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Manic Miner and JSW remakes...

MarlonMarlon
edited November 2006 in Games
Which ones can you guys recommend? I want playable, fun and NOT insanely difficult! Suggestions?

While I'm at it, I found the 'Lost Gems' thread v interesting. As a c64 boy only discovering the wonders of Speccy gaming recently, any other gems you guys can recommend are very welcome.

Cheers.
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  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited October 2006
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    I haven't read the other thread mentioned but the gems I recommend are Ant Attack, Bruce Lee, Fairlight 1/2, Mystery of the Nile, Starquake, Terramex, That's the Spirit, When Time Stood Still, and plenty, plenty more.

    You may have already played some of them on the Commode and if so, you should nonetheless try 'em out on the Speccy.
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    Never mind ... just re-read your request for MM & JSW games/gems. Sorry, can't really help you there.

    Skarpo
    :-)
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited October 2006
    For MM/JSW remakes on the Speccy, try Andrew Broad's site.

    For PC remakes of the original games, try RetroSpec.
    I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
  • ewgfewgf
    edited October 2006
    I'd recommend ZX Heroes, the JSW rewrite where every screen is a very good mock up of a Spectrum game, it's my favourite JSW remake, and it's not too hard at all.

    Also, try Frosya, Carnival Macabre, Willy's Afterlife and others. Andrew Broad's games are very clever, but rely on knowledge of the JSW/MMs' engines quirks, so can be very hard.

    Download them all, though (they're a very small file size), and see which ones you like. And try JSW 2 if you haven't already (use the 128K hack by James McKay, it doesn't have any extra rooms or anything, it just adds cheats and a brilliant (and very necessary) feature whereby you're invincible for three seconds after dying, which avoids the infinite death syndrome).

    Oh, and have you seen Andy Noble's awesome PC remake of JSW? It's available at:

    http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=jsw

    and it's excellent, as is his Manic Miner remake, at:

    http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=mm

    Have fun!
  • DarenDaren
    edited October 2006
    A shed load of JSW/MM remake walkthroughs have been submitted to the RZX Archive lately. Some of them look like pretty decent games.
  • andrewbroadandrewbroad
    edited November 2006
    ewgf wrote:
    Andrew Broad's games are very clever, but rely on knowledge of the JSW/MMs' engines quirks, so can be very hard.

    But Manic Miner: The Hobbit, Jet Set Willy: The Lord of the Rings, Ma jolie and Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman all come with easy versions.

    Advanced MM/JSW Trainer (of which an early beta-revision can be downloaded from my website) is designed to teach quirky features with the minimum amount of difficulty.

    --
    Dr. Andrew Broad
    http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
    http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
    http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
    http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/
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