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Good names of characters in games?Which character from a Spectrum game had a really good name? Were any of them particularly cool or were they all a bit silly like Miner Willy, Monty…
[QUOTE=Mousey]Sam Cruise (from Contact Sam Cruise) is kind of cool.
[EDIT] Oh, and Joe Blade is pretty good too.[/QUOTE]
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Quick(ish) to complete gamesI'm fancying spending some time playing games that I never played 1st time around, or that I never got far with. Can anyone recommend any games that …
... at the right time.
Joe Blade 2 - once you figure out ... -
generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …
... , but occasionally no).
Joe Blade 1 and 2, and maybe ... didn't play 3 much Joe Blade had worn thin by then ... -
The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.
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Think that was Joe Blade, tho' I can't be ... -
The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.
Dunno if it's been mentioned yet but I quite like the little Pac-Man game that you could play during Joe Blade 2s' loading time. I think it may have actually been better than the game itself. -
Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
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joe blade 2 128k.
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Renegade III ... what happened here?I just had a bit of a revelation ... I've never seen nor played the third and last installment of the Renegade series! I was traipsing down Memory L…
It has the music of Robocop, the visual style of Op Wolf, the sprites of Joe Blade and the playability of Shangai Warriors...
A complete mess. -
Hidden gamesAs you may or may not know, Zub has a hidden game in it (a kind of shoot em up). Is there any other games which have hidden games in them? I guess …
... you play a minigame from Joe Blade while it was loading (but ... -
Hidden gamesAs you may or may not know, Zub has a hidden game in it (a kind of shoot em up). Is there any other games which have hidden games in them? I guess …
... you play a minigame from Joe Blade while it was loading (but ... while loading?[/QUOTE]
Joe Blade II, that Pacman confused the ... -
Budget GamesWhch is your favourite Speccy budget game? *And I don't mean full price re-releases* There were some real class Speccy games that you could pick up …
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Imagination
Joe Blade
Fued
The island ... -
Budget GamesWhch is your favourite Speccy budget game? *And I don't mean full price re-releases* There were some real class Speccy games that you could pick up …
... Puff in Dragon Land
Joe blade (liked the others too, but ... -
Budget GamesWhch is your favourite Speccy budget game? *And I don't mean full price re-releases* There were some real class Speccy games that you could pick up …
... /> I ball
Imagination
Joe Blade
Fued
The island ... -
Instantly recognizable Speccy game characters...How many Speccy game characters would be instantly recognizable to people these days? Especially if they weren't that familiar/hadn't used a speccy f…
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Harvey Headbanger
Joe Blade
Lion O
Bravestarr ... Tortoise
Elvin Warrior
Blade Warrior
That ball thingy ... -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
Nothing beats playing pacman while loading up Joe Blade 2. -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
Was gonna say thats the one. Technican Ted was cool at the time but when there was that game (Joe Blade you say) which had a mini game while it loaded, that was the best -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
[QUOTE=ghbearman;222689]Nothing beats playing pacman while loading up Joe Blade 2.[/QUOTE]
Moonstrike (48k) had a much better loader. -
Spectrum Emus for the DSSo what's the emu of choice then, I've got a DS on the way and one of those blank cart things, and the first thing I want to do is play Spectrum gam…
Any chance you'll be implementing normal-speed tax/tap loading so that stuff like Joe Blade 2's Pacman is playable? :) Fuss, moan, complain ;) -
Joe Blade 2 - I'm confusedHowdy, Been playing Joe Blade 2 recently and the sub-games are a lot easier than I remember, but that might be the way with most games now. Anyway, …
... simple compared to the other Joe Blade games, but I found they ... -
unheralded classic games...(in your opinion, of course.) [U]Kane[/U] great cowboy adventure game in 4 stages, I used to play this all the time. 1. shoot birds down (presumabl…
... the unofficial part 4to the Joe Blade series apparently, but I tried ... -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
... fantastic little minigame which advertised Joe Blade 3.
I also ... -
Hardest Speccy character?[url=http://www.peoww.co.uk/features/zfc.html]Here's[/url] my take on it. I'm already regretting not putting in Butch Hard Guy but that game pretty …
Joe Blade was hard. Just look at that mean face and the way he struts around holding his gun (but ignore the Freddy Mercury 'tache though) -
Favourite Speccy MomentsOk, just for fun (and for my own curiosity), what are everyone's favourite (or most satisfying) Spectrum moments? For example, the swot in [I]Skool D…
... putting Dizzy, Rock n' Wrestle, Joe Blade and Barbarian on the tape ... -
Dr. Polidori - "Because I Can!"aka Yet another insane idea for a thread by Necros. If you could create a hybrid of two well known games and make a completely game out of them, wha…
... a new kind of bomb Joe Blade cut an incorrect wire which ... instead of explode. Strangely enough Joe was unharmed and sucked into ... -
Games with 1980s news or cultural reference/relevanceI'm buliding a list of games that refer fairly directly to 80s current affairs, culture, music and fashion. I'm not after games that only link to fil…
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Back to the Speccy: Joe Blade II featured a London overrun ... it counts :)[/QUOTE]
Joe Blade and Prison Riot (mentioned above ... -
Games with 1980s news or cultural reference/relevanceI'm buliding a list of games that refer fairly directly to 80s current affairs, culture, music and fashion. I'm not after games that only link to fil…
[QUOTE=Jumping Stack;263240]Joe Blade and Prison Riot (mentioned above) ... -
Which games did you complete?Ok, time for another survey - list which Spectrum games you completed. Please list those with some poke or other cheat separately. Define completion …
Decompiling a TAP file and remaking a game in FlashHello everyone! I posted this, in part, under another username (a while back) but I don't have access to that account anymore so I started another h…
... , just picked a random game (joe blade 2 128k), and the menu ...Loading music in ZX Spectrum games.I've always wondered, did any ZX Spectrum games feature AY 3 -8912 loading music (I'm not aware of any) or was this a technical impossibility on the …
... of their loaders like the Joe-Blade 2 bomb diffuser and the ...
