I recall lots of frustration-punches to my mate Andy's dad's PCW, although I can't for the life of me remember the game we were playing (we used to go upstairs and play this game, for a break in-between bouts of whatever speccy game we were playing on the tv downstairs).
On this final occasion, the frustration was so great that we calmly removed the disk, set it on fire with his mum's cigarette lighter, and span it out of the window in a ritual send-off.
I think we later went outside into the garden and stamped on it, just to make sure.
Incidentally my mate was exceptionally good at jetpac, and on several occasions I watched him get to the final wave multiple times over (the game starts again at the 1st wave IIRC).
Not a Spectrum game but PC: Red Faction II. It included an annoying bug where I had played like 4/5 through the game, get stuck, and only then find out there was a bug that kept you from proceeding further. IIRC, re-install needed or something like "patch exists, but incompatible with saved game so you'll have to start from square 1 again". :((
Little chance I'll ever touch that game again... Which is a shame since it wasn't a bad game imho. But that bug was enough of a show-stopper that game should never have been released with that bug in it. Patch available or not. <insert something about time-to-market and bone-headed managers here>
ZX Spectrum games never drove me crazy, just my parents. :)) If -for whatever reason- I lost interest, I'd just move onto the next game. Kind of the same these days...
surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet...I'll say it with a gif :)
aaaarrgghhh
If memory serves, the way to beat 'Gus' (I think it was). Was to waggle your joystick in a slow rhythmic motion, completely different to the rest of the contestants. If you attacked him with your usual waggle (steady on...), he'd take you to the cleaners..as per gif.
the SRW method ('slow rhythmic waggle' ) was given in the instructions as the way to beat all the characters (not that exact phrase, mind :))), but most of the weaker ones are so easy you can actually button bash it and still beat them.
SRW has to be used to beat the middle to tough characters, but with Gus there is no time to build up a SRW. I'm convinced there is no way to beat him!
Thinking back, i think i ,ay have tried the SRW method on Gus and it didn't work, perhaps he is unbeatable.
I'll need to got back and try this again and see if it works.
someone on this site who shall remain nameless (dm-boozefreek) reckons he's beaten him. I reckon he's talking out of his curly cobb :)
Ha!!! Brilliant :) . Curly cobb!!
Twas a long long time ago when I was playing this and haven't pick it up again through emulation or otherwise.
Without wishing to talk out of my curly cobb, I would of said I did beat Gus BITD. But now you and zx1 are making me think again!!! (i need to stand firm!)
I'm back after many years (one day before ZXS 34 year birthday!!!) :) well anything Dizzy (stupid character control) and a vertical Shoot them up which I can't remember the name in which you could get killed in less than 3 seconds.... Exolon (far right enemy shows out of nowhere anyone?)... and of course any of the Arkanoids...
Good thing I never tried to finish Jet set willy, which had the room bug...
I'll try some of these again when my daughter is born soon :)
I've just tried the SRW method in Supertest 128K with Gus and failed miserably!
I tried the fast waggling and that didn't work either, i now believe he is invincible! :D
I've just tried the SRW method in Supertest 128K with Gus and failed miserably!
I tried the fast waggling and that didn't work either, i now believe he is invincible! :D
Right. This weekend I'm all over it. I am pissed as I type this and it all depends on if the missus gives me more than 10 mins spare time but I am on it non the less. Gus...I'm coming for you....
Gus update... he seems impossible to beat to me (shock horror). Spent the last half hour doing different key stroke combinations including the fire button but nothing comes close to working. I can sometimes get him to halt his onslaught for about half a second...sometimes, but I cant replicate it.
It would be nice to know if it is possible to beat him. If it is possible, I think it would be with a cheeky key stroke combination. e.g. left,left,right...left,left,right or involving the fire button in some way. Other than that, the traditional methods are useless as zx1 has said.
I would love to be smart enough to dissasemble and find out if it's possible.
I beat him back in about 1997/98, and actually injured myself doing so. I may have also broke the joystick I was using as well?
I think I've told the story a couple of times on here, but I think for about a week or 2 after I did it I couldn't move my head properly.
In all seriousness, was it with an intense waggle - fast pace, or slow rhythmic waggle but just for long intense time?
I'm sure it's been mentioned but it would be good if emulators had a 'High speed waggle' option. That way you would at least know he's possible to beat, even if you have to break your hand, head and joystick doing so!
What's this tug of war game above? Seems familiar so maybe I played it back in the day, but can't remember a title. Looks like Hyper Sports but isn't?
Just want to be taken to the cleaners by 'Gus' like everybody else... :D
Btw: exactly-timed keyboard input might not work optimal on emulators - depending on how keyboard input is implemented. So just maybe this game is easier to beat on read hardware? (or an FPGA clone)
What's this tug of war game above? Seems familiar so maybe I played it back in the day, but can't remember a title. Looks like Hyper Sports but isn't?
Just want to be taken to the cleaners by 'Gus' like everybody else... :D
Btw: exactly-timed keyboard input might not work optimal on emulators - depending on how keyboard input is implemented. So just maybe this game is easier to beat on read hardware? (or an FPGA clone)
Good point although i'm not in a position to try out on real hradware at the moment.
Its Daley Thompson's Super Test. You can choose your opponent so you can skip straight to Gus if you like.
Got so frustrated with navigating the swamp in Curse Of Sherwood that I punched my +2 straight in the middle of the keyboard. It had a permanent dip after that, but kept working for many many years and didn't impede any playing or programming.
I got really frustrated with Trapdoor, with the mission where you've got to get the flame tank to the right spot over the cauldron to heat it up, then you've got to labouriously push the cauldron into the lift before it goes cold, whilst avoiding the flame yourself. I ended up screaming 'Move, you great fat b*st*d' at poor Berk on the screen, and my parents came running.
When I was a kid playing on my 48k I had a copy(none original copy) of pimania and I could not load it in my room on my b/w tv but if I took all my speccy stuff downstairs it would load there and yes same 48k and same tape player really frustrated me.
I did punch my zx81 when it refused to load anything and I destroyed it with a hammer which I was ashamed of back then and never ever replaced it.
I don't think I've ever got that angry during gaming. Frustrated sure, but not raging! It was mainly loading issues that got my goat, or the dodgy power input.
haha yes that was first and last time I ever did anything like it and never done that again, now I just walk away and do something else till ive calmed down
Never got mad with gaming but I did buy a new cheapo Matsui VCR from Curry's that had a strange fault from new where it's picture would roll when playing back tapes it had recorded. It's was fine with tapes recorded on other machines. I took it back several times and each time they would replace a part and say they couldn't find a fault with it. After about the 4th or 5th failed repair I lost it and stomped the poor thing to death.
I smashed my BT Cellnet mobile off the wall when i lost the signal for the umpteenth time that day.
It was beyond repair but at the time (around 2000) i didn't care, i just went out and bought a new phone the next day :))
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On this final occasion, the frustration was so great that we calmly removed the disk, set it on fire with his mum's cigarette lighter, and span it out of the window in a ritual send-off.
I think we later went outside into the garden and stamped on it, just to make sure.
Incidentally my mate was exceptionally good at jetpac, and on several occasions I watched him get to the final wave multiple times over (the game starts again at the 1st wave IIRC).
Little chance I'll ever touch that game again... Which is a shame since it wasn't a bad game imho. But that bug was enough of a show-stopper that game should never have been released with that bug in it. Patch available or not. <insert something about time-to-market and bone-headed managers here>
ZX Spectrum games never drove me crazy, just my parents. :)) If -for whatever reason- I lost interest, I'd just move onto the next game. Kind of the same these days...
SRW has to be used to beat the middle to tough characters, but with Gus there is no time to build up a SRW. I'm convinced there is no way to beat him!
I'll need to got back and try this again and see if it works.
someone on this site who shall remain nameless (dm-boozefreek) reckons he's beaten him. I reckon he's talking out of his curly cobb :)
Ha!!! Brilliant :) . Curly cobb!!
Twas a long long time ago when I was playing this and haven't pick it up again through emulation or otherwise.
Without wishing to talk out of my curly cobb, I would of said I did beat Gus BITD. But now you and zx1 are making me think again!!! (i need to stand firm!)
I'm back after many years (one day before ZXS 34 year birthday!!!) :) well anything Dizzy (stupid character control) and a vertical Shoot them up which I can't remember the name in which you could get killed in less than 3 seconds.... Exolon (far right enemy shows out of nowhere anyone?)... and of course any of the Arkanoids...
Good thing I never tried to finish Jet set willy, which had the room bug...
I'll try some of these again when my daughter is born soon :)
I tried the fast waggling and that didn't work either, i now believe he is invincible! :D
Right. This weekend I'm all over it. I am pissed as I type this and it all depends on if the missus gives me more than 10 mins spare time but I am on it non the less. Gus...I'm coming for you....
It would be nice to know if it is possible to beat him. If it is possible, I think it would be with a cheeky key stroke combination. e.g. left,left,right...left,left,right or involving the fire button in some way. Other than that, the traditional methods are useless as zx1 has said.
I would love to be smart enough to dissasemble and find out if it's possible.
I think I've told the story a couple of times on here, but I think for about a week or 2 after I did it I couldn't move my head properly.
In all seriousness, was it with an intense waggle - fast pace, or slow rhythmic waggle but just for long intense time?
I'm sure it's been mentioned but it would be good if emulators had a 'High speed waggle' option. That way you would at least know he's possible to beat, even if you have to break your hand, head and joystick doing so!
Just want to be taken to the cleaners by 'Gus' like everybody else... :D
Btw: exactly-timed keyboard input might not work optimal on emulators - depending on how keyboard input is implemented. So just maybe this game is easier to beat on read hardware? (or an FPGA clone)
Good point although i'm not in a position to try out on real hradware at the moment.
Its Daley Thompson's Super Test. You can choose your opponent so you can skip straight to Gus if you like.
Not happy with the childish and pathetic way these forums have been manipulated by those with access to the database.
I did punch my zx81 when it refused to load anything and I destroyed it with a hammer which I was ashamed of back then and never ever replaced it.
I don't think I've ever got that angry during gaming. Frustrated sure, but not raging! It was mainly loading issues that got my goat, or the dodgy power input.
It was beyond repair but at the time (around 2000) i didn't care, i just went out and bought a new phone the next day :))