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  • Showing off the SpectrumOne of my fellow hosts on the Retro Asylum podcast has never been into the 8bit micro's as he started gaming on the 16bit consoles. Anyway, he has ch…

    ... a non-speccy fan. And arcade conversions (even stuff like r-type ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... 'up with the kind of "arcade" pacing of either of those ... /> Anyway, isn't focusing on arcade conversions a bit pointless? Speaking as ...
    4mat 4mat January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... /> Anyway, isn't focusing on arcade conversions a bit pointless? Speaking as ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2015 Games
  • The Spectrum Show Ep 37Episode 37 is now live. Hope you enjoy it. [URL="http://youtu.be/_T4W2pQMMJc"]Watch on Youtube[/URL]

    Nice show as always.

    Seemed to have a few more reviews of games (but not arcade conversions comparisons) this one. Enjoyed those.
    Morkin Morkin February 2015 Announcements
  • 1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.

    ... played host to many fine arcade conversions, and Hypersports is arguably ... pole vault event of the arcade machine is missing. According ... to this event on the arcade machine would explain that ... Popeye is a very decent arcade adventure, with some interesting ( ...
    Vampyre Vampyre February 2015 Games
  • Top 5 movie based gamesthis is the next instalment in my series following on from top 5 shoot 'em ups. Hope you enjoy. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhj4R6WZyZI"]h…

    ... one was more of an arcade conv than movie tie (fighter ... ]

    They were all arcade conversions and none the worse for ...
    Tom Gale Tom Gale February 2015 Games
  • 2 versions of Street Fighter II?I played yesterday SF2 in my Spectrum, suffering the horrible multiload, and managed to reach Vega?s Stage. Afterwards, I looked in YouTube and I fou…

    ... ]

    the best spectrum arcade conversions managed to capture at least ...
    weesam weesam February 2015 Games
  • 2 versions of Street Fighter II?I played yesterday SF2 in my Spectrum, suffering the horrible multiload, and managed to reach Vega?s Stage. Afterwards, I looked in YouTube and I fou…

    ... machine other than the arcade and the SNES could ... Fight, Pitfighter, and several other arcade conversions).

    But ... before the only speccy arcade conversions I play these days ... games, and exclusives instead of arcade conversions.

    Actually ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2015 Games
  • What would have been the hardest game to write?<div>I was recently think about Code Masters' Fruit Machine Simulator and what a piece of **** that would have been to code. I bet it brought in some…

    I would the 'best' arcade conversions were difficult to write. Difficult ... capturing the feel of the arcade original. 
    Would Green Beret ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers June 2015 Games
  • Commodore The Amiga years<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: rg…

    So a book about Shadow of the Beast 1, 2, and 3, Rise of the Dragon, Stunt Car Racer, Body Blows, Speedball II, Xenon II, Galahad, Lemmings, Gods, and a few semi-good arcade conversions like Rodland and Pang... ....Awesome! I won't be buying it...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2015 Chit chat
  • Commodore The Amiga years<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: rg…

    ... , and a few semi-good arcade conversions like Rodland and Pang... ....Awesome ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause June 2015 Chit chat
  • Commodore The Amiga years<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: rg…

    ... , and a few semi-good arcade conversions like Rodland and Pang... ....Awesome ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2015 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... changes that companies made in arcade conversions BITD used to really **** me ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2015 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... changes that companies made in arcade conversions BITD used to really **** me ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection July 2015 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... changes that companies made in arcade conversions BITD used to really **** me ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2015 Chit chat
  • The Spectrum Show Episode 42Yes, it's that time again... new episode now live. [url="http://youtu.be/zCr1vj77lMc"]Click here to watch on YouTube[/url]

    ... . Battelzone has always been an arcade favourite of mine. Interesting factoid ... made a version of the arcade machine for the US Army ... 's one of the classic arcade conversions for the Speccy.
    Dave_C Dave_C July 2015 Announcements
  • Immortal ZX gamesQuite an interesting page here: http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html A list of games which the author thinks are still genuinely playable today. Any …

    ... [/i] etc. and easily emulated arcade games like [i]R-Type ... on there with obvious lazy conversions of C64 graphics.[/quote]
    arcade conversions, and are a matter of ...
    Fizza Fizza August 2015 Games
  • Games you envied on other systems (but were never converted to the Spectrum)I will admit it: there were times when I considered getting a Commodore 64. Not because I didn't love the Spectrum, but because Llamasoft games almos…

    ... acornsoft and superior software's arcade conversions. Frogger, pacman, Mr ee/wiz ...
    thingley thingley August 2015 Games
  • Games that the ZX Spectrum couldn't handle but did...So what are some of the games that were supposed to be too complex for the ZX Spectrum but actually turned out to be great? R-Type seems to be one.

    There was an article about arcade conversions (I still have the magazine ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde November 2015 Games
  • Best and worst jumping in a gameI've played Dynanmite Dan for the first time. I'm a bit disappointed that the jumping felt rubbish and out of place. Its just a diagonal up and strai…

    ... 's one of the greatest arcade conversions ever)
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers November 2015 Games
  • Games of the Years....JoffaI loved WhenIWasCruel's work on getting Games of the Years since 1982 (Is there a list of them all?) And wonder if the idea of the Joffa trophy to…

    ... full price originals only no arcade conversions, no compilations, for the 2014 ... carry it basically. Plus with arcade convsersions like Green Bert, and ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2016 Games
  • I don't like Ocean.There's are some greats, Match day, The great escape, Head over Heels, but I found most of their games average at best and they always came across as…

    ... lot of other US Gold conversions, that would suggest the latter ... 's one of the better arcade conversions on the Speccy.
    Insert Coin Insert Coin October 2016 Games
  • Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.

    ... out that way.
    bad arcade conversions abounded,
    In the late ...
    slenkar slenkar October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Remake an existing game compo...For some reason I was inspired to post this because of the "[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16271/miss-wos-competition#latest"…

    1982 is a tricky year to choose from. Most of the releases were dodgy arcade conversions. Nice to do something that was original at the time, like Horace... But not Horace!
    Luny Luny October 2016 Development
  • Favourite Horace game?Which one was your favourite? Hungry Horace? Horace Goes Skiing? Horace & the Spiders? [img]http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/Thirdharm…

    ... get a load of crappy arcade conversions.

    Ok, you do ...
    Luny Luny October 2016 Games
  • Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…

    ... literally put me off. The arcade conversions were mostly awful, and I ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2017 Chit chat
  • Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…

    I don't know why arcade conversions were so bad on the ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause February 2017 Chit chat
  • Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…

    A lot of arcade conversions were pretty poor on the ... a decent enough version. BUT! Arcade Conversions were not what the Amiga ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers February 2017 Chit chat
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... I don't usually review arcade conversions, as to me in this ... on it actually surpassed the arcade in terms of playability. Yup ... Renegade is better than the arcade version!

    The ... s greaser charade. If the arcade version is Rockabilly, then the ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2017 Games
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... score, I've played worse arcade conversions for more powerful machines, and ... as well play the actual arcade machine on MAME these days ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2017 Games
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