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So you think you know your Spectrum games, do you....I thought this might be a fun thing to test your knowledge of Spectrum games - below is a quote taken directly from Crash in their description of a p…
Matt_B has got three out of six. :)
All six quotes are from the same page, which should help considerably. :D
P.S. I just had to make sure that Stonkers was one of the games. :lol: -
Louis Theroux and the Most Hated Family in America - your reactions please :)Did anybody watch it? I thought Gramps was a bit of an evil character.
[QUOTE=Matt_B;180581]Insult? I'd take that as a compliment. :lol:[/QUOTE]
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I've been using a Mac, I must say I'm dissapointed.I have been using an Apple Macintosh to do some video editing this week. I also trialed it on other simple tasks such as web browsing and Java apple…
... a mac convert. Perhaps as matt_b said, the lines are blurring ... -
My new baby...I have a new baby girl. Mother and baby doing great! Juliet 7 Lb 10 Oz Born on the 7 April 07. My wife vetoed my name proposals! Jumbo Jesse S…
... anywhere else though.)
Sevrina (Shadowfire)
Shareth (Doomdark's Revenge ... -
"periodization"let me ask so naively: what really classic speccy games were released after 1986 (if any...)? did the best developers already work on other plarforms…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;183404] I'd guess that most of the developers working on original ideas had either got squeezed out or were rapidly jumping ship to the emerging 16-bit platforms.[/QUOTE]
yes, that's how i feel about it. -
16-bit WarsDoing a 8-bit war is a bit of a no-brainer but what's your 16-bit fave, Multiple votes are allowed
[QUOTE=Matt_B;183944]Sheesh. You're a ... -
That is one ugly carBMW reckons this is their Merc killer [url]http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=4718673[/url] Jesus Christ but that is o…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;184383]It should do well with the footballer and pop star crowd then?[/QUOTE]
Oh most definately. -
That is one ugly carBMW reckons this is their Merc killer [url]http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=4718673[/url] Jesus Christ but that is o…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;184383]It should do well with the footballer and pop star crowd then?[/QUOTE]
This is why I call BMWs "drug dealer's cars". -
WOS Server under heavy loadJust got a couple of "System Load Too High" responses - I guess a lot of people have heard about the 25th Anniversary and discovered WOS through the …
... , karingal, Marcelo, Mark R Jones, Matt_B, mile, Mr Millside, natxcross, NickH ... -
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…
... the coming levels.
Shadowfire - Immersive, and you really did ... -
Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
[QUOTE=Matt_B;187918]I'd have loved ... -
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…
I always liked the Shadowfire artwork (probably due to Sevrinas outfit!) :o
[url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/s/Shadowfire_Front.jpg[/url] -
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…
... ;188632]I always liked the Shadowfire artwork (probably due to Sevrinas ... -
Good Horror Films...Can anyone recommend any good horror films for me to watch? Just to give an idea of the kind o' thing I like - I like creepy apocalyptic horror such…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;190103]My favourite John Carpenter ... -
What's everybody reading at the moment?I'm reading: Jame's Herbert's latest (picked up from Tescos for ?3 odds) The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais Shout at the Devil by Wilbur Smith (part …
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There's no "House Ordos" book by the way. Ordos is a family that only appears in the Dune 2 computer game.[/QUOTE]
Ah I see, well I knew I'd seen that name somewhere. Good game that was too :D