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  • Name This GameHi, Can anyone tell me the name of this game. I hope the description makes sense... You had to go round rooms opening doors with red, yellow or bl…

    ... have to fight the computer's tanks -- er, hang on, that ... />
    [/quote]
    But Rommel's Revenge was released by Crystal. :)
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton February 2006 Games
  • Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…

    ... -game screen, with the Doomdark's Revenge one as an example... but ...
    hldswrth hldswrth March 2006 Support files
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    Giant`s revenge..or should i say all Thor computing games(except Arc of yesod)had terrible screens
    But the worst in my opinion is Stagecoach loading screen
    devilkin devilkin March 2006 Games
  • Games that wouldnt loadI had a few of these, and even after taking them bck some still didnt load first time :( anybody else have/had games like this The pain in the asses…

    Doomdark's Revenge hardly ever loaded for me, ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • Two mini-projectsLooking to help WoS? (If not, why not?) One thing you can easily do with just an emulator and an Internet connection is help fill in those [url="http…

    ... /> Dynamite Dan, Dungeon Adventure, Doomdark's Revenge, Dictator, Desert Rats, Cyclone, Colossal ... , Capitan Trueno, Arnhem and Agatha's Folly.

    [EDIT]
    Daren Daren March 2006 Games
  • Which games are you obsessed with?Do any of you find yourself returning constantly to a particular game or games,even though you've played it to death?My current obsession is Kokotoni…

    Doomdark's Revenge and Elite, I'd say - nearly wore the tape out for both of those.

    Least favourite would probably be 'Tiler' and 'Kosmic Kanga'
    xenomorph xenomorph March 2006 Games
  • Who's that girl?Can somebody tell me, who played, 'Shareth the HeartStealer' in the Doomdarks Revenge audio drama? What a great voice! Was she part of the Beyond S…

    ... the full story of Doomdark's Revenge.'

    Also, my copy ...
    Graz Graz April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ... !

    Favourite games: Doomdark's Revenge (by far), The Sentinel, Sabre ... for some reason, I took revenge on and killed by selectively ...
    xenomorph xenomorph April 2006 Chit chat
  • Name a Speccy game that took longer to complete than Tomb Raider - Legends (8.5 hrs)According to ZX Beccy, Tomb Raider - Legends took a feeble 8.5 hrs to complete. A friend of mine verified this. Name a speccy game that took you lon…

    Doomdark's Revenge could do unless you were ...
    xenomorph xenomorph April 2006 Chit chat
  • What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …

    ... , I think...around my m8's house. I think we started ... hours in one go....) Doomdark's Revenge, Combat Lynx, Il-2 Sturmovik ...
    xenomorph xenomorph June 2006 Games
  • BattlezoneCan anyone point me in the direction of any Battlezone clones I've got John Ritman's 3D Combat Zone but are there any others?

    ... is probably the best. It's certainly got the fastest graphics ... pales next to Realtime's effort)
    Rommel's Revenge - Crystal (The early ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • Which Speccy games would you like to see remade for the DS?I notice that New Zealand Story is heading to the DS, following in the footsteps of Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands. The DS really is the platform …

    ... Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge would work a treat.[/quote ... /]Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's revenge[/url]
    chop983 chop983 August 2006 Games
  • Which Speccy games would you like to see remade for the DS?I notice that New Zealand Story is heading to the DS, following in the footsteps of Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands. The DS really is the platform …

    ... /]Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's revenge[/url][/QUOTE]

    but ...
    kaiserpc kaiserpc August 2006 Games
  • Ooerr...I've just been on the Radio 2 quiz 'The Betamax Challenge' this afternoon Scary, though I did get a mention of the Spectrum in on air though :)

    ... breath (clue: it's brown) which I thought ... minute. Yes with a 's' indeed although Lincolnshire folk ... easier questions - that's definately true. I wouldn ... well with the other blokey's ones.

    s Revenge amongst their Ultimate collection ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers August 2006 Chit chat
  • Most controversial game ever...?The most controvertial game that I can personally think of would have to be 'Raid Over Moscow'. You play as the leader of a squadron of US planes and…

    ... />
    i'm sure it's a Speccy game no idea ... what it's called or how it plays ... .com/rotw/custer.shtml]Custer's Revenge[/url] for the Atari 2600 ...
    Prophet Prophet October 2006 Games
  • Most controversial game ever...?The most controvertial game that I can personally think of would have to be 'Raid Over Moscow'. You play as the leader of a squadron of US planes and…

    ... who have not played (it's normal, strange graphics and it ... 's mostly all in pogrtuguese) this ... name of the game...it's somewhere in the attic in ... refer to was called Custer's Revenge.

    Wikipedia article on ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick October 2006 Games
  • Amazon SystemsIn the 1980s, my company, Amazon Systems, did quite a few Arcade to Home Computer conversions for Parker Games. The games Panama Joe and Death Star…

    ... Battle (IF2 version)
    Montezuma's Revenge (IF2 version of Panama Joe ...
    Gilby Gilby October 2006 Games
  • If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …

    ... /> I think that [i]Doomdark's Revenge[/i] used the same technique ...
    robert@fm robert@fm October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum RPG'sOff the top of my head I can think of [i]Lords of Midnight[/i], and [i]The Bard's Tale[/i], but are there some other good RPG's on the Speccy that I …

    ... of Midnight, and The Bard's Tale, but are there some ... other good RPG's on the Speccy that I ... 't count LOM (or Doomdark's Revenge) as a RPG, more of ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde November 2006 Games
  • Spectrum RPG'sOff the top of my head I can think of [i]Lords of Midnight[/i], and [i]The Bard's Tale[/i], but are there some other good RPG's on the Speccy that I …

    ... 't count LOM (or Doomdark's Revenge) as a RPG, more of ... whole. In this respect, Doomdark's Revenge is probably more of a ... game than LOM because there's a lot more variety and ... strategy/adventure/RPG game. There's a game that could have ...
    Collie Collie November 2006 Games
  • WooHoo!!!I have the next 10 days off work and I want to spend a lot of it playing Speccy games! Ok, here's the question! Which games do all you good people …

    ... playing this and it's sequel Doomdark's Revenge when I was off ... Day in the Life - It's the head of Sir Clive ... . Just beware of Jammy Jim's darting prowess.

    System ...
    Collie Collie November 2006 Games
  • New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …

    ... /> * Blood of Bogmole
    * Zogan's Revenge: Bogmole 2
    * Cloud 99 ... in the night
    * Werner's quest
    * Hampstead
    * Manor ... /> * Return to Ithaca
    * Neptune's caverns
    * The Deadly Mission
    Arjun Arjun January 2007 Infoseek database
  • R Tape Loading ErrorWhat, for your money, was the best and worst loading routine on a Spectrum game? For me: Best: Bugaboo - totally cinematic, built up a real sense …

    I liked Rommel's Revenge loader, that built the screen picture a line at a time interleaved with the program data. When the screen finished loading, so had the game.
    Winston Winston February 2007 Games
  • The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…

    ... - For Lords Of Midnight, Doomdark's Revenge & Shadowfire mostly.
    Elite ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nostalgia or Spectrumness?I packed up my 48K with souped up keyboard in about 1986 and came to misty-eyed nostalgia via emulation a few weeks ago, triggered accidentally by a …

    A bit of both I think. Nostalgia and the certain something Speccyness. A good thing too!

    Some other games to look out for: phantomas: infinity and abe's revenge.
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Games
  • Games that were better/worse on C64/SpeccyOkay, games that were either: a) Better on the Spectrum or b) better on the C64 Simple heh? I can think of a couple: Bombjack is way better o…

    ... at the time was Rommel's Revenge which was a fairly standard ... Webb? Starion was the Spectrum's unofficial Elite for a good ... and in many ways it's technically superior to the Spectrum ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    I agree, Firebird's Bleep Loader sucked - it wasn' ... was slower than the Spectrum's own loading routines. At least ... the one used for Rommel's Revenge, which built the screen up ...
    Winston Winston March 2007 Games
  • My Spectrum Games collection in the atticI thought over the weekend I'd catalogue what I had. Humoungous amount I think. There's about 50 photos and you can see it all here: [url]http://tin…

    ... I had THAT many. It's difficult to tell when they ... good don't they, that's why I decided to photograph ... see that 'Doomdark's Revenge' is still in it's shrink wrap. In ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones April 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... after the release of Doomdark's Revenge, so I expect the project ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    Crystal's loaders were indeed weird (blue/black border, loaded game and screen simultaneously) but they weren't speedloaders - well not the early ones anyway e.g. Rommel's Revenge
    ghbearman ghbearman April 2007 Games
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