It was a car racing game where the whole race track was in view from above with small cars.

The was oil patches to avoid and items appearing to collect such as extra grip etc.

I had this game on a 48k spectrum.

3 in 1 name that game

1) You ...

It was definately a budget release

a kind of future sports games with two robots maybe on wheels maybe floating
where you had to shoot the ball into your opponents zone.
black screen white graphics isometric angle

you ...

It was like a Lode Runner type game but 1 zillion times better.

You ran up and down ladders chased by red monsters. You could then dig a hole and as the monster falls into the hole and traps himself you could bash him over the head to make him ...

... then find a new game name that has the first word matching ... word of the old game name.

example....

name.

No prizes, just ...

this one should be easy for you

whats the text adventure called something like hall of the goblin king, or mountain king? and you start off next to a babbling brook?

trying to find games for me bro-in-law!

cheers!

yeah, i know i asked this one before, but i've found out new information on it now so i thought i'd give it another try.

My bro-in-law thought it was called something like 'In the hall of the mountain king'. it starts by a 'babbling brook' and ...

Has anyone checked out my [url="http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/speccy/cgc2005/"]crap games[/url] yet?

there numbers 22(Maze) and 24(Name That Game simulator)

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It's definitely not Stonkers!

I was going through my snapshots folder at the weekend tidying up, deleting old savegames, etc. and I found one called Gamedemo.z80, I remember downloading it a year or so ago, and thought it looked really promising. It was a sideways space invader type ...

Hi. I just found (and searched) this forum.
Looks like many here enjoy naming games.
Well, i got one i'd like to see once again, from my early youth.

It's a small game, in a single screen. Screen is divided into three rows.
...

... tempted to reply to a "name that game" thread with "[url="http ... off-hand.? I'm sure that most if not all those ...

Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1

as the original post's gone off topic.....

would it be possible to get info seek to search the instructions text file for keywords, this would get a lot of games up and running straight away until some refinements could be made

Surely the title is self-explanatory?

[url]www.jmk1.freeserve.co.uk/fig/fig.htm[/url]

... the way...the emulator's name that I got on the WorldOfSpectrum ...

Roll a marble (not marble madness) around in a Knightlore style 3d world

thanks in advance

I remember playing a game on an emulator some time back but cannot remember the title.

It was a sort of business emulation game, where you had to sell lemonade.

Any ideas?

OK, It was many years ago so excuse the vague description.

I used to play it on my Spectrum 48K+

It was a car game (Not racing though), it was pretty much just wireframe (Black and White). I "Think" you could shoot too. I can't ...

Hello, all..

I'm going through some Spanish covertapes, and found this game..

I KNOW I've seen this before somewhere else..

You're in a maze, and you have to reach the exit before a giant floating "M" catches you.

you are a ships captain.

you buy stock, you sail off and you port at the other end and sell hopefully for a profit

you always had an adveture between ports (such as pirates attack you, HMG Tax man catches you, repairs etc).
...

Its a 3d game probably inspired by breakout but not isometric 3d (its not ball breaker1 or 2).

... films and theres a great tune playing.

Some of ... sad at the end when that tune starts playing.

Okay, I was recently browsing across the WoS database and ysrnry looking for good stuff to play, and stumbled across an impressive-looking Dungeon Master clone (you know, first-person Dungeon Crawler style of thing). But for some reason I never bothered ...

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This is a name that game with a difference, because ... I know the name! Does anyone knows the game ...

... new games and saw a name that caugh up my atention: Cosmic ... a "Cosmic Guerila". of course that in the end the snapshot ... hyped about a game's name, and then the game became ... /> what are your top "great Name/Awful Game" List?

... record of a game with that name that looks like this on any ...

... this.)

someone mentioned that 'jet set willy 5, ZX ... up screen. well i need that tune in my new game, so ...

i remember it was from around 1987 or 1988

It always unfolded as 4-3-3 tactics and Aston Villa are in the second division, you could not move a player, if he played in the number 9 position on the left of the field you could not move him from ...

... adventure game of the same name that came in many sequels, but ... that's not the one I' ... familiar picture on the internet that would prove I remeber this ... not even in WoS archive. that means nowhere.
I'm ...