Game of 93 and Space Gun
Space Gun is very nice - I wonder if it sold well as the market was fading fast?
And - is it going to be nigh-on impossible to get a game of 93!? I get the feeling that production of quality games will have dipped until the resurgence of around six years ago - we'll see!
Nominations for 93 then please guys!
And - is it going to be nigh-on impossible to get a game of 93!? I get the feeling that production of quality games will have dipped until the resurgence of around six years ago - we'll see!
Nominations for 93 then please guys!
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from 1993 i like the lost tomb of ananka, but it's an adventure game.
International Kickboxing isn't bad either, especially for a freebie, but once again, not really GOTY material.
There's Cauldwells's rather fun shooty game Vigilante Patrol as well, I like that game I do :D
miles lobotomiser soap clearly wiped out your games club fun with Nigel :-)
The Nigel Mansell game could be the best racer on the Spectrum, but is sadly too easy.
nor do I, whatever it was
enjoyed these threads though mickmog, good chance to refresh my brain on games I hadn't played in yonks :)
The scene was pretty much finished by this time anyway.
I remember walking home with YS that summer and reading that the magazine was shutting down, i was shocked but the magazine had shrunk to almost leaflet size so maybe it was for the best.
This year I started to play classic games via emulator on PC DOS, so my best 93 games were Knight Lore, Skool Daze, Pyjamarama, ... :razz:
Kliatba Noci (Slovakia), Pizza Bar (Shaw Bros.), Street Fighter II (?), Turbulence (Astroball 2), World Rugby (Zeppelin).
Despite having great graphics Street Fighter 2 was too slow and had a terrible multiload system.
I agree i think what killed the game was the C90 tape you got and how long it got to load.
By the time you loaded in the first fight your SNES friends had completed the game and just started it a second time around it was that bad.
As for best game of 92 ??? well i wasnt even with the spectrum then I think I had either the amiga or atari st although I did pick up the last issue of YS for old time shake. I still have it now and every time i look at it a lot of sad feelings come over me so i put it away in my draw.
Each fireball would freeze them for just long enough to throw another one.
In a funny way I kind of appreciated tht somebody had even bothered to try and convert this to the spec, but it wasn't the best 12 quid I ever spent!
I'd have to go with the Gremlin Nigel Mansell game as the best of '93. Space Gun is beautifully presented and impressive but those sorts of games have no addictive qualities to me. I've never played Op Wolf or Thunderbolt for more than 5 minutes either and they're both hailed as classics of the genre so this style of game is just not for me.
I had a quick go on Space Gun earlier.. I have to say, the Speccy really was at the end of its operational life by 1993, as attempts at games like this and Street Fighter 2 show... 128k wasn't enough by this point and the machine needed another upgrade - which was of course attempted by the Sam Coupe - but no-one bought it.. And then there were the Russian machines like the Pacer and the Scorpion, etc., but they were mostly confined to Russia.
Home computers seemed to go the way of the Dodo by the mid-90s anyway.. Gamers moved on to consoles and programming enthusiasts moved onto the PC and Mac.. Shame it worked out like that really - I wanted the Atari Falcon to succeed and it would have been nice to have a 4th or 5th generation Speccy by now..