-
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!
... think either 3 or 4 games would be a good ... the arcade version) mini arcade games like Invaders, Galaxian etc. ... 4 or 5 'different' games, to make a 'GORF ... still want to make this text adventure P.A.I.N. ... 's very restrictive, and games always look like they've ... -
Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
... , I converted one of the adventure games ("creating databases") to a Quilled ... talking about, was a simple text-adventure with 64 rooms IIRC. I ... -
Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…
... br />
Not all new games are bad. Gran Tourismo 4 ... on impossible. The Mario games are platform games, Mario sunshine is just ... . The Silent Hill games are updated version of the text adventure (to be ... m not saying that these games are bad, because they are ... -
Name the gameHere follows a request made to me.......... 'it starts on a spaceship..an u never get t see urself ..u then landed on a planet..i think the planet is…
'never get to see yourself?' could it be a text adventure? ;)
anyway, some long shots ('cos I haven't played the games) - Captain Blood? Purple Saturn Day? -
Lord of the ringsAs I've seen, the Speccy version of this game only deals with the first part of this saga. Am I right to assume that they never got round to doing th…
... completely different game - not a text adventure but an [I]Ultima[/I ... ://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/lotr1.html"]http://www ... .lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/lotr1.html[/url] -
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…
...
Controls Keyboard
Type Text Adventure
Message language English
The Games That Weren't website states ... -
Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…
... released quite a few BASIC text adventures, most of which were ... !) which was a machine code text adventure (converted from Tandy) and complex ... on. But soon decent arcade games began to appear and I ... one of the very few games released for the Dragon 64 ... -
Best national gamesThere's people from many different countries here. Posting in another thread has given me the idea of this: Why don't you post your "Top 5" of games …
... /> 1. Atomix or Hexagonia (logical games with atoms)
2. Boovie ... for PC)
3. games by Fuxoft/Cybexlab/T.R ... /> 4. Heroes'92 (really funny text adventure for 20th anniversary of Speccy ... /> 5. Podraz 3 (Nice text adventure. I translated it to English ... -
Best national gamesThere's people from many different countries here. Posting in another thread has given me the idea of this: Why don't you post your "Top 5" of games …
... , so I will list the games which author(s) are from ... as hell)
4. Eurorun (Text adventure... really nice)
5. Vroce ... Pocitnice (another text adventure, but this time a bit ... -
Best national gamesThere's people from many different countries here. Posting in another thread has given me the idea of this: Why don't you post your "Top 5" of games …
... know of four Portuguese Spectrum games:
(1) Paradise ... (3) Mad in Ca$hcais (text adventure)
The premise of ... the initial text:
[I]Welcome to this adventure.
... all the copies of Spectrum games sold in Portugal, and ... -
Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…
... /> Lord Of The Rings (the text-adventure, not my Jet Set Willy ... [I]good[/I] isometric 3D games.
--
Dr. Andrew ... -
Hardest game you actually completed?Mine was Sonic Boom (the monochrome sega shoot em up). I managed to finish the whole game despite it being (a) rubbish and (b) impossible to see the…
... of floors also! Other difficult games I've completed are Soldier ... friend. And there was one text adventure, don't remember the name ... -
Best adventures (from 2 points of view)Allright, adventurers, I'd like your advice on what are the best adventures from 2 points of view: 1 - Best plot, atmosphere (i.e. a game where you …
... of anyone). Some of the games from Fergus McNeil, Jack (John ... 't qualify as a true text adventure (adventure-action?), but this is another ... allowed to nominate non-Speccy games then:
Best ...
3) All the MS games.
The Bards ... -
Mervyn J Estcourt?anyone know what he is doing now and where I can contact him? Programmer of such Speccy classics as 3D Deathchase, Luna Crabs, Full Throttle and Spee…
... , Smash TV - perhaps the greatest games of all
[/quote]
text adventure among them :( Oh, well. Tastes ... -
The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …
... between BASIC and MC games. probably only few games will be pure ... 2 games in MC compo. on other side, if a text adventure use ... much better game than many games in MC)
just ... -
Red Dwarf....Does anyone know, what year was Red Dwarf first broadcast by the BBC? How many years, before or after the last of the mainstream commercial Spectrum…
... [I]any[/I] Red Dwarf games on any format, have there ... recall there being a homemade text adventure for the PC based on ... -
Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …
... /> However, not truely text adventures, but adventure nonetheless, I used to ... /> Now these weren`t text typing adventures, but the ones ... I digressed.
Adventure games. apart from the obvious (level ... way through the adventure games and having a ball ... -
Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
... it. Everyone knows adventure games should be white text on a black background ... -
Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
[quote]On 2004-08-05 19:17, MustrumRidcully wrote:Everyone knows adventure games should be white text on a black background.[/quote]
Uhm... Winterwonderland? -
Any Windows based Spectrum Progam makersHi. I am looking for a game maker that i can use to make spectrum software. If possible could it not be a code typing in program and Windows based. T…
... people have made quite good games piecing things together. )
... aside from most Text Adventure Ones. For Other games maybe Arcade Creator was ... 's point too. The Text Adventure writers, based on my ... don't need to. Adventure Builder is probably the one ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... choice is for text-only adventure games. The modern adventure games with all ... text ones do.
There are TADS and Z-code games ... feel the really imaginative games were written for 8 ... br /> Would I buy text-only adventure games if they were released now ... -
making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…
... Firstly, there are many decent games written with AMOS. AMOS, although ... lots of good compiled BASIC games too - FRANK 'N' STEIN ... be better off compiling a text adventure. BASIC is very, very ... you write software with a games development language or compiled ... -
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…
... that I completed very many games, but two I remember that ... . Does it count being a text adventure? Anyway for such a landmark ... -
To people who post "name this game" topicsIt would help us to decide which Topics to open if they at least stated the genre(s) of the game [B]in the Subject[/B]. e.g. * platform * shoot-em-u…
... on the subject of nameing games, can anyone help me find ... either a shootem up , platform , text adventure , space sim , puzzler , strategy , sports ... -
It's drivin' me nuts!Please help with what I'm trying to retrieve from my ageing brain. You play a robot one that looks like a SW: medical droid without the 'arms', you …
... were some pretty weird-named games on the Spectrum though. "The ... some kind of ***REALLY WACKY*** text adventure which was only available through ... -
100 Spectrum games you HAVE to play before you die..Nominations please :) Im sick of seing all those progs on TV, like 100 things to do before you hit 30, haha, and if only they`d had them on a couple…
... player, I know some games I found awesome and ...
And about all those games everybody knows, my personal favourites ... /> - Saboteur
- Cozumel (spanish text adventure)
- Nebulus (terrific)
- ... (I liked Dave Perry Games full of color, like ... -
Lunar Jetman is rubbish i think Lunar Jetman id rubbish, a great shame as jetpac is one of my favourite games. on load-up Lunar Jetman looks fantastic but it is too diffi…
... ?! Elite?! You never ended a text adventure did you? Never tried playing ... and over again all those games that never made sense but ... , all around, not just the games, all the myth of it ... 't like many types of games, but I certainly don't ... -
What is this game?[url="http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/retroforum/index.php?showtopic=184"]http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/retroforum/index.php?showtopic=184[/url]
... =^Hitech+Games+Plus$"]Sonar Salvage[/url] which is listed as a text adventure ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/s/SonarSalvage.txt"]> ... -
Microdrive software Was any software ever released for microdrives? games, utils, etc..
... Dave and I wrote a text adventure called "Dusk over Elfinton" ... :) Me and Dave stopped writing games cos I basically got too ... 't keep up with writing adventure code :) stayed friends for ... technician!! Wasting time playing computer games did help after all :) -
Microdrive software Was any software ever released for microdrives? games, utils, etc..
... Dave and I wrote a text adventure called "Dusk over Elfinton" ... :) Me and Dave stopped writing games cos I basically got too ... 't keep up with writing adventure code :) stayed friends for ... technician!! Wasting time playing computer games did help after all :)
