Gilligans Gold
I used to be really good at Gilligans Gold
but found it quite hard when playing it again to review! Still enjoyed it though - with a few minor improvements it could have been a real classic.
Solid enough fun game that is really sort of 'retro' - more than a lot of other Speccy games anyway.
So - does anyone else like this game?
but found it quite hard when playing it again to review! Still enjoyed it though - with a few minor improvements it could have been a real classic.
Solid enough fun game that is really sort of 'retro' - more than a lot of other Speccy games anyway.
So - does anyone else like this game?
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One of the things that most impressed me about it was the continuous tune that plays throughout; that was a bit of a step forward from the likes of Jet Set Willy at the time. The graphics were a bit blocky, but in an obvious attempt to reduce the colour clash which mostly worked quite well.
I was never very good at it at all, a couple of pick ups and that was about it.
The rzx and even the demo make it look easy.
I do think there was potential to make 'more' in this game though, like more screens or a larger map, it kind of has an 'unfinished' feel to it, to me at least.
I did get pretty handy at it anyway. Completed Sorcery too :razz:
Gilligan's is pretty good once you get the hang of it.
I brought my SoftAid tape new at the time :) , does that count ? , or did you mean actually brought the original release ?
Soft Aid here also.. Didn't they record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at the beginning of both sides of the tape? Should have whacked it on the end.. Pain in the arse having to fast-forward through it to get to the first game - and to do it again on side two was just cruel!
What was on that compilation again? Without using infoseek (yet) - Gilligan's Gold, Cauldron, Kokatoni Wilf and some Q-Berty thing, amongst others..
Edit - Spellbound was the Q-Bert clone. Some OK ones on there. Jack and the frigging beanstalk! I only ever got off the first screen once (kept falling while trying to climb up) and then I think I got killed on the second or 3rd screen and it sent me back to the first!
Starbike was meh, Kokotoni Wilf was excellent, The Pyramid was OK, Horace Goes Skiing is Horace - nuff said, Gilligan's Gold (momentary thread re-railment!) was pretty good, Ant Attack has always been great, 3D Tank Duel was OK if you like Battlezone (I kind-of do) and Sorcery was pretty good as I remember it.
Cauldron wasn't on there after all.. Oh well.. I think it was on Now Games 2 or something.
Yep - I mean did anyone buy the original release :)
I love all these early 80's arcade games, by the way.
We played it in the Speccy Tour 2004, and it's the only game so far, I was capable of winning. Maybe because it is so bloody hard. Yes, I honestly mean that. It's much faster than the arcade it seems, or am I wrong?
If you like to show us your skills, please beat my score at HARP Spectrum Zone:
http://www.homeactionreplay.org/search.php?gamename=Gilligan%27s%20Gold&tourney=2
If you like to give it a go, I'll let you know what to do, to play according to the rules, so that your submitted score doesn't get DQ'ed. We can't have that :)
Ps it was far better than Sorcery anyways lol
Only joking, I played it on the Softaid comp too!
flick screen game with about 20 screens as far as I can remember.
Maybe I'll play that one next:p
I tried playing it in Spin recently and was more hopeless with it than ever, the keys were bad enough on the spectrum but translated to pc keyboard are a nightmare!
Softaid too!
I'd use a good key layout too!
Would anyone fancy it?
For the GP2X it'd make my day.
No emulators required.
Yesyesyes!!
I quite like it, but I'm totally rubbish at it....still play it for nostalgia reasons sometimes nonetheless....:)