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Crime games

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited June 2009 in Games
what are the top five games in which you play a criminal/crime boss?

Are there any really good ones where you can commit lots of different crimes? Any funny ones?
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2009
    Bugsy is quite amusing, you can rob a paperboy.

    *Waits for Greencard to barge in screaming "Mugsy! Mugsy!".
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  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2009
    *barges in*

    Mugsy!! Mugsy!!

    Erm, and Drugsy!! ;)
  • joefishjoefish
    edited June 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Bugsy is quite amusing, you can rob a paperboy.
    Now you mention it, you could indulge in a fair bit of vandalism in Paperboy.
    Joefish
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  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited June 2009
    Not really a load of these on the Speccy is there?

    There's Sam Stoat Safebreaker I suppose, but that was crap.

    I'll say Gilligan's Gold, because it was a blatent copy of the Bagman arcade game and the original Bagman character was an escaped convict.
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited June 2009
    They Stole a Million fits the description very well.
    Crimebusters is a really good arcade romp where you burgle stuff.
    The 2008 game Thieves School is very good value for money. It's arcade based and you graduate through stealth and larceny
    Minder would also qualify I guess
    For a really bad game there is Gotcha - a nasty piece of work that was a strange choice on last year's Speccy Tour (though the other choices were great).
    I'm sure somene mentioned Mugsy - a great game of guess the number the CPU is thinking of - together with 5 or 6 nice pictures to look at.
  • Dwayne DibleyDwayne Dibley
    edited June 2009
    Well,first one that springs to mind is also one of my favourite games - so start with..

    Dictator
    Mugsy
    Mugsy's Revenge
    They Stole A Million
    umm...Theatre Europe ? (depending on which side of the Iron Curtain you were stood!)
  • ANDREW RYALSANDREW RYALS
    edited June 2009
    Stifflip and Co struck me as a weird games, you dont play a crime boss, its a graphic adventure but it has some seriously strange problems and requires lots of lateral thinking
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited June 2009
    Dwayne Dibley wrote: »
    Well,first one that springs to mind is also one of my favourite games - so start with..

    Dictator
    !)

    Of course, Dictator! Also played on the Speccy Tour - because it is best played as a high score strategy game. Going for a high score stops you from trying to be nice to everyone and forces you to loot international donations for your private funds, deliberately start wars to maintain popularity and weaken revlutionaries by gunning them down mercilessly. Worryingly, as I discovered on the Tour, I am pretty good at Dictator...
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited June 2009
    - Bennie the Burglar
    - Les Flics
    - Inside Outing

    You can also do an awful lot of vandalism in How to Be a Complete Bastard, although your character is not supposed to be a criminal.
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  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited June 2009
    There is a truly repulsive 'management; game in the archive call Slavemaker which I considered for review in the Speccy games bible but decided against. In it you take on the role of a pimp with the object of grooming a girl to become a more and more servile sex slave - with scores based on her level of submission, earnings and degradation.
  • milemile
    edited June 2009
    theres that one where the four robots have to escape from a space prison.

    bilbo in the 'hobbit' was pretty much a burglar
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited June 2009
    mile wrote: »
    bilbo in the 'hobbit' was pretty much a burglar

    Aw, come on. Bilbo a burglar? Did you ever read the novel the game is based upon?
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited June 2009
    Jumping Stack wrote: »
    Mugsy - a great game of guess the number the CPU is thinking of - together with 5 or 6 nice pictures to look at.

    Quite a simplistic view of one of the most off-beat and quirky titles ever released on the Spectrum - and one of my favourite games ever.

    I agree, though, that the sequel was much less enjoyable. Maybe the novelty value of the first chapter had faded by then.

    Pity there are not so many Spectrum games set in the 1920's - a stylish decade if ever there was one, IMHO - and usually you're on the side of the law in them.
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited June 2009
    and of course, Caf? Paradise (or is it Paradise Caf??)

    bad but funny grafics, and mainly all you have to do in the game is rob, rape and sell drugs...
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited June 2009
    Alessandro Grussu wrote: »
    Quite a simplistic view of one of the most off-beat and quirky titles ever released on the Spectrum - and one of my favourite games ever.

    .

    You wern't supposed to rise to the bait! I left that line dangling to annoy Green Card. :smile:
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2009
    Jumping Stack wrote: »
    You wern't supposed to rise to the bait! I left that line dangling to annoy Green Card. :smile:

    Erm, grrrrrrr... or something!!

    ;-)
  • BethanBethan
    edited June 2009
    They Stole a Millions looks good.
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited June 2009
    Jumping Stack wrote: »
    You wern't supposed to rise to the bait! I left that line dangling to annoy Green Card. :smile:

    Damn! That's what happens when you've been away from a forum for too much time :D
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • milemile
    edited June 2009
    Alessandro Grussu wrote: »
    Aw, come on. Bilbo a burglar? Did you ever read the novel the game is based upon?

    yes.

    bilbos behaviour was disgusting if you ask me.

    he stole golums ring. (well used an elaborate con game, but it was still theft.)

    then he nicked off with smaugs treasure.

    he broke his dwarf freinds out of a prison where they had fairly and squarly put due to trespassing.

    he pretty much instigated a war. he should have been tried at the hague for that.

    i think he was a nasty piece of work!
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited June 2009
    mile wrote: »
    yes.

    bilbos behaviour was disgusting if you ask me.

    he stole golums ring. (well used an elaborate con game, but it was still theft.)

    then he nicked off with smaugs treasure.

    he broke his dwarf freinds out of a prison where they had fairly and squarly put due to trespassing.

    he pretty much instigated a war. he should have been tried at the hague for that.

    i think he was a nasty piece of work!

    Such an insane amount of political correctness would be enough to ban about 70% of text adventures from the WoS archive :lol:
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • milemile
    edited June 2009
    Alessandro Grussu wrote: »
    Such an insane amount of political correctness would be enough to ban about 70% of text adventures from the WoS archive :lol:

    he he, lol. :-D
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2009
    It would actually be interesting to play the entire Lord of the rings game from miles point of view....hint hint ;)

    Get yer' scribblin' pad oot yorkie :p
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  • Hernán Pablo ÁlvarezHernán Pablo Álvarez
    edited June 2009
    It's just me or nobody mentioned The Untouchables? And Chicago 30's...
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2009
    Hern?n wrote: »
    It's just me or nobody mentioned The Untouchables? And Chicago 30's...

    You could do, but you're the cop in those games.

    I think this thread is more about being the criminal, rather than stopping them.
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  • zx1zx1
    edited June 2009
    Crime Busters is a good simple game. All you have to do is steal stuff from a house via trampolines while avoiding the police, ghosts and assorted nasties. Simple but great fun with some nice graphics.
    They stole a million, haven't played this for a while but still like it. The best bit is going on the raid and hoping the police don't turn up (when i played it they usually did).
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2009
    Do you mean Crime busters the arcade platformer? Or Crime Busters the Spellbound rip-off by Harry Price?

    I've heard Crime Busters praises sung a few times in the last day or so, and I keep thinking Harry Prices rip-off of Stormbringer.
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited June 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Do you mean Crime busters the arcade platformer?
    Or do you mean Crime Busters the clone of Mappy?
    Mappy got quite a good MSX conversion, though it may have been missing the bonus levels.
    Joefish
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2009
    joefish wrote: »
    Or do you mean Crime Busters the clone of Mappy?
    Mappy got quite a good MSX conversion, though it may have been missing the bonus levels.

    It may have been based on Mappy, but it plays bugger all like it so I would never have guessed the similarities.
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  • Dwayne DibleyDwayne Dibley
    edited June 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    It would actually be interesting to play the entire Lord of the rings game from miles point of view....hint hint ;)

    Get yer' scribblin' pad oot yorkie :p

    His family aren't much better - rather than give Sauron his lost jewellery back ,Frodo destroys it - and whilst he's doing that the rest of his gang break into Moria before flooding Sauron's buddies house.
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited June 2009
    There's Orchard Thief

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    Not exactly crime of the century though. :D
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