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New portal about ZX Spectrum 48kB (not everybody likes 128k? :) )Seems like "i-demo" server hosts more and more Spectrum related sites. [url]http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/[/url] Funny, considering it's being kep…
... was not even part of Castle Wolfenstein, the game they say ... :lol:).
Missing from Drill's engine Freescape is jump and ... -
The Chuckie Egg playability factorYou all know the story of Chuckie Egg 2 and why it isn't as good as 1. The reason Chuckie Egg is brilliant is because your little dude runs around at…
... takes it's influence from games like Mr. Do's castle), it's tricky at ... -
Best name of the game?Which speccy game name do you like best - even if they're shite - even better if they're shite!? The most esoteric in my opinon; just made you wanna …
Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters: very B-movie!
Worse Things Happen at Sea
Raid Over Moscow
Pyjamarama
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: I couldn't believe in the 80's that it was a game name! -
Isometric games - rotational or directional control?I always found rotational control totally instinctive on games like Knight Lore but the subject is polarised it seems. What do you think?
... -and-move-forward system, it's neither as natural nor as ... on the Gamecube too (apart from RE2) and none of them ... I seem to remember that Escape from the planet of the Robot ... get counted already, plus there's little need, the Directional votes ... -
IMDb top 250 filmsI recently took it upon myself to watch every film in the IMDb top 250 chart, largely because I was appalled at the number I hadn't seen. I like this…
... .8 ) and Escape From New York (7.1). It's all subjective though ... Shawshank, whilst I agree it's much too high I feel ... social networking sites as people's favourite quotes. If I see ... another film that suffers from this. It's a shame coz it ... -
Games where you had no idea what you were supposed to do... but played anyway.Whilst browsing the archive for something new to play, I came across Tir Na Nog, which prompted the above question. I had Tir Na Nog as part of the …
... stealing shoes in some peasant's house. If I wasn't ... aimlessly trying to pilfer loot from the holy-men whilst avoiding ... nicks all my stuff. There's a lot of thieving scum ... ever played - "Welcome to Vanbignob's Castle Adventure brave knight! You must ... -
Advide / Help with Speccy adventure.Righty ho then, My Pawed adventure, 'Tomes of Torinoth' is very nearly ready. Yipee. I just wanted to add a few nice piccies... That's when it al…
... a few nice piccies... That's when it all when a ... bit. pah.
Here's what I [I]really [/I ... as it is.
Here's the alternative... using PAWs own ... of episodes/locations, like in "Escape from the spaceship" and so on... -
Advide / Help with Speccy adventure.Righty ho then, My Pawed adventure, 'Tomes of Torinoth' is very nearly ready. Yipee. I just wanted to add a few nice piccies... That's when it al…
... of episodes/locations, like in "Escape from the spaceship" and so on ... . Currently I am using Paw's own drawing feature, and it ... . If he says that it's okay, then I'll finish ... -
How stupid is the (British) nanny state?I was watching Steptoe and Son a few days ago. It was on at 11pm on satellite, and was black and white, and made in the mid 1960s. It was an episode …
... of those episodes are shown from 1960's home videotape!
I've seen the results from transferes from ... have to have a suitable escape route installed.
a ... -
The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …
... playing a Scot who is from "...lot's of different places" is ... for the bit in the castle with Zoot - "You must ... couple this with photogrpahic evidence from later missions showing the same ... John Steed. The debonair agent from The Avengers. A succession of ... -
Isometric games - handling 8-way movement...I'm currently playing around with a isometric 3D engine which will allow 8-way movement, but have hit an interesting dilemma... In a "normal" 4-way …
... going as to whether it's the right way to go ... behind the Speccy version of Escape From The Planet Of The Robot ... game, unless of course it's a driving game or summat ... then, it depends how it's set up, I find APB ... -
La Abadia Del Crimea - The definitive pollOn a scale of 1 to 10, vote on the score you think LADC deserves. Try and be honest at it while you can. ;) EDIT: This poll is effective for 2 week…
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Of course! That's already on my to-do ... about a madman trying to escape from his keepers!
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What games have collector's value?I've got boxes of games (primarily for the ZX Spectrum 16K/48K), original and some look like they have never been used. Honestly I have always been m…
... 't particularly valuable in collector's world.
The ... they cannot compare to "Ultima:Escape from Mount Drash" :) :
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Loading screenI was reading the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26571"]loading screen thread[/URL] and was a bit insipired. I went to…
1983 G-S:
Do not have ... /> Snooker (Artic)
Sorcere's Castle
Space Island
Spectipede ... (this one has the screen from the third release...?)
DVD boxsets you ownboth series and film i own Spaced (all series) black books (all series) Fast show (everything) Comic strip (everything bar the nuns on the run / ea…
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You own Escape from L.A. - which is rubbish ... , but not Escape From New York?
... =sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254771019& ... by sticking that "actor's"* face over Darth in ... "actor" in it's loosest possible sense.Most expensive game ever[url]http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/10/most_expensive_game_of_all_tim.php[/url] Somebody has more money than common sense :)
[QUOTE=beanz;390334]Escape from Mt. Drash is the Vic ... searching. I found a thread from 2003, talking about a B ... for the Nintendo cart. That's a nice item to have ...I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... their with the other 80's classics such as 'Escape From New York'.I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... with the other 80's classics such as 'Escape From New York'.[/QUOTE ... ]
Oh yes, it's a ...Can anyone recognise this platform game?You start off each level from a zeppelin and jump down to complete the level. Then at the end of the level you get back on to the zeppelin and it tak…
... /> The goggles prevent you from being hypnotised by Dr Blitzen ... /> Some enemies steal objects from you, and if they do ... box) and then escape by the Zepplin to ... object to disappear from Dan's inventory, or touch ... good game, but it's just a straight platformer ...1987-88 HighlightsIt's a dull topic I know, but I don't seem to remember as much about these two years as what happened before. Yeah I know about Target Renegade and H…
... /> Continental Circus - 90%
Custerd's Quest - 90%
Driller - 97 ... /> Match Day - 91%
Mercenary: Escape from Targ - 96%
Micronaut One ...desert island gameswhat 8 games would you take to a desert island, and why.
... i die!
The great escape - Same as above
Rescue ... just for the great 80's tracks
Maybe i ... make a raft and could escape from the island.Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... . The vt100 interprets certain escape sequences as PRINT AT ( ... a string containing that escape sequence to change print ... really what is missing from z88dk's implementation). However multidimensional arrays ... a single dimension index from more than one. For ...Wish list for GTA V...Rumours abound that Rockstar are going to announce GTA V in the not too distance future, probably in time for the E3 event. So... What would you lik…
... I guess, seeing as it's set in a mock-up ... thing that you had to escape from... perhaps something like [I]Driver ...Spectrum v Amstrad CPC rangeAmstrad seemed to be a rather late starter in the 8 bit micro computer race. I never really saw one outside a shop, only a few people at school had o…
... wouldn't let you escape from the Mekon's ship, Count Ducklar 2 ...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…
... now gonna start on [I]Escape From Monkey Island[/I] on the ... of [I]Uplink[/I]. It's just started getting interesting now ...Recommendation for easy-ish graphic adventure?Was a c64 owner back in the day - but I've a soft spot for the old speccy. I've recenty downloaded the speccyMania gamebase db (great work :-) ) and…
I reviewed a couple of Simon Allan's adventure games for the final Speccy bible, they were pretty easy...they were Wizard, What Wizard? and Moonscape Escape from the Moon.The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…
yesterday night i played "escape from eskelon", a nice and obscure ... "deception of the mind's eye" and it's pretty good too ... notice anything special". maybe he's not that astute, after all ...Anyone recognise this map?I'm working on the indexing of Games Machine and [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/g8806012-013.jpg]this map[/url] was printed i…
... /> Diablo!
Doctor What!
Escape from Pulsar 7
Extricator, The ... /> Xcel
There's also a mention on the ...shot out some good mame games.Anyone got some good sugestions for old arcade games im trying to compile a shortish list of the best ones.
Here's a list of some of ... Don
Dungeon Magic
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot ...
Mysterious Stones - Dr. John's Adventure
Mystic Warriors
Satan's Hollow
Sexy Parodius
Worst default key configurations in a gameSomething I used to hate in a lot of early Spectrum games was the bizarre key configuration that was set for some games. What made matters worse is t…
[QUOTE=Metalbrain;450352]Escape from Krakatoa[/QUOTE]
in it's defence it ...
