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  • horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…

    ... their Speccy conversions, Jackal was one of my favourite ever arcade games ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2007 Games
  • horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…

    ... games in the arcade, to get to the arcade back then ... people having your 'own' arcade conversion at home on your ... speccy game to be an arcade conversion and appreciate the speccy ... even find comparing originals with conversions an interesting thing sometimes and ...
    cichlasoma cichlasoma March 2007 Games
  • Driving/Racing from and 'onthetrack' viewIts poll time. Pick the selection of these you like best. None of these take the overhead view. and there are no strategy/manager games in the poll.…

    ... few, but...

    Best arcade driving game: Chase HQ

    Surprisingly, all coin-op conversions.
    NickH NickH March 2007 Games
  • Hard Drivin - is it me?I tried Hard Drivin for the Speccy years ago and just couldn't get to grips with it. Then I tried it again recently, and it still seems just as awful…

    ... at the quality of some conversions during the late 80's ... />
    Robocop was a fantastic arcade shoot em' up on the ... and feels like a true arcade game...

    I think ...
    WISE OWL WISE OWL May 2007 Games
  • Hard Drivin - is it me?I tried Hard Drivin for the Speccy years ago and just couldn't get to grips with it. Then I tried it again recently, and it still seems just as awful…

    ... at the quality of some conversions during the late 80's ... />
    Robocop was a fantastic arcade shoot em' up on the ... and feels like a true arcade game...

    I think ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2007 Games
  • Spectrum Games You Always Wanted........I've just downloaded Gauntlet 3, a game I always wanted to play but never sampled until I discovered it on here! It's brilliant! I was just wonderi…

    ... Great Yarmouth around 1985 - the arcade on the caravan site had ... 't wait for the home conversions. GNG didn't disappoint at ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2007 Games
  • Spectrum Games You Always Wanted........I've just downloaded Gauntlet 3, a game I always wanted to play but never sampled until I discovered it on here! It's brilliant! I was just wonderi…

    ... a big fan of the arcade version of Double Dragon, so ... was very upset with the conversions the Speccy ended up with ...
    Swainy Swainy June 2007 Games
  • What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…

    ... that were generally coin-op conversions or taken from 16bit machines ... games as well as simple arcade games reminisant of the more ...
    WISE OWL WISE OWL October 2007 Games
  • Ghostbusters!It had to happen isn't it? A ghostbusters game is being readied for consumption by the unsuspecting public: [url]http://www.gamespot.com/news/618291…

    ... of them, like the movie conversions of old).

    The ... :

    Terminator II: The Arcade game (All formats, not so ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek November 2007 Chit chat
  • Ghostbusters!It had to happen isn't it? A ghostbusters game is being readied for consumption by the unsuspecting public: [url]http://www.gamespot.com/news/618291…

    ... of them, like the movie conversions of old).

    The ... :

    Terminator II: The Arcade game (All formats, not so ...
    mel the bell mel the bell November 2007 Chit chat
  • Your views on...Moon Cresta[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003263]Moon Cresta[/url] I only played this a few times and I don't know why cos it was qui…

    Used to love the arcade game, the conversions weren't bad either...
    merman merman November 2007 Games
  • games likes you and ppl dislikes???Hi there, which games you think are good meanwhile magazines and ppl gaves them bad reviews?? to me Is speccy version of Salamander. Ok, its not a …

    ... Salamander (Or Nemesis), terrible conversions. Gutted as i love the arcade versions.
    psj3809 psj3809 December 2007 Games
  • Playability and Technical ExpertiseWhat Spectrum games were both very playable and fun yet pushed the Spectrum to its limits graphically and/or sonically. I know many of the highly po…

    ... exactly the same as the arcade version which is more than ... other conversions, and it taught me how to play the arcade one ...
    Vertigo Vertigo January 2008 Games
  • Creating unreleased games?So, we know about games that were never released, and we hope that some of them will be found, recovered and preserved. What about games that were re…

    ... of issues with doing conversions of games, either arcade or on other ... are very against people doing conversions of their titles, whether free ...
    bobs bobs February 2008 Games
  • Your views on...Gauntlet[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001989]Gauntlet[/url] I liked this game, simply because I loved the arcade original. It was…

    ... Hype.

    The home conversions of Gauntlet were below par ... Symbol Shift one. As the arcade version of Gauntlet was lots ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2008 Games
  • Your views on...Gauntlet[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001989]Gauntlet[/url] I liked this game, simply because I loved the arcade original. It was…

    ... arcade, but other than that I thought they were really good conversions ...
    deadpan666 deadpan666 April 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... .html]arcade[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Shark]conversions[/url ...
    Lockett Lockett June 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... =psj3809;274891]I like trying conversions on various machines and find ... they managed to cram an arcade conversion into 48k or on ...
    Lockett Lockett June 2008 Games
  • "Why didn't they convert that?"One of the things that I love about the emulation scene is that I can finally get to play games that were only available on a platform other than the…

    ... . Okay then, how about Speccy conversions of Parasol Stars and Uridium ... /> I can play through the arcade game fine, I can't ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg June 2008 Games
  • "Why didn't they convert that?"One of the things that I love about the emulation scene is that I can finally get to play games that were only available on a platform other than the…

    ... /> I can play through the arcade game fine, I can't ... technique. :)

    Okay, more conversions...

    [B]Batman Returns ...
    Graz Graz June 2008 Games
  • Games converted from computers to arcadesHere's another thread about computer/arcade games. Are there any games converted from computers to arcades?

    ... Ocean. Ocean sub-licensed the arcade rights *and* got rights ... talks about "converting" the arcade game... or at least elements ... -op conversions very clearly along the "Play the arcade smash ... based more closely on the arcade originals (demolition vehicle boss ...
    Danforth Danforth June 2008 Games
  • Q about Atari ST Emulators and anthoer Q about JoysticksEnough of this talk of this Comode Amiga... Phah!! I may have asked this before but can I stick my Atari ST disks in my PC and run them in an ST Emu…

    ... of 8-bit and PC conversions, listed here:

    [url ... said)
    Gauntlet (near perfect arcade conversion, haven't a clue ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2008 Chit chat
  • Suckered by screen shots on the packaging?Who got tricked into buying some junk like Yi Ar Kung Fu on the basis of the graphics on the back of the box, which, quelle surprise, turned out to b…

    ... , turned out to be the arcade version? God damn you Imagine ... />
    They're both great conversions though!!
    GreenCard GreenCard July 2008 Games
  • Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…

    ... 're crap compared to the arcade and that's down to ... lets take into consideration the conversions of Chase HQ to the ...
    Vampyre Vampyre October 2008 Games
  • Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…

    ... focus on consoles and the arcade, which grew as time went ... couldn't perform to an arcade standard! Sinclair User was more ... to me a parade of conversions and licensed games, and true ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Biggest gaming disappointmentsThe biggest let down I can remember was Matthew Smith's type-in Andre's Night Off. Surely there would be some magic in those few lines of code you ty…

    Most of my disapointments are conversions of one sort or another ... the time (Having played the arcade game and read reviews in ...
    thingley thingley January 2009 Games
  • The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …

    ... , all the more reasons why conversions tended to be complete bollocks ... odds with what was in arcade machines in 1982 and things ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …

    ... , all the more reasons why conversions tended to be complete bollocks ... odds with what was in arcade machines in 1982 and things ...
    NickH NickH February 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …

    ... 've never played the original arcade versions so my comparison of ... 't care if they are conversions or not - they are just ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ThunderBladeDid anyone actually like this game?

    I quite like the arcade game of Thunder Blade - the ... on anything other than the arcade.

    Huge fan of ... Harrier and most of its conversions. Out-Run isn't too ...
    joefish joefish July 2009 Games
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