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what games do people?...............what games do people like to play the most on the spectrum? (platform, racing, adventure, shoot'em'up etc)
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are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
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what was the best ultimate game?i think ultimate made some of the finest games on the spectrum but which game was their best? For me it has to be Atic Atac,its still a game i play o…
... the first were all greats Jetpac, Pssst, Atic Atac, Tranz Am ... -
What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
... past the first level of platform burger building.
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What games shall I put on 1 floppy disc for a work colleague? Which emulator?Someone at work, in his 50's was talking to me about the ZX Spectrum. He has a Windows 98 PC, and mentioned that his kids used to like playing Head O…
Wanted: Monty Mole and the random crushersA fairly good rip off of Jet Set Willy, this game suffers from one main weakness- the randomly falling crushers. You can be the best player in the wo…
I agree. One of the sequels (Monty on the Run) also suffered from the same problem.
Can any1 remember the 5 gadgets you had to select at the start of Monty on the Run? I know about the jetpac, but I'm buggered if I can remember the others!A Question about something that has been bothering me for a while ..First off, I'm new to this forum, so please don't all flame me at once >:) I've had a Speccy since about '85 and started with the rubberkey Spec 48K…
... load a regular game(like jetpac, Tir-na-nog) into Arcade ...Wanted: Monty Mole and the random crushersA fairly good rip off of Jet Set Willy, this game suffers from one main weakness- the randomly falling crushers. You can be the best player in the wo…
... you need are:
Jetpac, rope, bottle of rum, passport ...Name of a game (again...)Big hellos to everyone in the [B]Spectrum community[/B]! You guys must be [I]sick[/I] of this type of posts by now, but here's another one. I rememb…
... -em up? shoot-em up? platform based? isometric 3d? jump and ...Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... . Push your enemies off a platform suspended in space in this ...Looking for a game...Sorry to bother you guys with this question... Actually i'm looking for two spectrum games that I used to play as a child... The first was a game w…
the first one sounded like jetpac until you said about big bones...could it be fantastic voyage by quiksilva?
The second sounds like Valhalla.Manic Miner - Processing PlantI've tried a search of this site and other user groups and not found an answer. Can you help? How do I jump into the exit box in the Processing …
you have to jump from the very edge of the platform to the left of the exit,it has to be a pixel perfect jump,you should jump on the last pixel before you would drop off the platform whilst walking right,then you just reach the exit to end that level.whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... cassette ! Fave games on this platform, that'll be MR DO ...SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
Yet Another Speccy Quiz (not too hard)OK! I thought I'd chance my arm at one of these things. I must say I've found the recent quizzes WAY too difficult, so I've pitched this one at simpl…
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3. Which quirky platform game deliberately "crashed" just after ...which direction?................hi there, which direction do you think the computer games industry will go in the future as games become more realistic etc and what are your views o…
... realistic graphics, or 3rd person platform games with more advances cartoony ...Obscure FavouritesWe all know Manic Miner and Fairlight are classics, but surely everyone has some favourite speccy games that aren't so well-known. For mine I'd nomi…
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Basically this is a platform game with fighting overtones. Rescue ...Self extracting gamesHi Does anybody know of a way to create individual self running games. ie using an emulator (or other program) to create a single file.I am trying t…
... to this problem: they're platform independent (hopefully!) and can be ...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…
... 36605,1 To start with Jetpac
Poke 36605,2 To ...new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
... many, and not on that platform... But I've heard very ...Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…
... action games!
Deathchase, Jetpac, Lunar Jetman, Starquake, Firelord, Cookie ...Exolon Remake?On the main WOS site, it links to modern remakes and there are TWO new versions of Exolon listed there. The only thing is the links seem to be out of…
... re-design) and Exolon - TCA, Jetpac PC and all the others ...Did anyone attend GAME ON in London this summer?I went twice, and enjoyed playing all the old games immensly. Although the Speccy was there (48k Rubber key), it was only there being displayed. The…
... were saying Manic Miner or Jetpac as an obvious choice for ...What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
... of games, so I chose Jetpac and Gobble a Ghost - Gobble ... Ghost lasted 20 minutes until Jetpac took over my life for ...Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…
hey Akira!!
why dont you try "NorthStar"??? I guess is a very nice platform game. I guess with this game engine it would be able to do a nice spectrum GreatGiannaSisters.. with colorfull graphics.Spectrum musichello, I was wondering if anyone had released some kind of music sequencing software for the spectrum? if so, can anyone point me in a direction of …
For me the best ever sound fx was the "farting" noise in JetPac when you "died"