Astroball - excellent
Turbo The Tortoise - basically Yogi's Great Escape v2.0 but really good
Wacky Races - way too hard but in emulator cheating with snapshots a really good game
thought about giving Potsworth & Co a vote because it's very accomplished but much as I like it there is some kind of je ne sais qwar lacking in it that I enjoy from other hi-tech cartoony games. The Jetsons is another Hi-Tech game with loads of potential but it's spoiled by being stupidly difficult, even with snapshots
A lot of adventures for this thread, i only picked one 'Space Gun' because of the nice colourful graphics (a bit hard to see what's going on sometimes).
This poll has made me realise just how few new games I bought in the last of the Spectrum commercial years - I haven't played any of the games on this list!
By this point I was getting my fix of games from off the cover tapes (SU & YS) and picking up some older classics t.hough buying games off of friends who had moved on to other computers/consoles.
Had a trawl through the database for the years 91 to 93, and as far as I can remember, the only new software I bought in that time was:
Castle Master
Smash TV
3D Construction Kit
WWF
Street Fighter 2
I don't think I bought any Speccy games after 1988 as I got my ST that Xmas, so I didn't see the point from then on.. My mates still had them for a while after that so I played some later games like Chase HQ and Lemmings, but what really made me realize that the Speccy was on the way out was when me and a mate of mine biked it up to the Lakes in 1991 and camped overnight.
We stopped in Kendal and picked up a couple of magazines to read, and the one I got was the Crash with Terminator 2 on the cover. I hadn't read Crash for years at this point, and it was a sad wake-up call when I realized that this magazine that I used to love and wait on tenterhooks for each month had become indescribably crap.. It was little more than a pamphlet by this point, and most of it was advertising. Needless to say, I never bought it again after that.. I graduated onto 'Zero' and 'The Games Machine' - both of which were pretty good, but fairly short-lived.
I did, however, pick up YS's 'Big Final Issue', which was pretty well put together, despite the limitations it faced.. And at least they got to say goodbye properly, unlike Crash, which went out promising next month's issue that never surfaced.
Totally agreed! I will never understand why they implemented that annoying sliding movement for the character...It would have been a very good game, but instead is a hard annoying good looking game!
Totally agreed! I will never understand why they implemented that annoying sliding movement for the character...It would have been a very good game, but instead is a hard annoying good looking game!
The poll will never close, so there will never be an official winner, but Im glad to see Turbo the Tortoise as the first in votes, since its a great game, probably the best in those 2 years, easily the best platformer for the Spectrum, or in the Top3.
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Turbo The Tortoise - basically Yogi's Great Escape v2.0 but really good
Wacky Races - way too hard but in emulator cheating with snapshots a really good game
thought about giving Potsworth & Co a vote because it's very accomplished but much as I like it there is some kind of je ne sais qwar lacking in it that I enjoy from other hi-tech cartoony games. The Jetsons is another Hi-Tech game with loads of potential but it's spoiled by being stupidly difficult, even with snapshots
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Edit: Where's Streetfighter 2?
By this point I was getting my fix of games from off the cover tapes (SU & YS) and picking up some older classics t.hough buying games off of friends who had moved on to other computers/consoles.
Had a trawl through the database for the years 91 to 93, and as far as I can remember, the only new software I bought in that time was:
Castle Master
Smash TV
3D Construction Kit
WWF
Street Fighter 2
We stopped in Kendal and picked up a couple of magazines to read, and the one I got was the Crash with Terminator 2 on the cover. I hadn't read Crash for years at this point, and it was a sad wake-up call when I realized that this magazine that I used to love and wait on tenterhooks for each month had become indescribably crap.. It was little more than a pamphlet by this point, and most of it was advertising. Needless to say, I never bought it again after that.. I graduated onto 'Zero' and 'The Games Machine' - both of which were pretty good, but fairly short-lived.
I did, however, pick up YS's 'Big Final Issue', which was pretty well put together, despite the limitations it faced.. And at least they got to say goodbye properly, unlike Crash, which went out promising next month's issue that never surfaced.
Totally agreed! I will never understand why they implemented that annoying sliding movement for the character...It would have been a very good game, but instead is a hard annoying good looking game!
and it has nine votes nonetheless!