Worst purchase
There's a lot of talk about the bestest games out there but which one was your worst purchase?
I bought Barbarian II for the princely sum of ?10 (a month's pocket money at the time) and completed it in just over an hour. Not even Maria Whittaker's hooters could provide adequate compensation. :(
Honourable mention goes to BMX Racers. It was utter crap but only cost me 2 quid, so I was less bothered.
I bought Barbarian II for the princely sum of ?10 (a month's pocket money at the time) and completed it in just over an hour. Not even Maria Whittaker's hooters could provide adequate compensation. :(
Honourable mention goes to BMX Racers. It was utter crap but only cost me 2 quid, so I was less bothered.
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im into RPGs and this got good reviews but it is terrible
Jeez. Stitched up like a kipper!
V was by far and away the worst game I ever bought - esp when I was so geared up to playing one of my favourite tv series.
Probably the worst purchase had to be Dreadnaughts - not necessarily because it was a bad game, but because it was a 2 player game, when 99% of my gaming was single player - didn't realise until it was bought and took home!
Oh, ouch! Why did we ever buy this? Did it come out before the reviews hit, or did the reviews lie?
--Just checked and it was rated a Crash Smash? Why? Why, god, why!?
Sooo disappointing, dull and easy
Peter Beardsley's International Football
LA Swat
Turbo Esprit, really? That's one of my top 3 favorite Spectrum games ever!
Worst purchase for me was Breakthru: I discovered on my very first play that I could complete the whole game simply by keeping the jump-button pressed down. Not a good value for money (at the time Breakthru was a full price game).
I wanted to like it SO much, but no :(
I think he means he had a choice between Zoids and Turbo Esprit, and for some inexplicable reason chose Zoids :)
I bought that in a bargain basket somewhere (I think it was Boots) for 50p. Still wasn't all that pleased with myself. :grin:
Okay, wait wait wait wait WAIT! Something spooky just happened, in relation to a spooky game, only a few days after Hallowe'en!
You said Cauldron II. I thought "Wasn't that the one with the boffo advert?"
(I think this is the first time I've used the word "boffo" in 40-odd years.)
So then, right, THEN I read the review and what does it say in the review? It says "If you're an ace gamester, this is a boffo barg."
Boffo! Again! In a matter of minutes! WoooOOooOOOoooo! :o
first 3D isometric game I ever played and was enough to put me off all of them forever. also had a really annoying "drrriiinnnggg" sound effect when you did something or other
Zaxxon
Starion
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he loved it, I thought it was ****e
anything budget is "fair play" either way.. some of my fav titles *ever* are budget titles..so I forgave the dross
I think a rule of thumb was put out one amazing version, get great mag reviews and the ports can suffer a bit.. an exception to this is the magic knight ones,
kikstart 2, fued are 2 examples of it.
anything late in the day e.g. terminator 2 / barbarian 2=devs were in ST/amiga land = not so big dev budget
AD&D Heroes of the Lance = SSI were big on c64 / atari. so anything other than 6502 was gonna be bad.
gnasher / alien kill = gnasher wasn't too bad.. AND in alien kill they forgot to remove the WYE compiler, which cost more than a few quid ;-)
great space race.. great packaging / marketing.. THAT IS ALL
V was "so so" on c64 anyway.. compare it to street hawk , then it's not too bad
zoids is really a marmite game, I didn't like it .. but did like the c64 music
LA swat = poor mans commando .. and a poor port from atari or c64
renegade 3 = the final "crapter" .. not that ocean having a big advertising budget had anything to do with it
this is the game I remember you by :) . the budget got sold to you , and then I bought it back from who you sold it to..bomerang much? :)
cassette 50 has / will go down in history for how cack it was.
thinking about what I didn't like..
the hobbit, saw it was #1 in charts..
remember going to buy after school in brent cross, for a birthday in secondary school and then thinking , why the heck should I read a book to play a game ? .
ended up playing fireflash far more (bought same day)
I do remember borrowing yie-ar-kung fu 2 off someone at school.. and it was utter utter..
oh and nightmare rally, great game until I accidentally found the inbuilt cheat keys by accident... really spoiled the game
zaxxon , due to hardware was hard to port to speccy.. it wasn't bad considering.. starion was "ok" also, but thing is elite (the game) eclipsed it big time.. much like fist and ik+ on c64.
Wah! well at least it's gone to a good home :D
Starion? Seriously??? That game was brilliant!
For me it was Oriental Hero. WTF??!?
My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
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Bride of Frankenstein, Classic Adventure, Crusoe, Hobbit, Psycho Soldier, Sherlock, Starion, Swords and Sorcery, Zoids
Dragon's Lair
Critical Mass, iD, Terror of the Deep
Although there's two in that list that I really liked, even so: Crusoe and Starion. Many years later (back in 2011) I debugged Crusoe, fixed all the errors, and so was able to finally finish the game.
Three versions of Starion were released, all of them bugged. Patches to fix both of these games are on WoS.
In the interests of balance, here's my bought new favourites as well (although some of these (marked*) also had (non-fatal) bugs):
Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon Adventure*, Atic Atac, Gyron*, Heavy on the Magick, Sorcerer Lord, Star Farce, Stifflip & Co, Tir na Nog*
Mind you, given the bugs I'd have eventually come across, that's probably just as well.
Doesn't stop people loving Elite....