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What was the best 16K Spectrum GameOK, I'm putting up a poll, but its not really about the poll, but a chance to focus on the 16K gems. (The poll, taking those with the best WoS rating…
... Ultimate games are going to have to be there or thereabouts. Jetpac ... -
What was the best 16K Spectrum GameOK, I'm putting up a poll, but its not really about the poll, but a chance to focus on the 16K gems. (The poll, taking those with the best WoS rating…
... the spiders and all the ultimate games to name a few ... so only voted for [I]Jetpac[/I]. -
Ultimate: 2D or 3D games?Everyone else is making an Ultimate: Play the game poll, and I don't want to feel left out, so: Of the Ultimate: Play the Game games, do you prefer …
... *really* good question.
Ultimate's 2D games were without ... if I'm truly honest, Jetpac and Atic Atac both piss ... of Ultimate games to play in my Desert Island games Jetpac would ... every time and no other Ultimate game would be anywhere to ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
I think ultimate were one of the best ... the biggest impression.
Jetpac, Atic atac, sabre wulf, knightlore ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
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[QUOTE=beanz;337864]
Jetpac, Atic atac, sabre wulf, knightlore ... game.[/QUOTE]
Jetpac, Atic Atac and Knight Lore ... enough to show that Ultimate would never be able ... created the illusion that Ultimate really meant ultimate was a burst ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
... unaware of any of the ultimate games at all. Most of ... heard of the reputation of ultimate through these forums. At least ... />
(BTW - I did play JetPac on my brothers BBC model ... -
Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …
... 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games
Jetpac
Cookie ... ]
At least for Jetpac, the game is 8k, not ... -
Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …
... the ULTIMATE coders did not knew how to use POKE command because ... also a rumor about the POKE of death, so they maybe ... -
Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …
... the ULTIMATE coders did not knew how to use POKE command because ... also a rumor about the POKE of death, so they maybe ... -
What's the deal with JetPac?The instant I saw it back in the day I thought to myself "Well, that's crap ... colourful but crap nonetheless" ... and I still feel that way about t…
... dates of the games vs. JetPac but they're at least ... as one. Sure, the later Ultimate games were better, but they ... -
What's the deal with JetPac?The instant I saw it back in the day I thought to myself "Well, that's crap ... colourful but crap nonetheless" ... and I still feel that way about t…
... as one. Sure, the later Ultimate games were better, but they ... />
In it's defence Jetpac did look and move nice ... -
New Spectrum game - HomebrewWell, I finally got around to finishing the game I was supposed to finish at Urbis. Featuring lots of rather nice brightly-coloured graphics by Jarr…
... believe intentionally :) ) to great Ultimate classics: Psst, Jetpac and Cookie. Even standard ... -
Best Speccy Loading Screen??Ok Chaps! Which game do you think had the best loading screen??? Graphics, colour etc.....
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Atic Atac and Jetpac were my favourite Ultimate ones. -
WANTED - Sinclair GamesI'm searching for the following SInclair label games: *Games 2 *Games 3 *Trans Am *Panama Joe *Oil STrike *Weather Master *Planet Patrol *Disease do…
... other 3 silver "ultimate" sinclair games (pssst, cookie, jetpac)
but yeah ... -
forget top 10 and top 100 .... what IS legendary status ?games that go beyond the top 100.. much like say armalyte+wizzball on c64 and rescue on fractulus on atari 8 bit... games that were good BUT basic…
[QUOTE=JuanF. Ramirez;406649]Manic Miner
Jet Set Willy
any Ultimate game[/QUOTE]
Have to agree with this.
If I had to pick a couple of Ultimate classics, I'd go with Jetpac & Knight Lore. -
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…
Pentagram by Ultimate Play The Game - the controls ... unplayable. There is now a poke routine that fixes this though ... -
What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…
... used the bombs.
Jetpac had an odd control mechanism ... used it. Then again, several Ultimate games had that awful QWERT ... -
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…
[QUOTE=WhizzBang;412943]Pentagram by Ultimate Play The Game - the controls as it was released make the game pretty much unplayable. There is now a poke routine that fixes this though[/QUOTE]
Really? Where be that? -
Mire MareI've mentioned on these boards a few times that I had an old friend who was rumoured to have joined Rare in the early 90's but I've never been able t…
... will help, even the obscure Ultimate narratives.
... little misleading, such as Jetpac. I remember getting this ... play.
The Jetpac cover does however seem to ... are downright misleading, but Ultimate seem worth theorising about as ... -
How many Ultimate games did you complete without cheating?Ultimate games can be hard - damn hard. I've read a few times that players didn't get very far. I loved the games so I kept at them til they were bea…
... /CYCLED THROUGH WITH INFINITE LIVES POKE
Atic Atac (I know ... /> Sabre Wulf
Underwurlde
Jetpac
The rest I ... -
How many Ultimate games did you complete without cheating?Ultimate games can be hard - damn hard. I've read a few times that players didn't get very far. I loved the games so I kept at them til they were bea…
... completed an ultimate game ! Well suppose you can count JetPac as you ... -
How many Ultimate games did you complete without cheating?Ultimate games can be hard - damn hard. I've read a few times that players didn't get very far. I loved the games so I kept at them til they were bea…
... dropped after a few plays. Jetpac I did clock, but again ... bigger question is why did Ultimate insist on such stupid keyboard ... -
Why did Ultimate games load like this?What I remember about the early Ultimate games was the unusual way they loaded. You'd get the BASIC bootstrap loader, then a SCREEN$, then a main bl…
... ).
If we take JETPAC as an example the 3 ... made this variable useless. Maybe Ultimate assumed this bug would be ... the game, so maybe the Ultimate team put some debug code ... -
More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... functions. And even though most Ultimate games had a pause function ... had an abort function. And Jetpac had the badly thought out ... it's part of his jetpac.
Or look at ... -
Games in the Top 20 you hardly playLooking at the top games listing theres a few games which I just hardly play, sometimes just put off on my first go or just dont like the look of the…
... ]4. 8.74 (339) Jetpac 1983 Ultimate Play The Game Arcade: Shoot ... .68 (312) Sabre Wulf 1984 Ultimate Play The Game Arcade: Adventure ... -
Games in the Top 20 you hardly playLooking at the top games listing theres a few games which I just hardly play, sometimes just put off on my first go or just dont like the look of the…
... Underwurlde for most people and Ultimate got to me first.
Jetpac, Laser Squad, Manic Miner and ... -
Best game seriesAfter reading the History of Sabreman (in Retro Gamer) and not really having played any of these games that much, I'm left wondering what's the Spect…
... say the ultimate games are 1 series.. .e.g. jetpac + jetman etc ... -
FS: Complete Set of 10 Interface 2 ROMsComplete set, all in excellent 'collectors' condition and complete with fitted rubber skirts, plastic inner trays and instructions: [IMG]http://i244…
... versions , that's a few ultimate games and horace is ok ... Am for ?1.04, and Jetpac for ?1.85. So, that ... -
Games hacked to be played with Sinclair Joystick #1 (67890)I have mentioned a few of these in other threads, but I think they kinda deserve their own... I have been hacking a few of my favorite games which ha…
OK, here is the original Ultimate keyboard handling routine for CURSOR ... Cursor joystick option (I think Jetpac and TranzAm - both 16k) just ... the kempston reading - $733a in Jetpac. -
PaperBoy remake?PaperBoy was an amazing game and still one of my top 10 classic games but the Speccy version was awful! Im interested to know how many people would b…
... anyway, but when classics like Jetpac and R-Type are on ... such a Spectrum legend as Ultimate: Play the Game have denied ...
