World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.122s
<1234567…34>
  • Games with time travel in themOn another forum the topic came up about time travel related video games, and it is disappointing how few games involve something as interesting as t…

    ... how few games allow you to move forward and backwards in time (i ... />
    So, what games involve time travel, and in what way(s)?
    Time manipulation, as in you control time in the game including reverse time;[/COLOR ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2013 Chit chat
  • Type in Games from magsDon?t suppose that anybody has any scans of type in games that you used to get in magazones like Big K and the like. The reason I ask is that there …

    ... has any scans of type in games that you used to ... get in magazones like Big K ... were two games I remember typing in. One was in Big K ... something and used to flash in all the speccy colours. ... character, which was different each time (made up of random ...
    stupidget stupidget April 2003 Games
  • type in gamesI just found out that the superb Aliquids Simplex was actually a type-in game! I never realised - I've played plenty of commercial games taht weren't…

    I just found out that the superb Aliquids Simplex was actually a type-in game! I never realised - I've played plenty of commercial games taht weren't that good.
    Anyone recommend any other good type in games to have a look at?
    Neil^P Neil^P August 2004 Games
  • Hidden Features In GamesI'm sure there was a thread like this somewhere - sorry, but I can't find it. Hidden stuff in games. In "Mikie" there is a hidden bonus in each of …

    ... .

    Hidden stuff in games.

    In "Mikie" there is a ... hidden bonus in each of the class-rooms ... 1st screen if you stand in front of the teacher's ...
    frobush frobush February 2009 Games
  • Cheating in games with DivIDE?Hi everyone! Do you know if it is possible to use divIDE instead of Multiface for entering POKEs in games for infinite lives? There are a lot of ut…

    ... of Multiface for entering POKEs in games for infinite lives?
    There ...
    Lady Eklipse Lady Eklipse July 2010 Hardware
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    Driller too. Hack to increase the time limit in proportion to any emulator speed increase.
    bcass bcass April 2008 Games
  • Possible new game ideaBased on the boardgame "Cafe International" I programmed "WorldBar". Based on that program I decided to change the gameplay where you don't have to w…

    ... the user stalling from time by repeatedly swapping the ... pointless scoring method usually used in Tetris games.

    4. ... br />
    (please note, in the above video the 2x2 ... screen vertically. Aside from the time limit in Sprint mode, both Sprint ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Games
  • NEW GAME - Farmer Jack - Treasure TroveEvening all, Jack is back! Download his latest adventure, Treasure Trove, from my site at the link below. This time it's loosely based on Pac-Man,…

    ... you want extra which isnt in the Mirrorsoft one ?[/quote ... the user stalling from time by repeatedly swapping the ... pointless scoring method usually used in Tetris games.

    4. ... screen vertically. Aside from the time limit in Sprint mode, both Sprint ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Announcements
  • Help designing a Jonathan Cauldwell game !Going to Byte Back retro show next March They've challenged the homebrew developer Jonathan Cauldwell to create a new Spectrum game in just one day …

    ... stop the user stalling from time by repeatedly swapping the ... pointless scoring method usually used in Tetris games.

    4. ... screen vertically. Aside from the time limit in Sprint mode, both Sprint ... , as it's the one in English).

    Please ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Games
  • Christmas Games Club 2012Ive been working the random button all morning and not xmas games came up. so in a suprise twist, you have the opportunity to un-wrap your game on c…

    ... anyway, even without a time limit.

    In case anyone hadn't ... on this week's [I]games club[/I] offering before something ...
    Morkin Morkin December 2012 Games
  • Announcing MetroSpec: ZX Spectrum 16/48K Emulator for Windows Phone 7 / 8Hi All, I'm the author of MetroSpec, a ZX Spectrum 16/48K emulator for Windows Phone 7 / 8. MetroSpec V1.3 was actually launched in September 2012, …

    ... been bugging me for some time. In MetroSpec, Manic Miner's intro ... notes. The in game music, and music in other games that I tested ... will fix sound issues in some other games too (not that I ... raised the 1 minute audio time limit in MetroSpec Free to 5 minutes ...
    GlennEdwards GlennEdwards March 2013 Emulators
  • Name this GameHi All, The game in question is a Text/Graphic Adventure from the mid-eighties. I think it appeared as a demo on a cover tape. The screen is split …

    ... formed the time limit in that game.

    There were several games where ...
    Strident Strident January 2014 Games
  • POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…

    How about a poke that shortens the time limit on games. Examples I can think of are Manic Miner (air supply) and the timer on Splitting Images.
    Vampyre Vampyre July 2002 Games
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    ... due to the time limit,on knight Lore the time limit (in days) in my opinion ...
    jammajup jammajup November 2011 Games
  • The complete Knight Tyme (48k) RAM disassemblyHello! Just a quick note to let everyone know that the initial version of my [URL="http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.anderson/disassemblies/knight-tyme-48…

    ... ) instead of 48 (SB) (initial time limit in hours)
    [*]The value at ... the first three points (bytes) in the list above, and the ...
    Weyoun Weyoun August 2013 Announcements
  • The complete Knight Tyme (48k) RAM disassemblyHello! Just a quick note to let everyone know that the initial version of my [URL="http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.anderson/disassemblies/knight-tyme-48…

    ... ) instead of 48 (SB) (initial time limit in hours)
    [*]The value at ... the first three points (bytes) in the list above, and the ...
    David Jones David Jones September 2013 Announcements
  • Have any games ever been sold with limited play time?Have any games, on any computer or console, every been sold with limited play time? What I mean is, has any game ever been sold where you could only …

    ... to use the enclosed code in whatever way the software ... />
    I suppose back in the old days it never ... of the date could work in this regard, but you ... So have any games been sold with a time limit on how long ... machines) then I bet in most cases the users aren ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Games with reflections in (i.e. with working mirrors)On another forum, the question arose of why modern games mostly don't have reflective mirrors, when they have almost every other visual effect you co…

    ... it's been a long time since I played the game ... .

    Anyway, what other games with mirrors/reflective surfaces (that ... used for creating the real-time image-in-image effects as seen ... are often kept in a small resolution to increase performance, which is ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2013 Chit chat
  • (Difficult) question about deaths in gamesOff the top of my head I can name two games in which each time a life is lost, an angel (w/wings and/or halo) appears and ascends to the top of the s…

    ... I can name two games in which each time a life is lost ... many? Can anyone name other games with angels appearing when you ...
    Greymagick Greymagick May 2007 Games
  • Hurry up gamesIn most games when time is out, you are instantly dead. But in a few, when you pass the time limit, the game handles this in a different manner. Bub…

    In most games when time is out, you are instantly dead. But in a few ... , when you pass the time limit, the game ... handles this in a different manner ... />
    Do you know more games like that?
    Emlyn_Hughes Emlyn_Hughes February 2009 Games
  • Uncomfortable (or just bizarre) moments in gamesJust about to have an hour on San Andreas and for some reason I got thinking about that loopy mexican chick you get stuck with when you're out in the…

    ... situations from a few games entered my mind. So ... up some things from games that maybe made you ... head off the whole time, but the bit that ... ).

    2 driving games here both for playstation Jelly ... ' point in either of those, total waste of time. Almost ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2009 Chit chat
  • Funny things in games?In some games there were things that were meant to be funny and others that were funny because of things you did. Renegade: Some of the moves were f…

    In some games there were things that were ... and swing for a long time instead of going after Joker ... /> Do you remember any other games that gave you a good ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2009 Games
  • Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…

    ... take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games?

    ... , as is so common in first and third person shooters ... like sun glare, realistic real-time shadows, rain, snow, heat ... exploding barrels in them, but did any Speccy games have barrels ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2011 Games
  • Games with time travel mechanics?What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don't mean games where time travel is just part of the story (i.e. it's…

    What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don' ... in the [B]Timesplitters[/B] games, and most other games that have time travel ... [/B] games), or games where you can just speed up time (like in the ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2012 Chit chat
  • Time for all games to become (legally) available?It just came to me that none of us are getting any younger. Not much of an earth-shattering statement I know, but more came of this original thought.…

    ... us gamers from back in the day finally lose our ... be left to play those games denied us? How many ...
    If many of those games still with-held are left ... out on. Then those games will be lost forever... ... considering the time, effort and skill put in to making ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley March 2013 Games
  • The most convincing humans in gamesI'm currently replaying Dishonoured again, and good though it is, I'm still annoyed by how it fails to live up to the promises. One thing in particul…

    ... NPCs in GTA style games. And of course in GTA games, the ...
    Alright, so in GTA style games, with the huge maps ... fails to appear this time (since you've knocked ...
    Are there any games that give a convincing feeling ... is, at least in the games I've played.
    ewgf ewgf July 2013 Chit chat
  • What was the most violent thing in Spectrum games?I can only think of maybe decapitation attacks in Barbarian, or crotch kicking in Renegade. Other than that, even with the limited means of a more in…

    I can only think of maybe decapitation attacks in Barbarian, or crotch kicking in Renegade. Other than that, even with the limited means of a more innocent time, violence in Spectrum games always seemed very PG rated.
    morph morph February 2017 Games
  • A recollection of a Bug in a "good" game:the mystery of the bug and the game will be revealed later!Well what is the "big deal":- a bug in an old Spectrum game. So what! Well , I should explain: it was a good very popular game and I have to watc…

    ... remembered the said bug in the said game and ... of a major flaw in this popular game had ... would give myself a generous time limit of 6 months to ... discuss and mess about with games rather than actually play ... them .But back in the the 1980s when I ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio April 2018 Games
  • Best Type-In GamesWhat type in programs did you think the end result was worth the effort of typing them in? Even though most of them were not of the quality of com…

    ... the quality of commercially released games, the fact that I had ... was a Snaker game also in INPUT.

    https://archive ...

    Another decent type-in I thought was a Platformer ... from moving, thus giving one time to figure out what direction ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2022 Games
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... speaking I don't think in game music adds much to ... . Think I may increase the time limit a bit in the second game, to ... bit more skillfull with writing games in C and the sprite library ... memory than I currently have in this one. Cheers!
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2010 Brand new software
<1234567…34>

Latest Posts

  • I am currently watching.....
    Paradigm Shifter on 12:49AM
  • New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.
    Renegade on April 21
  • Fixed Speccy Software. And which games remained unfixed?
    John Elliott on April 21
  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    rich_chandler on April 21
  • Another Birthday! The Game Boy Is 35!
    mel the bell on April 21
  • European Software Titles with an English version
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • Elusive Strategy Games done by the Smaller or less Prolific Software Houses.
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • 1992 Spectrum Software
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • +3 Disk drive motor
    AndyC on April 21
  • Celebrity deaths...
    mel the bell on April 20

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
increase 2.4K 2.8K
time 105K 136K
limit 3.1K 3.6K
in 401.9K 810.5K
games 104K 174.6K

Related Threads

  • games games gamesi have dear memories for a specy game, but i cant remember whats its called. All i can remember is at the end you had to find an ORB for some King???…
  • Why can't I vote for Russian/East European indie games (or TR-DOS games in general)?I've noticed that several Russian/East European titles coming from independent producers are not eligible for voting. So, I cannot express my prefere…
  • Back In Time Lite / RV Mini September 2005 in MANCHESTER!well, the show is looking bloody great! Mark Knight, Ben Daglish, Rob Hubbard . . . and a live set from Mark Hibbett (Hey Hey 16K) . . . + an RV, sho…
  • Games that had hidden games built inAs thread title :)<br /> <br /> Booty is obvious, and I seem to remember something else (Motos / Zub perhaps?)
  • games games games.lots finishing later...<br /> <br /> [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/rhodesvibes/m.html?[/url]<br /> <br /> <br /> also.. if you want anything off her…
  • Inconsistencies in the games appearing in "Spectrum collection 1" by Ignacio PriniMartijn, the following games have possible mistakes:<br /> <br /> -Topin<br /> Original publication should be type-in instead of compilation.<br /> <…
  • Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure?<br /> <br /> I used to quite enjoy tapping them in,…
  • Games released in cassette in post commercial era - Help!Im trying to get all the cassette editions of games released in the post commercial era of the ZX Spectrum.<br /> Besides the games from Cronosoft:<b…
  • The best selling video games ever (with no stupid egg in boxing gloves in sight!)I thought that the following list is interesting (which shows you how interesting my job is, if this is what distracts me from it :-(), showing the b…
  • Games with time travel in themOn another forum the topic came up about time travel related video games, and it is disappointing how few games involve something as interesting as t…

Related Searches

  • games with bugs
  • 128k enhanced games
  • games in basic
  • games written in basic
  • load rom games in 3
  • all time favourite games
  • zx81 games written in basic
  • games not in archive
  • speech in games
  • speech samples in games
  • samples in games
  • audio samples in games
  • glitches in games
  • better graphic in zx games
  • games released in 2017
  • bookcases in spectrum games
  • book cases in spectrum games
  • cases in spectrum games
  • games set in spain
  • stuck in a time loop

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum