Cheers. But, really, expect mucho lurking and very little participation because participation for me means utter addiction and everything else in life going to pot!
Cheers. But, really, expect mucho lurking and very little participation because participation for me means utter addiction and everything else in life going to pot!
Yeah ... about that ... tsk, tsk ... you're up 23 posts in one day ... even karingal, milesy or dm_boozefreek can't touch that one! ;-)
Seems to be the best place to ask this... Forgive me if I've made this up!
Back in the day (Christ, I feel old) when I had my Spectrum, a mate told me about a hidden game he'd supposedly heard about called 'Fuck' or something. Being a teenager at the time, I assumed he was making it up.
I'd forgotten about it until about a year ago, when I read something similar on the net. I can't find any mention of it now. Was it a crazy dream?
Back in the day (Christ, I feel old) when I had my Spectrum, a mate told me about a hidden game he'd supposedly heard about called 'Fuck' or something. Being a teenager at the time, I assumed he was making it up.
I'd forgotten about it until about a year ago, when I read something similar on the net. I can't find any mention of it now. Was it a crazy dream?
There was a hacked version of Nick Pelling's game Frak! on the BBC\Electron that was called Fuck! See Here
As it wasn't generally available I suppose you could say it was hidden but it never made it to a Sinclair machine AFAIK
Or did you mean a game hidden within another, something along the lines of Firebird's Booty?
In "Mikie" there is a hidden bonus in each of the class-rooms.
E.G. On the 1st screen if you stand in front of the teacher's desk, facing the 'blackboard' and 'shout' 3 times - you get a gobblin and a score!
Mikie was a game that I owned, but never understood how to play... :smile:
I got it with Konami's Coin-Op Hits compilation which included either none or very limited instructions and I remember I did try to play it a few times but lost interest when I did not know what I was expected to do.
A bit strange with compilations that they often did not include full instructions to the games, which sometimes meant that you had no possibility to play/complete some games.
Mikie was a game that I owned, but never understood how to play... :smile:
I got it with Konami's Coin-Op Hits compilation which included either none or very limited instructions and I remember I did try to play it a few times but lost interest when I did not know what I was expected to do.
Yeah, it is confusing. You need two joysticks to control the main character, each stick represents one of Mikie's legs. You have to place yourself underneath each passing submarine and waggle like mad to release each sponge cake, catch the cake on your head, then take the cake to one the flaffer valves to stagnate it. Once all 5,000 valves are stunned, you can exit the treehouse via the catalistic membrane (blue).
Mikie was a game that I owned, but never understood how to play... :smile:
sometimes the shop forgot to include instructions OR they were based for another machine or generic..
with mikie, maybe try it again... off the top of my head.. the object of the game is to collect the hearts.. and each one you get, gives you a letter..
take stage 1... the classroom.. you have to bump the people off their chair by tapping to the right or left till the sitting person vanishs.. to get the heart under the chair.. BUT unless your sitting down, the teacher will catch you.. BUT you can shout at him.. and it makes him dizzy .. as long as your sitting down the teacher won't chase ya.. so if your at the desk.. tap the left or right.. to knock them off the chair.. and down to sit down.
you get all characters needed and you proceed to the next level.. after exiting via the exit / door
fro's being silly or has had too much cooking sherry (it's supposed to go in the triffle ya nut)..
although I will say I did REALLY like the effect on the c64 highscore table , how you entered ya name :)
EXACTLY the same method as entering your name in Speccy Hysteria!
ah well I bogged off to c64 land by then, but I do remember the c64 hysteria mainly for the music / graphics. Green Beret I do remember was one of the last things I played before the speccy finally packed up
ah well I bogged off to c64 land by then, but I do remember the c64 hysteria mainly for the music / graphics.
Tony Pomfret wrote both Mikie and Hysteria for the c64, and used his name entry system for both games. And since the speccy Hysteria was a conversion of the c64 game, the name entry thing was converted too.
I used to call him Mr Fries.. just I was doing GCSE french and thats how I remember that was the french for that. I'm sure he heard that loads before.. much like people ask me (and maybe Lee) are we related to the motorbike bloke, with the same surname.
I used to call him Mr Fries.. just I was doing GCSE french and thats how I remember that was the french for that. I'm sure he heard that loads before.. much like people ask me (and maybe Lee) are we related to the motorbike bloke, with the same surname.
What? Lee Wingdingdingding?
Anyway, at Special FX 'we' sent off for loads of things out of mags and newspapers to Pompfrets address. Everything from free catalogues to dating agencies. And game him a different name each time. Mr. Promfretasm, Mr. Pomfrott, etc, but Mr. Peanutbutter was the best - and worked!
EDIT - here is a pic of Tony Pomfret, me, and Jimmy 'baggers' Bagley hard at work at Special FX...
Mikie was a game that I owned, but never understood how to play... :smile:
I got it with Konami's Coin-Op Hits compilation which included either none or very limited instructions and I remember I did try to play it a few times but lost interest when I did not know what I was expected to do.
A bit strange with compilations that they often did not include full instructions to the games, which sometimes meant that you had no possibility to play/complete some games.
Konami started doing their own home computer conversions didn't they? (Or did they just licence them out to other developers and slap a Konami logo on them?)
I remember they did 'Jail Break' and it was largely pants. And 'Iron Horse' was in the works but never got released.
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BTW Welcome back into the WoS-fold(s)!
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Cheers. But, really, expect mucho lurking and very little participation because participation for me means utter addiction and everything else in life going to pot!
Yeah ... about that ... tsk, tsk ... you're up 23 posts in one day ... even karingal, milesy or dm_boozefreek can't touch that one! ;-)
I believe ya! :-)
I know about the addiction thing though ... I can't touch IRC myself ...
"Hi, I am ZnorXman, I am addicted to IRC but it's under control now ..."
*hastily deletes MIRC from PC*
Back in the day (Christ, I feel old) when I had my Spectrum, a mate told me about a hidden game he'd supposedly heard about called 'Fuck' or something. Being a teenager at the time, I assumed he was making it up.
I'd forgotten about it until about a year ago, when I read something similar on the net. I can't find any mention of it now. Was it a crazy dream?
There was a hacked version of Nick Pelling's game Frak! on the BBC\Electron that was called Fuck! See Here
As it wasn't generally available I suppose you could say it was hidden but it never made it to a Sinclair machine AFAIK
Or did you mean a game hidden within another, something along the lines of Firebird's Booty?
Mikie was a game that I owned, but never understood how to play... :smile:
I got it with Konami's Coin-Op Hits compilation which included either none or very limited instructions and I remember I did try to play it a few times but lost interest when I did not know what I was expected to do.
A bit strange with compilations that they often did not include full instructions to the games, which sometimes meant that you had no possibility to play/complete some games.
Yeah, it is confusing. You need two joysticks to control the main character, each stick represents one of Mikie's legs. You have to place yourself underneath each passing submarine and waggle like mad to release each sponge cake, catch the cake on your head, then take the cake to one the flaffer valves to stagnate it. Once all 5,000 valves are stunned, you can exit the treehouse via the catalistic membrane (blue).
sometimes the shop forgot to include instructions OR they were based for another machine or generic..
with mikie, maybe try it again... off the top of my head.. the object of the game is to collect the hearts.. and each one you get, gives you a letter..
take stage 1... the classroom.. you have to bump the people off their chair by tapping to the right or left till the sitting person vanishs.. to get the heart under the chair.. BUT unless your sitting down, the teacher will catch you.. BUT you can shout at him.. and it makes him dizzy .. as long as your sitting down the teacher won't chase ya.. so if your at the desk.. tap the left or right.. to knock them off the chair.. and down to sit down.
you get all characters needed and you proceed to the next level.. after exiting via the exit / door
fro's being silly or has had too much cooking sherry (it's supposed to go in the triffle ya nut)..
although I will say I did REALLY like the effect on the c64 highscore table , how you entered ya name :)
EXACTLY the same method as entering your name in Speccy Hysteria!
ah well I bogged off to c64 land by then, but I do remember the c64 hysteria mainly for the music / graphics. Green Beret I do remember was one of the last things I played before the speccy finally packed up
Tony Pomfret wrote both Mikie and Hysteria for the c64, and used his name entry system for both games. And since the speccy Hysteria was a conversion of the c64 game, the name entry thing was converted too.
I used to call him Mr Fries.. just I was doing GCSE french and thats how I remember that was the french for that. I'm sure he heard that loads before.. much like people ask me (and maybe Lee) are we related to the motorbike bloke, with the same surname.
What? Lee Wingdingdingding?
Anyway, at Special FX 'we' sent off for loads of things out of mags and newspapers to Pompfrets address. Everything from free catalogues to dating agencies. And game him a different name each time. Mr. Promfretasm, Mr. Pomfrott, etc, but Mr. Peanutbutter was the best - and worked!
EDIT - here is a pic of Tony Pomfret, me, and Jimmy 'baggers' Bagley hard at work at Special FX...
Konami started doing their own home computer conversions didn't they? (Or did they just licence them out to other developers and slap a Konami logo on them?)
I remember they did 'Jail Break' and it was largely pants. And 'Iron Horse' was in the works but never got released.
Jail Break must have been one of the worst games released on the Spectrum.. Extremly bad.
I know I liked the arcade much and was very disappointed, but when trying the orginal Jail Break years later on Mame it was quite bad too. :smile: