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Your views on...Spy Hunter

CUCHULAINNCUCHULAINN
edited September 2008 in Games
Spy Hunter

One of the few US Gold games I played. Was never really that good at this game, but I still thought it was great. Graphics were neat and the colour was good too. Found the car a little hard to controll at times, but still it was a good recreation of the arcade original.

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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited September 2008
    I'm not much of one for arcade conversions, but I quite liked it. It's not terribly faithful too the look and feel of the original, but it plays quite well and seemed a pretty good effort at the time given the limitations of the Spectrum's graphics and sound capabilities.

    Taking on the helicopter without the rockets is a bit of a pig though.
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    I've never played the original arcade, but I used to love this game, now I find the display area to small, you have little time to react to what's coming ahead.
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited September 2008
    Matt_B wrote: »

    Taking on the helicopter without the rockets is a bit of a pig though.

    You just swing side to side alternate to every bomb the helicopter drops.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited September 2008
    Loved this game when I was a wee lad, I actually prefer the Speccy version to the original.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2008
    I used to lilke it played it on my +3 a lot, used to think it was really good.

    Then I played it on Myspeccy, and realised it wasn't :D
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  • zxspecticlezxspecticle
    edited September 2008
    It doesn't say so in the archive but Denton Designs did this conversion
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited September 2008
    Jumping Stack wrote: »
    You just swing side to side alternate to every bomb the helicopter drops.

    I know that much, but you've got to wait for it to go away; you can't shoot back without the rockets and whether you get them or not seems entirely random.
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited September 2008
    One of the first games I got for my speccy back in the day and I still fire it up occasionally on ZXDS. I think it's still very enjoyable with a nice sense of speed.

    Took me quite some time to discover you had to drive the small pathway into the water to turn into a boat!
  • zx1zx1
    edited September 2008
    It's repetitve, boring......yet i couldn't stop playing 'back in the day'. I could beat the helicopter every time without needing bombs. Just stay the bottom of the screen for about 30 seconds and wait. Then you can drive past it without dying! Brilliant!
    Never played the Playstation remakes though.
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  • sparkessparkes
    edited September 2008
    I'm doing a version for the nintendo ds for the current retroremakes.com competition.
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2008
    I think the speccy version actually plays better than the original. The speccy port has a nice "solid" feel to the control that makes it pleasant to play whilst the original is based around a steering-wheel and so the control feels a bit loose which leads to a lot of crashing*.

    *I'm basing this on my experience of playing it on the XBox via Midway Arcade Treasures. It might play much better on proper arcade controls.
  • ÆlitaÆlita
    edited September 2008
    I did play the arcade version quite a bit and it was one of my faves. Sadly, i found the speccy version not that good. The C64 version was excellent. It was one of those rare games where the music made it twice as good. Duane Eddy's tune was triffic. Being the speccy couldn't pull that off, it was then only half a game to begin with. If I'd never played the other versions, I'd say the speccy version was good, but since I did, the speccy version I must say just doesn't cut it.
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  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited September 2008
    Zagreb wrote: »
    I think the speccy version actually plays better than the original. The speccy port has a nice "solid" feel to the control that makes it pleasant to play whilst the original is based around a steering-wheel and so the control feels a bit loose which leads to a lot of crashing*.

    *I'm basing this on my experience of playing it on the XBox via Midway Arcade Treasures. It might play much better on proper arcade controls.

    That's my opinion exactly, also based on only playing the original on Midway's Arcade Treasures on Xbox (spooky coincidence!!!) and also the PSP. I never managed to find it in an actual arcade back in the day.

    I can play the Speccy version for ages without being killed, I can barely last a minute or 2 on the Midway Arcade Treasures port!!!
  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited September 2008
    Loved the speccy version but hated the ps2 remakes. They just don't make 'em like they used to...
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited September 2008
    Loved the game, but like some others it took me a while to realise that you had to go and get the boat, then I guess you had to do something else to make the game progress as it seemed to keep looping for me.

    Still great fun, especially bashing the motorcyclists into spins.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2008
    There was a simliar game, not the actual game, on the SEGA Master System which I really liked.


    A lot was talked about Spy Hunter, at the time, I played it. It's a game that I look back on fondly, but don't really like these days.

    And. I must admit, I used to cheat/glitch. I'd park up in front of the helicopter and build points up.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2008
    thx1138 wrote: »
    There was a simliar game, not the actual game, on the SEGA Master System which I really liked.


    A lot was talked about Spy Hunter, at the time, I played it. It's a game that I look back on fondly, but don't really like these days.

    And. I must admit, I used to cheat/glitch. I'd park up in front of the helicopter and build points up.

    Action Fighter? It looked crap, and a lot of people didn't like it, but it was refreshingly addictive when you actually gave it a chance.

    I think there was an arcade version of it, but the MS version was slightly different, I used to think it was just the Nes that used to bodge up and shuffle arcade conversions, but some of the early MS arcade conversions were quite different from the originals.

    ....then Segas first wave of arcade conversions for the Megadrive were a crime against gaming, some of them were OK but were a different game usually sharing nothing in common with the original other but the main character (and in the case of travesties like Toki and Alien Storm, the Boss Characters).
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  • SpectorSpector
    edited September 2008
    I like Spy Hunter on the Speccy, and in particular the fact you can play it with just one fire button. Every other version seems to require two button or joysticks.
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  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited September 2008
    Spy Hunter was the first game I played on my first Spectrum and I still like to play it. Unfortunately it's one of those games that never ends!
  • frobushfrobush
    edited September 2008
    zxspecticle wrote: »
    It doesn't say so in the archive but Denton Designs did this conversion

    Indeed they did.
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