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Games that could've been goodI've just been playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009311]Blade Warrior[/url] (it's been deniencededed since I got hold of…
... the first games I bought for my Speccy, that one ... . Too much was going on, you ran out of ... teleporter, gun turret, bomb) on your rover wasn't so ... if there had been two spots on its roof instead ... . I think the rover should have been faster, at least twice. ... -
Best Spectrum game from 2009Ok, its almost 2010, and we have to decide which was the best game this year :) Miles Mad Mission [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cg…
... kB disks so so bigger games could be made.[/QUOTE]Which ... loaded off disk and replayed on screen like short looping video ... every time someone says 'imagine that feature in a game...'.
should have been, with better memory management and ... -
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…
... for the player that many games lack.
That simple game-design ... me it was everything that RE5 should have been and that's probably unfair. There ... Dead Space stole a march on it that coupled with the legacy ... -
Mass storage - why backup battery?I wasn't sure to post this under "hardware" or "development", but here goes: There are these mass storage devices for ZX Spectrum, and on many desig…
... each power-on.[/QUOTE]
That also applies to Flash ROM, and Flash ... ]
True, but a designer should also weigh increased hardware cost ... space on it than necessary, is also effort that could have been spent elsewhere ... -
Gaming Epiphany?!?!?Not sure if this has been asked before, but, here goes. I was wondering which games people had played on what ever system and thought 'WOW now that?…
... , but other games have added so much that they changed our ... been released on console, although many of the other best games ever have only been released on ... and I'm more into games that require a bit of ... have been as good as the best of the few comedys that ... -
La Abadia Del CrimenBits and pieces on this game from a frail, fragile and a fragmented mind: I see that the [URL="http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/"]remake[/URL] finally…
... on the Speccy, it's basically what Fairlight ought to be have been ... mean by that? They are completely different types of games. Fairlight ... jumping, falling and objects that can be pushed around ... just as well say that ladc is all what stonkers should have been. -
Uplink installation problems!!I've been trying to install an old game, [I]Uplink[/I] on my PC (from an original CD). When I used to play it years ago, I was running it in Win98 on…
... programs in XP, programs that I have been able to install in XP ... 't work (when I click on the setup icon nothing happens ... all is installing as it should (tried it with [I]Uplink ... 3[/I], two of the games I had issues with, and ... -
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…
... Amstrad versions of games often were the ... C64 would not have been the success it ... been no VIC they would not have had raster time for that ... that we have to do on the Speccy) and the games would have been ... computer that was meant for gaming. We should not ... -
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…
... say the C64 would not have been the success it was if ... had been no VIC they would not have had raster time for that ... crap that we have to do on the Speccy) and the games would have been not ... for a computer that was meant for gaming. We should not forget ... -
Your views on...Code-name MAT[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001002]Code-name MAT[/url] Another game which I never got round to playing, but a couple of m…
... the Speccy's greatest games. It's an Ant ... you look at the games that make up the best of ... levels are also spot-on, allowing you to gently ... Forget all the Star Wars games or Starstrike II - This ... good.
There should have been a Codename MAT III! -
Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... is that series nine is on the cards, but I have no hopes ... commissed the two seasons) placed on the material.
Anyway ... not as good as it should have been, then they brought it back ... will be re-released in a quality that means I cannot stand ... -
Comet 20 Game Pack on +3 DiskI recently won this rare title in excellent condition on an ebay auction (the +3 disk variety) having owned the original as a kid. Up until a few mon…
... about the year it may have been released?[/QUOTE]
Sorry it ... paste the game descriptions controls on the inlay - no dates. I ... locally at Aintree Liverpool - Comet on the Wirral they did) and ... was my first set of games that 1987 would be the year ... -
Gta 4I've always been a fan of GTA (since the first one for PS1), so now I finally got GTA 4 for the PS3, since everyone was telling how amazzing it was. …
... city (relatively speaking), that whole "Wow!" feeling that you got when ... to me they worked hard on everything, except what actually ... not less? And surely we should have been able to enter most, if ... GTA games.
Having moaned here at length, I have ... -
The Spectrum screenshot odd-one-out round - medium skill levelHere's the medium level questions for the official [COLOR=DimGray][No it's not official, bugger off - Martijn][/COLOR] WOS Spectrum screenshots odd o…
... game in. Sorry, Time-Gate should have been Aquaplane (another game by John ... .
Sorry about that - it's a consequence of ... sadly never released, but of course the other three games were.
Anyway, should I post the final lot ... -
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…
... still a problem with modern games.
Pentagram ... far to many keys and should have been thought through better.
... admit that I prefer to use the Joystick for those games, ... Shade, but especially Pentagram remain on my "Most Wanted" list, ... -
Microsoft finally fix the Red Ring of Death!!! Sort of...Yes, after five years of hardware revisions, each one designed to cure the almost inevtiable RROD (Red Ring of Death) problem, where the XBox 360 ove…
... 451731]That is far from certain. The cooling system on the ... new 360 has been improved, the CPU ... emulators as well as XBox games), and aside from having ...
The 360 should have been made to that standard. Still, hopefully now ... -
Crash or Sinclair User?I was a Crash man myself. I've created a little tribute to [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/Crash-Magazine"]Crash Magazine[/URL] if anyone fancies a lo…
... /> I'd also agree that ZX Computing should have been included, as it was ... mag?" depends on the criteria. Crash was the best for games, especially ... only contender. I'd been buying Crash regularly for four ... because of the wealth of games coverage in the early ... -
Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... routines that myself and other contributors had extracted from his games for ... one of these files may have been posted on the forum at some ... practically finished the thing and that the latest version he ... if it could be released, and maybe have some of the ... -
Colour or Monochrome?The release of the game [B]Cheril Perils [/B]at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30403[/URL] made me voice my preferenc…
... be it regarding the new games that have been released or older ones. I myself ... prefer games with colour in them, ... time again that full colour is entirely possible on the Spectrum ... there are many good/great games that are ruined because of ... -
Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... this? I thought that by releasing games or demos into the ... have been released into the public domain. I don't believe that they have ... .
[quote]I have to snapshot some games ... to get them to load quickly on ... -
Gaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
... of the very few games I have played that managed to pull one ... of the worst gaming annoyances on me. That is, glitching/bugging out ... .
Maybe this topic should have been moved to chit-chat as ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... used my machines to play games - I was in to ... an 80 column screen. Games/graphics on the Electron were poor though ... computer keyboard I have ever used - the only thing that came close ... too much on the QL and should have been bolder. It was obvious that the ... -
Do you use MAME?If so, what CLASSIC arcade games do you play on it? Or what game SHOULD have been a classic but has been forgotten? I'm ADDICTED to I,Robot. It was …
... CLASSIC arcade games do you play on it? Or what game SHOULD have been a ... classic but has been forgotten ... 's NO other version of that game other than the arcade ... -
Nintendo DS face trainingHas anyone else seen the advert for this. A woman staring at her DS pulling stupid faces! The sad thing is it will probably shift more copies than Dr…
... sequel to a load of games that didn't even get release ... , I know that technically there are some spinoff games that never made it ... not _originally_ released in the west, but they have been now on the DS ... -
Game compilationsDo you collect game compilations? Do you consider them valuable? or do you think they are inferior to the original? Personally I don't like game com…
... originally released with the last level missing, but on compilation ... me, as I never got that far, until long after, ... and that was via cheating),
2) Starglider was released on a ... , whereas the 128K version should have been included too, I thought. -
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…
... rest are just ports that don't make use of ... is like that and I've heard that the other(s ... like that aswell (I think only RE0 and RE1 have been released so ... ] release the other main RE games like that aswell).
... 2 I mentioned are on rails shooters. -
Opinion on new 128K only gamesHello, Being new to the WOS community, I am unclear on the attitude towards 128K only software, that is; Is there a strong need to support the 48K m…
... outcome of this thread arrives that the WOS community would accept ... only 128k new games have been released and the response has been great, so you ... don't have to worry ... it: it will play excellent on 48K+AY. [/QUOTE]
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Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
... that's the only way I could play games on ... the keys. I was never a fan of joystick use on ... should, have been much more. Oh, and anyone who says that games ... them and concentrated on my need to ... I always play those games on the harder settings, it ... -
Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
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b) that review doesn't go off on a tangent and ... better off keeping the leaves on their branches to keep them ... spoil it here), but you should have been able to choose the other ... rare "best of..." PC games list that doesn't include this game ... -
Manic Miner/chuckie egg style gameI've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I was wondering does the world need another Ma…
... audio recording, so it's been released on DVD with the full soundtrack ... series are on DVD, fortunately). Unlike Doctor Who, it should really ... heard of it, you should consider downloading it to see ... judgement) is. And that's not nostalgia, I have the DVD set ...
