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Why people are addicted to bad graphic, silly gameplay games?and also, making remakes of them? why there are tons of remakes of boulder dash, jet set willy, manic miner, jetpac, monty mole and so on? why ther…
... is strange. Let's take Manic Miner vs. Lode Runner. Lode Runer ... " PC scene, and where is Manic Miner? [/quote]
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Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
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5. Matthew Smith - Manic Miner
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Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
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girls and speccy gamesit seems that most if not all of us on here are boys (ok so some are men) and i can only recall 1 girl ever posting on here and if your not a girl Sm…
My wife was a speccy user, she tells me she had fond memories of playing Horace goes skiing, and our friend Carol loved manic miner and can hum the tune perfectly
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SPECCY GAMES U LOVED BUT PPL HATEDAPART FROM THE CLASSICS BATMAN MANIC MINER THERE ARE SOME SPECTRUM GAMES I COULDNT FOR THE LIFE OF ME UNDERSTAND WHY PPL DIDN'T LIKE THEM GAMES LIKE.…
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personally for me, automania is one of the worst games written on spectrum (after the manic miner) -
SPECCY GAMES U LOVED BUT PPL HATEDAPART FROM THE CLASSICS BATMAN MANIC MINER THERE ARE SOME SPECTRUM GAMES I COULDNT FOR THE LIFE OF ME UNDERSTAND WHY PPL DIDN'T LIKE THEM GAMES LIKE.…
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girls and speccy gamesit seems that most if not all of us on here are boys (ok so some are men) and i can only recall 1 girl ever posting on here and if your not a girl Sm…
There was this friend of mine whose little sisters used to play Manic Miner. I do not remember them going past the Central Cavern, though :D -
Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
... managed 1 afterall it did manic miner with such ease and countless ... -
The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
I never saw games for CPC, so I could compare ZX/C64:
Better ZX: Fantastic Vojage, Manic Miner, Renegate, Monty Mole, Cuckie Egg
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are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
... dont think i could play manic miner for 4 hours solid but ... -
Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
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Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
... , or even a Speccy without Manic Miner... it's just wrong, dammit ... -
are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
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what would you?.................hi everybody, what games would you have liked to have done the programming, graphics etc for and why? :)
I would have liked to programmed manic miner.
I tried for years to do a game like it,me and my mate did a similar game for the texas ti994a in extended basic and sent it to a software company...we heard nothing lol. -
Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
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Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
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Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
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Sharopolis's QuizHere you are folks, My quiz, edutainment at its best. This is the first quiz I've compiled so sorry if its too easy or hard or whatever. Some of the…
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…
Now here's an idea...I don't know if anyone's thought of this before, if they have then I ain't heard of it. How about putting all the electronics required for a kickass …
... writing a Javascript version of Manic Miner or any other speccy classics ...Now here's an idea...I don't know if anyone's thought of this before, if they have then I ain't heard of it. How about putting all the electronics required for a kickass …
... writing a Javascript version of Manic Miner or any other speccy classics ... . Yes.
Secondly, the manic Miner thing. [url="http://www.bigredswitch ... .co.uk/games/manic/"]http://www.bigredswitch.co.uk ...Now here's an idea...I don't know if anyone's thought of this before, if they have then I ain't heard of it. How about putting all the electronics required for a kickass …
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A JavaScript version of manic miner would be nigh on impossible ...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.A Spectrum, a couple of felt tip pens and a lot of free time on Sunday afternoons...In my opinion the best part of having a Spectrum was drawing a game map of the latest Ultimate game in the back page of my geography text book thereb…
... numbers for the screens on manic miner in the back of my ...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…
... Mountain King" (the same as Manic Miner)
13. Push your ...FoonI've recently discovered Foon, which is a Speccy emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. I have used it with a GBA emulator to try and get a feel…
...and I've not noticed any scrolling problems. Mind you, I've mostly been trying stuff like Manic Miner, Jet Pac (ahem) and Exolon.
But I did try that feast of 3D wonder, Micronaut One, and that ran fine. So scrolling should be cool.An old favourite returns...(again)Whilst in the games section of my local HMV store earlier today, I had a look at the "new releases" poster, and was stopped dead in my tracks. On Aug…
... of my fave game ever Manic Miner but like javier said i ...An old favourite returns...(again)Whilst in the games section of my local HMV store earlier today, I had a look at the "new releases" poster, and was stopped dead in my tracks. On Aug…
Unless they make them dark, backgrounds on Manic Miner would be a mistake. The Retrospec remake of MM is a great example of how such a game should be updated.What Spectrum games do you play most, currently?What Spectrum games do you play most, currently? Mine are: -Match Day -Match Point -Decathlon
Lately I have only been playing Speccy games on my Amstrad E-mailer, so choice is limited.
Bomb Jack
Manic Miner
Galaxians
are my top 3 out of the 80 or so games available.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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We all know Manic Miner and Fairlight are classics, but ...
