If it was originally an arcade game, sure.
I'm looking for the very first publication of the game, allowing me to report the various Spectrum clones were based on that.
Currently I have no idea what the origin is; it could be an arcade, or, say, a C64 game as far as I know.
Edit: I'm not even sure of the genre - it's currently listed as Arcade: Action, but it may be a Puzzle as well. Perhaps even Arcade: Maze.
Wiki says this about the History of minesweeper...
The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s, with such titles as Mined-Out (Quicksilva, 1983), Yomp (Virgin Interactive, 1983), and Cube. Cube was succeeded by Relentless Logic (or RLogic for short), by Conway, Hong, and Smith, available for MS-DOS as early as 1985
Nope, 'taint a mine-sweeper game. I've got one called, Chock-man, so the original has to be another sound-a-like, surely.
I played it a little and it seems to owe something to the concept of minesweeper..the grid, the timer, the 'bad' squares'....Feels like a minesweeper inspired game to me....but then what do I know...nothing!
I played it a little and it seems to owe something to the concept of minesweeper..the grid, the timer, the 'bad' squares'....Feels like a minesweeper inspired game to me....but then what do I know...nothing!
And with a little imagination, it could be Atic Atac.
There is a similar 16k one in the archive 'Timebomb'. The Wiki entry for that says it is an unofficial copy of the Arcade game 'Check Man'
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Timebomb is a game for the 16K ZX Spectrum computer (and which will thus run on any Spectrum), published in 1984 by CDS Microsystems. It is an unlicensed port of the arcade coin-op Check Man.
And here is a link to the wiki entry on Check Man...1982.
This is based on the Zilec-Zenitone Game Check-Man. A very addictive Arcade game when you get in to it.
And with a little imagination, it could be Atic Atac.
Yey!
You may be closer than you think, Chris and Tim Stamper and John Lathbury all wrote for Zilec before ACG, and would have undoubtably known the authors of Check Man
You may be closer than you think, Chris and Tim Stamper and John Lathbury all wrote for Zilec before ACG, and would have undoubtably known the authors of Check Man
Six degrees of Kevin's bacon ... what a great game to play on such a small planet :grin:
Just played Timebomb for the first time. Oh, I loves it, so much better than Choc-Man. The sounds are excellent too, and I thought I was never going to get into this sort of game!
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Silly question here,when you say original do you mean the arcade game it was based on?
Does anyone know what the original game is, as it looks like this should be listed as inspiration (unlicensed tie-in).[/QUOTE]
Thank you
colin
I'm looking for the very first publication of the game, allowing me to report the various Spectrum clones were based on that.
Currently I have no idea what the origin is; it could be an arcade, or, say, a C64 game as far as I know.
Edit: I'm not even sure of the genre - it's currently listed as Arcade: Action, but it may be a Puzzle as well. Perhaps even Arcade: Maze.
Wiki says this about the History of minesweeper...
The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s, with such titles as Mined-Out (Quicksilva, 1983), Yomp (Virgin Interactive, 1983), and Cube. Cube was succeeded by Relentless Logic (or RLogic for short), by Conway, Hong, and Smith, available for MS-DOS as early as 1985
I played it a little and it seems to owe something to the concept of minesweeper..the grid, the timer, the 'bad' squares'....Feels like a minesweeper inspired game to me....but then what do I know...nothing!
And with a little imagination, it could be Atic Atac.
Yey!
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Timebomb is a game for the 16K ZX Spectrum computer (and which will thus run on any Spectrum), published in 1984 by CDS Microsystems. It is an unlicensed port of the arcade coin-op Check Man.
And here is a link to the wiki entry on Check Man...1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Man
You may be closer than you think, Chris and Tim Stamper and John Lathbury all wrote for Zilec before ACG, and would have undoubtably known the authors of Check Man
Six degrees of Kevin's bacon ... what a great game to play on such a small planet :grin:
Yay, you found it!
Indeed this game is also listed on KLOV and Wikipedia.
I'll commence to add this information to Infoseek as well.
Many thanks!
Can anyone hear me out there?? :lol:
Yes, you did, sorry about that!
Anyway, these are all of the Speccy clones I had jotted down.