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Spectrum games that could be made, for modern times.

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Ken Bruce's Popmaster. I could see Domark putting this out. And I'd play it like mad, before discarding it four hours in because the questions would repeat.

Harry Potter, a definite Ocean license if ever I saw one. Loads of sequels.

Annoyed Avians versus Green Pigs, another totally original delight from Harry S Price.

Top Gear. Another Domark tie-in, where you can pick between Clarkson/Hammond/May in attempt to be the first to reach a destination in a ridiculous/cool mode of transport. Albeit it'd be quickly rushed onto a budget release now that they've buggered off to Amazon Video.

ISIS Obliteration Don't tell me US Gold or Microprose wouldn't do this.

Peppa Pig And it would be annoyingly good, from Alternative Software.

Total Disharmony In The UK, a text adventure about life in Cameron's Britain, written by the Sleaford Mods.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Behave.
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  • beanzbeanz
    Command and Conquer - and then spend $4 trillion dollars rebuilding what you just destroyed.- US gold.
  • def chrisdef chris
    Advanced iPad simulator

    Horace goes twerking

    How to be a complete douche nozzle

  • beanzbeanz
    :)) @ twerking
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Fallout 0: Could be a top down shooter, and the VATS could be done like Lazer Squad.

    Shovel Knight 3D: written in Freescape.

    Rolferoo: A bit like Kosmic Kanga, but in this you have to shoot jiz at secretaries, and office interns, bonus points for drinking your own p*ss, and blinding the BBC boss so he can't see your filthy shenanigans.

    Every night is curry night!
  • joefishjoefish
    def chris wrote: »
    Horace goes twerking
    How does a face on legs even do that?
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  • peteprodgepeteprodge
    joefish wrote: »
    How does a face on legs even do that?

    That never troubled Miley Cyrus.

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  • joefishjoefish
    Thatcher and the Coffin-Dodgers - guide the funeral procession across London avoiding anti-capitalist protest hotspots and marches. Subtle use of the WC2B postcode and the brilliant news quote 'Expect delays around Auld-wych'.

    The President Trumps - in a spin-off from Abe's Exoddus a grown-up Don-the-Nipper (Jack's second cousin) must guide exploding clouds of flatulence around Washington to maim or discredit his political opponents in contrived and amusing fart-related catastrophes.

    Freez'Bees II - Climate Change Edition - The penguin is basically just stung to death as there's no longer any ice between him and the bees.

    Frogger 2020 - you hop around trying to cross a busy road and crocodile-infested river to your home. Instead of getting faster each round, the game gets slower as a foreign fungus introduced into the habitat gradually debilitates the frog's motor neurone functions.

    Tans-Man - drive a car around the USA trying to collect enough prize money for gender-reassignment surgery. The car starts off blue but turns magenta after dark.
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  • Maroc's Other ProjectionMaroc's Other Projection
    edited March 2016
    Jack the Hipster - Jack has grown up and now sports a ridiculously manicured beard. Avoid all manner of attempts to remove your facial 'statement' and the dreaded shaving rash . Restore 'beard sheen' by quaffing Guatemalan foam coffee with marmoset milk. The ultimate aim of the game is to track down your lost fedora among the vegan bistros of Shoreditch.
    Post edited by Maroc's Other Projection on
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2016
    In case of confusion, my last one should have read:

    Trans-Man - drive a car around the USA trying to collect enough prize money for gender-reassignment surgery. The car starts off blue but turns magenta after dark.

    Post edited by joefish on
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  • joefishjoefish
    Morbidly Obese Horace

    The Bus Replacement Service Game

    Three Weeks on the Jeremy Kyle Show

    Manic Incapacity Benefit Claimant

    Monty Helping Hatton Garden Constabulary With Their Enquiries
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  • beanzbeanz
    Trashman 2016- Collect 6 bins at each house, one for garden waste, one for glass, one for clothing, one for food waste, one for plastics,...etc you get the Idea.
  • joefishjoefish
    Don't forget leaving one un-emptied, so you get recalled on a Friday and can claim overtime.
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    This is great CSSCGC idea fodder. Love Jack The Hipster (born in 1986 so he'd be about the right age too)
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    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • joefishjoefish
    You could send some of these in to Jim'll Fix It!!!
    Oh Super Trolley - I bet that's one game designer who doesn't want to do a Retro Gamer interview...
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  • def chrisdef chris
    joefish wrote: »
    def chris wrote: »
    Horace goes twerking
    How does a face on legs even do that?

    well first you have to cross a busy road and buy a bum from the bum shop. then cross back again and its off to the, err, twerking slope

  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    You don't buy a bum, just 15600 bowls of "Rice an' pea" :))
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  • peteprodgepeteprodge
    joefish wrote: »
    You could send some of these in to Jim'll Fix It!!!
    Oh Super Trolley - I bet that's one game designer who doesn't want to do a Retro Gamer interview...

    TV-host-noncery aside, he wouldn't do an interview because the game is so entirely f**king s**t.

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  • peteprodgepeteprodge
    Sometimes the daftest game ideas just write themselves.

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  • LunyLuny
    joefish wrote: »
    def chris wrote: »
    Horace goes twerking
    How does a face on legs even do that?

    Like this...

    horace.gif
    Sod it!

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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited March 2016
    ^ lol, awesome!

    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    "Rice an' pea" :))

    cant ever read/hear that without thinking of trisha on bo! selecta...
    Post edited by def chris on
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    I think that was where I was heading with that :))
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    peteprodge wrote: »
    Sometimes the daftest game ideas just write themselves.

    CckaADOW8AAYsgu.jpg

    Ha. I can already feel the CGC entry starting to take shape. Beepy national anthem, lots of magenta, and a pixelated Michael Gove scurrying around after Queen Lizzie tugging his forelock and picking up corgi sh!t.
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2016
    Clean for the Queen.....I've tried to come up with something to say that that won't get me banned, but I can't because I will use 10000 swearwords in 2 sentences.....

    Oh my ...'effing' lordy McJeebus...

    Let's just say I'd have said c*nt a lot :p
    Post edited by dm_boozefreek on
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  • Antiriad2097Antiriad2097
    Bonus level features Paul O'Grady.
  • Maroc's Other ProjectionMaroc's Other Projection
    edited March 2016
    Celebrity Speccy Gogglebox Simulator
    Guffaw with delight as down-on-their-luck ex-speccy icons watch rzx's of speccy classics! Cringe as 'platonic' flatmates Miner Willy and Technician Ted rip into Monty Mole. Sob along as the Week family get teary during Bugaboo's 'emotional' escape from the cave.

    More than a game! Like having a television and a sofa and people talking in your own front room! Absolutely Brilliant! - David Darling

    Aren't we just watching people watching people? Where's the game? Whhhhyyy? - Everyone else
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    Cheeky Funster (53)
  • joefishjoefish
    Scooby Don't - you have to keep putting a large and aging incontinent dog outside before it fouls the carpet, but leaving it out in the cold too long just makes it worse.
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  • NickNick
    edited March 2016
    Operation Yew Tree A whodunnit style text adventure where you have to find out which randomly selected 70's celebrity took advantage of his fame and position of trust.
    peteprodge wrote: »
    Peppa Pig And it would be annoyingly good, from Alternative Software.
    You could probably add Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom and Rasta Mouse as well, they have Alternative Software licence written all over them.

    Downton Abbey written in the style of The Archers where you are the script writer trying to trying to keep viewing figures up.

    There have been a number of TV programs and films which would have been turned into platform beat-em-ups/shoot-em-ups by Ocean.
    Post edited by Nick on
  • ewgfewgf
    If you wanted to make a 'modern' Spectrum game, then you'd have to release it bugged so that it was impossible to complete, release a day one patch that's two thirds of the game's size, add some DRM, and leave out half of the game so you could later sell it as DLC.

    Come to think of it, half of those points apply to Jetset Willy! The Spectrum truly was ahead of it's time.
  • LunyLuny
    ewgf wrote: »
    If you wanted to make a 'modern' Spectrum game, then you'd have to release it bugged so that it was impossible to complete, release a day one patch that's two thirds of the game's size, add some DRM, and leave out half of the game so you could later sell it as DLC.

    Come to think of it, half of those points apply to Jetset Willy! The Spectrum truly was ahead of it's time.

    ha ha very good. You forgot the in game selling, which is hidden just enough that toddlers can buy what they like on their parent's account, the coins you collect to buy further levels and don't forgot to base it on the simple 5 genres the games market only ever seem to use these day.
    Sod it!

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  • NickNick
    edited March 2016
    The Jump Guide your chosen celebrity skier through all the challenges without them suffering serious injury.

    Boris Johnson's Tour De London Playing the part of the London Mayor and cycling enthusiast, you have guide Boris through London to his office while avoiding various obstacles such as paparazzi and other cyclists, who will try and knock you off.
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