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Announcement: Speccy Tour games have been selected!

SabreSabre
edited September 2003 in Games
Note that that does not mean you can't join,
visit http://www.speccy.org/st03 for details

People have decided that:

Beyond The Ice Palace
HATE
Krakatoa (aka Escape from Krakatoa)
Tetris
Arcadia
Mikie
Daley Thompson Super Test
Maziacs
Jumping Jack
Chase HQ

will be the Speccy Tour 2003 games

We'll son make the official snapshots available for download. We are delighted by the excellent response of Specchums, as we have beaten our joining in record. We have players of other countries like the Netherlands or India. Hope you will all enjoy this edition. Do not hesitate to participate if you feel like it.

Ivan Ruiz Etxabe aka Sabre

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Comments

  • ArjunArjun
    edited September 2003
    I must admit I was a bit doubtful when you said you have a player from India. I mean I haven't seen anyone in the Speccy community from India anywhere here on WoS (and I haven't been anywhere near CSS)! So it's a pleasant surprise to see that a certain "carbo" from Calcutta has signed up for the Speccy tour! Finally, another Indian specchum!
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  • SabreSabre
    edited September 2003
    You'd be surprised of how many lurkers are around Wos and CSS. Myself I read this forum often but only posted 2 times. I think this forum is getting very interesting so I might show up more times.

    And yes, it's nice to have Asia covered, right now we have players of every single continent :D

    Ivan
  • ArjunArjun
    edited September 2003
    erm...not Antartica I bet! ;)
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    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited September 2003
    Sh*t! No Gunrunner, Ranarama, Splitting Images, Travel with Trashman or Ant Attack - and I have to put up with Maziacs and Jumping Jack!

    Anyway, this year's selection looks much better to me than last year's one - shivers still run down my spine as I think about Aquaplane, Lode Runner, Ping Pong, Fred or The Light Corridor.
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  • SabreSabre
    edited September 2003
    Arjun: Shamed I forgot Africa XD

    Alessandro: nice to read you again. I'm not very happy neither, since my fav games didn't make to the ST too. I prefered Super Scramble rather than another smashing keys game, for instance.

    BTW you are a regular Speccy Tour member, would you like to judge some of the games this year? if interested let me know. Plan this year is to divide more games among some judges we rely on (well known), and perhaps, we'll judge only the best games week by week (we'll confirm them all eventually) in order not to waste time in a game that will have better score by same player next week.

    Regards
  • FrankieFrankie
    edited September 2003
    On 2003-09-09 14:49, Alessandro Grussu wrote:
    Sh*t! No Gunrunner, Ranarama, Splitting Images, Travel with Trashman or Ant Attack - and I have to put up with Maziacs and Jumping Jack!

    I also voted for Gunrunner. Why don't people like this brill piece of Software?

    It only got 4 votes :(

    Bye.

  • SabreSabre
    edited September 2003
    I can't understand why Uridium is so underrated neither. Gun runner is good, fast, and fun.

    I wanted Super Scramble too rather than Smashing the keys (got enough with Hypersports)

    But you ask a question, and I'll give you mine. A sound pops me when I receive Tour mails. 80% of people vote, just inmediatly after signing up: I'd bet manu vote the games they 'know' rather than testing'em. Thus names like Tetris or Renegade are always fighting for top voted games... and Show Jumping will never compete with Daley Thompson :(

    Gun runner is a good game, but perhaps, a bit underrated or undermentioned, at the least.

    Then there are "country" loves. It's obvious how Batty is voted by british players mainly, or how how Fred made to the tour last year with many Spanish votes.

    I share your opinion my friend!

  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited September 2003
    Muchas gracias por la tu pregunta, Ivan, but I am afraid I won't have enough spare time to act as a judge as well. However, I can't help noticing how the majority of signed players always come from Spain. Looks like the Spectrum was more popular there than in the UK. 35 out of 73 signed players are Spanish - that's almost half of them.

    It goes without saying that I'm not pleased at all to see only 2 players from Italy, including me :mad:

    It is also strange to see there is nobody from France or Germany. It's even strangest to see no players from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia or the former Soviet Union, considering how the Spectrum and its local clones are still popular there.
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • SabreSabre
    edited September 2003
    Don't worry, time is a treasure, I know. Just make your best in your recordings, last year we expected a bit more fight from you! :)

    About countries , yes, I wish we had more "East block" players. Every time a guy from Poland or, like this year, Ukraine, signs up, we write him in order to bring more, but no luck at the moment. If anybody knows a forum where I could reach more people of this countries, please tell me.

    Oh and if anybody wanted to do the translation to other idioms such as Russian it would be great too... I know language might be a big gap.

    About Spanish "invasion", yes, there are many Specchums around here, only a few guys at our schools had a CPC or MSX, and the Amiga was for posh-rich guys of the school :)
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