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Those are some well remembered loading screens - I think I owned the majority of the games!

blucey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:19 am Tau Ceti. Man, one of those games that I just didn't 'get' but wish I did because so many people seem to love it.

Yeah, I won it in a Crash competition (to design a spaceship) and didn't rate it

I know I got Horizons but my mum wouldn't buy a tape recorder because she wanted me to learn how to program, not waste my time playing games.
Took over 2 weeks of begging to get a tape recorder as I was crying about spending all that time typing and losing it all when the computer was turned off!

equinox wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:39 am Recency bias. It always happens with these "X of all time" polls.

Remember Undertale being voted the best game ever a few years back?

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/undert ... game-ever/

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:30 pm orange and brown

I've tried not to bring that up because of the the time/effort/expense

I thought that was Penfold!

equinox wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:55 am
I never thought I'd miss ****ing "bloggers"! Bring back Doctorow.

https://pluralistic.net/

Turbo Esprit
Thanatos
Scuba Dive

I think the main complaint being that a truck driver wouldn't see you in a C5, so a good chance of you being smeared into the tarmac. You'd not be able to use them on the pavement either. So the type of neighbourhood where you could pop down the shops would be rare? It's all 20 and 30mph around her...

The single, biggest, mistake with the C5 was having it's launch in the middle of Winter :( I had one a few years ago and it was a great machine to tinker with and pop in to town on. Yes, it had issues like the brakes being completely inadequate but, I wish I had been able to keep it. I would definit...

Runs flawlessly on my Black Shark 5 - just had a race around Mario Kart

jpnz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:57 am From a Crash tip, Heavy on the Magick in about a minute

Woah!

p13z wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:09 pm manufacturing moved to Poland

That's when I stopped buying Cadbury's products

chernandezba wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:47 am Hi there.
I Added save screen to .stl file, useful to print on 3D Printer
Cheers
César

Do you have any examples of this?

I've managed a tested&working GBA SP and 8 games (including Super Mario) for £80,
They're being sent to Brazil where any GameBoy model is nearly £300 alone
I'm tempted to send over 1 a month with that mark up

I saw the ridiculously cheap Ali items and I am tempted buuuut if if doesn't have Mario then it'll be bottom of the toy cupboard :? The GB, GBC & GBA all seem to go for £50 with the Mario platformers going for around £15 :roll: All the Ali ones advertise 100's of games but I've seen no list so, ...

AndyC wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:21 pm Well that £15 one isn't a Gameboy. I assume it is one of those janky NES clones in a handheld form.

Obviously but if it lets him play Mario, I won't get too stressed if/when he launches it in frustration!

My wife and I were thinking of getting him a GameBoy as he is fanatical about Mario
A look on ebay shows there's a colour variant for around £15
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305290567092
with "proper" GameBoys and Advances up to £50

Does anyone here have a recommendation?

Knight Lore (and a whole load of other games!) - the time limit. There's no need for it. After a while it becomes apparent that it'll be impossible to finish before the time ends, so what's the point of playing on? This spoiled the game for me. As much as the graphics amazed me I only played it for...

Didn't saw it mentioned, but I'm pretty sure Give My Regards to Broad Street https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2049/ZX-Spectrum/Give_My_Regards_to_Broad_Street can be finished in less than a minute just traveling right away to one of the tube stations before one of the characters can enter ther...

This seems to be the "Must have" I didn't know I needed - I'm seriously considering plugging in my Next to try!

Ghosting?
https://www.howtogeek.com/858707/what-i ... -ghosting/

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964412076.html
200 1x1 bricks for 40p

https://i.postimg.cc/bG33GbS5/419728716-345563655008720-552048285750059704-n.jpg It's not a 1:1 reproduction so it's a bit glitchy in places, like on the Ultimate logo. I don't think I'd want to spend all that on it when a nice print would look better and be less expensive. Thanks for that 8-) I lo...

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