Bought an icade for my ipad , i already have the 100 spectrum game app (?8.99) but most of the games felt unplayable on the touchscreen , its now a joy to play with the joystick and buttons on the icade .
So ive been hammering Chuckie egg and automania once again ! its like 84 all over !
Bought an icade for my ipad , i already have the 100 spectrum game app (?8.99) but most of the games felt unplayable on the touchscreen , its now a joy to play with the joystick and buttons on the icade .
So ive been hammering Chuckie egg and automania once again ! its like 84 all over !
Lords of Midnight is very good to play on a tablet. I'm. now awaiting Doomdark'a Revenge.
Lords of Midnight is very good to play on a tablet. I'm. now awaiting Doomdark'a Revenge.
Agreed , ive hammered LOM , completing it each and every way (even the dreaded take all keeps and citadels) , i cannot wait for DDR as ive only ever completed that once .
Sill playing FOTY and still haven't won the award, i'm saving up money for goal cards and i'm stuck in division 2.
I also seem to keep losing cup matches, even if i score 2 or 3 goals:sad:
Sill playing FOTY and still haven't won the award, i'm saving up money for goal cards and i'm stuck in division 2.
I also seem to keep losing cup matches, even if i score 2 or 3 goals:sad:
Yeah, I remember that.. Always felt like there was an algorithm in there that stopped you winning the big games until you'd played through a bunch of seasons.. You could put 3 away in the back of the net and your opponents would always get more..
I'm mystified how I missed this game first time round as Costa Panayi wrote some stonking good games. Game in question? H.A.T.E. A brilliant cross between Highways Encounter and Zaxxon. Smooth graphics and great gameplay.
I'm mystified how I missed this game first time round as Costa Panayi wrote some stonking good games. Game in question? H.A.T.E. A brilliant cross between Highways Encounter and Zaxxon. Smooth graphics and great gameplay.
If i remember this was on the cover of Your Sinclair once and may have been megapreviewed or megagamed, i can't remember!
Starquake. Very good game, with great graphics and sound. I love flying using the little plattform!
I've been playing that a lot recently too on my 128K. Still one of my all-time favourites. You should check out Wizard's Lair, if you haven't already. It's almost like a mixture of Starquake (written by the same guy) and Atic Atac. Really good fun. :smile:
Yeah, it's pretty shameless. Even some of the graphics are identical!
It's been yonks since I've played it, so my memories of it are somewhat hazy. We seem to be very quiet here today (I'll regret saying that soon, no doubt), so I may fire it up in a wee while... ;-)
EDIT: ... or not! Can't seem to get it to load from the archive.
The main difference between the two is the difficulty,in the past Wizards Lair has infuriated me at times and has got me table slamming ,chair kicking ,keyboard punching ,you name it yet I still come back to it so I guess I find it to be one of those difficult but addictive types.
I haven't played Wizard's Lair as much as Starquake, but I also find it similar to Atic Atac. And it's not the only game by Stephen Crow that I find similarities to some Ultimate games: Firelord, the map design from Sabre Wulf, the character is similar to Sabreman, the sound of movements and fire from Atic Atac.
The only arcade game with icon-based controls that got it right (IMHO) was Barbarian. Obliterator was quite frustrating at times, but in this one you mention is where icons really ruined the game :-)
The only arcade game with icon-based controls that got it right (IMHO) was Barbarian. Obliterator was quite frustrating at times, but in this one you mention is where icons really ruined the game :-)
Free controls still wouldn't have saved this pile of sh*t! :lol:
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Trying to reach second level.
I used to like this game, i think it had digitised speech at the start of it.
Yep, it's true.
Another similar game was Super Robin Hood, also by Code Masters.
So ive been hammering Chuckie egg and automania once again ! its like 84 all over !
Lords of Midnight is very good to play on a tablet. I'm. now awaiting Doomdark'a Revenge.
Yep, that's very similar to this but if i remember it had slightly better graphics.
Agreed , ive hammered LOM , completing it each and every way (even the dreaded take all keeps and citadels) , i cannot wait for DDR as ive only ever completed that once .
The icade just keeps giving , it is exceptional !
Seems like a fun little game...never really heard much about it before!
I also seem to keep losing cup matches, even if i score 2 or 3 goals:sad:
Yeah, I remember that.. Always felt like there was an algorithm in there that stopped you winning the big games until you'd played through a bunch of seasons.. You could put 3 away in the back of the net and your opponents would always get more..
If i remember this was on the cover of Your Sinclair once and may have been megapreviewed or megagamed, i can't remember!
Minder is one of my fave speccy games too. Although I love the show as well. As far as games based on tv shows I think its one of the best ones.
I've been playing that a lot recently too on my 128K. Still one of my all-time favourites. You should check out Wizard's Lair, if you haven't already. It's almost like a mixture of Starquake (written by the same guy) and Atic Atac. Really good fun. :smile:
Why's that? Because of similarities to Atic Atac?
Yeah, it's pretty shameless. Even some of the graphics are identical!
It's been yonks since I've played it, so my memories of it are somewhat hazy. We seem to be very quiet here today (I'll regret saying that soon, no doubt), so I may fire it up in a wee while... ;-)
EDIT: ... or not! Can't seem to get it to load from the archive.
The only arcade game with icon-based controls that got it right (IMHO) was Barbarian. Obliterator was quite frustrating at times, but in this one you mention is where icons really ruined the game :-)
EDIT: I see he has the sexy time icon ready for use though.
Free controls still wouldn't have saved this pile of sh*t! :lol: