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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... all* C64 games suffer from the presentation over playability problem - merely ... so why single the C64 out as the start of the slippery slope ... as you did? Why not the ... where stuff like [B]Shadow of the Beast[/B] shifted more ... -
AY reccomendationsI know this has probably been done before, but I've just started playing some spectrum games again and discovered all the AY's! I was wondering what…
... , Renegade 1 & 2, Shadow Of The Beast, Batman - The Movie, Switch Blade, Shock ... -
The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…
... I had to live without the comforts of a Multiface and hacked ... the DISCiPLE / Plus D was figuring out where those little bytes of ... & South, Turrican, Shadow Of The Beast, Hostages, all the Summer / Winter Games series ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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russian clone of Spectrum 48k with BETA disk ... brothers, Space Crusade, Heroquest, Shadow of the beast). Other good houses are ...
15. Biggest Speccy waste of money
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Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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15. Biggest Speccy waste of money
World cup ... 'non Speccy' waste of money
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Manic Miner GBAI just got a game boy advance SP and treated myself to a copy of Manic Miner for it. I'm still not too sure about it though. The cover is nice.... …
... quite a few of the old Amiga games on the GBA - I've ... been playing Speedball 2, Eye of the Beholder and Another Word. And ... can also get The Three Stooges and Defender of the Crown Too!
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Speccy AY versus 64 SIDWhich is best?
... In game music is surely the least important element in ... Dizzy 5 & Prince of the Yolkfolk, Heroquest (although I ... Renegade 1 & 2, Shadow of the Beast, The Light Corridor.
... walking/flying around and solve the puzzle. But without music ... -
Speccy AY versus 64 SIDWhich is best?
... In game music is surely the least important element in ... Dizzy 5 & Prince of the Yolkfolk, Heroquest (although I ... Renegade 1 & 2, Shadow of the Beast, The Light Corridor.
... walking/flying around and solve the puzzle. But without music ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... stuff like alter the origin point in RAM of the screen i think ... by using offsets for where the screen starts displaying, a ... like the look of some of the Amstrad games I`ve seen on mags, Shadow of the ... think it`s cos of the Z80 processor and the AY soundchip, I ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... to write new data into the part of the screen RAM that's ... like the look of some of the Amstrad games I`ve seen on mags, Shadow of the ... m'self, i sort of feel that the high res screen just ... nice stuff in there - most of the best stuff was written specifically ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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Really. Most of the CPC games I ever played ... colours at the same time, but a lot of games didn ... to monochrome because of the attribute clash issue. The CPC equivalents, even ... on screen colour. See Shadow of The Beast or Head over Heels ... -
Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
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The Way of the Tiger 93% Iss. 28 (May ... Iss. 83 (Dec '90)
Shadow of the Beast 92% Iss. 83 (Dec ... (Sep '91)
Heroquest - Return of the Witchlord 90% Iss. 92 (Sep ... % Iss. 98 (Apr '92)
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Point n' Click adventures may not be dead after allWhile browsing through my local game shop last week, I came across a game that I hadn't heard of before. It's called Syberia and I think it is probab…
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- Shadow of the Comet (wonderful lovecraftian atmosphere)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (they say it is ... based on the script of a movie never shot ... -
Point n' Click adventures may not be dead after allWhile browsing through my local game shop last week, I came across a game that I hadn't heard of before. It's called Syberia and I think it is probab…
... honest, I haven't played the first two parts. If, as ... them!
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- Shadow of the Comet (wonderful lovecraftian atmosphere)
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What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …
... small notebook with all kinds of details I noted down. And ... game I suddenly remembered is Shadow of the Comet. Very atmospheric indeed. I ... some entrance of a cave. Never got back to the game after ... -
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Mastertronic ... A.R
Way of the Tiger, The x2
Wizard ... Robocop 2
Shadow Of The Beast
Shadow Warrior
Skull And ... br /> Real You, The
Riddle of the Sphinx
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Mastertronic ... A.R
Way of the Tiger, The x2
Wizard ... Robocop 2
Shadow Of The Beast
Shadow Warrior
Skull And ... br /> Real You, The
Riddle of the Sphinx
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TRDOS ReCracksHi All ! Lately I have been doing some TRDOS re-cracks. What is that ? Well, the good people from Russia (and other east-european countries) have do…
... actually cracking/adding stuff to the games... I just take whatever ... people did and just change the loader so it loads from ... here (with a link to the game) and I will have ... did my first real multiload (Shadow of the Beast Final version - with cut ... -
TRDOS ReCracksHi All ! Lately I have been doing some TRDOS re-cracks. What is that ? Well, the good people from Russia (and other east-european countries) have do…
... to get all the blocks from the disk, unless the game uses only ... the code where it loads the blocks and some sort of a table of the ... file sizes (and pointers) - like Shadow of the beast ... -
Good older PC games?For the past few years I've not played too many PC games, sticking mainly to consoles, and only really using my PC for emulators and the net. Anyway,…
And don't forget the wonderfully atmospheric Shadow of the Comet - a Lovecraftian game based on Call of Cthulu! -
Longest Game Loading Time................Hi peeps.... What game do you all reckon was the longest loading time?...I know alot of 128k games took ages cause of levels being loaded all at onc…
... about Ghostbusters II?
Shadow of the Beast comes to mind - I ... tape sides! (both sides of two tapes) The CPC version was especially ... from tape.
On the CPC, I recall Sultans Maze ... - this was a standard loader. The Addams Family demo on a ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... know of any non Nintendo games that come close to the Zelda ... PS2 games:
ICO, and Shadow of the Colossus.
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... PS2 games:
ICO, and Shadow of the Colossus.
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You played Shadow of the Colussus already? I'd like ... it too, but I thought the European release is only next ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... Laan wrote:
You played Shadow of the Colussus already? I'd like ... it too, but I thought the European release is only next ... , but visually is amazing. The best of this generation, until Twilight Princess ... -
Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... store called Computerware down by the Iron Bridge. Saturday was almost ... a real sense of community. You could test all the games you ... up and playing these games. Shadow of the Beast for two hours solid ... back and wait for the discount or the preowned to turn up ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... PS2 games:
ICO, and Shadow of the Colossus.
I love Zelda ... the end of the intro film. Very nice but soooooo long.
Shadow ... has the ... -
Game Release - Let DownsBesides the Obvious (i.e. Bandersnatch & th other one & of course The great space race) what games were seriously hyped up to be next big thing. One…
Turrican 2 - the original was great but the sequel had no soul, just a shadow of the original. Also, Chase HQ 2 - complete shite!
