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  • Sabre Man Games - Style over Substance?Was Sabre Man primarily a marketing ploy? I quite like all Ultimate Games up to Gunfright and find I generally prefer the ones without Sabre Man, a …

    ... arguably the best isometric 3D arcade adventure on the Spectrum, if ... definately gave other games developers something to aim for.

    Something about the minimalist sound and ...
    Collie Collie February 2009 Games
  • Outlandish claims on Spectrum games adverts!I was flicking through The 'CRASH' Xmas special today (yes, I was on the loo at the time) from 1984/85 and it made me giggle some of the claims softw…

    ... The Real Thing. There's something about giant mecha and 1980 ... steal the title of 'best arcade adventure game bar none' from ...
    j00ce j00ce February 2009 Games
  • "We don't understand computers but we've got ?3.58 million to spend on them....... so lets find a problem to solve with the money" is a good translation of the article at: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.s…

    ... , Atari ST games, Spectrum games, arcade games, calendar files, screenshots, ZX81 ... why are they aiming for something that is neither practical (if ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2009 Chit chat
  • New website goodness - improved Speccy reviews!I could have sworn I stuck a post up yesterday, but the byte-bandits appear to have stolen it :lol: Anyway: I've revamped my website which (among ot…

    ... on arcade clones which have either been well-implemented or added something ...
    j00ce j00ce February 2009 Games
  • Animation of the two satellites that crashedIt's probable that you already know that two satellites crashed a week ago (Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251). Now there is an animation of the collision: …

    ... be factually accurate for an arcade game) collide, and Jetman, in ... (which is invisible, so when something is shot and becomes invisible ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2009 Chit chat
  • Viewing the International Space StationOver the last few nights I've seen the International Space Station several times as it flies over. It's well bright now, since the new solar panels w…

    ... bar for space truckers or something?[/QUOTE]

    I heard ... was the last fully working arcade with all the good old ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman March 2009 Chit chat
  • Earthworm Jim - SNES or Megadrive version?I used to love Earthworm Jim on my mate's SNES, fifteen or so years ago, and I thought I'd try to play it all the way through. Anyway, I have the ROM…

    ... very good conversion of the arcade.

    Alisia Dragoon, ... it's first gen arcade conversions by making different ...
    Quackshot, more of an arcade adventure than a strict platformer ... subtitle Busters busts loose or something, there was more than ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2009 Chit chat
  • Decent Asteroids clone?Anyone reccomend me a good Asteroids clone? I have Quicksilver Meteor Storm witch is OK, but the ship has no inertia, it has no joystick support & co…

    I'd agree with Planetoids being the best overall, but Cosmic Debris is also worth a try if you want something more faithful to the look of the arcade game.
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2009 Games
  • Troubles with MAMEMAME has never been a program that I mastered... for some reason I once downloaded a MAME32 that had tons of games, managed to put it to work and tha…

    ... MAME like v.028 or something?

    But then again ... the key to a healthy Arcade-life :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2009 Chit chat
  • Which tools did developers use to create classic Spectrum games?Does anybody know which tools developers used in classic Spectrum game development? I tried to search web, but unfortunately didn't find anything hel…

    ... (which was "adapted" from some Arcade Machine) and other Spectrum games ... compiled or maybe translated from something other, because they look quite ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2009 Development
  • OutRun Online ArcadeDownloaded it for my PS3 last night (it's also on Xbox Marketplace). It's really good, obviously not as good as the original (it's more Coast to Coa…

    ... for me are Outrun(Arcade) and Outrun2(Arcade/XBOX). All the others ... suffer with Outrun snobbery or something.

    One thing I ...
    alanspec alanspec April 2009 Chit chat
  • A new Barbarian...I've talked about this before, but I think a new barbarian might be cool... since the game has 3 or 4 levels (forest ,dungeon, vulcano and...), it co…

    ... (as they did most of arcade fighters and probably have experience ... .

    Fighting game is something like rock-paper-scissors game ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2009 New game ideas
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    I think snowball would have made a good arcade game , giant spaceship , being chased by nightingale robots , solving puzzles etc , something along the lines of dead space but with an atic atac viewpoint .
    sirclive1 sirclive1 May 2009 Games
  • New game - W*H*B - Help wanted!I'm currently writing a version of Cuboid/Bloxorz for the speccy, and was hoping for a little help from the WOS folk, or anybody, in designing levels…

    ... into a bit of an arcade adventure perhaps where you have ... to get to various objects... something like that perhaps...
    bobs bobs May 2009 Development
  • Games that you've realised you would never have the patience or skill to finishBack in the day, there where plenty of games I could never finish, now that I'm not a toddler any more, and that I've spent enough time in WOS and pl…

    ... a new screen felt like something of a major achievement.
    arcade game it's ripped off ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg May 2009 Games
  • Making new Spectrum graphics on a MacI would love to have a go and try to do some graphics for a NEW Spectrum game. It would be the first Spectrum game I've worked on since I worked on '…

    ... graphics. I did Wizball then arcade conversions, Vindicator was original but ... rather crap. I'd like something original and bizarre to vent ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones May 2009 New game ideas
  • Bespoke arcade cocktail table - comments?Sorry of this is in the wrong section, but I want a bit of advice. I am considering treating myself to a bespoke arcade table for my 40th. [url]htt…

    ... , yeah its superb but its something like 1800 qud i think ... top half of a proper arcade cabinet if you can imagine ... PC inside some MDF. The arcade controls are very good, the ...
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2009 Games
  • Sorcery (wrong type)The game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004650&loadpics=3&model=spectrum"]Sorcery[/URL] is listed as type [I]Arcade:Maze[/I]…

    ... ] is listed as type [I]Arcade:Maze[/I] but I have ... . The scenario's something like Druid, so [I]Arcade:Adventure[/I] might ... the style is more [I]Arcade:Platform[/I].
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2009 Infoseek database
  • The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…

    ... Set Willy.
    [B]Best Arcade Adventure:[/B] Stormbringer (oooooh maverick ... edit if I think of something.
    [B]Best Driving Game ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2009 Games
  • Ace Archive is 4 years old today!Yep! We have hit 4 years old today, to mark this the team have released [url=http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/sw_tetris_rf.html]Jupiter Ace Tetris[/url].…

    ...
    Arcade games are divided into those. in which something is eaten ... and those in which something is zapped. Here is one ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack June 2009 Announcements
  • games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…

    ... a building, or shot, or something!![/quote]

    That's ... =gandulf;360222]Cobra. Great arcade and best arcade coding ever, but too ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2009 Games
  • Songs that remind you of your first experiences with the SpectrumHi everyone, glad to be here again after so much time :) I was recently listening to Alan Parsons Project's [i]Ammonia Avenue[/i] and couldn't help …

    ... like she was up to something naughty...

    After Burner ... was rockin' ! My experiences with arcade gaming later on when in ... to build my own mame arcade cabinet.

    Outrun Soundtrack ... the game after playing the arcade coin op in Bognor Regis ...
    Hercules Hercules June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…

    ... the Speccy version over the arcade version ([I]Commando[/I] and ... am no good at it. Something to do with the rotation ...
    xyzzy xyzzy June 2009 Games
  • DIY game wall displaysMany of us probably have their speccy games stashed away in some crates in the attic or shed, or maybe more visibly on a shelf, cupboard or something…

    ... it.

    Well, your arcade cabinet is nice too (I ... lot of floor space for something like that. But I wanted ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG July 2009 Chit chat
  • Games With Michael JacksonNow that the "King" is dead, I was wondering, how many speccy games have a Michael Jackson reference? I always thought that when you died in Zombies…

    ... had one of the biggest arcade collections in the world...(that ... that triller demo...it's something that will haunt me forever ...
    VanTammen VanTammen July 2009 Games
  • ThunderBladeDid anyone actually like this game?

    ... /> I've only played the arcade versions. I found Afterburner to ... better at it with paractise. Something unseen would always nail you ...
    JamesW JamesW July 2009 Games
  • ThunderBladeDid anyone actually like this game?

    ... ]I've only played the arcade versions. I found Afterburner to ... better at it with paractise. Something unseen would always nail you ... easy. Must admit the physical arcade version is tougher because the ...
    NickH NickH July 2009 Games
  • GAC QuestionThere is probably a really simple way of doing this but its driving me up the wall. In GAC is there a way of ending the game ( you get killed ) if y…

    ... conditions at the cave room. Something roughly like:

    -if ... today standards as 8 bit arcade, sports, puzzle, strategy, etc... games ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi July 2009 Development
  • Czech compilations not listed on Infoseek"Krtek a auticko": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002774[/url] and "bad dream": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseeki…

    ... />
    Heroes '92 - is not Arcade: Adventure but icon driven text ... ACE - monitor and diassembler, WLEZLEY - something like monitor but aimed for ...
    Fikee Fikee July 2009 Infoseek database
  • Mame Roms... :)I have just *aquired* some Mame roms (complete pack 20gb)... Some of them dont work with the lastest Mame Emulator (ver. 0.333)...I use Emu Loader a…

    ... dedicated emulator for the Seattle arcade board as I'd love ... had a load of weird arcade emu's like one's ... look as good as the arcade but with it being a ... on there you might find something else you'd like instead ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2009 Chit chat
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