Spectrum Computing

Yes, really!

http://www.wizwords.net/the-making-of-stonkers

Reprinted with kind permission from Retro Gamer issue 123.

Number 9 today

www.wizwords.net/news/2020/12/14/wizwor ... s-number-9

interesting news, but I don't think the darlings have been at Codies for a while now have they?

akeley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:44 am

PQR wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:54 am Another addition to a great collection of features by Graeme Mason on Eurogamer:
https://www.eurogamer.net/authors/1191

I'd argue that Bioware has actually ruined RPGs, but that's probably best left for another thread

indeed that is a valid point!

PQR wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:54 am Never played the game (wasn’t into the band as well) but this article definitely makes me interested to check it out now.

Another addition to a great collection of features by Graeme Mason on Eurogamer:
https://www.eurogamer.net/authors/1191

ah thank you!

druellan wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:27 am

jdanddiet wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:21 am I had this published on Eurogamer this morning:-

Are you the author of the articles, jdanddiet?

yes I am

I had this published on Eurogamer this morning:-

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -hollywood

Love splat

RWAC wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:10 pm Never understood how Bomb Jack wasn't in the YS Top 100.

Let's ask the man himself [mention]Rev_Stuart_Campbell[/mention] !

blucey wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:22 pm Great game. Deffo top five for me.

You've got a dozen games in your top five mate

Into the top ten today


http://www.wizwords.net/news/2020/12/12 ... rnwkl6yoe4

Number 11 today is the brilliant

Another spectrum master at work with today's number 12, Quazatron.

Link to interview with Steve Turner on the making of this fantastic game: https://www.antstream.com/post/the-making-of-quazatron

Number 13 today www.wizwords.net/news/2020/12/8/wizwords-top-100-zx-spectrum-games-number-13 https://i.postimg.cc/348WB0cX/thumbnail-20200803-084956.jpg little plug for my article earlier this year on Eurogamer: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-30-the-zx-spectrum-game-set-in-romford-that-p...

A few years ago I wrote a feature on this - I used to love cover games although obviously they weren't terribly good for the magazines or software houses. http://www.wizwords.net/the-spectrum-covertape-wars Batty wasn't really "so good it even received a subsequent commercial release as part o...

RWAC wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:13 pm

jdanddiet wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:02 pm No, but it's nowhere near as popular as JSW and it has a famous forebear which many still prefer to my befuddlement

I'm guessing it's Rainbow Islands!

No it was tracksuit manager, the best footie management on the Speccy and miles better than Football Manager!

Pretty much every game got onto a cover tape at some point, so I think it's only worth discussing the exclusives otherwise it just devolves into another best game discussion minus a few arbitrary exclusions. Anyway, I'd suggest the following: A Whole New Ball Game - A really neat puzzle game from P...

A few years ago I wrote a feature on this - I used to love cover games although obviously they weren't terribly good for the magazines or software houses.

http://www.wizwords.net/the-spectrum-covertape-wars

What were your favourite cover games?

Number 14 today is Tracksuit Manager by Goliath

www.wizwords.net/news/2020/12/7/wizword ... -number-14

No, but it's nowhere near as popular as JSW and it has a famous forebear which many still prefer to my befuddlement

Christ, if no-one like JSW, people's heads are going to explode when they see my number 14 later

Number 15 today

You come here scum! It's number 16

Awooga! Awooga! Awooga! Its number 17!

http://www.wizwords.net/news/2020/12/4/ ... n2tb2tpqpc

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:56 am I've checked the list and still no Wally Week games in it. All (or most of them) must be in the first 17 games...

... I hope so!

Never been a fan of them. Sorry.