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- Tue May 21, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Be careful - image flipping won'r protect you!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 557
Re: Be careful - image flipping won'r protect you!
Clearly this tune which Vanilla Ice thought up whilst on the toilet one day is a derived work and not a copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE Didn't he try to claim originally that he had never even heard Queen's/Bowie's Under Pressure? Clearly no one in the world fell for that BS. :lol:...
- Sun May 12, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Dinamic Software: vote
- Replies: 36
- Views: 660
Re: The best Speccy game by Dinamic Software: vote
1. West Bank
2. Profanation
3. Rocky
2. Profanation
3. Rocky
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games you played the most with friends?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 462
Re: Games you played the most with friends?
Either Gauntlet or Bubble Bobble.
- Thu May 02, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1481
Re: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
Monty on the Run and Rambo are my favourites, but I still think Speccy 128K Stormbringer is the best 8-bit tune of all time.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8029
- Views: 254627
Re: Guess the screen$
Sidewize?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: SAM Coupé
- Topic: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1616
Re: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
Forgive me, as my knowledge of the SAM is not great. But as I understand it, as supplied, it did not have a copy of the ZX Spectrum ROM. If this is the case, then any code which required or used any part of the ZX Spectrum ROM directly (thinking of machine code mainly) could never have been compati...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 907
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 907
Re: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
I was incredibly lucky the day I got my 48K (Xmas Day 1983) in that my dad worked with a young bloke who was a videogame nut. I had a few originals that my parents bought that day (Jetpac, Gobbleman, 3D Quadracube amongst a good ten or so) but this lad supplied me with a big cassette case full of (p...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1198
Re: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
I wouldn't say that. Switch is on its way to be the best selling console of all time and Nintendo's main games are still bestsellers, with the likes of Breath of The Wild getting 10/10s all round to boot. I thought that was a bit of an odd thing to say too. I don't think it will catch up to the PS2...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: games where protagonist transforms / changes in time
- Replies: 29
- Views: 830
Re: games where protagonist transforms / changes in time
Pyracurse
Everyone's A Wally
Everyone's A Wally
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1445
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
I thought I'd finally create a ChatGPT account and see if I could replicate that article somewhat. The results aren't exactly a million miles away. The request was "Write a short essay on how the Sinclair ZX Spectrum affected the UK gaming industry and list it's most notable games." Result...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1445
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
It's an article spoilt by very dodgy assertions about the Spectrum's games library. Robocop: "While that [action-focused] genre was never really the platform’s bread and butter (that would probably be strategy and role-playing games)" WTF? The software charts for the Speccy were loaded wi...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1761
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
1. Starquake
2. Firelord
3. Wizard's Lair
2. Firelord
3. Wizard's Lair
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8029
- Views: 254627
Re: Guess the screen$
Pretty much every Brit of a certain age will know who Geoff Capes is. World's Strongest Man was a staple of ours once a year on our whopping four channels back then!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8029
- Views: 254627
Re: Guess the screen$
Geoff Capes Strong Man.
Anyone feel free to jump in for my go.
Anyone feel free to jump in for my go.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Mike Richardson): vote
- Replies: 24
- Views: 811
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Mike Richardson): vote
1. Turbo Esprit
2. Scuba Dive
3. Thanatos
2. Scuba Dive
3. Thanatos
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Keith Burkhill): vote
- Replies: 29
- Views: 772
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Keith Burkhill): vote
1. Commando
2. Ghosts n Goblins
3. Space Harrier
2. Ghosts n Goblins
3. Space Harrier
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8029
- Views: 254627
Re: Guess the screen$
Back to the Future II?
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210206
Re: Spectrum memes
I used to live just down the road from there, and the thing is - Cadbury World *used to be* ace. When it first opened up it involved a good tour around - when Bournville was still producing all of the chocolate, some fun little exhibits, and they kept chucking phenomenal amounts of free chocolate a...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210206
Re: Spectrum memes
That Wonka Experience feels pretty much like I felt after going to Cadbury World with my kids in about 2010. Okay, it's nowhere near as bad as that, but it's probably the most disappointing day out I've ever had. I/we had been wanting to go for years and I wasn't expecting Willy Wonka's Chocolate Fa...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8029
- Views: 254627
Re: Guess the screen$
Golden Axe?
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Keith Burkhill): discussion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 404
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Keith Burkhill): discussion
A strong softography that one. Commando and GnG are fantastic conversions but I always felt that Space Harrier was somewhat underrated by Crash (I'd have Smashed it). Considering what it had to convert it's quite incredible really. It retains all the playability of the original and that 78% for Grap...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (David Jones): vote
- Replies: 11
- Views: 355
Re: Devfinitive Edition (David Jones): vote
1. Spellbound
2. Finders Keepers
3. Knight Tyme
Special mention to the unbelievable tune in Stormbringer 128K. Right up there with C64's Monty On The Run as one of the best 8-bit chip tunes of all-time IMO.
2. Finders Keepers
3. Knight Tyme
Special mention to the unbelievable tune in Stormbringer 128K. Right up there with C64's Monty On The Run as one of the best 8-bit chip tunes of all-time IMO.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 20 games with a <= 10% rating from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
- Replies: 16
- Views: 563
Re: The 20 games with a <= 10% rating from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
You wouldn't have this one in your list as 1. It's C+VG and 2. C+VG didn't have an Overall rating at the time, but it's possibly the only Speccy review of a game that goes into (averaged) negative marks territory: https://archive.org/details/ComputerAndVideoGamesIssue061Nov86/page/n23/mode/1up?view=...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What on earth is Ball Driver?!?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 457
Re: What on earth is Ball Driver?!?
Thought someone might pick up on that one 27% puts it in the absolutely-bloody-awful territory.bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:18 pm He revised Nightshade to be 27%. And the problem is.... ?
I can't get over the 65% for HoH and 22% for Ant Attack.