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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…
Barbarian "Web of Death" :D
Frying ... the end of your first game of Specventure (strangely enough the game only does ... I'll never get bored of nostalgic remniscing :) -
Seasonal Speccy - a new Spectrum blogRight, here it is, a new blog dedicated to Spectrum games: [url]http://seasonalspeccy.blogspot.com/[/url] The idea is that I do videos of games tha…
Just had a game of Frost Byte. Quite tricky. Got 4 screens in! -
ZX Adventure Club reborn - Game for AugustThe above are the choice of games I've shortlisted for August. I've kept it simple with a ye olde world theme and "single load" games that shouldn't…
... ]Can someone explain the point of 'The Adventure Club'?
Hoping ... a chance for a group of us to attempt the troublesome ... to play a certain adventure game for a month.
of the game.
Of the course the ... -
Cold War ShiversIf you're obsessed by nuclear weapons and the cold war, you may find this radio programme on BBC R4 tonight interesting: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/r…
... a bomb, but a way of making a strategic launch), from ... ] manual for the ZX Spectrum game of the same name:
concept of allowing a computer to launch ... targeting of the computer's nuclear strikes in the game caused us ... -
Happy Birthday Lego Brick.The lego brick as we know it is 50 today. Hands up who had lego as a kid?? [code] _ / | / \ | | /\ \ …
... kid I would play the game rags to riches. I ... would then get one of the lego characters to ... play the part of the homless tramp that ... Sounds better than the C64 game of the same name........more options ... in that game looked like they were built out of Lego ... -
SpecDrum2 updatedHello again, just to let you know that the specdrum2 program has now been updated and is in the remakes section and now does not have the enter code…
... specdrum is my top project of 2008 and who knows there may ... seen good projects come out of it and it only took ... -
Joypad or Joystick (or should that be Joyce Stick)I was reading the following article about Joysticks [url]http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7488178[/url] It got me thinking…
... called Amigos is currently the game of choice.
Thats the ... -
Technically Brilliant But Ultimately Crap GamesMy vote goes for H.A.T.E by Costa Panayi of Vortex Software (one of my fave programmers by the way) H.A.T.E.'s diagonal scrolling was so smooth and …
Elite's not a shoot-em-up it's more like a way of life, yo.
nah I know what you mean. nowadays I'd probably prefer playing a standard scrolling shoot-em-up than get bogged down in a game of elite again. good for it's time tho' .. -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... the "Official YS Number One Game Of All Time".
Um ... /> It's a good average game, but was far too simple ... and age.
One of Campbell's famous "write something ... reviews with a large chunk of sea salt. -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... Deathchase as the best Spec game of all time though, but it ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... winner for the best spectrum game of all time , not by a ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... the platform for complex molecules of trancelike gameplay. It is the ... redemption.[/QUOTE]
One of my favourite Speccy memories is ... /> Is it the greatest Spectrum game of all time? Probably not: it ... ). However, it is one of the purest, because it is ... -
Fightbox!Who remembers Fightbox? I actually auditioned for that pap! s'true! SO glad I was going through a crisis and wasn't able to appear now :D
... should've made a PC game of that, with all the battles ... 'll leave the Fightbox PS2 game alone. Cheers for the heads ... -
Willow Pattern and Treasure IslandWhy are the Firebird game Willow Pattern and the Mr Micro game Treasure Island (which I got with my Spectrum +2) so similar? They use basically all t…
Basically both games are by the same author (Greg Dudle). Out fo the the two, I prefer 'Willow Pattern', in fact its my favourite game of all-time (though I would pick the C64 version as its got great music). -
any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…
I can't understand why 3D deathchase made number 1, it's no way better than the Great Escape or Chase HQ. It's not the worst game of all time though. Where was Bombjack or Paperboy though? -
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…
... don't really want any of the stragglers left over from ... went to buy a couple of PS2 games, and went for ... that), then maybe had some of the sex, and then some ... ), and then had a quick game of whatever new games I bought ... -
8bit metal - Machinae Supremacywow, never heard before, but [url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=SFwUJfcAQ_Y&feature=related]sounds great[/url] :lol: unfortunately, it's SID they're pl…
... UMM, his very badly recieved game (which personally I thought was ... work, this little game of his...
one of the most "movie" stories ... -
2 PM on Radio 2Steve Wright in the afternoon? Steve Shite more like.
... think that by the end of the two weeks he's ... , it's just for fun) game of Guess The Year should be ... -
Games where you can hear disco music playingHi, everybody! I like disco music very much, it reminds me of my childhood. My favourite disco singers and groups are: Modern Talking, CC Catch, Ra…
... too hard. Not a Speccy game of course but if you press ... -
Whatever happened to Geoff Crammond?I know he was never a Speccy programmer but he did create some classic games during the 80's, 90's and 00's. Over the last few weeks I've got into F…
... still is my favourite PC game of all time. Myself and ...
It was a good game in traditional two-player mode ... the computer buggered your game up for you while ... turn.
The game really came into it's ... -PC link two-player game. Then you could really ... -
list of removed / banned games?Hi all, apologies if this is outside the etiquette of this forum, but I was wondering if there a list of all of the banned or removed games from the…
... Rollings, who's the sort of chap who distances himself away ... from that sort of thing.[/quote]
Damn ... to think, I interrupted my game of Mire Mare for this!)
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... leave this A-Maze game as it is for ... to develop the TraceMaze game as game 7 for the "1 ... the "active develompent" phase of the games I was ... involved in coding. (Unless of course anyone quickly suggests ... and playtest your TraceMaze game. Of course there is no ...any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…
... you never played the game before and played it ... very good but best game for the Speccy ? ... is a far better game, and much better programming ... Deathchase' defense no other game of the same style came and ... you make on a simple game like Deathchase?
Don Priestley gamesHe's one of the best programmers for the Spectrum. What's your favourite D.P. game? For me, Maziacs: simply, very original and a great gameplay. One…
Yep - Swainy is right...
MINDER is my personal favourite Speccy game of all time!Your claim to fameBeen meaning to make this thread for a while. Basically what have you done either spectrum related or non related thats made you well known. IE progr…
... Yeah, he was well out of his league! Poor guy!
game design genius!
of stuff people want to ... EDGE #118
Article "Game Of Chance" (starts on page 56 ... br />
"The life of a developer can be a ...3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
For a quick blast - which is what arcade-style games are designed for - it's perfect
Not the best Speccy game of all time by some way , but certainly an exciting , action-packed title, and creates a sense of speed rarely seen in Speccy gamesNew oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... maze package with the addition of this game. I'm sure we ... (it's becoming a bit of a cliché now.)
game of the package!Is European cup as exciting as World Cup?Well, is it?
... remember that fantastic bit of football a couple of years later when ... Scorpion-kick. That was one of footballs wonderful moments.
< ... to Argentina on penalties. Best game of the 1998 WC IMO and ... girl about 200 yards outside of the club!!!!
...If......If we were overnight zapped back to the stoneage, (make lots of shortcuts, and ignore this that and the other, not to mention the bleeding obvious, l…
if... i lost all my money at a game of pitch and toss, id kill myself.Good text only management games?Since I've downloaded Spectatulator last night, I've been playing management games, with the speed turned up. Football Manager Dictator good fun, S…
... Double is my favourite management game,although tracksuit manager ran it ... having to start a new game of the double everytime i switch ...
