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The psychology of playing Spectrum gamesAs Monty Python are known to say :- "And now for something completely different!" We already have lists of favourite games / least favourite games /…
... / least favourite games / games with the most longevity etc. but what ... makes us play a particular game at any time. For instance ... post inspire you to load the game and start playing or maybe ... -
Tape files holdback. What the ....Greetings Gurus. :) I have a problem about TAP and TZX files that I find most annoying. First, I must say I use ZX32, but I found this to happen as …
... I am attempting to load the game in these formats (or others ... ) I always put the fastest tape speed possible. basically ... ...
Some of my game start to load normally, but ... -
The problem with early arcade adventuresWhether it was a programming reason or not, you find that a lot of the early arcade adventures on the Spectrum (1984-85) had 256 screens. I think "P…
... are as well as making the game less interesting as a whole ... the screens looked the same.
Airwolf wasn't the greatest Spectrum game ... , but the lack of screens kept ... -
Vampire game - need ID please!I think it involved Dracula. The game had night sections and day sections, where Drac would only come out at night. At one point you had to get a "tw…
I think it involved Dracula. The game had night sections and day ... "two short planks" from the shop, and the goal was to get ... -
Powerplay game of Gods - Greek VersionI have a version of the game PowerPlay - Game of Gobs distributed in Greece by company called Arcana. The game contains a total of 4 quizes and it is…
I have a version of the game PowerPlay - Game of Gobs distributed in Greece by company called Arcana. The game contains a total of 4 quizes and it is all in Greek. I have it on an MB02+ disk and I will be sending to WOS hopefully tonight. -
Remeber the nameI wonder if you could give me a game name, please. The game is in a bar, where the bartender gives beer in some balconys, to some clients. These clie…
... could give me a game name, please. The game is in a bar ... , where the bartender gives beer in ... . You also have to select the right coup from 3 in ... -
Yet another Name Dat GameIt was similar to Total Eclipse, Dark Side etc. You started in a small cottage with a computer on a desk. In one of the adjacent rooms there was a la…
... a desk. In one of the adjacent rooms there was a ... objects/locations in the game were: an island in the sea with a ... .
All in all the game was varied, inventive and a ... -
My First Name-that-GameHere's a VERY tricky one.... In my days of the CPC, one of the first games my father brought me for it (this was late 1985/early 1986) didn't work s…
... like.
I think the title was Deliquent or something ... and might not work in the search..
Part of ... thinks I imagined the whole thing, but in the same trip, he ... Doom and Mr Freeze, so the game might exist somewhere...
name the game ;)Its some sort of a platformer and you must avoid zombies that walked back and forth between the floors. It was set in a house and there was an elevat…
... walked back and forth between the floors.
It was set ... flowers too in the house.. dont sure about the last one there ...WoS found my game!!!I don't believe it... A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away, I wrote an adventure game called "Valley of the Kings". My friend Paul and I immedia…
... , I wrote an adventure game called "Valley of the Kings". My friend ... Monk Soft and advertised the game in the classified ads section of Popular ... nostalgia and... there's my game!!! How on earth did you ... is almost funny. But at the time it took me weeks ...TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... images converted from the Speccy Graphics Utility to create game maps. ( An ... new Game Editor for creating games on the ZX Spectrum. The editor allows the ... TommyGun will support the Spectrum version and "may" support the C64 version if ...Help Needed on a gameI remember a game, not sure if it was a Speccy game tho. The game had 2 parts. One where you had to go through interconnected rooms to find things …
... it was a Speccy game tho.
The game had 2 parts ... .
The second part was a helicopter game where you took ...Xenon-II like game on SpeccyHi! There is a shootemup on the Speccy that looks EXACTLY like Xenon-II (from Amiga, etc.) made by some East-European guys (I THINK). I downloaded i…
... /> There is a shootemup on the Speccy that looks EXACTLY like ... and cannot find it anymore. The game features full colour enemies and ... (I think even parallax)... for the love of god, help me ...I'm looking for one specific gameI'm searching for one game that camed with my Zx Sepctrum. It was a wall of bricks, to destroy with one kind of ball that kept bouncing in one table.…
I'm searching for one game that camed with my Zx ... game that had layers of bricks with different colours. In Portugal, the ... name of the game is "parede" wich means ...Halls of the Things 2 - I've broken it :( I confess to being one of those players that panics under stress, my hands get clumsy, and half the keyboard gets whacked by accident as I fumble t…
... get clumsy, and half the keyboard gets whacked by accident ... as I fumble to evade the bad guys... So, I ... 'm playing Halls of the Things 2, (halls2.SNA) ... I've managed to break the game somehow and my glorious ... work out how to get the colours back.
...Looking for an old, but GREAT gameHi All, Wondered if anybody can help me. I had a 128k back in the day, and I have fond memories of a game which I simply can't remember the name of …
... of a game which I simply can't remember the name of ... . I can't remember the object of the game, but I do remember ... to find out the name of this game, but the prospect of searching ... through each and every game in the archive does not exactly ...Please help me find this game:It was set in space/the future, and had at least two different parts to it. In one part you were flying a spaceship from left to right, with meteorit…
It was set in space/the future, and had at least ... you had to shoot. In the other part, you're controlling ... rooms with perspective. I think the game was mainly red and black ...ANN: Issue 10 of Sam Revival Magazine Out Now (Sam CoupIssue ten of Sam Revival magazine is out now, and features an exclusive game on the coverdisk. The magazine starts off with the usual Quazar News, a…
... Warren Lee, who is the author of the game on this issue's ... coverdisk. The interview asks what ... behind the scenes of his past releases.
You may all ... be familiar with the Sam Coupe being ...Queries about loading schemesAccording to the review of Wizard's Lair in Crash issue 14: [quote]Wizard's Lair has an unusual fast loader, which makes the border flash in wide ban…
According to the review of Wizard's Lair in Crash issue 14:
the border flash in wide bands ... rather like some of the recent Commodore 64 loaders.[/quote ... was it dropped before the game made it to the shops?
Retro Gamer #7: The MegaTree / Matthew Smith interviewIssue Seven of Retro Gamer magazine has two items of interest to the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy community: 1. The data from the MegaTree developmen…
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1. The data from the MegaTree development-disks on ... actually see the core idea of the game in a later game called Nebulus ... /> On programming a new Spectrum game...
"I'd like ... there are legal complications with the copyright law as it ...Do you remember what this game is called?When I had a Spectrum I used to play this game but I don't remember what it's called. All I remember is that in this game you are a spaceman and you …
... I used to play this game but I don't remember ... remember is that in this game you are a spaceman and ... the screens there was a house with chimneys. I played this game ... when I switched it on the game said, "You are not a ...Please help me to find this gameI like the game Astemex in Caricamento but I didn't find it on this site. Can anybody help me to find it? I would be very greatful if you could do th…
I like the game Astemex in Caricamento but I didn't find it on this site. Can anybody help me to find it? I would be very greatful if you could do this.Speccy Tour 2004 Special rulesI've had a Windows XP crash and I'm currently reinstalling updates and software. I hope to fix it all along this afternoon but in the mean time I pos…
... had a Windows XP crash and I'm currently ...
3. Ahhhhh: Game limit: Two completions of the game(overlapping), for
Game limit: One completion of the game (overlapping), for ... puf: If any player finishes the game, for remaining lives
The original MaziacsThis is probably old news to most of you, but never mind! I was flicking through an old magazine (C & VG, June '82) when I noticed an advert for a Z…
... ZX81 game by Bug Byte called 'MAZOGS'.
The blurb ... not only have the problem of finding the treasure and bringing ... must also face the guardians of the maze in the form of ... says, "The cassette on which the game is supplied is of the highest ...What is this game? (with a difference)Hello chums... Seeing as the "what is this game" and "guess the game" posts are proving popular, have a look at my slightly warped version: [url="h…
... /> Seeing as the "what is this game" and "guess the game" posts are ... />
[url="http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/Italian/gallery ... .htm"]http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/Italian/ ... email me with the picture name and the name of the game.
< ...Best/worst endingsPity this cheap'n'nasty UBB-clone doesn't have polls, one of the many features it lacks. :roll: :) What does anyone think are the best, and worst, g…
... anyone think are the best, and worst, game endings on the Speccy?? Especially ... and hence boring (just like the game, in fact -- Xavior would probably ... for the fact that the end-game code doesn't work, so the ending ... is if they were to crash at the end, as I'm ...Does anyone have the full booklet of Dun Darach?Hello everyone, I'm new here. :) I'm planning to do a remake of Dun Darach. I just need something that seems to be impossible to find, even on the n…
... the net :( : the complete booklet of the game Dun Darach.
The ... does have other versions of the game.
In ... for example, the descriptions of all the characters of the game and what ... in my version of the game... If anyone could please ...Best game list!I looked at best game list and found out that a game I never heard of is voted best ever 'Chaos'. I tested the game and found out it SUCKED big time…
... and found out that a game I never heard of is ... 'Chaos'.
I tested the game and found out it SUCKED ... .
How is the best game list made? I know that ...Doom 3 - hell's bells!Two days back I picked up a copy of Doom 3 and even before I'd started the game I had this strange creepy feeling... Two nights of playing later... …
... before I'd started the game I had this strange ... leap from the next corner. And then the flashlight dies ... screams et al. And the graphics...whooaaa! Now I know ... before I begin following the trail to see what ... think wot Halflife 2 *may* be able to pull off ...ANN: Italian Project Guess The Game gallery - MASSIVE UPDATE!Hello chums.. Seeing as the test I did with the Italian Project screenshots gallery was a massive success, I've written myself a webpage generator s…
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Seeing as the test I did with the Italian Project screenshots ... look at [url="http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/Italian/gallery ... .htm"]http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/Italian/gallery ... know and I'll tweak the webpage generator in some fashion ...
