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Magazine scoresMany magazines reviewed games, with an score of them (for instance 7/10, 4/5, etc.) Do you think they were, in general, true or not? Do you remember…
... hi-profile Denton Designs games. Great Escape (96%), Frankie (94%), Shadowfire (96 ... Classic for Nemesis for feck's sake) and YS were generally ... -
Magazine scoresMany magazines reviewed games, with an score of them (for instance 7/10, 4/5, etc.) Do you think they were, in general, true or not? Do you remember…
... their ratings on Infoseek; The Great Escape in particular is currently third ... enjoyment out of them. It's all a matter of opinion ... deserved the mark.
Great Escape is a good to very ... around the time of it's release there were better arcade ... -
Magazine scoresMany magazines reviewed games, with an score of them (for instance 7/10, 4/5, etc.) Do you think they were, in general, true or not? Do you remember…
[QUOTE=Vampyre;214295]Great Escape is a good to very ... around the time of it's release there were better arcade ... />
Sam Cruise, now there's a game that didn't ... -
Magazine scoresMany magazines reviewed games, with an score of them (for instance 7/10, 4/5, etc.) Do you think they were, in general, true or not? Do you remember…
... as TGE (although obviously it's still well coded and produced ... could never get into The Great Escape, I could never make head ... I was supposed to do (escape, I know, but how?). And ... a level with System 3's Myth. -
Magazine scoresMany magazines reviewed games, with an score of them (for instance 7/10, 4/5, etc.) Do you think they were, in general, true or not? Do you remember…
... ;214896]Sam Cruise, now there's a game that didn't ... deserve it's Smash[/QUOTE]
I ... . I'd say that The Great Escape and WTSS are both far ... appear on the spec. It's a shame there wasn't ... -
Instantly recognizable Speccy game characters...How many Speccy game characters would be instantly recognizable to people these days? Especially if they weren't that familiar/hadn't used a speccy f…
... who's name escapes me)
Vixen (mmmhmmmhmmm :lol:)
The great ...
Molecule man (sadly it's true I think of the ...
The sprites from the great escape
Fred
The wizards ... /> I must stop my brain's gonna explode aaaaaaaggghhh!!!!! -
Non-Ultimate filmation gamesUltimate was the first company that created [I]Filmation[/I] games: Knight Lore, Alien 8,... superb! It was the first, but others companies also pro…
Head over Heels
Great Escape
Knightlore
Rentakil Rita< ... />
I suppose that's about all the games with ... -
Non-Ultimate filmation gamesUltimate was the first company that created [I]Filmation[/I] games: Knight Lore, Alien 8,... superb! It was the first, but others companies also pro…
... different reasons:
The Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still ... . Magnetron was it's follow-up, but that's a bit of ... -
Eurogamer site does some Spectrum reviewsPopular gaming site Eurogamer has launched some kind of retro channel on it's site apparently and they've gone and reviewed some of their favourite S…
The Great Escape is in there; it's just under T rather than G.
Not a bad read on the whole. -
Eurogamer site does some Spectrum reviewsPopular gaming site Eurogamer has launched some kind of retro channel on it's site apparently and they've gone and reviewed some of their favourite S…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;223616]The Great Escape is in there; it's just under T rather than G.
Not a bad read on the whole.[/QUOTE]
I saw that when I looked again, and edited it hoping no-one would notice. YOU HAD TO GO AND SPOIL THINGS! -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... isometric games. I chose the Great Escape because of the atmosphere, you ... can never fault the Denton's graphics, always top notch. But ... -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... with sprites so that's why Knightlore never happened ... (they obviously knew that's what was expected of them ... out already, Nosferatu, HOH, Great Escape, Highway Encounter, Bobby Bearing etc ... proper isometric engine, on anyone's insistance too! ;) , even if ... -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... else publishing under Ultimate's label. The full rumour ... it unless they used Ultimate's 3d engine.
Great Escape, Highway Encounter, Bobby Bearing etc ... proper isometric engine, on anyone's insistance too! ;)
[/ ... -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... closing date, but let's see where it finishes ... position would suggest. KL's enduring popularity may be ... br />
The Great Escape....................Head Over Heels
... Kinght Lore............................The Great Escape
La Abadia del ... -
The Great CHR$(27)It's not Christmas without the Great Escape on at least once. That is all.
[quote=dm_boozefreek;234083]No Great Escape on? Blasphemy!
Unless ... his eyes and then he's right there on that Triumph ... -
Your top 5 Spectrum gamesWe've a Spectrum Special lined up for next issue of Retro Gamer, so we'd love to know what your top five games on the system are :)
... arcade conversion
3) The Great Escape - *starts whistling*
4) R ... . Once you start playing, it's almost as if you can ... -
Mire Mare videoI've just found a video of Mire Mare in YouTube: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMtKVVZeFWE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMtKVVZeFWE[/URL]…
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Yah... there's an interview of dubious origin ... with the Knight Lore/Nightshade/Great Escape look...
Andrew -
The game that made you a SpecchumFollowing a similar thread, that's the question:Which game made you think 'it's time to buy a ZX Spectrum' ? Games like [I]Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac or …
... , and I incurred my mum's wrath at having stayed out ... an "easier" game) and "The Great Escape".
And the final ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... fallen into the WoS "Let's all pretend 3DDC is brilliant ... month's Retro Gamer, ahead of stuff like Manic Miner, The Great Escape ... Skool. Weird thing is it's the top of their Top ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... technically it's very impressive, considering it's speed and ... more impressive, as it's contemporary games were so ... s Retro Gamer, ahead of stuff like Manic Miner, The Great Escape ... Chase HQ (it's a great conversion, but I don ... go on a let's-run-over-pedestrians ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... fallen into the WoS "Let's all pretend 3DDC is brilliant ... month's Retro Gamer, ahead of stuff like Manic Miner, The Great Escape ... Skool. Weird thing is it's the top of their Top ... -
Massively Multiplayer Spectrum Games?If there was any spectrum game that could be updated played online, what would it be? I'll leave out the obvious ones like Elite, but what about Mult…
... online version of [I]The Great Escape[/I] would be pretty ... players/inmates helping each other escape.[/QUOTE]
... fast, cos' the game's easy enough without a whole ... clique playing it together to escape.
The ... I'm one who's not a fan of ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... fallen into the WoS "Let's all pretend 3DDC is brilliant ... month's Retro Gamer, ahead of stuff like Manic Miner, The Great Escape ... Skool. Weird thing is it's the top of their Top ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... ready![/QUOTE]
That's great, DR BEEP!
There ... the player to have to escape the maze in a limited ... -
Remakes using Spectrum graphics - worth doing?After reading the comments in this [post=251540]post[/post], I was surprised to see some support for the idea of a PC remake (or sequel) of a Speccy …
"The Great Escape" with a bit more plot, ... areas etc., and the actual escape through the woods after you ... the game using the 128's additional memory ...
Could ... -
Remakes using Spectrum graphics - worth doing?After reading the comments in this [post=251540]post[/post], I was surprised to see some support for the idea of a PC remake (or sequel) of a Speccy …
[QUOTE=Mousey;253351]That's good advice and I was ... correctly - that would be great for The Great Escape 2008.
I ... - some of those had some great ideas which could really be ... find somebody to make them great. -
Top 3 Computer Tunes Of All TimeCan be any format, from any era, but preferably from the time when the computer actually made the music, rather than playing an MP3 or WAV file in th…
My list:
- [I]Konami's Ping-Pong
- Sabre Wulf
- The Great Escape[/I]; it reminds me the great film starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson,... -
any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…
I can't understand why 3D deathchase made number 1, it's no way better than the Great Escape or Chase HQ. It's not the worst game of all time though. Where was Bombjack or Paperboy though? -
SAM Games that never wereIn another thread on Multiloads there's been a bit of chat about US Gold's infamous statement about porting Strider to the SAM (which tbh if they had…
... up table)) and that's a graphics mode which never ... them look mint, The Great Escape too might be a good ... SAM could come into it's own is with stored ... 16 years old. ZXBruno's still also waiting to see ... impressive stuff, and there's no reason apart from lack ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... suggestions?[/QUOTE]
That's great work Einar! (And of course ... " game, the player could theroetically escape with 66 remaining on the ... timer, meaning they could escape in a time of 33 ...
