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Tears of nostalgiaI have to say, playing games again like Fued, Head over Heels, Where time stood still, arkanoid 2, heavy on the magick (list could go on forever), ma…
... the primitive nature of the games now that don ... I play a lot of older games, but probably the ... the SNES, which has games of a higher quality that ... quality of the games? Obviously to say that SNES games have ... had a higher percentage of major releases that ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting ... wipe the floor with spectrum games of the past, period; it' ... some people love the spectrum games is simply for nostalgic ... really play 2D games anymore, aside from new games for the ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting ... wipe the floor with spectrum games of the past, period; it ... people love the spectrum games is simply for nostalgic ... />
Years on, better games (with more lasting playability) have ... -
If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... c64
7) Lack of quality games
8 ) any ... I loved the appearance of the Spectrum and the ... , it was annoying when games simply refused to load, but ... Spectrum had the best games of any system from that ... per character square makes games like Head over Heels ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... a fondness for the 2D games of the past. Is that maybe ... that we should abandon the games of the past.
[ ... will the children of today be pining for these games twenty years ... and playability of it all.
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Modern games just ... -
Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…
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On 2004-05-14 10:56, psj3809 wrote:
I totally agree. Chuckie Egg is one of the top 5 Speccy games of all time.
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John 'Zzoom' GibsonDoes anyone know which games John Gibson (author of Zzoom, Stonkers and Airborne Ranger among others) was involved in post-Spectrum? This might seem …
... best Imagine and maybe Speccy games of all times, in my opinion ... is responsable for such great games like Gift from the Gods ... 's very active in the games industry til this days. He ... ! Take that!
Some games he was involved: Might and ... -
Amstrad and the SpectrumWhy has Amstrad made so little of their rights to the ZX Spectrum? In the last few years we have seen various retro products celebrating the Coleco, …
... with all, most, or some of ultimates titles :)
[/quote ... because there are some interesting games in it. I bought ... a couple of months ago, but most of the games are ... destroys your fond memories of better days by forcing ... the Cascade 50 games, of course. :) -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... at the Speccy owners because of their poor graphics.
of other 8 bit machine ... as good as any other games of the era.
of concentrating purely on gloss has got us - modern games ... bothered to play any of them for longer than ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... , we can play the best games of each platform. Why bother arguing ... I will play on PCEngine games, whilst on another I will ... good games and bad games, so lets just play them instead of bickering ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... are the only things owners of other 8 bit machine can ... as good as any other games of the era.[/quote]
of [B]Gryzor[/B] on the ... -
Shoot-em-up gameHi everyone, For just over a month I have been working on a shoot-em-up game along the lines of Sidewize / Zynaps, ie. right to left scroller. It is…
... have cleared the playing area of the screen, then it clears ... />
Anyhow with some sort of scrolling it will all need ... />
Looking at some other games of this ilk - both Zynaps and ... Zynaps uses some clever method of selective redrawing, that I haven ... -
Doom 3 - hell's bells!Two days back I picked up a copy of Doom 3 and even before I'd started the game I had this strange creepy feeling... Two nights of playing later... …
... is in the depth of your sight and the ... compared to other games of that kind, where most of the time ... the proportions of what you see ... to scare, because most of the time I expect something ... me, making a big chunk of the fun wasted.
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commodore64just download a c64 emulator and find this interesting site [url="http://www.c64.com"]http://www.c64.com[/url], lots of games and screenshots, ..i re…
I prefer speccy version of Uridium. I find it more ... too.
Overrall C64 games are more inmediate, but they ... to bore fastly than speccy games.
Also I find their ... animationd to be simpliest than games of speccy. For example TargetRenegade, is ... -
Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... Hits (only relatively to Spectrum games, of course?)
Yours is just ... that Crash was the Bible of Spectrum gaming and Sinclair User ... the product of a bunch of greedy bootlickers of British software ... [sic] and let the games buying public down". I read ... -
New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…
... Sonic and Castlevania, if games of that amount of interest don`t go ... ), then there`s less chance of something less `flashy`.
New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…
... Sonic and Castlevania, if games of that amount of interest don`t go ... ), then there`s less chance of something less `flashy`.[/quote]
of things... =-)Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
Avalon is one my top 10 games of all times on any format. I simply can't rate it enought. The game is still compelling to play after all these years.Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
... is one my top 10 games of all times on any format ... when you had a load of spells it could be a ...Half Life 2Just got it today. u have to register it via internet and the loading time is crap. But it plays well on my amd 1800 with 1 gig mem and onboard nvide…
... produce a diverse set of locations at speed incorporating ... />
One of the other problems with Dooms ... several points has loads of Combine soldiers and/ ... around with hardly a hint of slow down.
< ... stands up as one of the greatest games of all time.
OT: Ultra AssaultThis has nothing to do with Spectrum, but I thought some members (with itchy trigger fingers) might be interested all the same. Ultra Assault is a …
... info. I'd definitely buy games like that if I weren ... the next on my list of shareware buys (I recorded my ... who are interested in the games of that class, I will also ... shooters xcept of their own production. Well, hope those games can still ...Best Games Of 1986.The Great Escape Thanatos Firelord Movie Batman Others?
to biotoxin , how can nodes of yesod be 85/86 ?
< ... and the topic is best games of 86 which im assuming means ... anything ! if it meant best games you played from other years ...A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... 's to see the future of gaming.
I regularly ... fact that you can have games of 28 people against 28 depending ...A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... already dead anyway. SNES/Megadrive games of the time were usually totally ... five end of level bosses. The only difference between the games were ... 3D, lost a lot of the playability of the earlier era. ... seen hanging over the shoulder of titles from this period ...A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... re hardly at the stage of photo-realistic in-game ... more people playing the latter games. Also, many people consider ... didn't have too many games, especially compared to the omnipresent ... N64 does have many of the greatest games of all time, including arguably ...Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
I think a 'out of the box compilier'running on ... /> Besides, how were all the games of the late 80's early ... machine code? With the quality of graphics i.e. digitaled images ... of Chase HQ, Robocop, etc...... I can imagine early/mid nineties games ...Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
... /> Besides, how were all the games of the late 80's early ... of Chase HQ, Robocop, etc...... I can imagine early/mid nineties games ... [/quote]
Given the limitations of the Speccy's memory added ... with the inefficiency of any basic compiler (in ...Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
... /> Besides, how were all the games of the late 80's early ... of Chase HQ, Robocop, etc...... I can imagine early/mid nineties games ... memory added with the inefficiency of any basic compiler (in ... I take my hat of to those early games programmers, as from ...RARE SOFTWARE FROM ARGENTINA(no longer available) [ This Message was edited by: Digital-Innovation on 2005-03-30 21:12 ]
... devoted for sale and development of video games, for example "Los Juegos ... del Pirata' translates as 'The Games of the Pirate'
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Spectrum GearI have a Spectrum +3, broken +2, multiface 128, loads of games all original, and maybe around 100 mags up for sale. Plus some other bits and pieces. …
Any chance of emailing me a list of your games? I live in Newcastle, so a trip up to Glasgow is no problem, if there's a few games of note!
[email="Gilby6@btinternet.com"]Gilby6@btinternet.com[/email]
Steve
