Spectrum Computing

Nope.

Here's some more - I've (badly) removed the game name from top-left.

Not that.

Nope.

Nope.

It's from the screen$, not in-game.

The US Gold screens in particular hold a lot of nostalgia for me.

The gravity formula gave it away - first game I could think of where that might be relevant.

How about this one:

The Planets

stupidget wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:55 am I think there’s a bit of The Mandela Effect going on here as the sign in CE2 looks not like the one you posted:

Is that the Amstrad CPC version, cos the colours and fonts don't match the Speccy version?!

clebin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:33 pm I can’t really fail to get this one… It’s Smudge & The Moonees.

That it is.

This doesn't look like it's been mapped yet, and was only reviewed by one of the big 3 mags.

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:21 pm Is correct! And actually, Juan's guess of Flunky was pretty close in that both games are 'butler-em-ups' (a small genre that includes Trap Door, any others?)

I recognised the 2nd screenshot, but I still had to search as I couldn't remember the name!

Snodgits!

blucey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:38 pmIs it Wulfan?

It is indeed

Zooming out:



Despite looking like this graphic was created with the Gilsoft's Illustrator, this isn't, in fact, a text adventure.
Also, it's from the loading screen.

L.A. SWAT

Horizons and the six pack of Scrabble, Horace goes Skiing, Chequered Flag, Make a Chip, Survival & Chess with a 48K rubber keyboard. Horace, Chequered Flag, Chess and Scrabble got played quite a lot. Make a Chip was quickly utilised as a blank tape for saving my own badly coded Basic experiments...

In terms of how often I loaded them up for a play, I'd say: 1. Skate Crazy 2. Ikari Warriors 3. Xenon However, the most useful thing a playable demo can do for me is highlight games that maybe get decent reviews, but that you personally don't get on with. On that scale, Stormlord, Turrican, and TMHT...

Zoids?

There's 4 player "sprites" and 4 missile "sprites"
The 4 missile sprites can combine to be a 5th player.

Each player is one colour, or 3 colours if 2 players are combined, and these are different colours to the rest of the graphics.
Multiplexing is possible.

4 colours is usual for most games, but you can change the colours every line without tying up the CPU. On top of that, you have sprites, which can add extra colours. You also have over 100 colours to choose from, so the 4-colour mode is more flexible than on the Amstrad. It can look and sound fantas...

I don't get the mini computers with non-working keyboards - this one is pretty ugly, too. C64 breadbin was just about fair enough, although with working small keys it would have been much better. Might as well use one of the hacked mini consoles - the Playstation Classic was great value when it was ...

Has there even been a game that was different on 16K and 48K? In the early 48K era that would make some sense.

I wouldn't imagine any commercial games would support 16K in the 128K era, although it would be an interesting game design and coding exercise.

1. Starquake
2. Wizard's Lair
3. Firelord

All 3 are great - there wasn't much in it.

The Driving Controller is digital, rather than analogue like the paddles, so can work on any system, as long as the game is coded for it. It uses the standard UDLR inputs to encode the current angle. By reading the joystick port and comparing to the previous reading you can ascertain which way the w...