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Favourite not so well known games -1987 -1988Writing lots of reviews about games in 1987-1988. We have all the usual 'big names' such as Bubble Bobble, Robocop and Ikari Warriors kinda thing. …
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Game clichWe all know about movie clich?s, e.g. guns never run out of ammo regardless of how many shots are fired; the Eiffel Tower can be seen from every wind…
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Some things to talk aboutThere's not too much posting going on here, so to hopefully break up this temporary lull in the postings, feel free to answer or discuss these follow…
... ) Which is the best and worst super hero film? I'd ... probably Superman 4 was the worst (yep, even worse than the ... -
Am I the only one who loved...."Zolyx" ? I've just come across the review in Crash, where they all gave it 14%, but I thought the game was really playable. Especially that little …
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I'm an alcoholic.I've been battling this for some time now. Right now I feel like death, like a walking corpse, I've been throwing up all day long, and ignoring the …
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Dream WarriorThe mad scramble to reserve reviews for the Spectrum book reminded me of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001518]this one[/url]…
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WarGames 2Anyone seen WarGames - The Dead code yet? I'm not hearing good reviews of it and its gone straight to rental. I thought it may have been another of …
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Sorcerer Lord - PSSI've just been updating my reviews database and noticed that the Author wasn't known - the same with Infoseek. The Crash review text acknowledges Cy…
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Happy michaelf-day!May all your reviews be Speccy-reviews.
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Street HassleWhilst looking up a few snippets of info about this game, and desperately trying to get PJs last reviews done before it's too late. I noticed that on…
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New/recent games reviewed... no WoS scans?Hi, Just a thought; the Infoseek archives have most of the new and recent releases listed, for instance: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infose…
... like review scans, magazine mentions, reviews and scores.
... I have of any reviews that I have written ... of just the relevant reviews as long as the ... I doubt it. My reviews back then weren't very ... Some of the Micro Mart reviews must be at least 4 ... -
Be honest - Vienna, by Ultravox, is a really awful songActually, Vienna is a great song. But yesterday on BBC3 they had one of those "100 best" or "100 worst" worst programs that today's program schedular…
... those "100 best" or "100 worst" worst programs that today's program ... .
And in the "worst of" programs, like last night ... on my nerves sometimes. The worst one was the "best comedians ... , if the "best of" or "worst of" music programs had comments ... -
Worst excuse ever[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7629417.stm[/url] "Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone has denied trying to kill the Sinn Fein lead…
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7629417.stm[/url]
"Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone has denied trying to kill the Sinn Fein leadership. He said the day he tried to force his way into Stormont was simply "an act of ... -
being hussled at the job...During August, I got this call to work on tv, directing actors. I'm not sure if i've mentioned before, I work in company that I hate, but pays me t…
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More data miningAs we all know, the cover tape wars led to some really quite awful games appearing on magazine cover tapes. However, there were also some quite good …
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And you think your team has got it bad....Quote " A Peruvian second-division football team has suffered what must rate as one of the worst days in the history of the sport, MSN reports. Me…
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ASCII'2008 - ZX Spectrum Virtual PartyWe proudly present. :D [img]http://ascii-demoparty.untergrund.net/shot.png[/img] [b]ASCII'2008 is ZX Spectrum virtual party[/b] [b]39[/b] works p…
... it 9, to choose the worst and to put to it ... concerning the best and the worst.
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Return of the Triffids!Wow... the BBC (in full "remake everything that was moderately successful" mode) is doing another Day of the Triffids for TV: [url]http://news.bbc.c…
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Assembly (getting my bearings)I wish the WoS book database was organized by theme and contained reviews :) I need your folks help. I'm interested in bringing my assembly into the…
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Shadow of the Beast, Help!!Anybody can help me? I am playing lately Shadow of the Beast (by the way, excellent game), but I am kind of stuck at one point. Just before fighting…
nasty virus warninghello i just got a warning from my dad,about a virus that looks nasty.thank you colin Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are geari…
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This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It ...Website revamp: now with added Spectrum review goodness!About a year ago, I dumped a load of ZX Spectrum reviews onto my website, complete with some funky-skillo animated GIFs in place of those staid and b…
... a load of ZX Spectrum reviews onto my website, complete with ... a better UI for the reviews - hopefully people will like the ... 's also a handful more reviews and I've cleaned up ... some of the existing reviews to add some more information ...Video Capture Cards?Well, looks my new speccys (a rubberkeyed 48 and a grey +2) don't want to play nice with my newish TV's tuner (or by connecting through my VCR, which…
... my VCR, which has the worst tuning system I've ever ...Amazon second-hand buying/Dreamcast adviceYesterday the postman popped through my front door my first-ever online second-hand purchase, a copy of "Crazy Taxi" for the Dreamcast. I opened the …
... it looks almost new. The worst "damage" I can see is ...Steamming to disasterSome mixed news from Steam... at least here, in Spain. - Good news?: Now you can buy steam games in ? or ?, not in $... - Bad news: ...but they appl…
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- Worst news: ...and if you use ...Worst game by a good companyseeing how well Durell are doing in the top 100 reminded me that they made some great games - then I was reminded of Luna Lander (!) Are there many…
seeing how well Durell are doing in the top 100 reminded me that they made some great games - then I was reminded of Luna Lander (!)
Are there many other top companies who let their quality control dept have a day off?Remember this program?[url]http://uk.youtube.com/user/badinfluencewebsite[/url] There also used to be Gamesmaster which I thought was boring as I just wanted news and gam…
[url]http://uk.youtube.com/user/badinfluencewebsite[/url]
There also used to be Gamesmaster which I thought was boring as I just wanted news and games reviews. Not sure what others there were back then. Memory is fuzzy!Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…
... of course enjoyed their good reviews, lunatic humour and satirical digs ...