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  • Is the full moon......exceptionally bright where you are tonight? Went out for a crafty fag and the back garden was lit up. Thought it was a neighbour with their secu…

    When we were kids.... wi were sooo poor that the rats started setting traps for us!!

    Our house was so cold in Winter the windows steam up on the outside!!

    Damp!!!! the house was soo damp, we didnt have a bath.... we had a Jetty
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2006 Chit chat
  • Point-and-Click AdventuresI was just rooting around some of my old ZX tapes and I stumbled upon (more like "picked up") a couple of "point-and-click" style adventures. That's …

    ... put me off playing the game. Otherwise the game design & ... then you should also consider the Magic Knight "Windymation" games ... , Knight Tyme, Stormbringer) and The Young Ones (for example), which ... WIMP control. Then there's The Rats, which had a combination ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2007 Games
  • Hints for a better life...PLEASE DON'T START ONE THREAD AFTER ANOTHER BASED ON THIS....POST HERE!!! Right, lets lighten things up a bit... looking for tips for a better lif…

    ... />
    Or would that make the love potions too potent?[/QUOTE ... /> Possibly it may even scare the rats away!
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Chit chat
  • WOOOH nice find today :)all my retro game goodness came today :P nearly orgasmed in a charity shop today as i came across all the following .....boxed a gamegear (with powe…

    ... robbed not long before Christmas, the rats who turned it over broke ... and kicked a hole through the floor. They then dropped ... into the shop through the ceiling and took everything ... Sikh fella. It opened the day I left the country (bad timing ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Chit chat
  • WOOOH nice find today :)all my retro game goodness came today :P nearly orgasmed in a charity shop today as i came across all the following .....boxed a gamegear (with powe…

    ... robbed not long before Christmas, the rats who turned it over broke ... and kicked a hole through the floor. They then dropped ... into the shop through the ceiling and took everything ... Sikh fella. It opened the day I left the country (bad timing ...
    dekh dekh March 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 …

    Was at work today, when it suddenly dawned on me... The scariest Speccy game..

    THE RATS!

    Fantastic, and heart-pounding... James Herberts story really comes to life. Honestly a chilling game. Play it tonight!
    Graz Graz June 2007 Games
  • So what's everybody doing this weekend?I'm paying off wedding cars (getting married next year), scouting possible venues in which to take wedding photos, and picking up the three Ken Bruen…

    ... drew pictures for the rest of the day.
    ... what to do for the rest of the day.



    Is the screen bright enough for you ... , but with the dark background of, 'The Rats' there wasn' ... t any trouble. So, the Count ...
    Graz Graz June 2007 Chit chat
  • Games based on booksI'm looking for games inspired or based on books. I know [I]The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Hunt for Red October[/I]. Any others?

    Aaahh, has to be 'James Herbert's The Rats'
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy December 2007 Games
  • Sapphire and SteelWe've never discussed Sapphire and Steel on this forum, have we? For the uninitiated (most people, as it's never received much air time), it's a Brit…

    ... ;237701]Can anyone remember the series Beasts, about 1976, ... One was about some giant rats under the floor boards.


    Can't remember the rest.[/QUOTE]

    ... />
    I remember the rats one...scared the crap out of me.
    beanz beanz January 2008 Chit chat
  • Sapphire and SteelWe've never discussed Sapphire and Steel on this forum, have we? For the uninitiated (most people, as it's never received much air time), it's a Brit…

    ... ])

    I remember the rats one...scared the crap out of me ... aged and will not have the same effect as it did ... /> I'll have to get the rose tinted glasses out again.
    murtceps murtceps January 2008 Chit chat
  • Sapphire and SteelWe've never discussed Sapphire and Steel on this forum, have we? For the uninitiated (most people, as it's never received much air time), it's a Brit…

    ... ]Beasts? Ooh, by Nigel Kneale, the creator of Quatermass. Cool, I ... />
    Edit alert... Just read the other posts. Will have to ... these last night....the Pauline Quirke one and the rats one..

    beanz beanz January 2008 Chit chat
  • Sapphire and SteelWe've never discussed Sapphire and Steel on this forum, have we? For the uninitiated (most people, as it's never received much air time), it's a Brit…

    ... these last night....the Pauline Quirke one and the rats one..

    Was the first one the one with the couple doing up the house ?
    the time.
    murtceps murtceps January 2008 Chit chat
  • Sat Nav recommendations?I'm going to cornwall on my motorbike. I thought I might like a sat nav. Don't really want to shell out for a bike sat nav, like a tom-tom rider, t…

    ... listens.

    I ticked the satnav option when I hired ... wanted it for the rats nest of roads around the airport.
    < ... collected the car from a multistory carpark the satnav couldnt see the sat ... they will still look for the circular mark its sucker ...
    Womble Womble April 2008 Chit chat
  • most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…

    I was amazed by New Generation's [i]3D Tunnel[/i] when it first came out, the graphics looked so realistic especially the rats. Such a pity that it was also the first game to give me motion sickness... :(
    robert@fm robert@fm April 2008 Games
  • Your views on...Booty[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000633]Booty[/url] This was a great game. Colourful, entertaining and addictive. Only 22 sc…

    ... only with snapshot saves on the emulator its quite hard.
    the rats or the birds in this game that ...
    Spectrumplayer Spectrumplayer May 2008 Games
  • Scary games!!Ok, I've just been playing [I]Silent Hill 3[/I] on PS2 (sat right in front of my telly, sound turned up loud, lights off) and I think I've just had m…

    Ah yes, the old Scary Speccy games thread.

    THE RATS.
    Bloomin 'ek does that make me jump sometimes!
    Graz Graz July 2008 Games
  • i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…

    ... the raiders, bunker hill, brave new world, the amboy dukes (ted nugent), the rats ... , mouse and the traps.

    then
    uncut magazines the roots ...
    mel the bell mel the bell July 2008 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 …

    ... ]The Rats[/I] on the Speccy is really atmospheric, and pretty scary. Emulates the ... book rather well. Yes, the game actually made ...
    Graz Graz March 2009 Chit chat
  • YouTube copyright infringement...I uploaded a remix I made of a Bloc Party track onto YouTube yesterday, and the audio was disabled due to copyright infringement (obviously I don't h…

    ... grabbing corporate dickheads. Especially when the artists can sometimes gain only ... use a better word like the PRS have no place in ... century.

    They are the rats, raptors and barbarians of an ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2009 Chit chat
  • Booty - completable?I'm recording a new Booty RZX for the RZX Archive, but am wondering if the game just loops around forever. I got all the treasure, then found the Go…

    ... to write this point: The birds and the rats come closer after 100th ... interesting: when you enter into the trap, you should hear a ... sound-effect...but the programmer forgot to write it ...
    Pgyuri Pgyuri April 2009 Games
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    The Rats could have been good as an action game, perhaps in the style of Clock Tower. The intro was shit scary when I was about 8 :D
    Vertigo Vertigo May 2009 Games
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    [QUOTE=Vertigo;353035]The Rats could have been good as ... game, perhaps in the style of Clock Tower. The intro was shit ... Doom. I know it gives the the freedom to move around directionally ... building, which could basically be the last place you ever see ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2009 Games
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    [QUOTE=Vertigo;353035]The Rats could have been good as ... game, perhaps in the style of Clock Tower. The intro was shit ... 'd be nice.
    Still, the strategy original was scary throughout ...
    Graz Graz May 2009 Games
  • Nominate your top 5 speccy strategy gamesWhat are the top speccy strategy games? wargames ?

    Looking back, there were a lot of well regarded strategy games that I meant to get around to playing, but as it transpired I only ever played two for any significant length of time - Sorcerer Lord and The Rats. They were both rather good, I thought.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2009 Games
  • Request for a Writer...I'm starting a new SF, Fantasy and Horror website with some big author names onboard- over at [url]http://www.sffeth.blogspot.com[/url] - and I wonde…

    ... , Firelord, Pud Pud (snigger), The Rats, Jack the Ripper, The Hobbit, stuff like that ...
    Andy Remic Andy Remic May 2009 Games
  • Fantastic DizzyWhile playing the Amiga version of this game the other day, I wondered if it was possible to make a cutdown version of this for the Speccy? The tre…

    ... it could work well on the faithful Speccy.[/QUOTE]
    < ... the regular formulae and made the game rather unbalanced, like the tunnel with the rats ... like they were added for the sole purpose of draining ... they'd attempted to make the graphics too flash, and ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2009 New game ideas
  • Most repulsive thing you've ever seen in a speccy game?What's the most repulsive thing you've ever seen in a spectrum game? Has there ever been a game in which the main character has projectile vomited i…

    ... you won the skeet shooting and the guy holdin the shotgun ... winking but always scared the hell out of me ... It was also acomponied by the most horific sound efect. ... was always terified by the rats in booty they were ... that would run across the screen and i think ...
    1980-20.. 1980-20.. June 2009 Games
  • Snowing!Anyone else had snow today? It's currently snowing here in central Scotland, quite a bit has fallen too.

    ... thinking of walking to the next village to the pub, just texted ... the name
    and we always have a couple of rats too ... .jpg[/IMG]
    theres the rats (himalyan long hair rats)

    [IMG ... 22281109/369365595.jpg[/IMG]
    the dog when she was little ...
    mel the bell mel the bell December 2009 Chit chat
  • Snowing!Anyone else had snow today? It's currently snowing here in central Scotland, quite a bit has fallen too.

    ... thinking of walking to the next village to the pub, just texted ... the name
    and we always have a couple of rats too ... .jpg[/IMG]
    theres the rats (himalyan long hair rats)

    [IMG ... 22281109/369365595.jpg[/IMG]
    the dog when she was little ...
    grey key grey key December 2009 Chit chat
  • Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…

    ... I purchased 'James Herbert's The Rats' and the budget text adventure 'Return ... Ithaca', I never got past the first screen (sword too hot ... up within about 48 hours. 'The Rats' was better, though I never ... it.

    With 'The Rats', was there actually a way ...
    trotsky trotsky December 2009 Games
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