What are your favorite Spectrum games?

Bluce_Ree · December 2006

Rebelstar/Rebelstar2/Chaos - can't pick between them but they are all ace. probably the most enjoyable strategy games of all time. I'll take these over all the micro-management cack you get these days.

Renegade - best of the series. Still playable and, more importantly, still fun. To this day all my prozzies have to have trousers on and a fat madame who I'm allowed to jump kick.

Megabucks - best example of the arcade adventure and my fave (non-Gollop) budget game.

Quazatron - Paradroid? Ass-droid. Disintegrator weapon + top floor = crunchy fun.

R-Type - genuinely stunning and brilliant for at least 4 of it's 8 levels.

Myth - beautiful, varied, intelligent and amazing. The last great Speccy game.

Way Of The Exploding Fist - unmatched in the one on one genre still. You say 'limited' I say 'pure'.

Angleball - odd snooker/puzzle hybrid. Overlooked but brilliant.

Green Bert - Bert delivers stabs to dogs that look like sheep. First time you've read that sentence I'd wager.

alban lusitanae · December 2006

Disintegrator weapon + top floor = crunchy fun.

Don't you mean disruptor? ;-)

Myth - beautiful, varied, intelligent and amazing. The last great Speccy game

Indeed... I could never guess how they made this with so little memory...

You say 'limited' I say 'pure'

Limited? Never heard that one before :)

Bert delivers stabs to dogs that look like sheep. First time you've read that sentence I'd wager

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Actually we, me and my brother, called them the same thing! We called it the shepard level :lol: strangest drawn dogs I have ever seen

I always liked that game too. It was insanely difficult (one of the hardest games I've ever played) at first but once you got the hang of it was very addictive

Agreed. I wonder... Which one is the hardest... Army Moves or Abu Simbel Profanation?

WhenIWasCruel · December 2006

To say the truth I don't play arcade/adventures anymore, because they require too much application and concentration, and now I need time for other things, so when I play (which doesn't happen very often) I choose games with easy and immediate action. Still, some of my favourites were undoubtedly arcade/adventures.

Platform games
1. Rick Dangerous
2. Jack The Nipper II
3. Solomon's Key
4. Nebulus
5. Dynamite Dan II
6. Manic Miner
7. Bomb Jack
8. Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

Beat'em Ups
1. Renegade
2. The Way Of The Exploding Fist
3. Barbarian
4. Nemesis The Warlock

Shoot'em Ups
1. Highway Encounter
2. Karnov
3. Bedlam (frantic)
4. Commando
5. Light Force
6. Zynaps
7. Wiz Ball
8. Jet Pac

Arcade/Adventures
1. The Great Escape
2. SkoolDaze
3. Movie
4. Contact Sam Cruise
5. Where Time Stood Still

Sport
1. Emlyn Huges International Soccer (best football game on the speccy)
2. Wec Le Mans (fast and furious)
3. Enduro Racer
4. Match Day I, Match Day II, International Match Day (although they're a bit robotic)

3d Arcade
1. Head Over Heels
2. Knight Lore
3. Ant Attack (genius)

Movies
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (pretty good multi-level rendition of the movie in Ocean style, but more on the platform side)
2. Cobra (not much adherent to the movie... but this is one of his strenghts).

Others
Arkanoid (a nice conversion of a clever revision of an old concept)
Conquestador (an obscure but enjoyable spanish maze-platform game)
Cyclone (when the author is Costa Panayi you already know it's pure class)
Gregory Loses His Clock (a colourful nightmare from Don Priestley)
Pippo (a simple and addictive game based on one of the silliest italian tv characters)
Pssst! (pure beauty)
Realm Of Impossibility (this is quite crap, but absurdly funny in two players mode)

WhenIWasCruel · December 2006

alban lusitanae wrote:

Actually we, me and my brother, called them the same thing! We called it the shepard level :lol: strangest drawn dogs I have ever seen

You're forgetting the dogs in The Great Escape.

I used to think they were pigs.

alban lusitanae · December 2006

Hey WIWC, ever played the sequel of Highway Encounter, Alien Highway? It is even more fun :)

mel the bell · December 2006

Vampyre wrote:

I always liked that game too. It was insanely difficult (one of the hardest games I've ever played) at first but once you got the hang of it was very addictive.

yeah strange how i loved it, yet only ever got on about the 3rd screen

Ælita · December 2006

In any order.

Chuckie Egg
Manic Minor
Penetrator
Viking Raiders
Tir Na Nog
Dun Darach
Booty
Brian Bloodaxe
Kokotoni Wulf
Rebelstar Raiders
Chaos
Lords Of Midnight
Jet Set Willie
Pygamarama
Falcon Patrol II
Strangeloop
3D Starstrike
Skooldaze
Starion
Formula 1
Football Manager
Tranz Am
Atic Atac
Rambo II
Commando
Bruce Lee

Games I hate:

Elite...hehe

WhenIWasCruel · December 2006

alban lusitanae wrote:

Hey WIWC, ever played the sequel of Highway Encounter, Alien Highway? It is even more fun :)

I gave it a quick look several years ago, it seemed good, but not as a good as H.E.

I find it a bad idea that the detonator becomes lethal when it touches the sides of the road...

WhizzBang · December 2006

I always go back to:

Bomb Jack
Jet PacK
Head Over Heals
Commando
Manic Miner

zx1 · December 2006

In no particular order:

Commando
Skool daze & Bak to skool
Contact Sam Cruise
Rambo
Movie
Where time stood still
The great escape
Foxx fights back!
Manic miner
Jet set willy 1&2
Psst!
Lunar Jetman
Rock star ate my hamster
Dizzy
Treasure island dizzy
The armagedden man
Professional boxing manager
On the bench
Soccer boss
Mikie
Green Beret
Chase HQ
Monty on the run
Auf Wiederson Monty
Jack the nipper 1&2
Footballer of the year 1&2
Minder
Space Gun

Theres many more but i can't think at the moment because i'm recovering from a nasty stomach bug (yuk!)

What are your favorite Spectrum games?

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