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Information about the game Blue Max looks like being processed (diagonal screen scrolling). But it is not displayed in the game's info page.

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We are still at step 1: So far, many people agreed a better classification system would be nice. However nobody took over the task of proposing a new classification and leading a discussion about these details in this forum... I remember there were some people ready to participate. 5 years ago. So ...

But well, was new classification done ? I can find no information about this. Only some lists in discussion of maze games. Links to some important posts The current problem is that categories describe not gaming mechanics, but the plot. That same Vehicle combat can mean space simulator like Elite (s...

There are several topics about games that belong to several genres. I have found a question and 2 discussions in this forum. More than 1 category https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8337 Game Genres https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=665 The "Maze" ge...

You don't play with a spaceship at all. It's a maze game. There are four different characters: one can jump, one can fly, etc. -- it's real strategy with the teleporter. :shock: I thought it was a space ship or some vehicle. We often play as a human or an animal, monster or vehicle. Some games use ...

Should 16K games run on ZX 48K as well as on ZX 16K or do any of them have known problems on ZX 48K? There are 3 options to select on S.C. main search page - `ZX Spectrum 16K', `ZX Spectrum 16K only' and 'ZX Spectrum 16/48'. But if 16K hardware has no tricks then all those options are the same?

Probably there are fighting games for ZX where you can select your unique character? And PC races give you a choice of your car with its own characteristics, more fast or more controllable. swapping Capitan Trueno, you can change between Capitan Trueno, Crispin and Goliath. transforming - Altered Be...

Fernandez Must Die - vehicle, you can use jeep Dragon Breed - vehicle, you ride a dragon but you can leave it an step into small island Spy Hunter? As i see this is 5th case - changing protagonist between levels and no choice. Any Pac-Man clone (when you eat a power pill) No, you just get additional...

I try to search the games where you play as different characters, not a single character with misc power ups. I think these cases are valid: 1 swap protagonist to other one during the game, like in Head over Heels. My first idea was about different characters with different skills. But i don't think...

:D Draconus - morphs into water beast :D Antiriad - you can wear or drop armour and use it as a vehicle First game(s) that come in my mind is MASK series -parts 2,3 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3044/ZX-Spectrum/MASK_II . You choose heroes with different skills/vehicles. Do you mean Mask 3, ...

Terminus: The Prison Planet (there are four different characters with different movement abilities: you can switch whenever you find a teleporter: I think this is the most interesting character-swap game I have seen on the Spectrum , although some characters are so difficult to control that they ma...

Which games give you ability to change protagonist during game except picking up weapons and power ups Protagonist enters some vehicle. select protagonist with different skills before or during the game I think we should exclude all the games where you play different genres on different stages like ...

I've tried to copy some most outstanding information from +3 table but realized that almost every game is to be copied. Almost all games have enhanced GFX / SFX. Other things are ... Budokan choice of fighting style Night Hunter choice of difficulty level Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o'Fun intro differ...

Search inside this forum subtree gives no relevant results and google results are totally poisoned with pages of individual games. So i'll try to put all that together. The most used diffs 28k/128k are AY music and SFX, enhanced graphics or other gfx content - intro, mid-story pictures, final cuts. ...

Here you can can check which +3 disk games have some additional content: https://zx-pk.ru/threads/31635-spisok-igr-s-uluchsheniyami-skonvertirovannykh-i-eshche-net-s-3.html (the forum is in Russian but the list is in English) Not sure it is correct. That list shows difference between +3 and 128k ve...

Your description sounds like 3D perspective... Do you have any examples? Operation Thunderbolt https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/o/OperationThunderbolt.scr&border=0 Butcher Hill https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/b/ButcherHill.scr&border=...

ZXDB now knows 3 variants of 2d graphics, Side-view 2D Graphics Top-view 2D Graphics Perpendicular 2.5D Graphics Other options for flat 2d are 1st-person (usually a view from a racing car, a crosshair for FPS shooters) Behind view (racing genre is the only that comes to my mind) Perpendicular 2.5D G...

Can we also have a tag for games with multiple genres? This is a list https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/5187/ZX-Spectrum/Terminator_2_Judgment_Day https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/434/ZX-Spectrum/Batman_The_Movie https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2543/ZX-Spectrum/Iron_Lord https://spect...

The Spy Who Loved Me
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That's like saying when you click "Arcade Game: Shoot-em-up" Game genre is such a mystic category. You can see Repton has 'maze' genre, Lode runner is `platformer' and Parabola is `arcade action' but none of them is puzzle. BTW can we add tag `puzzle`? So we can just assign this tag to su...

Look at the walls. Trace a line from the "horizontal" lines (the ones running diagonally up the screen) on each of the tiles. They are all parallel and will never ever meet at a vanishing point. That's no a limitation of ZX graphics, it's an oblique projection. You can make the argument t...

Let us see user's case to seek for games. I know a cool game, e.g. renegade or double dragon and i am impressed with its graphics mode, that oblique 3d. I want to see other games that are like renegade and i click link "oblique 3d". But i see that `3d painter` and `pippo`. No. These games ...

PANDEMIA . no, it isn't - "oblique" belongs to "parallel" group where "parallel" means "all originally parallel lines remain parallel in the pic" which is obviously not the case here (unless you want to believe the original angles were all meant to be so weir...

Yes, you are (kinda) looking down. The walls are correct. The problem is, everything else (including people) is supposed to be "inclined to the right" like the walls, they are not. DESOLATOR . That picture looks like top-down oblique projection (see wiki). It is obviously not a military o...

Do these screens look like true Oblique 3D Graphics ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection This one is something vice versa for me, i feel walls of this image as inverted and absolutely unreal. The world is like turning upside down. Or may be you are looking down but still the picture is...