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Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…
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The arcade I visited had 2 brand new games in - NEMESIS ... the Spectrum could attempt the arcade games of the day, and ... jerky, colour clashing or monochrome arcade conversions.
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OpenGL - how to install it and whatever?How do you actually install OpenGL, if it needs installing at all? I seem to remember for Quake 3, when it came out in 1999, that I had to install a …
... too keen on PC games, as I much prefer ... Megadrive, Amstard CPC, C64, arcade games from the 80s, etc), it ... system, and run all games at a high resolution ... played the same undemanding games on them as they ... play their old favourite games any longer anyway :roll: -
PS3 vs Wii[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9136575504838642038[/url]
... , one of the very few games I've done that with ... 's probably my least favourite of all the Zelda games, the whole sailing ... -
PS3 vs Wii[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9136575504838642038[/url]
... , one of the very few games I've done that with ... 's probably my least favourite of all the Zelda games, the whole sailing ... i have, cant remember which games are on which now, i ... -
horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
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Type-in resolution help reqd.In preparation for the next type-in update, I noticed that Infoseek has 2 type-ins wrongly attributed (quite likely be me :oops: ) to the book "49 Ex…
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* Hi-Rize (ditto?)
* Morse Code (40 educational games for the spectrum?)
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
do you think, speccy games really do excell in the ... , i'd say (among pure arcade games at least), really "witty" gameplay itself ... , when compared to current free games, e.g. (honestly, i can ... -
retro gamming on new gen consoles...I'm not really that excited about this new generation of consoles... there is a zombie exclusive games for X-box that I would love to try, but by no…
... console for retro gaming, at least if you get it modded ... to emulate all the classic arcade games and machines. Apparently you can ... , then you've got enough games to keep you going for ... -
best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…
... too slow to do decent arcade games with. About the closest you ... hand, there are plenty of arcade games written in compiled BASIC. Frank ... tons and infiltrado 2 at least show, you *can* have decent ... -
Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…
... a C90 cassette of these games, as he seemed interested. ... knew, Ocean were publishing these games under the thieving bast's ... a serious note - Frobush, the games were brilliant for the time ... are two of my favourite arcade style Speccy games ) and I still play ... -
The Specchum DatabaseThis evening I was going through the bygone topics that were discussed on the WoS forums, some extending to the very beginning of time (2001 to be so…
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Present: full time retro games trader for past 8 years ... /> Bernard Bresslaw
13) Least Favourite haircut?
Anything slightly ... />
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What was the first game with a life bar?The Australian game program "Good Game" had a segment about the history of the life bar in video games, and they reckoned that the first one they cou…
... were a lot of early arcade games; if you have MAME, sort ... have any of those games, the hundreds of games pre-Speccy (the ... likely that there was at least one game with a life ... -
Favorite C64 games?It seems that the guys over at [url=http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27077]Lemon[/url] are finally admitting that they like Spectrum game…
... 'dont mention any type of arcade conversion ever.....' thread !
games mentioned which are arcade ports ? Many ... like playing computer conversions of arcade games. At the end of ... title is misleading its 'Favourite C64 game (not including ... -
Was Knight Lore Really Written Before Sabre Wulf?Was Knight Lore really written before Sabre Wulf or was this a clever form of self promotion by the Stamper brothers? It was a great piece of journa…
... 1988, four years after the games were released.
< ... for 2D games?
3. 2D arcade games were still ... that it might be at least partly true:
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Which was your worst 'death' music/animation?Following on from the Gyroscope thread, which made me want to to break the sodding Speccy, what was your worst 'death sequence' in a game? Be it mus…
[QUOTE=ZnorXman;295227]Wasn't that in Narc? At least the coin-op version I recall it having that message.[/QUOTE]
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"The arcade is done. Game over."Nice little article on the death of the arcades. [url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/explore/chi-arcades-end-0605jun05,0,3830088.s…
... , which is full of old arcade games.
I've never ... 't be going until at least next week. Although it's ... it feel like a real arcade :lol: -
In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…
... ][QUOTE=Lockett;306390]At least we're a million ... were a bit like the arcade games on the 8-bit ... Workbench. Your point? At least Vista isn't childish and ... people that I know, at least). I hate it, though - ... 't surprise me in the least.[/QUOTE]
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Anybody use MAME?Just downloaded it there and got some golden oldies working. Anybody else use it?
Sometimes games are on there simply because ... Boxer and my all time favourite arcade game battlezone into the mix -
Your favourite Playstation?Which is your favourite Playstation out of the Playstation 1, 2 and 3? I haven't included the Playstation Portable (PSP), as that is a handheld rathe…
... 80% of original XBox games I've tried on it ... , most of which render games unplayable... a good example ... br /> Yep, and some great games don't work at all ... at least I can play ALL of my favourite XBox games with ... their PS2 jointly for games and DVD reading, and ... -
Free Radical and Factor 5 go bust?Tragically, Free radical, who wrote [I]Timesplitters 1, 2[/I] and [I]3 (TS: Future Perfect), Second Sight[/I], and [I]Haze[/I], have gone bust. [I]Ti…
... The Hood in an arcade in Morecambe when I ... few Midway games that I've at least thought were ... , the Ready 2 Rumble games did absolutely nothing for me ... as Balrog, the Gauntlet games just seem to have ... the 'golden age' of arcade games....the likes of Robotron ... -
Fuse PSP has been updated!The brilliant FUSE PSP has just been updated to Fuse 0.10.0.1 (FUSE PSP released on January the 1st, 2009), and is available at: [url]http://psp.ako…
... there can be about 128 games on a TRDOS disk... Understand ... No, it's true, at least as far as I can ... like to find out what games do not worked as ... tens of thousands of Spectrum games and try them all, ... Being able to play my favourite Speccy games on a train, or ... -
"We don't understand computers but we've got ?3.58 million to spend on them....... so lets find a problem to solve with the money" is a good translation of the article at: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.s…
... be useful, or at least desired for archiving purposes ... games, Atari ST games, Spectrum games, arcade games, calendar files, screenshots, ZX81 games, MSX games, Amiga games ... . Play your Amiga games on WinUAE. Load ... from 1970s Space Invaders games to three-inch ... -
"We don't understand computers but we've got ?3.58 million to spend on them....... so lets find a problem to solve with the money" is a good translation of the article at: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.s…
... badly thought out (or at least badly defined) project.
games!) and has probably countless bugs ... the relevent formats, and not arcade games, Speccy games, GIF, TXT, SNA, Z80 ... -
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…
... out, competently programmed isometric games weren't in shortage.[/ ... technically amazing, better than many arcade games) and Knightlore (which I ... by the usually brilliant Gargoyle Games.
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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 …
... I know that Ultimate's games are, almost entirely, technical masterpieces ... at 92%. Computer and Video Games said it was "the best ... as "the favourite arcade adventure amongst computer gamesters". Personal Computer Games wrote that ... -
Happy birthday to me!:sad:Hoooray! 35 today! Christ, I'm getting to be an old fuck! Only 5 more years off the official start of middle age :-o Err.. where did my youth go…
... the party....
My favourite speccy memories:...
... it must be good) games compilation... But Wow.. Look ... for you sir'. My favourite tho was 'Espionage Island'. ... - 'Mad Martha' See above + with arcade games as well...
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classics games youve never played.Video games history is littered with many classic games we may argue over which ones are true classics and which ones arent but im interested in conf…
... amongst my favourite games. I have never played the original arcade of Outrun ... have never played the original arcade.[/QUOTE]
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XBox 360 prices to go up in Great BritainThose well know altruists Microsoft are once again showing how much they care for our little island: "[I]Retailers have told [URL="http://www.euro…
... first (I think at least) that a games console actually goes UP ... Xbox360 Core system (now the Arcade version mentioned here) on it ... -
The Complete COBRA Disassembly (Joffa's!)Now that I've seen this thread about Skool Daze / Back to Skool disassemblies I've remembered I started an ambitious project quite a few years ago: …
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What was the name of that game?Hi there, This is my first thread of any kind! I hope it brings me beginners luck. I?m after a game I used to play and was very fond of, but you'v…
... revisiting some of my old favourite Speccy games recently. However, there are ... the name of is an arcade style game.
The player ...
