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  • Green Beret-esque games?Can anyone recommend me some 2D horizontally scrolling shooty/ninja-y type games that compare well to Green Beret? Although not the best of games (I …

    You might want to try Gryzor, or Hysteria.

    Although not a war shooter, Thundercats is an excellent side scroller with tons of action.

    BTW, Commando is not 2D isometric - it's just 2D. ;)
    Arjun Arjun April 2004 Games
  • Green Beret-esque games?Can anyone recommend me some 2D horizontally scrolling shooty/ninja-y type games that compare well to Green Beret? Although not the best of games (I …

    Athena has a cleverly designed side scroller worth a look at. Also, Karnov, that one used a the speccy colourset to the max. Also Rolling Thunder was also great fun.

    G
    Sonic Quack Sonic Quack April 2004 Games
  • I think you will all like this....[url="http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/"]http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/[/url] In fact, i'm fairly certain. I haven't laughed as much in quite some …

    Did anyone notice what the text was in the Hobbit during the "hey hey 16k" bit at the end? :)
    DrWu DrWu May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best adventures (from 2 points of view)Allright, adventurers, I'd like your advice on what are the best adventures from 2 points of view: 1 - Best plot, atmosphere (i.e. a game where you …

    ... from Seabase Delta
    The Hobbit
    The Boggit
    Rigels ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2004 Games
  • Best adventures (from 2 points of view)Allright, adventurers, I'd like your advice on what are the best adventures from 2 points of view: 1 - Best plot, atmosphere (i.e. a game where you …

    ... /> For me, it's The Hobbit. First type-in I had ... 'd like to say The Hobbit again because it was better ...
    Slacker Slacker May 2004 Games
  • Best adventures (from 2 points of view)Allright, adventurers, I'd like your advice on what are the best adventures from 2 points of view: 1 - Best plot, atmosphere (i.e. a game where you …

    ... (random order):
    1) The Hobbit - The writing and the graphics ... and MS):
    1) The Hobbit - superb parser that added immensely ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2004 Games
  • Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…

    ... . Philip Mitchell
    > The Hobbit

    37. Steve Wetherill ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2004 Games
  • URIDIUMDoes anyone actually like the Spectrum version of this game? Or was it some sinister plot to make the Spectrum look silly trying to compete with the…

    ... need to get a great scroller... besides you could do that ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat May 2004 Games
  • First speccy game you ever ever played..Just having a play on Jet-Pac (on my +2 I hasten to add as I would never play a denied game on an emulator...no sireee ;) ) and suddenly realised tha…

    That would have to be The Hobbit. Of course, I didn't have a Spectrum at the time so I had to watch it in WH Smiths and have a quick go there.
    Scoops Scoops June 2004 Games
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    ... and visited Rivendell in The Hobbit.
    Great times, which I ...
    scottid scottid July 2004 Games
  • AdventuresCan anyone recommend adventure games for the Spectrum? I know I have played a few back in the days (Black Crystal and Greedy Gulch ring a bell), but…

    "The Hobbit" is absolute classic. It's ...
    kmatveev kmatveev July 2004 Games
  • Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …

    Every scroller I know is already mentioned ...
    kmatveev kmatveev July 2004 Games
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    ... with a Speccy was The Hobbit. I'm 29 now; and ... actually got to play The Hobbit at school as part of ...
    The_Sentinel The_Sentinel July 2004 Games
  • Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …

    ... was a fantastically smooth vertical scroller as well as Commando.
    Starglider Starglider July 2004 Games
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    ... : "10 print 'Program Loading: The Hobbit'; 20 RANDOMIZE USR ..." on the ... a solution book to "The Hobbit" and playing it through to ...
    jonesmark jonesmark July 2004 Games
  • Top 10 Games - All Formats (Pre Playstation era)Without being biased only towards Spectrum games what are your favourite 10 games? (Apologies if this has been asked before) My favourites: 1 Sensi…

    ... :
    - Knight Lore
    - The Hobbit
    - Manic Miner

    jonesmark jonesmark July 2004 Games
  • Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …

    Defender has to have the best scroller...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi July 2004 Games
  • Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …

    ... usual classic as [I]The Hobbit, Kentilla[/I] and [I]Twin ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2004 Games
  • Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …

    ... />
    Melbourne House (Sherlock, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings).
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton July 2004 Games
  • Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…

    ... />
    For a Zynaps-type scroller though, perhaps pixel detection is ...
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • Xenon-II like game on SpeccyHi! There is a shootemup on the Speccy that looks EXACTLY like Xenon-II (from Amiga, etc.) made by some East-European guys (I THINK). I downloaded i…

    ... game).. it was a slow scroller, although the `backtracking` reverse scroll ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Games
  • Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …

    .......Hobbit, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Inspecter Flukeit, Adventure A Planet of Death.

    It's all a matter of contrast.

    Personally, I always preferred black text on white.

    Tobo
    Tobo Tobo August 2004 Games
  • Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …

    The Hobbit was great. If only...
    SnazzyParrot SnazzyParrot August 2004 Games
  • Hey Hey 16kSincere apologies if this has been posted before - I had a look but couldn't see anything... [url="http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/"]http://www2.b3ta…

    ... with "F" in the background Hobbit section is now covered up ...
    Sard Sard August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What game would you like to play again for the first time?* JSW to find all of the rooms again * Knightlore to be astounded by the graphics

    Batman and Manic Miner. Just b'cos they were so freaking addictive and superbly made! And oh...The Hobbit! I remember being enthralled by the nice graphics and complex word input. Excellent atmosphere too.
    Arjun Arjun August 2004 Games
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... having a 30 pixel high scroller bobbing across the screen over ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • What game would you like to play again for the first time?* JSW to find all of the rooms again * Knightlore to be astounded by the graphics

    3D Death Chase, The Hobbit, Manic Miner and Atic Atac. ...
    stupidget stupidget August 2004 Games
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... things - first it was a scroller using ROM routines, then using ...
    Quazar Quazar September 2004 Development
  • Fun with games!Does anyone have nonstandard ways of playing any games? On Heathrow ATC, I found the first two exercises a bit easy, and the third just about imposs…

    ... the start room of The Hobbit, and then close it. Walk ...
    Daren Daren September 2004 Games
  • Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…

    ... rotated. On his earlier side scroller it was thousands of LDI ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
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