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Help! Need to prove the Speccy's worthA friend of mine who used to own a C64 (well, alright, not a friend, an aquaintance ;) ) was saying how good Dropzone was, and how it proves that the…
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How did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…
... were using VAXen to assemble coin-op code (the source being [url ... -
games with human speech in themFast Food Jonah Barrington's Squash Meteor Strike Amaurote (?) any more...list 'em up.
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How many items of a good Spectrum game got sold?Is it known how large quantities of typical Spectrum games sold back in the 80's? A popular game, did it sell like 10.000 or 100.000 items?
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Shackled: How many levels?Does anyone know how many levels [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004419"]Shackled[/URL] has? The "counter" has three zeroes…
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Shackled: How many levels?Does anyone know how many levels [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004419"]Shackled[/URL] has? The "counter" has three zeroes…
Lowest rated game you intentially bought?What I mean by this is what is the game that you knew full well wasn't rated highly by your fave mag yet, for some unknown reason you bought it anywa…
Nothing really stands out in my mind, apart from Road Runner (the US Gold coin-op conversion), which got a 7 in YS.Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
... Mutant Hero Turtles 2 : The Coin-Op (Si)
-Desperado 2 (Si ...Decisions decisions...Spend Sunday studying for a tax exam at the end of the year (as part of an accountancy degree) or play SNES games on ZSNES on my laptop... Guess wha…
... : Almost as good as the coin op.
Flying Warriors: Terrible ...
Sexy Parodius: Excellent coin op, translates into excellent SNES game ...Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
... /> Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Coin-Op
Temple of Terror (or ...Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
... played a lot to the coin-op before speccy conversion... IremCorp succeeded ...Top 10 Spectrum games everName 10 games you think, on your opinion, are the best Spectrum games ever, for any reason. My list is: (in alphabetical order) - Cyclone - Daley Th…
... was a conversion of the coin-op, so the question is: Go ... game inspired by the Midway coin-op, or were they "inspired" when ...Top 10 Spectrum games everName 10 games you think, on your opinion, are the best Spectrum games ever, for any reason. My list is: (in alphabetical order) - Cyclone - Daley Th…
... game inspired by the Midway coin-op, or were they "inspired" when ...Top 10 Spectrum games everName 10 games you think, on your opinion, are the best Spectrum games ever, for any reason. My list is: (in alphabetical order) - Cyclone - Daley Th…
... was a conversion of the coin-op, so the question is: Go ... game inspired by the Midway coin-op, or were they "inspired" when ...Work In ProgressHi folks, Many people ask what is in the pipeline to avoid sourcing tapes/disks/carts that we've either already dumped or have as WIP. They may rem…
... /> SU issue 92: 6 Amazing Coin-Op Tracks Sinclair User
Summer ...What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…
... -?12.99 that were generally coin-op conversions or taken from 16bit ...BloodwychHello all! Just found this site recently and was sifting through the games section when I come across Bloodwych (yeah only up to the b's so far). So…
Best Elite game?What's your favourite Elite game? I like Paperboy myself.
... Harrier were probably the best coin-op conversions.
I have ...Taiato LegendsThis Christmas I got my self a real bargain. for 7 euros I bought Taiato Legends for ps2... now one thing I've noticed is that I have less and less…
... pilot by error on the coin-op. Not completed it on any ...Sad day...I've been working near a shopping mall for the past 3 years, and it used to be the biggest shopping mall in lisbon. well I guess it was pretty much …
... arcade and playing loads of coin-op games was in Glasgow in ... only time I've seen coin-op machines is when there's ...Playability and Technical ExpertiseWhat Spectrum games were both very playable and fun yet pushed the Spectrum to its limits graphically and/or sonically. I know many of the highly po…
I know it wasn't the coin-op conversion everyone was hoping for, but I personally thought Outrun was a huge achievement on the Speccy. Of the 8-bit versions, it was by far the best (as the speccy versions usually are). :grin:** Two Forthcoming Cronosoft Releases **Here's a couple of taster screenshots of forthcoming releases, coming very soon: SHOOT-EM-UP DESIGNER [url]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/c…
... an early 80's arcade coin-op called Ladybug, and you had ...What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
[QUOTE=Vertigo;243548]How about Flying Shark?[/QUOTE]
Arcade conversions don't count. If I wanted to play a coin-op game, I'd get MAME.What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
... I wanted to play a coin-op game, I'd get MAME ...how many jump em ups can you name?i can name two i'd class as bona fide jump em ups bugaboo the flea jumping jack
... , [I]Metro-Cross[/I]. Great coin-op conversion, still play it a ...Creating unreleased games?So, we know about games that were never released, and we hope that some of them will be found, recovered and preserved. What about games that were re…
... (before going on to a coin-op version, [i]Anteater[/i ...games you persevered with, even tho' they were cr*pI remember spending ages on 'Metal Drone' ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003143)[/url], and to be honest it's not a great g…
... was pretty close to the coin-op. Which to be honest it ...games you persevered with, even tho' they were cr*pI remember spending ages on 'Metal Drone' ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003143)[/url], and to be honest it's not a great g…
... was pretty close to the coin-op. Which to be honest it ...Games with completely unsuitable speech samplesOK, so there may not be many on the Speccy, but I put far too much time than it deserved into a N64 game called Chopper Attack (fnar!) also known in …
The [i]Star Wars[/i] coin-op had tons of samples from ...