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Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
... graphic adventures in the Tir Na Nog mode; so, when ... they felt a change of label was appropriate. I ... to have seen more of the Tir Na Nog style games, but ... I guess they were something of ... guess it was symptomatic of the way the games ... -
Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
... loved to have seen more of the Tir Na Nog style games, but I ... guess they were something of a niche ... have been one of the lowest out of most of the software houses ... -
Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
... ;187675]These are a few of my favs;
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Why isn't Tir Na Nog amongst your list :???: The artwork ... -
Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
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[LIST][*]Tir na Nog: walking past some bushes when one of those heads ... pops out. Or entering one of those remote red-coloured areas ... full of Sidhes...
[*]Marsport: when an ... -
Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
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Tir na Nog: walking past some bushes when one of those heads ... to race while walking through tir clachan just hoping to avoid ... popping up on either side of the path. -
In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…
... small and select group of people with a ... 1920s were part of mass-entertainment. Of course, there will ... and remain well-known outside of their era.
of gamers recently. There's ... Tir na Nog" in 2052 and turn it into some sort of ... -
Top 10 Spectrum games everName 10 games you think, on your opinion, are the best Spectrum games ever, for any reason. My list is: (in alphabetical order) - Cyclone - Daley Th…
I'm sure I've done a list before. Hope it's the same.
Tir Na Nog
Dun Darach
Starquake
Highway Encounter
Pyjamarama
Turmoil
Match Day
Knight Lore
Nodes of Yesod
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I'm Free!!We've all had a ride round in Turbo Esprit, stopping at lights running over pedestrians, etc, and in Skooldaze/Back to Skool we've done everything bu…
... I went to the edges of the maps.
Explorer ... the dull side). And yeah, Tir Na Nog, Dragontorc?
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The actual top ten Spectrum games EVER! : )I had a free moment and collected all the votes from the thread of "Top 10 Spectrum games ever". ([I][url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/show…
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Of course there are many games listed here, Elite, Tir Na Nog would ... are just not my sort of game. I can easily see ... Renegade should be my sort of game - I can play it ... WoS 100 would indicate, one of the top 3 all time ... -
My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
... can you reduce the height of Charlie (the cyan spaceman ... currently almost the height of the Exolon man, ... whereas the heights of all of the other characters is ... fit in with the rest of the characters?
Maybe with a small Tir Na Nog guy, or a sidhe, ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
... did seem like a lot of walking around and not doing ... so i always had more of a liking for that ... to it but i found Tir Na Nog quite dull.
... day but its the type of game you need to follow ... something to get enjoyment out of it. Going into the game ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
... to be an awful lot of doing nothing...i.e. walking ... ! All I did in the Tir Na Nog games was to walk around ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
I loved Tir Na Nog. The atmosphere (echoing earlier comments) ... finding doors in the middle of nowhere. This was completely enhanced ... -
Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …
... sort is art regardless of the circumstances of it's creation ... placements and occurants of each constituent piece of rubbish was a ... it's perhaps kind of the equivalent of what the average 10 ... games), Fairlight, Tir Na Nog, Trap Door, and so on, all of which do ... -
Coolest Spectrum MovesAnother thread got me thinking about this.. Whats the most impressive move that a spectrum character can pull off? Heres a starter The knee to the…
... =ZnorXman;238049]Dun Darach and Tir Na Nog. I think Lister could pull ... .
Also, Sir Charlie of Yesod fames head over heals ... -
Favourite Speccy MomentsOk, just for fun (and for my own curiosity), what are everyone's favourite (or most satisfying) Spectrum moments? For example, the swot in [I]Skool D…
... the time wanted a few of my games I actually do ... in exchange for Dun Durach, Tir Na Nog, Space Harrier, and possibly Cauldron ... to copy games a circle of friends will share em' regardless ... of the penalties.
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Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…
... three Dizzy games being some of my favourite Speccy memories.
of the games they produced, most ... of which I enjoyed. I never really got on with the Tir Na Nog ... /> David Whittaker - Fingers in lots of pies in various capacities.
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... screen of my Eee PC. But it's just above Tir Na Nog when ...Punch up! Bruce Everiss mauled by the internet over why Imagine collapsed.I couldn't see this posted here so I thought I would post it. It kept me amused for at least half an hour. Bruce Everiss on his blog claims piracy br…
... always seemed a bit of a loose cannon but ... - I had huge collections of games on C90s like most ... you what though - one of the posters made a very ... not rise on a slew of arcade clones - they ... product that could compete. Hence, Tir Na Nog, Avalon, etc etc.
...most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
... : Dynamite Dan 2 (excellent use of colour), Raffelle Cecco games like ... like Tir Na Nog, Dun Darach et al.
Incidentally, many of the ... Abadia Del Crimen, Kinetic, Soul of a Robot etc too are ...Finest gamesHi! You would find out sooner or later anyway, so here it goes: [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html"]My attempt[/URL] at listing some of the fine…
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"On the verge of graphics adventures and role playing ... released prequel, Tir Na Nog, by Gargoyle Games."
Tir Na Nog came first. Dun ...most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
Even though someone said it before, I must say Tir Na Nog had good graphics. To be precise, the main character had a smooth movement. The effect of clouds moving in the background with a different scroll from the main is great.What the best game you playedMy best game was The Sentinal. It was a very simple game that you could get right into and and the fact that you could save levels made it a long las…
... ' was a hoot.
Tir na Nog and LOM however have become ... are so good, that aspects of them actually embed themselves into ... really? How about Cuchulainn in Tir na Nog? Wow!most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
True!! But I recall most of the games I played to ... ]James Pond[/I], [I]Shadow Of The Beast[/I], [I]Zool ... ]Shadow Of The Beast[/I] had it (and the [I]Tir Na Nog[/I ...Punch up! Bruce Everiss mauled by the internet over why Imagine collapsed.I couldn't see this posted here so I thought I would post it. It kept me amused for at least half an hour. Bruce Everiss on his blog claims piracy br…
... was based on the theme of Bandersnatch.
Those large ... implement large sprites as [I]Tir na Nog[/I], to use an obvious ... aforementioned [I]Tir na Nog[/I], [I]Avalon[/I], [I]Lords of Midnight[/I ... managed to deliver the sort of one-step-further gaming that ...What spectrum game had the best ending.In the good old days of the Spectrum, lot of games did not have an ending. Once you completed the game you went straight back to the start again. Lik…
... by a simple animation of your droid getting a ... animated endings - the sort of ?game over? that everyone ... .
'Lords Of Midnight': As explained in Retro ... no message of congratulations.
'Tir Na Nog': Another case of insufficient memory ...Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…
One of my faves is [B]Tir Na Nog[/B]. Others I remember: Zynaps, Uridium...
By the way, you can find more information in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling"] wikipedia[/URL] ([I]I think it was said in a last thread...[/I]).Best covertape?What's your favourite magazine covertape? And by that i mean the one that spent the most time in your tape deck. I really can't decide which [I]one[…
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That reminds me of another I used to play ... of the [I]Magnificent 7[/I] YS tapes that had [I]Tir Na Nog ...Best covertape?What's your favourite magazine covertape? And by that i mean the one that spent the most time in your tape deck. I really can't decide which [I]one[…
... =GreenCard;267198]That reminds me of another I used to play ... of the [I]Magnificent 7[/I] YS tapes that had [I]Tir Na Nog ... , irc it had a pic of ade enmondson on the on ...a game for anyone bored...pick a game at random from the archive using the random seeking link, and post what comes up...and post the gamescreen as well if possible [url]http…
[QUOTE=CUCHULAINN;274498]Just shows how great this game is. The first one to come up when you started the thread. ;-)[/QUOTE]
I could never get into Tir Na Nog back in the days. I think it's one of the games that deserves more attention.
