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Speccy Full-Price World Cup 2020: Preliminary round10 years ago I conducted a "Full-Price World Cup" poll to determine what WoS forumites would vote as the best full price Speccy game. See the origin…
... , Rick Dangerous, Robin of the Wood, Saboteur!, Samurai Warrior, ... Racer, Thanatos, Vulcan, The Way of The Exploding Fist
... Flying Shark, Green Beret, Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers ... Stonkers, Stop the Express, Tau Ceti, The Hobbit, The Trap Door, ... -
"Of It's Time" : Rooted in the 1980's ZX Spectrum Software (aka Culturally "Out of Date" stuff) This does not have to be UK based but it has to be ZX Spectrum software that is culturally specific to or at least strongly related to the 1980s . …
Given the current cultural sensitivity, certain games portraying African/black natives are very problematic - Livingstone Supongo, Jack The Nipper II and Three Weeks In Paradise spring to mind -
Tron Software - Ninja Master / Oriental HeroI just had a go at both of Tron software's games. Oriental Hero is, as it was at the time, utter unplayable trash. I owned that one back in the d…
[quote="XTM of TMG;969586"]Yes it is.[/quote]
Level 3 of Bomb Jack (the castle) is my favourite ever graphic (on the arcade version).
But yes, Oriental Hero is ****. -
Subject Areas That the Spectrum did not "get into" Yup, the Speccy covered a lot of ground but regrettably it did not "get into" these areas :- Psycholinguistics , Philology , and Sociometry . Any…
... video game.
"On the Busses" would have made a ... Brothers, very much akin to Jack the Nipper or that other game ... in a shop (I forget the name). -
Subject Areas That the Spectrum did not "get into" Yup, the Speccy covered a lot of ground but regrettably it did not "get into" these areas :- Psycholinguistics , Philology , and Sociometry . Any…
... video game.
"On the Busses" would have made a ... Brothers, very much akin to Jack the Nipper or that other game ... in a shop (I forget the name).
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Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
[quote="mel the bell;971899"]The Yorkshire Ripper (74)
https://www ... that evil bastud in the 70's and drank ... in the same clubs and pubs ... cold bugger.
The upheaval he caused up here ... not be sure who the ripper was and as far ...I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
On the second episode of that Netflix show "The Ripper"
Mi old mate says he still has wood from the charge desk at Hammerton road police station where the ripper was taken, his dad was the charge Sergeant at the time.i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... Stardust
06:16 The Cramps Ultra Twist
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35:12 The The I Saw the Light
37 ... Cannibal Corpse Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead
... br /> 3:07:27 The Didjits Judge the Hot Fudge
... /> 4:31:46 Gwar Jack the World
4:33: ...Short's Fuse, the true poor man's Chuckie Egg.Short's Fuse, looked great in still pictures but the moment you started to play it you soon realise It's nothing more than a poor man's Chuckie Egg. …
Yup it is sh*t! The sequel is just as bad! Like Short's Fuse is a poor mans Chuckie Egg, Super Sam is a poor mans Jack the Nipper.Short's Fuse, the true poor man's Chuckie Egg.Short's Fuse, looked great in still pictures but the moment you started to play it you soon realise It's nothing more than a poor man's Chuckie Egg. …
[quote="dm_boozefreek;978890"]Yup it is sh*t! The sequel is just as bad! Like Short's Fuse is a poor mans Chuckie Egg, Super Sam is a poor mans Jack the Nipper.[/quote]
Was there a sequel to Short's Fuse?The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... a chippy in Whitechapel called Jack the chipper. He has received complaints ... that the name is offensive to the victims and people ... he will do nothing of the sort. Honestly, what's wrong ...Life Hacks - desribe your bestI found a good one today it probably won't always work but I must try it a few times - Approach a supermarket checkout person pleasantly. Give her /…
... mins to put the battery on charge the night before and ... ready to use. Changing the oil on the car, you've ... a new filter. You jack the car up and put it ... given you that information about the sump plug, but instead ... it's take the car back of the axle stands, put ...Life Hacks - desribe your bestI found a good one today it probably won't always work but I must try it a few times - Approach a supermarket checkout person pleasantly. Give her /…
... to use. Changing the oil on the car, you've ... a new filter. You jack the car up and put it ... given you that information about the sump plug, but instead ... started cold, especially for the first cut of spring. ... of it into the air intake, the lawn mower starts ...Things that people >= 40 (ish) would recognize (and others would likely not)#1: Used to see these all over the place, usually right above the bath tub. [img]http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A052-01718/3/A0…
... into trouble) walking around the local place and shooting ... 'd be on the outside of the leg, and since ... to shoot peas at the light bulbs which would ... peas, saying "It were the peas." - I still don ... Maybe it was the influence of playing Jack The Nipper too, but ...Quiz: Find the name of the Spectrum game containing these first namesSo, inspired by that other thread where it was asked if you knew any games containing first names, I'll make a simple quiz out of it. The question…
... a Spectrum game with the following first name containing ... " doesn't count, but "Jack's Fruit Simulator" probably would ... Mole[/spoiler]
3) Jack [spoiler]Jack the Nipper[/spoiler]
4) ... /> 12) Simon [spoiler]Simon the sorcerer[/spoiler]
13) ...Politically Incorrect Games I Love To Own . By today's standards a lot of the 1980's freedoms seem to be seen as being politically out of date and sometimes abhorent even from some standpoint…
There's native jungle people in the second Jack the nipper game. Would that now be considered racist or stereotyping.Jack the Nipper 2 EditorJack The Nipper 2 - Mapeditor v0.8 (c) Sokurah, May 2012 I made [url="https://tardis.dk/files/Jack_The_Nipper_2_Editor.zip"]this[/url] about 10 y…
I never actually played Jack the Nipper, but this still looks very cool and I might need to look into playing it.Make up a Lyric (Can they guess the original tune?)Starting with an easy one! Can you guess the original tune? Christmas Is The Time for VERY EXPENSIVE New Graphics cards so I thought of this :- …
Wah Wah? Jude the Obscure.
Easy one ... .
Jet Pac, Jumping Jack, Jack the Nipper, Atic Atac
Viking ...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…
... games on Steam such as the Monty games and ones like ... Mission games. He says that the Jack the Nipper games are also being ...What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
Been playing Jack the Nipper but forgot where to use half the objects!Misconseptions you had about games when you were a kidSai Combat: For years I believed it was about two blind guys fighting with sticks...
... in a sense.)
Jack the nipper was some sort of ... featured daffy duck in the game.
The "alien birds" in ...Jack Bauer - Caught By The ChineseJust watched the final episode of 24 earlier and I have to say that was the best cliffhanger ending ever. The episode as a whole was fairly lacklustr…
... say that was the best cliffhanger ending ever. The episode as ... a whole was fairly lacklustre with Jack being ... br />
The scene at the very end with Jack bloody and broken ... , pleading with the ...Farmer Jack and the Hedge MonkeysFinally I have the cassette of this good game by Bobs, but I find it quite difficult, much more than its prior game Farmer Jack in Harvest Havoc, whi…
Finally I have the cassette of this good ... than its prior game Farmer Jack in Harvest Havoc, which I ... 5!! How many levels does the game have, Bob? I ... that I am not near the end hehe,
... playing, cheers and congrats for the game as well, really ...Loading program over the MIC jackI put the plug into the wrong jack and loaded a program over the MIC jack. Is it possible that the ZX 48K is damaged because after a while the pic c…
... put the plug into the wrong jack and loaded a program over the MIC jack ... .
Is it possible that the ZX ... damaged because after a while the pic crashed and I can ... 48K out and plug the kabel into the EAR jack. Now it works ...Replacement for the ear and mic jack?Which replacement for the ear and mic jack from the ZX 48K fits? Or gives it the same jacks in new? Micky
Which replacement for the ear and mic jack from the ZX 48K fits? Or gives it the same jacks in new?
MickyJack and the Beanstalk (Text Adventure)This is for the 1984 TEXT adventure of Jack and the Beanstalk - not the more popular Thor game which is more graphical. [IMG]http://i66.servimg.com/…
... TEXT adventure of Jack and the Beanstalk - not the more popular Thor ... kid BUT I cannot for the life of me, remember ... how to tie up the damn cow!!
... I have the rope but can't seem ... to tie up Daisybell the cow. All I get ...Jumping Jack in the arcades...I was looking some information up recently on Imagine's Jumping Jack game and glanced at the Wikipedia page, only to be mildly surprised by the fact …
... Imagine's Jumping Jack game and glanced at the Wikipedia page, ... mildly surprised by the fact that the article made mention ... called Jumping Jack.
Intrigued, I checked the arcade game ...
So here's the question: are the two games actually related ...Cavelon (Ocean) & The House Jack Built (Thor) - Sealed copiesI haven't put these on eBay, as I only have 1 copy of each, but if anyone* is interested in making an offer for the following then please PM me: [LIS…
... in making an offer for the following then please PM me ... cassette release - Sealed
[*]The House Jack Built (Thor) - Original single cassette ... /> Postage for 1 cassette within the UK is 90p 1st class ...
