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Jet Set Willy II Walkthrough with commentaryHi My latest walkthrough with commentary is now on youTube here: [URL="http://youtu.be/YZsvwsNDbK4"]http://youtu.be/YZsvwsNDbK4[/URL] I gave my …
... 804358]I really enjoyed the Jet Set Willy one, ... /> Yours are one of the few that remain. Please ... keep up the good work!
... I dare you to do Jack and the Beanstalk. I played this for ... you needed to collect the Axe first to progress ... -
improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…
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Name the sprite : Spiders[IMG]http://oi59.tinypic.com/9sctp5.jpg[/IMG] A bit harder than normal. None of them are the obvious example of spider sprites IMHO, and two of them…
Thats a tough one, I might have got Jack and the BeanStalk after a bit, but drawing a blank on the rest. -
Name the sprite : Spiders[IMG]http://oi59.tinypic.com/9sctp5.jpg[/IMG] A bit harder than normal. None of them are the obvious example of spider sprites IMHO, and two of them…
... . I'm very surprised that Jack And The Beanstalk is so well known ... /> G NOT frogger
H Jack and the beanstalk
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1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... bad.
The saving grace is Chris Kerry ... are glitchy and collision detection is awful. The Jack and the Beanstalk coder strikes ... in there somewhere, but the awful illogical map is cluttered ... to where the screen routes and exits may be and progress is ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... Innocent game featuring Sam Stoat and the Jack and the Beanstalk debacle for Thor/Odin ... are not obvious, the enemies are often unavoidable and the energy (a blood ... ) turds in the Sam Stoat sewer.
The challenge and the glitches spoil a ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... Innocent game featuring Sam Stoat and the Jack and the Beanstalk debacle for Thor/Odin ... are not obvious, the enemies are often unavoidable and the energy (a blood ... ) turds in the Sam Stoat sewer.
The challenge and the glitches spoil a ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... you [I][COLOR="DarkOrange"][B]Jack and the Beanstalk[/B][/COLOR][/I], [I ... COLOR][/I] and [I][COLOR="Magenta"][B]The House That Jack Built[/B ... ][/COLOR][/I]... another dodge'em all and ... run-out-of-the-room game with ... -
Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
... II, CASEY JONES, THE PYRAMID, CHEQUERED FLAG, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, HYPERSPORTS, CODENAME ... RIDER, AUTOMANIA, BUGABOO THE FLEA, SPECTRAPEDE, STOP THE EXPRESS, ATIC ATAC[/size ... SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-BOXED-COMPUTER-AND-ULTIMATE-18-GAMES-BUNDLE-RETRO ... -
Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
I'm not sure Highlander, and Jack and the Beanstalk fit into the category of "cool" either tbh :D -
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…
Jack and the Beanstalk. Oh hang on, I only got past the first screen once, ever! -
Games that are better to look at than actually play.In my review of [b]Gerry The Germ[/b] in the 1985-2015 thread I mentioned that the nice graphics didn't deserve the game they were lumbered with. [i…
[i]Explorer[/i]
[i]Underwurlde[/i]
[i]Jack and the Beanstalk[/i], definitely. -
Games that are better to look at than actually play.In my review of [b]Gerry The Germ[/b] in the 1985-2015 thread I mentioned that the nice graphics didn't deserve the game they were lumbered with. [i…
... like Ultimate.
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Games that are better to look at than actually play.In my review of [b]Gerry The Germ[/b] in the 1985-2015 thread I mentioned that the nice graphics didn't deserve the game they were lumbered with. [i…
... like Ultimate.
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What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
Hardest game, apart from Jack and the Beanstalk, for me would be ... jumps you had to do and the mad use of colour. After ... doing when I played it and any game that had Pick ... -Up and Jump assigned to same button ... -
What's the maddest a Speccy game ever drove you????What's the maddest a game ever made you and what did you do about it?? I have plenty of memories of punching TV's, myself, sofa's etc. as, for exampl…
... no game has driven to the point of physically assaulting my ... game with poor collision detection - Jack And The Beanstalk is a prime example. -
Were there any Currah Microspeech games that sounded decentJust an idle thought. Lunar Jetman amused me where Jetman may or may not swear when shot down. But out of the impressive list of games that were micr…
Well, they all "worked." Some just provided more amusement with awkward pronunciations than others. :)
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Rituals to get your tape to loadI found this comment on the internet regarding the 'human sacrifice' video from cern : I get where they are coming from [quote]Back in the days o…
... get a 'backup' of Jack and the Beanstalk to load. I ... spent ages fiddling with the tone setting on my ... where I was moving the tone controller about half ... a time!!! Eventually the game loaded and I was presented ... so mind meltingly bad and annoying that I would ... -
Examples of severe colour clash?I'm looking at making a video of ZX Spectrum games - both good and bad, and making it accessible for the layman. One thing I'd like to do is brief…
I'd say Jack and the Beanstalk is one of the worst. William Wobbler was pretty bad as well. -
Examples of severe colour clash?I'm looking at making a video of ZX Spectrum games - both good and bad, and making it accessible for the layman. One thing I'd like to do is brief…
[quote="stupidget;880518"]I'd say Jack and the Beanstalk is one of the worst..[/quote]
Yeah, and it's sequel, Giant's Revenge:
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Examples of severe colour clash?I'm looking at making a video of ZX Spectrum games - both good and bad, and making it accessible for the layman. One thing I'd like to do is brief…
... ! Well done that man. Thats the colour clash example I'm ... /> See I don't think the problem there is really colour ... when it scrolls the attributes are mostly OK. The problem in brainache ... hand, in something like Jack and the Beanstalk you see random colours ... -
Best speccy compilationsHey all. First thread here. Be gentle ;) Not sure if this has been covered recently but thought I'd ask what your favourite speccy compilation was a…
I think the only one I had was ... /> Starbike
Kokotoni Wilf
The Pyramid (video game)
Horace ...
3d Tank Duel
Jack and the Beanstalk
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Best speccy compilationsHey all. First thread here. Be gentle ;) Not sure if this has been covered recently but thought I'd ask what your favourite speccy compilation was a…
... -Aid is the daddy of all compilations (Well, that and maybe Don ... This). And it was only £5, a great bargain in the day ... let itself down by including Jack and the Beanstalk.
My ... Trap Door and Aliens. But it also included the very oddly named ... -
Name the GameI've been asked if I know what this game could be. Any ideas? [i]"I'm trying to find an old spectrum game that I can't remember the title of. Wh…
If you've forgotten Brainache, you really don't want to be reminded of it. Its like Jack And The Beanstalk with messier graphics. -
GAMES SIMILAR TO "MONTY IS INNOCENT"Hello to all! It appeals to very many the game to me "monty is innocent" and I would want to know if someone can suggest games to me similar to it (…
He did Jack and the Beanstalk and Giant's Revenge for Thor. I was going to recommend them, but got side tracked by the conversation and looked up Chris Kerry. You are correct Mikal they are similar in their design. I bet the codes pretty close and reused. -
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…
It's not bad but it's not Bomb Jack!
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Redesigning the ZX Spectrum 128k - A lifelong dreamHello, I am myPinballs (Jim) and i run a small business here in the uk making replacement 8-bit hardware pcbs for arcade pinball games as well as…
... outputted as stereo to the sound output jack and the SCART connector for ... TV use.
The mini ... (which some people like the idea of) but it ... stereo output along with the picture signals and so would be ... -
Poll: Soft Aid compilationThis month 32 years ago, [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011356&loadpics=1"]Soft Aid[/url] was released for a good cause. It …
... the most playability. I played 3D Tank Duel, Ant Attack, Kokotoni and ... good / decent - with the exceptions of The Pyramid, Starbike and Jack and the beanstalk. Kokotoni was ... a while.
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Poll: Soft Aid compilationThis month 32 years ago, [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011356&loadpics=1"]Soft Aid[/url] was released for a good cause. It …
It was between The Pyramid and Ant Attack for me but I chose Ant Attack in the end. That Jack And The Beanstalk has received votes is proof that you shouldn't take part in these polls while under the influence of alcohol.
