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XBox vs. PS2 vs. GamecubeWhich of the three machines did you prefer? Personally I prefer the XBox, with the PS2 second and the Gamecube third, for the following reasons. […
... , unlike the PS2, which only supports two unless ... their older console when their newer console came out. I wish Microsoft had ... thmbs occasionally touch; they should have put one thumbstick higher ... 's my favourite PS2 game...). Although the gamesaves still ... -
Multiplayer online Speccy gaming - an actual technical proposalAs is so often the way, [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=274215&postcount=121]trying to put into words why something is impo…
... , each client will run its own instance of the emulator. When ... each of those return values should have been in the light of ... 't make any difference, in which case we're fine and ... that the player will see their 'game over' message disappear and be ... -
Hilarious!Right, first of all, I am [B]NOT[/B] making an attack either on God (so don't cry blasphemy) or on all religious people (so don't see the topic as an…
... her body is NOT her own after marriage, but the ... savior and to repent from their disgusting, wicket, hatful, devilish ... of mass had any impact of others, then mountains should have people ... of Hades. :)
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The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…
... been playing "Alien Birth", which I wrote back in 1990 ... a level you had to guess the game from the ... "Space Monkeys" for my own personal gratification, as at this ... II". At least I had one moment of minor triumph ... has written a game and now have no idea how ... -
Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…
... take [I]Tetris[/I], which would make you a fair ... is your favourite Boulderdash style game on the Spectrum? Mine ... or any other computer/console have impressive artificial intelligence? On ... and teachers had minds of their own. Psion's Scrabble had very good ... -
Which Speccy game have you always WANTED to complete?Partly stealing the idea from the other thread about completed games, which game have you always wanted to complete since you were a kid, but never q…
... other thread about completed games, which game have you always wanted to complete ... [/i] but now it would have to be [b]Head over ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... person platfrom game. It had some fantastic games, many of which are still ... the Makopad 64's design should have been the official controllers design ... on improving the protection of their cartridges, so newer games never ... -
3D engines and the ZX SpectrumCastle Master's engine, [I]Freescape[/I], is described as the first proprietary 3D computer engine on the Wikipedia. I have a few problems with this…
... the Wikipedia.
I have a few problems with this ... /> It is a fact Freescape had been popularized by being a ... that many other companies created their own engines. They just didn't ... ]The Sentinel[/I]. A game, of which 3D engine was used in ... -
New Unreal Tournament mod releasedDeath Man Standing, by Black Cheetah, is a new mod for Unreal Tournament (the original UT, released in 1999, not UT2003/2004/3) that fixes, to my min…
... them too, which to me always subtracted from the game mode, as ... I felt it should have been like ... on fighting, though their soul rises out of their corpse before the ... ) so you can harvest your own soul, if you get there ... -
The Best Use Of In-Game Physics?I'm sure most of you who play modern games have heard of the "Havok" game engine that models the behaviour of in-game objects / characters that inter…
... play modern games have heard of the "Havok" game engine that models ... the behaviour of in-game objects / characters that interact with each ... can you recall that used their own primitive physics engines to mimic ... -
Great ideas for comp.sys.sinclair crap games compo games that you will never programJust thought I'd start this thread with a few ideas for csscgc 2009 games that I've come up with, but will - if I'm being honest - never get round to…
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In this game you play a blind man ... .
I've had this idea for ages. I ... in an International Conspiracy Which he Thwarts Due to ... else has any ideas which they have come up with, but ... use our ideas to program their own games, and stick a ... -
Bargain - ?15m and the Pope will call roundHis Holiness the Pope, former Nazi youth and leader of the richest organization in history (in terms of both wealth and land ownage), is visiting Br…
... the Vatican have to sell off some of their countless ... the stuff that they "own" was allegedly stolen in ... t value money, and had no interest in material goods ... we, the British taxpayer should pay even a single ... should have to pay for the leader of a cult (which ... -
Haha! I've just got my first ever 419!After all these years of reading how much fun people have had wioth these but never having one myself here is my first 419. tbh It's a bit lame comp…
... how much fun people have had wioth these but never ... your country for our own benefit.
My ... who during the crisis lost their jobs
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Another 'what's that game' threadNeed a bit of help with identifying a game. There's not a lot to go on so bear with me! The main thing I remember is (wow, this is vague even for me…
... of other characters in the game (not controlled by the player) which were ... also heads on legs and similar sized, but had different ... liquid) etc) - some may also have had big feet but not sure ... on top of these other characters and I think(!) they ... -
Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
... Y for so many of their early games, depsite them being ... removed so much of what had made the immediate prequel, GTA ... open - it's Doom, which means it should be fast, non-stop ... great game, and everyone should play it, but it could, and should, have been ... -
Anyone else has their own 80's arcade game subway station?The whole subway station next to our house in Stockholm has been designed to look like a computer / arcade game from the 80's. It was done some year …
... look like a computer / arcade game from the 80's. It ... an article in english which I thought I should share.
game related images.
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Freescape GamesI have always LOVED the Freescape games (Driller, Dark Side, Total Eclipse and Castle Master). They really were IMHO a huge leap forward in games cre…
I have always LOVED the Freescape ... which I had never done with any other game.
As I have ... I could make my own Freescape games was a ... other software houses would up their gain and try to ... br /> Incentive had shown that the Speccy had a lot more ... -
Did I dream this game existed??Huge apologies for the fact this game (probably) wasn't on the speccy but it has been bugging me for yonks and I can't find any reference to it's exi…
... for the fact this game (probably) wasn't on ... Garden (which was exactly the same as my own granny's ... arkenstone' but it could have been the tombs of arkensas ... kind of introductory story which the teacher read out ... text only and you had to go from room ... -
Personal comments in instructionsSomething that I do not feel is right, is personal comments in instruction files. Surely the purpose of instruction files is to preserve the origina…
... opinion is not important. It should be omitted altogether, or be ... game appeared to have been sponsored by KP Skips (potato
crisps), their ...
own goal to be associated with a game as bad ... added to the instructions, which I have no problem with:
Buying GamesWas reading a thread the other day (can't recall which one now - think I'm suffering RAM pack wobble) which put me in mind of the whole process of bu…
... and trying to decide which would earn the fruits ... first game I ever bought was Hunchback II. Had received the ... Rec watching the rugby - which I always enjoyed, Bath ... was more likely to have ?2 in my pocket ... budget games- either on their own or mixed in with ...Do you collect games?Do you collect games for the system(s) you own? I don't mean pirate games, I mean original game cassette, disc or cartridge. Or direct download games…
... games as I've never had a different-region console, and ... the Spectrum years ago, but had to get rid of a ... of their game box spines are white with black writing, which is very ... machines' range of games all have their own varied spine colours, but the ...Another commercial game's source code is released - Arx Fatalis[B]Arx Fatalis[/B] has had it's source code released! It's a RPG, so it's not really my sort of game, and it's available on the XBox 1 and PC anyway,…
... TO ANY SYSTEM!!!!
Which is great news, I just ... far the best AvP game ever) have all had their source released by whoever ... still a very rare occurrence, which is why I post here ... have been ported thanks to the availability of the source code, which ...Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... mock the C64 and their owners, probably it was ... />
The "set" which I bought included the following ... Commodore, I know I should keep the compliments to ... the loading screen of some game.
Then it ... 50GBP more, we could have had a decent keyboard like ...Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …
... in proportion to all their othes games, so here ... vote for ALL of their games that you liked. ... a poll to see which game of theirs you liked ... for their time, but in my opinion I had better ... thread, then please say which Ultimate game is your favourite. ...Rebelstar 2 - hints and tipsI'm somewhat depressed as my games console broke the first day of this holiday period and getting a replacement is not so easy and taking time. I wan…
... the only time during the game I'd sometimes look ... less predictable in terms of their heading and can suddenly ... />
- The Northernmost team should be smaller, probably five to ... the defensive position from which you could have had control of proceedings.< ...The next XBox might not run used games (gotta love the software houses...)Edit: Sorry, I posted this to the wrong forum (thought I was in the Chit Chat section). Can any mod please move it there. Or leave it here and preten…
... rebel who lives by his own rules :-)
[Thanks for ... which karingal would respond "[I]I'm sorry, eh? You'll have ... foiled by used-game owners who would keep their system offline. My ... , used houses, etc, so why should games be any different?
I'm not saying that software houses are greedy, but......in the fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken it looks like Capcom might start selling combo moves! Quote: "[COLOR="Blue"]As you?ve probably fo…
... of goodies from complete DLC characters already on the disc to ... costumes and everything in-between. Their latest discovery is a little ... way of the color packs, which are set to be released ... different games should have been released as part of the game in the ...Give me one game to play on ZXDS on my Nintendo DSI'm getting tired of the games I play regularly on my DS through the superb ZXDS, so please tell me one game I should download and put on there. Mayb…
... please tell me one game I should download and put on there ... . Maybe the game you play the ... your own 'portable Speccy', but something which others are unlikely to have downloaded ...Good free games (for any machine)?Like everyone here (I imagine), I've got too many games vying for my too limited free time, and the backlog isn't helped by my spending so much of my…
... these four, but they do have their fans (my nephew loves World ... , which is very admirable indeed. I wish Unreal Tournament had been ... is still there then they should be well worth playing.< ... cry:)
Puzzle Game:
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