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  • Best Megadrive Games??I have just started using a MegaDrive emu on my PSP and wondered what you lot think are the best Megadrive Games. I have been playing Flashback whic…

    ... Turrican, Comix Zone, Rocket Knight Adventures, the Thunder Force games, Conta ... good conversion of a great arcade game. Never could stand the ...
    Wolverine Wolverine March 2006 Chit chat
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... arcade adventure like everyone's a wally
    3. No graphic adventures ... games - same reason as graphic adventures.
    5. Platformers
    6 ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Development
  • Yet another wacky, outlandish idea with no hope of implementation whatsoever...Wouldn't it be cool if a modern update of Level 9's Silicon Dreams Trilogy was made, where you could control Kim Kimberly on her (his?) exploits in g…

    ... back as some kind of arcade-style game like you seem ... as point-and-click graphic adventures, and retain the essence of ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Games
  • early games questionhello when i was watching BBC news this morning,it said that that the PC was 25 years old.that begs the question,when did PC games start getting bet…

    ... /> You could probably play Infocom adventures on it, and maybe an ... would be too great at arcade style games though.
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • The best adventure game on the speccy.I'm on a roll ain't I? Well the best adventure game this time. The Hobbit for me for various reasons: it was the first speccy adventure game I playe…

    ... bits avoiding stuff in the arcade-manner.[/QUOTE]

    I ... ]Finders Keepers[/I] excepted) as adventures. There's room for all ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • PSP or GPX2 (or Pocket PC or whatever)?I'm going to get either a PSP or a GPX2 (or a Nintendo DS, or a PocketPC or something), so what are the differences between the PSP, the GPX2 and wha…

    ... emu. Arcade games play exactly as you'd expect, text adventures don ... , those old LucasArts and Rebellion adventures play extremely well even today ...
    Vampyre Vampyre October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy, a new Spectrum emulator for Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphonesThose of you with Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones may have been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing emus were writte…

    Bit of an update, the author has updated Speccy so that the E61's full keyboard now works, which means you can play text adventures on the go instead of just arcade games:

    [url]http://fms.komkon.org/EmuSymbian/[/url]
    udgoverload udgoverload November 2006 Emulators
  • Quick(ish) to complete gamesI'm fancying spending some time playing games that I never played 1st time around, or that I never got far with. Can anyone recommend any games that …

    ... />
    The Magic Knight graphic adventures (Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer ... say you don't want arcade recommendations, I would very much ...
    Vampyre Vampyre January 2007 Games
  • Nokia E62 -Can it run Speccy emulators?Right now I'm using a motorola v190. It only uses java, and it seems there are no java speccy emulators for it. The resolution is also very small. Af…

    ... can play text adventures as well as normal arcade games.

    udgoverload udgoverload January 2007 Emulators
  • Games that were better/worse on C64/SpeccyOkay, games that were either: a) Better on the Spectrum or b) better on the C64 Simple heh? I can think of a couple: Bombjack is way better o…

    ... version is an ugly, slow arcade-adventure and the CPC version ... of the Magic Knight graphic adventures (ie the last three) so ...
    Zagreb Zagreb March 2007 Games
  • Fruit Machine (DK'Tronics)The [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/f/FruitMachine.tzx.zip]TZX file[/url] of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi…

    ... Expansion Kit
    * Fourmost Adventures / 4-Most Adventures
    * Fun to Learn ... / Masters of the Universe - The Arcade Game
    * Merhownie's Light ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2007 Infoseek database
  • Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…

    ... there any decent commercial arcade (arcade="not text adventures") games released? Can u ...
    Pyjamarama Pyjamarama March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…

    ... there any decent commercial arcade (arcade="not text adventures") games released? Can u ... if you'd call anything arcade quality, but QL Karate was ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.

    ... was mostly associated with graphic adventures in the Tir Na Nog ... they switched to doing more arcade action games, they felt a ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Games
  • Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.

    ... arcade games are cheaper and quicker to write than good adventures ... the scenario and puzzles for adventures; 2) they didn't ... adventure rather than an arcade adventure, so they set ... distinct brand identification for their arcade games. Lightforce was originally ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2007 Games
  • Mad Martha 1 & 2 incorrect type?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002963"]Mad Martha[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002964"]…

    ... Martha 2 are listed as Arcade:Adventure but shouldn't they ... /> They do both have little arcade games hidden away within them ... as they're primarily text adventures with some location pictures then ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2007 Infoseek database
  • Mad Martha 1 & 2 incorrect type?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002963"]Mad Martha[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002964"]…

    ... ]They do both have little arcade games hidden away within them ... as they're primarily text adventures with some location pictures then ...
    mheide mheide May 2007 Infoseek database
  • Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(

    ...

    Lots of text adventures could also be added to ... guess this is more an arcade oriented thread.
    Rickard Rickard July 2007 Games
  • Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …

    ... the arcade games, and Gargoyle was meant to carry on doing adventures ...
    merman merman August 2007 Games
  • Anyone following Nintnedo DS emulation?Is their anyone in the know with DS emulation here? I know 3D is not to good at the moment but 2D games seem to be ok from what I have read. The o…

    ... a touch screen keyboard, text adventures are great on it)
    Bubble Bobble Revolution (the arcade game on a handheld)
    Vampyre Vampyre August 2007 Chit chat
  • is Samurai Trilogy a text adventure?When I make an advanced search: year: 1987 type: text adventure message language: english release country: UK publication: commercial infoseek show…

    ... />
    infoseek shows a text adventures list; among them, we see ... than Infoseek. I just use Arcade, for example, while SPOT has ... have internally been changed to Arcade now.
    mheide mheide October 2007 Infoseek database
  • If they've have been ported to the Spectrum...Spec-chums, There were many games that for various reasons never made it to the spectrum. As an aside to the If they'd have been released in the 80s…

    ... but Just Wonderboy are platform adventures.

    The Wonderboy III ... 'm on about is the Arcade version, each level was split ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2008 Games
  • If they've have been ported to the Spectrum...Spec-chums, There were many games that for various reasons never made it to the spectrum. As an aside to the If they'd have been released in the 80s…

    ... but Just Wonderboy are platform adventures.

    The Wonderboy III ... 'm on about is the Arcade version, each level was split ... 've got all the Wonderboy arcade ROMs.

    And yeah ...
    GreenCard GreenCard March 2008 Games
  • don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…

    ... I quite like space games, adventures, flight sims and strategy games ... comes to Spectrum games is arcade conversions. There are some obvious ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2008 Games
  • Final issues of weekly mags?I'm trying to determine the number of issues of the three main weekly computer mags of the Spectrum era. I've many gaps in my collection of these thr…

    ... = Utility, whereas it should be Arcade: Adventure.

    By the ... , the two Hill MacGibbon / Fiveways adventures (King Arthur's Quest and ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Final issues of weekly mags?I'm trying to determine the number of issues of the three main weekly computer mags of the Spectrum era. I've many gaps in my collection of these thr…

    ... = Utility, whereas it should be Arcade: Adventure.
    [/quote]Sceptre of ... , the two Hill MacGibbon / Fiveways adventures (King Arthur's Quest and ...
    ADJB ADJB May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • megadrive and mastersystem gamesyo know what to do next, list your faves, and discuss

    ... /> (boxed)
    Action fighter
    Arcade smash hits (centipede, missile command ... /> Talmits adventure
    Tiny toon adventures: Busters hidden treasure
    Toy ...
    mel the bell mel the bell July 2008 Chit chat
  • The Dizzy (spit spit) gamesI [B][U][COLOR=red]HATE[/COLOR][/U][/B] Dizzy. The shallow, one dimensional character and his stupid, annoying, repetitive games. If it was up to me,…

    ... in a few budget graphic adventures that I was unlikely to ... /> Then there were the insane arcade games based on the characters ...
    thingley thingley November 2008 Games
  • Computer or console: Which do you prefer for games?Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about this yesterday to a mate (a World of Warcraft addict) who doesn't like consoles, and neither I (who …

    ... />
    Also, what about text adventures? I've seen keyboards on ... PC into the TV for arcade games - and lie back with ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2009 Chit chat
  • Improving JetpacJetpac remains a joy to play and was a marvel in its day. Apart from very slick prgramming in 16K it also had great replay value. You were armed with…

    ... . It's a single screen arcade game that brilliantly addictive in ... for me thats what text adventures are for.
    cheers
    hypostomus hypostomus February 2009 Games
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