game to generate a lot of excitement
* An approximate amount. :)
As opposed to the stunningly exciting games where you...
(a) hit a ball around until it falls into a hole
(b) hit a load of balls around until they fall into holes
(c) throw a ball at somebody standing in front of some sticks and then they run up and down.
posh bugger, me and my brother used to push a lump of coal around in a muddy puddle while our dad would watch, taking score.
none of us could figure out the rules, but the winner was given some dinner. (a few warmed through dock leaves) and the looser had to guard the coal shed all night form thieves and randy foxes.
So that's where your infatuation with randy foxes comes from....:-)
I'm not a fan of cricket at all but theres many many more fans of cricket than there are croquet. If not television stations would be chasing after getting the rights to the latest Croquet tournament
At the end of the day in the last 25 years of gaming theres hardly ever been a croquet title so i think that says it all !
Ah yes, but you forget the thousands of fans who flock to Budleigh Salterton every year for the World Croquet Championships - last time around significantly more attended this event that the equally spectacular World Conker Championships in Oundle, and that's saying something.....:p
I'm rather surprised at peoples offence towards croquet, I've never played, or seen anyone play, except short snippet's on TV drama but it seems like it would translate quite well to a computer game
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Necros.
* An approximate amount. :)
Necros.
It has the popular misconception of being a garden party game for vicars and socialites, but in actual fact it is one of the best games around for being thoroughly vindictive towards your opponent. Don't believe me - then go to one of your local council adult education classes that teaches the game and see for yourself.
I was lucky enough as a kid to live in a house with a long garden, and my parents borrowed a set from a friend of the family which seemed to reside with us permanently. Brilliant game!
Sod all on the Spectrum for it, though, I suspect :lol:
posh bugger, me and my brother used to push a lump of coal around in a muddy puddle while our dad would watch, taking score.
none of us could figure out the rules, but the winner was given some dinner. (a few warmed through dock leaves) and the looser had to guard the coal shed all night form thieves and randy foxes.
Anyway - why not write a crap croquet game for the CGC?
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As opposed to the stunningly exciting games where you...
(a) hit a ball around until it falls into a hole
(b) hit a load of balls around until they fall into holes
(c) throw a ball at somebody standing in front of some sticks and then they run up and down.
(ahem) **clears throat**
THEY ARE ALL BORING!
Croquet can't be any worse than criquet.
So that's where your infatuation with randy foxes comes from....:-)
At the end of the day in the last 25 years of gaming theres hardly ever been a croquet title so i think that says it all !