Your views on...Wheelie

CUCHULAINN

Wheelie

I think this was the very first game that I played on the Spectrum. I went to a classmates house after school to see his new Speccy and He had this, Atic Atac & 3D Deathchase. At the time I thought it was a great game, but once I got my Spec, I never went out and got it. I'll have to load it up again to see if it does anything for me.


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Quazar

Wheelie had it's flaws - flickery, jerky graphics.... but it rocked! Great game!

The Starglider

Spookily enough, it was the first game I ever played (which was followed by Jet Set Willy). It had it's flickery graphics and grating sound, but what a fun game.

And I was simply blown away by the fact a tiny little machine was producing this. It was this game and JSW that finally made me get a Speccy.

Bermondsey Bob

I remember playing this to death when I first got it. I found it to be incredably adictive with a killer "just one more go..." kind of playability!

dekh

The first time I got to the end was an awesome feeling.

By end I mean all the way to the right. Being chased back was such a rush. Pity I never ever made it all the way.

mel the bell

top game
used to play it loads

Collie

It's alright, quite fun and quirky in its own right. I never played it until about '97, by which time I never quite found Speccy games as satisfying as before. Seeing as Jet Set Willy online is so much fun, this would make another quality nostalgic online game... performing show off stunts to one another and racing around, jumping over buses and what not!

Sard

Always liked wheelie.. the randomish generating tracks kept its replay level right up :)

Bluce_Ree

Wheelie was unbelievably great.

Has any game been matched the tension of driving down a dead end whilst being chased by the bad guy?

Collie

There's a bad guy in it?

Matt_B

I thought it was a great game, had some very original ideas, and was cutting edge programming for the time it came out. (Early '84, I think?)

By the standards of later games the flickery graphics look a bit dated, but you could never really fault the gameplay.

Bluce_Ree

Collie wrote: »

There's a bad guy in it?

yeah. you get to the end and then you have to race against the ghostrider bloke. makes you cack your pants.

dm_boozefreek

Collie wrote:

There's a bad guy in it?

Bluce_Ree wrote: »

yeah. you get to the end and then you have to race against the ghostrider bloke. makes you cack your pants.

Hell fuckin' yeah the Ghost rider was one bad Mo-fo, the only other game that gave me that kind of adrenaline rush was trying to outrun Steve on Residen Evil: Code Veronica when he got infected with the T-Virus. Blood pumpin' stuff, Wheelie was the closest a 9 year old could get to havin' a heart attack without goin' against Grange Hills just say no advice, and bonin' a phat bowl of crack cocaine.

sirclive1

A brilliant game , i loved it , still do , i was playing this last week at work when i shouldnt have been , the jumps still look great , the gameplay is addictive and who cares about slightly flickering graphics ! its magic .

psj3809

Like others have said this was one of the earliest games i really saw, i was crap at it, my mate was excellent and the ghost rider at the end was a great bit in the game.

Collie

Ghost Riders? Crivvens! I think I'll have to give this another go. Or 600. However many it takes. Although I'll probably give up after the fifth attempt to be honest.

Amfoot

My memory is hazy, but didn't the Ghost Rider have the ability to drive through or over the hazards and jumps that we, the long suffering game-player, had to negotiate as usual?

I seem to remember really liking the game and plugging away until finding the little rascal, only to find it was a real bugger trying to race him as he didn't play by the same rules!

Or am I confusing Wheelie with something else??

Collie

Yea reality.

I find that kind of thing happens to me all the time. I'll be in my car driving, see a spooky car chasing me in the rear view mirror which forces me to panic and accelerate and shove all the other vehicles off the road. I can never shake it off no matter how hard I try. And then I end up in a ditch, or stuck on top of a double decker bus I failed to jump over during the chase. Thing is, no-one ever believes me when I tell them I keep seeing a car in my rear view mirror that won't leave me alone. And it isn't the car shaped air freshener this time either!

zx1

Loved Wheelie but haven't played it for years. I got a loan of it off a school mate and played it to death. An all time classic...

Mark R. Jones

I was always making the bike spin over! Grrrr!