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Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…
... those which changed our expectations of what games could be produced ... . e.g. Knight Lore, Lords of Midnight, Starstrike II, Popeye, R ... a few off the top of my head.[/QUOTE]
Tir Na Nog, Price of Magick, Driller, Ant Attack and ... -
timeless speccy gameswhich speccy games do you hold tobe worth playing today regardless of nostlgia-reasons (if possible not to "regard" them...), regardless historical c…
... /> I think modern day ports of these 2 games would be ... robbers lurking in the shadows, and Tir Na Nog, with surreal sunsets in unearthly colours ... as you roam the land of ... -
timeless speccy gameswhich speccy games do you hold tobe worth playing today regardless of nostlgia-reasons (if possible not to "regard" them...), regardless historical c…
... lurking in the shadows, and Tir Na Nog, with surreal sunsets in unearthly ... colours as you roam the land of ... agree. Both of those games were examples of scenarios that ... to see [i]Tir Na Nog[/i] done in that style. -
Name the game (hey, its my first and hopefully last!)Hiya everyone, Usually I can figure out most of the name the games queries, but here's one that I wouldn't know where to start looking... Its a gam…
... that was advertised mail order in YS, probably around 88 ... similar to Shadow Of The Unicorn and Tir Na Nog, and the game ... featured big graphics (probably static in ... the actual game too!) of mythological beasties like ... -
Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…
I think [i]Tir Na Nog[/i] would be best if ... best would be [i]Lords of Midnight[/i] which is similarly ... but it's much more of a party-game: one to ... -
Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…
... played [i]Tir Na Nog[/i] the most, and my memories of it are ... played it (as one of the games on the first ... to be fallen and shadows of their former selves, if ... ) and many of the lands and locations in the game are ... s quite an unusual game in that respect with a ... -
Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…
... . Could not get into Tir na nog at all, seemed very ... .
Lords of Midnight blew me away, absolutely ... and wayyyy ahead of its time in gameplay. My friend ... and having a printout of all your moves would ... have a Lords of Midnight Novel written based ... -
Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…
... . Could not get into Tir na nog at all, seemed very ... br />
Lords of Midnight blew me away, absolutely ... and wayyyy ahead of its time in gameplay. My friend ... would have a Lords of Midnight Novel written based ... soon after the release of Doomdark's Revenge, so ... -
Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…
... only thing I can think of is sending copies to someone ... time from playing the game. Tir na nog is 3ft by 3ft, Dundarach ... same, Marsport is 10 pages of A3, Heavy on the magic ... is 4 pages of A3. So I am open ... -
Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…
... games did amaze me back in the day but for me ... personally belong in the Jet Set Willy/Knight ... had a chance of completing them.
In Tir Na Nog the 'baddies', could ... -
Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…
... see the sequel "Walking aimlessly in the clouds" sounds great, you ... part of the Tir Na Nog / Dun Darach series as although Marsport was in the ... same style it was in a completely ... only they'd completed more of them. -
Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…
[QUOTE=psj3809;183075]In Tir Na Nog the 'baddies', could you actually ... .
Also, once in the Forest of Cern, the Sidhe could ... -
Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
Yeah, Lords of Midnight
[url]ftp://ftp. ... /DoomdarksRevenge.jpg[/url]
Tir Na Nog was good, set the mood ... beautiful little things with lots of old looking writing on old ... -
works of artfrom the back 2 skool thread: [QUOTE=Wiggypop;186399]Fantastic games, both of them. They were games that you could properly get immersed in, and ev…
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Manic Miner (and several of it's variations).
Jet ... Set Willy (and several of it's variations).
Jack ... Gregory loses his clock.
Tir Na Nog.
Dun Durach.
Quest ... half the events from Decathlon in there).
Pippo.
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Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
... ;187675]These are a few of my favs;
[url=ftp ... -inlays/n/NodesOfYesod.jpg]Nodes of Yesod[/url]
[url=ftp ... -inlays/a/ArcOfYesodThe.jpg]Arc of Yesod[/url]
[url=ftp ... ]
Why isn't Tir Na Nog amongst your list :???: The artwork ... -
Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
... mostly associated with graphic adventures in the Tir Na Nog mode; so, when the ... loved to have seen more of the Tir Na Nog style games, but I ... guess they were something of a ... was symptomatic of the way the games market went in the ... -
Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
... the PC version of Tir Na Nog as it looked very nice in the PC ... -
Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
... loved to have seen more of the Tir Na Nog style games, but I ... guess they were something of a niche ... have been one of the lowest out of most of the software houses ... -
Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
... ;187675]These are a few of my favs;
[url=ftp ... -inlays/n/NodesOfYesod.jpg]Nodes of Yesod[/url]
[url=ftp ... -inlays/a/ArcOfYesodThe.jpg]Arc of Yesod[/url]
[url=ftp ... ][/QUOTE]
Why isn't Tir Na Nog amongst your list :???: The artwork ... -
Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
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[LIST][*]Tir na Nog: walking past some bushes when one of those heads ... pops out. Or entering one of those remote red-coloured areas ... full of Sidhes...
[*]Marsport: when an ... -
Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
... don't like that spider in Wriggler.
Tir na Nog: walking past some bushes when one of those heads ... to race while walking through tir clachan just hoping to avoid ... popping up on either side of the path. -
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…
I'm sure I've done a list before. Hope it's the same.
Tir Na Nog
Dun Darach
Starquake
Highway Encounter
Pyjamarama
Turmoil
Match Day
Knight Lore
Nodes of Yesod
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Komplex CityNow, what really was the story behind this? There was a great article in Crash about the full-colour, clashless 3D and (perhaps predictably) a revie…
... some way short of a Smash, and some of the other magazines ... its technical aspects, and most of the critisism the game received ... by that point - the likes of Tir Na Nog and Avalon having both raised ... already parted company with most of the people who'd written ... -
I'm Free!!We've all had a ride round in Turbo Esprit, stopping at lights running over pedestrians, etc, and in Skooldaze/Back to Skool we've done everything bu…
... I went to the edges of the maps.
Explorer ... the dull side). And yeah, Tir Na Nog, Dragontorc?
But surely ... -
The actual top ten Spectrum games EVER! : )I had a free moment and collected all the votes from the thread of "Top 10 Spectrum games ever". ([I][url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/show…
... d rank it in my top 50.
Of course there ... are many games listed here, Elite, Tir Na Nog would ... are just not my sort of game. I can easily ... Renegade should be my sort of game - I can play ... 100 would indicate, one of the top 3 all time ... -
My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
... can you reduce the height of Charlie (the cyan spaceman ... whereas the heights of all of the other characters is ... of Exolon bloke's head, and make every character in ... to fit in with the rest of the characters?
Maybe with a small Tir Na Nog guy, or a sidhe, ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
... did seem like a lot of walking around and not doing ... so i always had more of a liking for that ... to it but i found Tir Na Nog quite dull.
... lot back in the day but its the type of game you ... something to get enjoyment out of it. Going into the game ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
... to be an awful lot of doing nothing...i.e. walking ... /> Ditto! All I did in the Tir Na Nog games was to walk around ... -
Your views on...Tirnanog[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292]Tirnan?g[/url] Right! First off, you guys need to be really careful about what you say…
I loved Tir Na Nog. The atmosphere (echoing earlier comments) ... ... seeing faces in hedges or finding doors in the middle of nowhere. This ... -
Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …
... games), Fairlight, Tir Na Nog, Trap Door, and so on, all of which do ... the graphics artist mentioned in an interview in Retro Gamer, the Spectrum ... at the fixed height of the characters in the game. Instead the ... amazing, and drew many of us in like very few games ...
