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Alien 8 Trophy

thezxfilesthezxfiles
edited November 2012 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
I always wondered what happened to this, glad it is still owned by the original competition winner.

I think this is the first time I seen a colour photo of it, the picture in Crash magazine was in black and white if I remember correctly.

The guy who owns this also mentions there is a second one belonging to the Stamper Brothers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiloverton/6033162656/in/photostream/
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  • ANDREW RYALSANDREW RYALS
    edited October 2012
    blimey just shows you what turns up. I love stories like this.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited November 2012
    Who ever spike McFang is has a great photo feed on that account. I love the old pictures of Harlow.
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited November 2012
    Crikey - Knight Lore on an MSX cartridge!?!

    Err - what the hell is this box art trying to say?

    941571_108942_front.jpg
    Joefish
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited November 2012
    joefish wrote: »
    Crikey - Knight Lore on an MSX cartridge!?!

    Err - what the hell is this box art trying to say?

    941571_108942_front.jpg

    Haha! Brilliant! :lol:
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  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited November 2012
    Aww, every home should have one XD
  • beanzbeanz
    edited November 2012
    You know it's a Ebay driven world when the first you think is "I wonder what that would go for on Ebay".
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited November 2012
    That box art is quite strange ... by the way, somewhat unrelated but out of interest I just had a look at the japanese Wikipedia article for Knight Lore - now, considering the impact the Speccy game had back then, it's kinda shocking to find out that, according to the last bit of the article, the Famicon/NES version that was released towards the end of 1986 received the lowest rating ever in one of their domestic Famicon-specialized magazines (called "Family Computer Magazine", only a JP-language Wiki page exists).

    But then the Japanese also referred to JSW as a "foreign crap game" somwhere on t'internet ...
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited November 2012
    It has to be said that the NES port of Knight Lore is rather lacking in that all the rooms have basically been squashed flat. This rather misses the point of the original, in the same way that the C64 version of Carrier Command does, but I'm still not sure it's the worst game ever on the system. Something on the Action 52 cartridge, perhaps?

    As for the comment on JSW... well... may they forever be cursed with tediously grindy RPGs with unwieldy combat systems.
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited November 2012
    Regarding JSW, I meant to post this yesterday - a rare Japanese view on the game written in (sometimes funny) English, based on the MSX version. There's a few more sub-sections to this JSW "article", accessed from the menu on the right.

    The website itself deals with the lesser-known games for the MSX machines in Japan and it is apparent that most releases with European roots aren't exactly revered by them. Oh well :-)
  • thezxfilesthezxfiles
    edited November 2012
    This is a little weird, I find this photo of the Alien8 trophy, and the bloke that owns it (Wil Overton) is in this months Retro Gamer (No 109, page 31) talking about it..... that's just spooky.
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