Trantor Loading Screen

VanTammen

I just came up with this image while googling for TRANTOR - THE LAST STORM TROOPER.

I don't recall this being the game's loading screen... was my version of the game mission something?

http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/spectrum/02/trantor.html

Slider

This screen from playable demo version of Trantor!

Einar Saukas

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34001

Zagreb

Slider wrote: »

This screen from playable demo version of Trantor!

Not actually a playable, it was a rolling demo. I seem to remember it, annoyingly, didn't loop and instead just ended with the digitised music and some blurb meaning that if you wanted to watch the fairly brief bit of gameplay again you needed to re-load the demo.

Always quite liked that alternative loading screen, although that might just be nostalgia on my part.

GreenCard

Zagreb wrote: »

Always quite liked that alternative loading screen, although that might just be nostalgia on my part.

On a similar note, I always quite liked the alternate YS loading screen for their covertape version of Movie, although the Thorpe original is much better. Still have the YS tape kept in the case of my original Movie. :-)

leespoons

The main thing I remember about that Crash tape (apart from the music for Trantor) was the annoying "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" noise with multi-coloured border you got if any of the games failed to load. Made the Alkatraz tape loading error noise sound almost tuneful.

spider

I remember that non playable demo on the Crash tape too. I never brought (or played even now, might try it) the game.

Come to think of it was that about the time Crash started to "change" ? , iirc I more or less stopped buying every issue from about then, and it was the occasional one.

leespoons

That was the first ever Crash covertape IIRC, although it took them a while before they did it every month.

I bought Trantor on the strength of that tape. Best thing about it was the music, much prefer Savage out of all of Perry & Bruty's work.