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THE best arcade conversion??After thinking about the ZX Club Hypersports and other games such as Flying Shark what do you think is the best arcade conversion. What makes the gra…
Arkanoid re-invented the ball and wall game that is ... also and is an excellent conversion. The Arkanoid type games continue ... Spectrums monochrome techniques superbly and with the AY sound ... />
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Arkanoid and +2A, problems??Is there any kind of incompatibility with Arkanoid in a +2A? I load the game but when it's time to play, the stick doesn't move and nothing happens, …
... stick doesn't move and nothing happens, and I have tried to ... a particularly common problem with bat and ball games. Ricochet is the same, but ... -
games that need mouse supporthas anyone ever tried to hack in mouse support to existing speccy games? HeroQuest needs it badly, the cursor moves so slowly that the game isn't fu…
... the Arkanoid clones, including 3D bat-and-ball games such as Room Ten, would ... -driven Archimedes. Virus and Captain Blood. Two games. And Lemmings. Three games. My recollection ... games were ported to the Spectrum, and that even on the ST and ... -
What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
Batty was my favourite of the bat and ball games, i liked Arkanoid 2 though. -
Cooperative Games.Are there any Cooperative games for the ZX Spectrum?
... in the ZXSR reviews text and reading the review.
bat and ball games?
What about some ... the footie or other sports games? Were they purely VS or ... one person could control Wizball and another the Catellite. -
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…
... by Elite Software, as in Bat and Ball, not Pidgin' English, or ... your bat to smack the ball at the bricks and break ... stages that catch the ball and do unspeakable things to ... amongst all the regular 2D bat and ball games.
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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…
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[b]I, Ball[/b] - Very nice, colorful and taxing vertical scrolling ... ] - As far as run-and-gun games go, [i]Gunrunner[/i] is ... whole new perspective (literally) to bat-and-ball games. Think about Breakout in 3D ... -
Best of the Major Clone Groups on WOSThere is a list of major clone groups on WOS:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.net/archive/features.html"]https://worldofspectrum.net/archive/featur…
A lot of the early Spectrum stuff was clones of popular arcade games such as Space Invaders or Phoenix. A lot of bat and ball games as well. Such as Batty and Arkanoid which are so similar they are only separated by title (and Batty is the best!). -
Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid ... , used to love both speccy and arcade, nowadays speccy version: pathetic ... the Speccy than the arcade and also bombjack. That also applies ... now and in the past when I ... -
Tape that came with ZX Spectrum +Hi, I don't know what it's called so I can't find it!! Can anyone point me towards a tzx of the black tape that came with the speccy 48k+. IIRC it …
... the computer and (at least) two games. One was a bat and ball game where ... you had to stop the windows being smashed and ... -
Music and dancing games on ZX Spectrum: are there any?Hello, everyone! I like the games Dance Dance Revolution and In The Groove very much. Never tried them on the real arcade machines but I enjoy play…
... I like the games Dance Dance Revolution and In The Groove ... my PC using Stepmania and a homemade dancepad. On ... there were some music and dancing games even on the ... 8-bit machines and that ... are any good music and dancing games on ZX Spectrum. ... -
English translations of Czech and Slovak gamesWell, I have prepared this new thread, where you will find information about translations of Czech and Slovak games. Here, you can always find the a…
... information about translations of Czech and Slovak games.
Here, you ... the actual list of all games, which were translated to English ... -
Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
... see... As I had "Tetris" and "The Wall" on the Spectrum ... and on my Gameboy, I'll ... an emulator to play those games whenever a new platform arrives ... , Doctor Mario, Pick'N'Pile, and lately, Bust'N'Move 1 ... -
Egyptian Name That Game!Can we name this game a mate thinks he remembers, heres what he says about it: Egyptian Mummy type game... You ran around a 2D maze, I think you ha…
... happens to feature an excellent bat and ball and blocks game.[/QUOTE]
games and even my dad enjoyed playing ... speccy - refined, intuitive, well presented and excellently produced. -
Tape that came with ZX Spectrum +Hi, I don't know what it's called so I can't find it!! Can anyone point me towards a tzx of the black tape that came with the speccy 48k+. IIRC it …
I remember that bat and ball game from many many years ... our year at primary school and we used to have competitions ... loaded, people brought in other games but nothing else loaded!). -
best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
Actually, thinking about it, The Light Corridor bears a kind of one step removed relationship to these games. It's a classy 3d bat and ball game in which you have to advance into the corridor keeping the ball projected ahead. -
best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
... relationship to these games. It's a classy 3d bat and ball game in ... into the corridor keeping the ball projected ahead.[/quote]
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best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
... ]Ragnablock came out last year, and is quite good, though it ... ; by tradition most bat n ball games have had them and this one doesn ... -
best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
... have a soft spot for bat n ball games. I've played a ... ! It's got quite colourful and distinctive brick arrangements on the ... screen and it allows you to automatically ... as my favourite / best bat n ball game. Not sure about the ... -
YSRnRY Documentary - 1989 ready for downloadIt's finally here after a long delay: the 1989 chapter of the documentary is now available for download! [url]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/[/url] …
... on Youtube for a change and loved it, another fine ... to each part, from the bat and ball one ('82?) to this ... see just how good the games and graphics were on the ' ... 89 games, if not the bumper ... of games, at least a damn good looking and playing ... -
Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
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Basically, the affected games are deliberately coded such that ... attribute (ATTR) value, and then use an instruction like ... .
Bat'n'ball games are particularly prone to using ... floating bus behaviour, and therefore these games just freeze within ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... there were some great games for it. Probably ... br /> "FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING" and "REX HAS SEEN YOU" ... ZX81 and it was a Breakout style bat and ball game. ... I don't remember ever seeing any ZX81 games ... for sale, and I only ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... for my ZX81 and it was a Breakout style bat and ball game. I ... don't remember ever seeing any ZX81 games ... for sale, and I only heard of ... -
Favourite previously unreleased magazine covertape game?sorry it's favourites time again... I suspect many of you, like me, got sucked into buying the mags in the late eighties with the tapes on. Whilst …
... non-British games ... I got Dustin on a mag-tape* and thought ... ... I loved that game, and still do. It's even ... better that PfS ... and almost better than Terramex! :-P ... />
And I never understood the appeal of bat'n'ball games ... pointless! :grin ... -
At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
... adapters I got were faulty.. and of course it's picky ... space for loads of amiga games, as well as all my ... 's grand prix, galaga, and some bat and ball game. I played Gloom for ... -
Arkanoyd 2: Revenge of DohHow hard would it be to make the ball & the ship of a different color than the back ground, and so making this game playable?
... able to tell the ball from the background, ... [url]http://www.spectrum20.org/games/258[/url]
and Katie) seperately, in the ... same colour as the bat and ball - you soon lose ... on the bat, and the other on the ball.[/QUOTE]
Back in the day when schools had 'a' computer.I stumbled uppon this photo when looking for something completely different on-line. It got me thinking and reminiscing. Do you remember when schools…
... got a speccy 48K and people would bring games in. I remember ... someone bought in Airwolf and we ... also had tournemants of a bat and ball game, we rigged it up ... school the year i left and i think he said they ...Arkanoid / Batty clones ?Although there is an old 2008 topic [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16532/best-worst-arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new …
... ="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/the-light-corridor-infogrames"]The ... [/url].
That's a bat and ball game but going into the ...Batty - The Ultimate linkLatest Retro Gamer magazine. Mark Crane was a pseudonym for Mark Betteridge who worked at Ultimate. He wrote the scrolling Filmation II engine used …
... II engine used in Nightshade and Gunfright.
http://www ... link at least between 'Batty' and Ultimate mentioned in the 'Mire ... ". We loaded it up and up came a bat and ball game. That game ... converting 'Arkanoid' at the time (!!) and we didn't hear of ...Arkanoid II, I finally did it! :-DI finally completed Arkanoid II (128k version) without cheats yesterday on my Toastrack, I am over the moon, not a better gaming feeling than complet…
... I got passed all that and kicked Doh's backside :-D ... , does anybody know why the bat and balls were not in black ... clash as BATTY has the bat and ball in black.
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