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Beyond the Ice Palace aka Thundercats V1I was just looking at some old issues of Amstrad Computer User and the cover game on one issue was Beyond the Ice Palace... The review claimed that …
... one from Gargoyle, the latter being the version that was ... released.. the Probe version became Beyond the Ice Palace ... games (Mega Twins and Amazing Spiderman) and using C64 screenshots (Mega Twins (the ... of which I donated to the C64 GTW website)).
Free Spectrum GamesI've had a lot of fun playing through a big pile of speccy games I'd recently acquired. Whilst I had fun with them all, there are a few that I doubt…
... in my retro box I may as well pass on the joy ... (No Inlay)
Horace & The Spiders (No Inlay)
Sid ... happily swap the lot for a c90 of random games. :D
retro games in it!armageddon / ocean ... speccy + c64different games / different companies [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000266[/url] [url]http://www.lemon64.com/?game_id=3663…
different games / different companies
[url] ... missle command clones / based but the c64 is by visions, not oceanRecommend an issue of Retro GamerI hadn't got any issues of the "new" Retro Gamer, but the iPhone app tempted me and I've bought issues 73 & 74 on that (and now subscribed - I love i…
... got any issues of the "new" Retro Gamer, but the iPhone app tempted ... great write ups on Speccy games.
They have issues ...So which 8-bitter was biggest in which country?ewgf's topic "Be honest now..." got me thinking about this. As we got people from most European countries here and also a few abroad, tell us which 8…
... seems to come out tops, the C64 apparently also was quite popular ... didn't even stock Speccy games anymore by 1988 or so ... />
Nowadays whenever there is retro talk on TV or websites ... (y) it usually mentions the C64 and the Amiga and little else. Maybe ...Graphics: What is the point of ...... actually, let me apologize for such a stupid vague thread title, I so wanted to avoid this but the whole sentence I wanted to write is just way t…
... lame as it might fool the uninitiated/uninformed viewer into ... this wasn't used in games, is it?
... screenshots on websites to show the graphical capabilities of a machine ... arguments, just as the C64/Speccy palette debate in the pouet.net example ...politics and retroyou'd think they wouldn't ever clash? spooky they did earlier for me. I went to pick up some speccy games from the other side of london.. and when …
... to pick up some speccy games from the other side of london ... when I got out off the train station.. who went passed ... picked up a load of retro games / machines at a great price ..."The New Wave Of Retro-Gaming" - article in the IndependentHere it is: [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/the-new-wave-of-retro-gaming-2004295.html[/url] Mentions Jonathan …
... /gadgets-and-tech/gaming/the-new-wave-of-retro-gaming-2004295.html ... in between programming), and mentions the speccy retro scene and Chronosoft.
New to the ZX, what games?I just got my First ever ZX (+2) :-D and was previously an Amstrad cpc owner back then so i have no idea what games are the classics, any suggestions?
I just got my First ever ZX (+2) :-D and was previously an Amstrad cpc owner back then so i have no idea what games are the classics, any suggestions?c64 emulator WinVice & some issuesWell, I found a few c64 cassetes in a charity shop, including some by Ultimate Play The Game that never came out on the Spectrum, and I also have an …
... had a bunch of c64 games, and a rubbish emulator ... br /> I've made the decision recently, after wining a ... have a look at the c64, so I downloaded WinVice ... getting used to, especially the 128k version, which ... I do have the original c64 cassette of the game, but no ...Games that looked better on the Spectrum than other platforms?Usually when a hit game was converted from the Spectrum it got a graphical update, or at least a splash of colour. Now does anyone remember a game t…
... hit game was converted from the Spectrum it got a ... actually looked better on the Speccy than the C64/BBC or whatever?< ... looked slightly better on the Spectrum than the C64 with richer colours ... and some dithered shadows on the ...Spectrum exclsuive gamesWe've discussed almost every Speccy related topic you can think of, but one I don't remember is a discussion of games exclusive to the Spectrum. Thes…
... a discussion of games exclusive to the Spectrum. These kind ... can still discuss the Spectrum-exclusive games, and compare them ...
[COLOR=Blue]["Oh, and the C64 stinks!" - everyone with any judgement ... that most of the homebrew games in the past ten years ...The most rare games?Found a whole stack of games recently up in the loft & wondered what games that go up for sale on ebay get the most cash? will work my way through t…
Found a whole stack of games recently up in the loft & wondered what games that go up for sale on ebay get the most cash?
will work my way through them & see if any are MIA :)Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... could be playing genuinely good games instead. He himself, he thought ... ! And to think, before the Dizzy games had come along and swept ... nature ever to walk the Earth. It was the C64 owners! And as ...Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... And to think, before the Dizzy games had come along and swept ... ever to walk the Earth. It was the C64 owners! And as ... can assume the form (and the abilities) of any Spectrum games character, ... stupid, in my case, probably) games for the Speccy?
...Horace in the Mystic Retro Gamer: When, if at all?!Just got the new issue of retro gamer and there is still no mention of Horace in the Mystic Woods. Have I missed it by skimming a past issue too qui…
Just got the new issue of retro gamer and there is still ... no mention of Horace in the ... be a smash (or whatever the word of the moment is)!!Easy games for the skill challenged :)Hi All, Got my old Speccy out recently as I finally picked up a cheap old portable CRT telly to use it with since my old one expired about a year ag…
... have been happily Loading games from the collection, trouble is I ... anywhere on most of the games I have tried, Jet ... . Tried some of the mojon Twins games too, I suck ... -able for me(when the B@st@rd will ... Can anyone reccomend me some games(action/arcade) that don' ...Retro gamer 89Despite the c64 on the cover there's some good Speccy stuff... News article on the Elite Speccy app Making of Starquake - 8 pages including a map In…
Despite the c64 on the cover there's some good ... ...
News article on the Elite Speccy app
Making ...
Gimme Bright gets a retro review
Even our very ...Spectrum writer neededHi guys, it's me Darran, the editor of Retro Gamer who routinely comes along whenever he needs your help ;) Anyway, I want to do a collector's guide…
... it's me Darran, the editor of Retro Gamer who routinely comes ... vast knowledge of collecting on the Spectrum to create an ... ve recently run one for the C64). It would involve a ... peripherals and the best games, import games and rarest games on the system (tape ...Spectrum contributors for Games That Weren't(Admin - please feel free to move this post if in the wrong place) Hello all! I run a lost/unreleased game website called Games That Weren't, wh…
... lost/unreleased game website called Games That Weren't, which ... platform specific archive sites for the C64 and Amiga. (We'd ... do the odd feature/review to help uncover various lost games.< ... miss something and not give the coverage it deserves. Unfortunately ...Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... /> on the speccy. The music was the only saving grace for the C64 versions
the Football Managers on C64 & obviously the Last Ninja games.
From what i remember the ...Three newly ported 3D Construction Kit gamesThanks to the help of Battle Bunnie, and to Stuart Wilson for hosting them at [url]http://www.3dconstructionkit.co.uk/games_spectrum.html[/url] , the…
... .html[/url] , the following three games have been ported to ... the Spectrum and are ... games were made with the 3D Construction Kit, and originated on the C64 ... .
I have solutions for these three games, ...The good old days (what do you honestly miss)?I was reading a post on Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better than older games, and even though that's just his opinion (…
... Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better ... to the 80s as regards to the games, as nowadays I have the ... access to modern games and (thanks to emulators) the 8-bit ... changing for the BETTER), Retro Gamer, and (to a degree) Games TM and ...Funded games developmentSo there's now Unbound [URL="http://unbound.co.uk/"]http://unbound.co.uk/[/URL] for books, and Kickstarter for many things in the US, including games…
... for many things in the US, including games [URL="http://www. ... kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games?ref=sidebar"]http://www. ... kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games?ref=sidebar[/URL], but ... that would work for games development on retro computes...?Request: photo of 16k/+2 SpeccyI'm currently writing an article for a german retro-themed website called the equivalent of "videogame stories" (link [URL="http://www.videospielgesc…
... for a german retro-themed website called the equivalent of "videogame ... .de/"]here[/URL]). Since the C64 ruled supreme, with CPCs ... lot of screenshots from old games, but what I am ... pixels horizontal resolution? Uploading the result to imageshack (or ...Rare speccy games fetch high price -articleJust been reading an article on fellow collectors site Ant Harpers `Retro Games Collector`,the article is about some ZX educational / business titles…
... collectors site Ant Harpers `Retro Games Collector`,the article is about some ZX ... an auction. Clearly looking at the end results somebody had some ... these titles that are in the article?
[url]http://www ...We Only Got The SequelAye, that's all we got! :) I was thinking about Thing Bounces Back the other day and remember how pleased I was that it was coming out on the Speccy…
... about Thing Bounces Back the other day and ... on the Speccy as I loved the first one on the C64. ... I didn't like TBB at all and wished for the ... chaps think of other games that were like that ... the Speccy but part 2 only came out on the Amstrad or C64 ...+3 Games in shopsI was thinking today, when I was a kid back in the late 80s, how come I never used to see Spectrum +3 games in the shops? Were they mail order only o…
... was a kid back in the late 80s, how come I ... used to see Spectrum +3 games in the shops? Were they mail ... all the big stores that used to sell Spectrum/C64/Amstrad games like ... at a vast number of games on WoS, they have disk ...Retro Gamer Issue 100 + Issue 1Okay then so issue 100 is going to be in shops today and it also includes a reprint of the original issue 1 Here's the content Developer Autographs …
... Autographs
Eastern Blocks: The Story Of Game Boy Tetris ... )
Return Of The Rings (the videogames based on Lord ... The Miner King (Jet Set Willy Feature)
Top 100 Retro Games ... Advertising Gallery
Emulation Nation (the best emulators)
Question about some of the Shaw Brothers gamesMartijn, I have a doubt: Some of these games appeared in magazine covertapes, but in the archive they appear too as if they were originally released …
... of these games appeared in magazine covertapes, but in the archive ... Reading this post written by the Shaws, they talk about ... the magazine as publisher...it makes me think that these games ... were only released by the magazines, and the other ...
