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  • It's been a weird (and scary) Christmas...Hello folks and Merry (belated) Christmas. It's been a bit of a weird (and scary) one for me... My mum suffered a heart attack on 19th December…

    ... a bit of a weird (and scary) one for me...

    and barely breathing) and called me to look ... defibrillator shock, more CPR and oxygen) and then took her to the ... hear that she was conscious and speaking (and knew who she was ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection December 2015 Chit chat
  • Retro Gamer's star letter (issue 164)The star letter in this month's Retro Gamer (issue 164) "[i]Dear RG, What on earth has happened to the Spectrum community? Sites such as World …

    ... going on behind the scenes and in other quarters is surreal and scary.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2017 Chit chat
  • The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …

    ... backgrounds, like the Beach and the Back Door, suggesting ... he created and populated the game such surreal and interesting characters. ... it was distinctly unpleasant (and, like Chronicles of Riddick, ... freedom, such as cats and rabbits, and not confined animals. ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2009 Chit chat
  • Horne and CordenOne thing I detest is people going onto a fan board and slagging off the subject of that board. If they don't like that film/game/musician/book/etc, …

    ... with Horne and Corden, I watched it and (without making ... 's supposed to be surreal and funny. But it's ... just pointless and without merit.

    and Stacy[/I]), and whilst Corden has ... the fairly popular Gavin and Stacy speaks volumes ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2009 Chit chat
  • Bruce Everiss being sued for defamationJust read this story on TG Daily: [url]http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44004/118/[/url] and he confirms it on his website: [url]http://www.bru…

    ... =dm_boozefreek;383664]That was both surreal and entertaining, I apologise now if ... than writing surreal stuff - I got food poisoning last year and spent ... , awake, and fully believing I was an MP3 player. That was scary.
    NickH NickH September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Favourite Horror FlicksWe've already discussed sci-fi tv shows and films a while back so I thought I'd ask what everyone's fave horror films are. I just watched the excell…

    ... discussed sci-fi tv shows and films a while back so ... 's is really brilliant, unnerving and downright scary.

    Other ones ... 't many characters as evil and scary as Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton April 2005 Chit chat
  • Seeking loading screen for Egghead 5To celebrate his forthcoming 18th birthday, Egghead will be taking a Mediterranean cruise on his yacht with a few friends. As with most coming-of-ag…

    ... been written and the background graphics and sprites are ... layouts, organising patrolling nasties and putting in hidden rooms. ... content enough with infamy and misfortune then this might ... you like. With toilets and spikes and scary pumpkin things, probably. Or ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2007 Development
  • Interview with Steve Wetherill (Odin)Hi you all!!! Here is the interview done to STEVE WETHERILL (Nodes of Yesod, Robin of The Wood, Arc of Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at […

    ... Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at [URL="www.elmundodelspectrum ... which was very mysterious and scary, occupying as it did ... Software Projects, Stuart Fotheringham and Marc Wilding, had ... including Nodes, Heartland, Sidewize and Crosswize. We also worked ...
    jmvbok jmvbok August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Just put on my snow tires.....Which is something I would never have said in the UK! Actually just got them last Winter.. My Wife never saw the point.. ("My Dad never bothered…

    ... after a few intense slides and scary moments last year, plus the ... program where they'll pay and you can pay them back ...
    Grunaki Grunaki November 2015 Chit chat
  • Good modern(ish) comedies?I'm looking for the names of good TV comedies that I haven't seen, so let's start a discussion about good TV comedies so that I and everyone else can…

    ... -wall mock up, very clever and often hilarious),

    ... but is still funny, and stars the fantastic Steve Carrell ... , starring the fantastic Bill Baley and Dylan Moran),

    ... by humans. It's very surreal and often hilarious),

    ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2015 Chit chat
  • New release for CRONOPIOS Y FAMAS[img]https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTMzNDA1OS83NzYwNjAyLnBuZw==/original/nP%2Bmxj.png[/img] Another title from my past production has been revised…

    ... Famas[/i] is a surreal and light-hearted dynamic adventure inspired ... interacting with other Cronopios and the precise and orderly Famas, whilst ... i] draws on the surreal humor of the original ... have been partially redesigned and/or populated with Esperanzas ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2021 Announcements
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... cong are a wiley bunch, and it wouldnt surprise me if ... , good work, this is a surreal and intriguing piss take. If you ... more people with big ambitions and daft ideas.
    I have ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What Spectrum games do you play most, currently?What Spectrum games do you play most, currently? Mine are: -Match Day -Match Point -Decathlon

    ... utterly absorbed by the surreal and engrossing Frankie goes to ... in my formative years and only now (at 27 ... .

    Oh, and Horace goes Skiing; the game ... me back in 1984 and makes my friends confused ... rather than some tedious and trite FPS PC game. ...
    The_Sentinel The_Sentinel October 2002 Games
  • Congrats PortugalYes it's nothing to do with the Speccy but you must let us Brits have our moan. We played poorly and despite the disallowed goal probably did n't de…

    ... there was widespread looting, rioting, and police cars set on fire ... 's sure getting a violent and scary place to live.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Spec256 work on XP?I guess the subject says it all. I really want to try out this program but it doesn't work so I was wondering if anyone was able to get it to work o…

    ... ...

    Mario golf and those Mario party games where ... Kazooie and the sequel were hard and very fun platform games and ... had better graphic and it was dark and scary more similar to ... the quake series then other Doom ports, and ...
    Arm73 Arm73 January 2005 Emulators
  • Favourite Horror FlicksWe've already discussed sci-fi tv shows and films a while back so I thought I'd ask what everyone's fave horror films are. I just watched the excell…

    Army Of Darkness - hilarious and scary

    Evil Dead II - see Army of Darkness

    Evil Dead - scary and low-budget. no humour.
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan May 2005 Chit chat
  • Games Club - Week 20Hi all, last week I asked you to nominate games for which David Whittaker provided the music, and I received the following: Loopz Gilbert: Escape F…

    ... it! :) i remember nominating raspcallion and panicking in case everyone thought ... me, but I like surreal and nonsense things, and I thought there was ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel July 2005 Games
  • Movie / TV show scenes that really freaked you out!!!Having just watched the infamous 'boat ride' scene in Willy Wonka, I thought I'd start a discussion on which parts of films or tv shows really scared…

    ... the episode with the Fembots and BW finally met the scientist ... underneath.

    Really weird and scary (at the time anyway).
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton August 2005 Chit chat
  • Movie / TV show scenes that really freaked you out!!!Having just watched the infamous 'boat ride' scene in Willy Wonka, I thought I'd start a discussion on which parts of films or tv shows really scared…

    I love horror films and i remember as a kid ... which were always in black and white.

    Frankenstein, Dracula ... films etc, they were excellent and scary to a 12 year old ... me in' , boy that was scary back then !!
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2005 Chit chat
  • Torchwood fearFrom the way is was described by Queen Victoria tonight, it sounds suspiciously like an X-Files knock-off.

    Lol! This is one of the most surreal and bizzare off-topic threads I've ever seen! Happens only on WoSF! :lol:
    Arjun Arjun April 2006 Chit chat
  • General Horror Games...question.Hi all, As part of my degree course, I have to do a presentation on the history of a genre of game, I chose survival horror. Can anyone list some g…

    ... stuck in a dead-end and face certain doom as Rex ... trundles closer and closer. :(

    Also, you ... fast when you run around and can make you pass out ... could make for a tense and scary game.
    Lee_dC Lee_dC July 2006 Games
  • The Thief gamesDuring the recent first-person-shooter debate, the game Thief was mentioned (by Dunny, who should be working on Spin instead of playing games, the sk…

    ... actually required to sneak around and hide in shadows instead ... of hacking and slashing your way through ... the situation. And that's simply because you ... both stealth and action elements, and it was moody, atmospheric and scary. Hope ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2006 Chit chat
  • New Games WantedI'm sure 99% of you know already, but just in case you don't... CRONOSOFT.CO.UK is happy to release quality Speccy software you may have written!

    ... due to other commitments, interests, and doing the hardest part of ... s being programmed in BASIC and that my programming knowledge isn ... has so many exciting, sad and scary scenes to it (it's ... a list, allowing for simple and less frustrating gameplay. The gameplay ...
    pottyboy pottyboy September 2006 Development
  • Nigerian scam reversalHave a look at this website, specifically this link [url]http://419eater.com/html/bigman.htm[/url] Group of guys who 'reverse' the Nigerian scam back…

    ... fell for it hook line and sinker (he had previously tried ... to scam me) and i led him on for ... what he does is wrong and said he would stop, who ... into their accounts, its fascinating and scary how many 1000's they ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2007 Chit chat
  • Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!I bought a Nintendo Wii today along with Zelda : Twilight Princess. I just spent the last half hour playing it. It's cool. :D Necros.

    ... you really are overwhelmed and you are left with ... mask salesman... jumps - dark, surreal and not what you really expect ... me the ocarina back and into the main game ... "old style" Zelda games and that the next one will ... - the games are good and all that, but IMO ...
    Malc74 Malc74 May 2007 Chit chat
  • Aliens versus Predator (the games)We talk about other first person shooters on here, but we rarely mention AvP 1 or 2. I know these games didn't get the recognition that they deserved…

    That's the mod, and boring it isn't. Boring ... TC mod was well balanced and scary and had so many cool things ... Fiends with a different skin, and had the same attack. I ...
    Collie Collie May 2007 Chit chat
  • Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …

    Playing "Total Eclipse" in 1989 was almost like virtual (and scary) reality - you know, exploring the ancient pyramid full of mummies etc. I also remember that "Zombi" was quite scary...
    PopoCop PopoCop June 2007 Games
  • Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …

    I always found Avalon immersive and scary at times. When you thought ... guards/monsters coming.... superb stuff and very atmospheric.
    GeeKay GeeKay July 2007 Games
  • Baby Bible BashersAnybody watch this on Channel 4 tonight? Fucked up!!! :D

    Ha ha I saw a bit of it. Pretty weird and scary. But wait - did you see that black kid in the church? He has got some real bad-ass soul in his voice! :D
    Spector Spector February 2008 Chit chat
  • Scare em ups?how many scare em ups can you remmeber? Tomb of dracula evil dead cauldren 1 and 2 ant attack atic atac

    ... when playing [B]Aliens[/B] and you suddenly heard the alien ... />
    even more tense and dark and scary was alien trilogy on the ...
    mel the bell mel the bell March 2008 Games
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