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This year...

Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
edited December 2011 in Chit chat
As BiNMaN pointed out elsewhere, there have been quite a lot of new games released for the ol' Speccy in MMXI. I'm just wondering if you lot could break the three figure barrier by Christmas? Then again, at a rate of two a week, this will happen anyway without any prompting, so keep up the good work guys.

Regards,

Shaun.
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  • WinstonWinston
    edited November 2011
    I'm working on SpecTank, the first sort-of-serious Spectranet multiplayer game (a capture-the-flag top down tank based game, well, at first - more game modes may arrive later). Hopefully I'll have a playable demo ready for Replay! The game mechanics are all there, but I have one evening to write the match-up system...
  • morcarmorcar
    edited November 2011
    Its a great time to get into the spectrum again with all these new games
  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited November 2011
    Shaun.Bebbington wrote: »
    As BiNMaN pointed out elsewhere, there have been quite a lot of new games released for the ol' Speccy in MMXI. I'm just wondering if you lot could break the three figure barrier by Christmas? Then again, at a rate of two a week, this will happen anyway without any prompting, so keep up the good work guys.

    Regards,

    Shaun.

    I am sorry that ZX81 doesn't count, at 6 now and rising!
  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited November 2011
    What's the count right now?

    I'm saying 'cause, most likely, we'll be releasing at least three more titles for the speccy before Dec 31st.
  • milemile
    edited November 2011
    how do they compare up to speccy games being released back in the day?
  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited November 2011
    mile wrote: »
    how do they compare up to speccy games being released back in the day?

    It depends on which you consider "back in the day": 1982 or 1990 :lol: ;)
  • R-TapeR-Tape
    edited November 2011
    At this rate I'm surprised the Mojon Twins alone haven't broken it already!
    My speccy games.
  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited November 2011
    Not this year. We have only released 3 Speccy games so far. Last year was better for us.
  • ewgfewgf
    edited November 2011
    It has been a good year for games, us Speccy fans are very lucky to have such a great (and geographically very wide) pool of such talented people selflessly working on games and utilities for us.

    I don't follow any other machine's fan scene closely, so I don't know how similar the C64/CPC/Atari 8-bit/BBC/Oric/etc people have it to us, but I think it's a safe bet that no computer's fans are having as good a retro-time as us Speccy types!

    P.S. Can you tell that I've had a few drinks? :p:p:p

    P.P.S. I must be drunk - I've just caught sight of myself in the mirror, and thought I was seeing two Brad Pitts! (A reference to a different thread).
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited November 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    I've just caught sight of myself in the mirror, and thought I was seeing two Brad Pitts!
    Cockney rhyming slang? :razz:
  • kgmcneilkgmcneil
    edited November 2011
    Originally Posted by ewgf
    I've just caught sight of myself in the mirror, and thought I was seeing two Brad Pitts!

    ...reminds me of a famous Rocky movie quote: "Hit the one in the middle"!!!! :p
  • bobsbobs
    edited November 2011
    Dr BEEP wrote: »
    I am sorry that ZX81 doesn't count, at 6 now and rising!

    The '81 is probably well into 2 digits by now, as my 2 http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/minerman.html & http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/boulderlogic.html would make 8, and the Mojon Twins' conversion of Nanako to 9, and I'm sure there's been a few others as well.
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  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited November 2011
    mile wrote: »
    how do they compare up to speccy games being released back in the day?
    If you exclude re-releases, I'm sure this year will compare very well, and to think that next year is the 30th anniversary of the technology :-)

    Actually, I'm wondering how the number of releases on the Speccy compare to the XBox 360 and PS3 this year?

    Regards,

    Shaun.
  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited November 2011
    98 titles so far - so close... so who's going to write the 100th release then? ;-)

    Okay, so they're not all games, but it's certainly good to see.

    Regards,

    Shaun.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited November 2011
    I think we should start a petition to try and get Bob Smith whos created manyyyyy great Speccy games back to 48k instead of the ZX81 ! I miss Bobs games !
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited November 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    I
    P.P.S. I must be drunk - I've just caught sight of myself in the mirror, and thought I was seeing two Brad Pitts! (A reference to a different thread).


    Arm pits. You saw two arm pits.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited November 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    P.S. Can you tell that I've had a few drinks? :p:p:p

    P.P.S. I must be drunk - I've just caught sight of myself in the mirror, and thought I was seeing two Brad Pitts! (A reference to a different thread).

    Well sounds like youre having a crazy rock n roll lifestyle at the moment if you looked in the mirror and you had two Brad Pitt lookalikes next to you, better not ask what went on next.
  • bobsbobs
    edited November 2011
    psj3809 wrote: »
    I think we should start a petition to try and get Bob Smith whos created manyyyyy great Speccy games back to 48k instead of the ZX81 ! I miss Bobs games !

    I did Horace didn't I? Oh, that was last year. How about another in my great "Text-only" series, after the success of "Text-only Grand Prix"? Nope? And you're not interested in my ZX81 stuff either? Hmmm... Suppose you'll be wanting me to write Chuckie Apple next? :wink:
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited November 2011
    bobs wrote: »
    Hmmm... Suppose you'll be wanting me to write Chuckie Apple next? :wink:

    Would you do it for 75p and a packet of Rolos...




    .....and a large bottle of super strength illegal CIDER!!!! :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • RalfRalf
    edited November 2011
    Yes, return to Zx Spectrum, Bobs. I could give you some inspirations if you don't know what to do.

    ZX81 is sooo obsolete ;)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited November 2011
    bobs wrote: »
    Hmmm... Suppose you'll be wanting me to write Chuckie Apple next? :wink:

    Now that does sound superb !!
  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited December 2011
    It's happened... 101 and counting! Well done to the Speccy community for being so productive this year.

    Regards,

    Shaun.
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