Spectrum Computing

Stumped? This was released in the later years around the decline in the Spectrum's popularity.

I remember being more fascinated by the intro sequence in Buggy Blast than the actual game.

Seeing as we are doing loading screens..

Buggy Blast

Hmm.. now that I look at it, I didn't even notice the colours are unusual. Is the JSSpeccy link on that page using a version with ULA+ under the hood?

EDIT: Nah, going into basic and testing some colours it just seems to render them weird. Kinda fits the game though, lol.

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:20 pm Ah I'd forgotten about that game. Very beautiful with such a distinctive style. I'm guessing the screenshot was ULA+?

Nope I used the JSSpeccy link from the game's page on this site, played to that part and then took a screenshot.

Asterix? Correct :dance "Asterix and the Magic Cauldron" to be exact. I remember trying to like this game back in the 80's but it was clunky, especially the combat system. Nice graphics though. https://i.postimg.cc/vHrVRp7z/fq345o5e1.png https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/290/ZX-Spectr...

A wee bit more. From a well-known publisher, mediocre game.

Not Psytron.

That felt too easy

How about this then..

Stefan wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 1:50 pm Which brings us to:

Must be Techno Cop

↑ I wasn't too familiar with Streethawk but it seems this gorgeous little graphic pops up several times during the game. Would be nice to have a whole game in this style. Definitely. When I was choosing this one for an entry I was wondering if I was "cheating" a bit by taking a screencap ...

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:57 pm Streethawk?

That's it, congrats. Released in 1986 by Ocean Software and got average reviews.



https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4938

Over to you.

Released in 1986 by a well-known publisher.

Well no guesses yet, so zooming out.

First hint, it's not an adventure game but an arcade game.

I've never really thought about much work it would be to be to assemble something like this. When you get arithmetic involved it's surprising how many pixels the Speccy had for a budget machine. You last mentioned aiming for lesser dimensions of 176x112 pixels? That's still 19712 blocks! My condolen...

Behold! Some pixels.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:40 am Its annoying that copying from the website makes it all appear in caps like I'm shouting. But if I typed it myself then you'd all laugh at my inability to spell Theater.

Anyway, similar vein, but much more obscure :

NATO Alert?

Well yeah, I do wish I had a better ZX Spectrum back in the day but man, still appreciated what we had. My first experience was with a ZX81 when I was around 4 years old. I remember us owning a rubber-keyed 48K spectrum after that and later on encasing it in a DK'Tronics keyboard and eventually upgr...

Prophyt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:17 pm Rapscallion

Spoiler

Rapscallion

Three Weeks in Paradise

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:21 pm Gyroscope

Spoiler

Gyroscope

Silent Service

That looks pretty good. I'm not normally a fan of remakes because they tend to lose that Speccy charm, but this still feels like Saboteur. Maybe because it still has that blocky kind of sprite movement and is not smooth, because higher frame rates make things feel more console-like to me. Curious to...

Morkin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:17 pm Wheelie

Spoiler

Wheelie

Scuba Dive

blucey wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 7:28 amFeud?

Indeed, it is Feud. Your turn.

Zooming out a bit

AFAIK there were 20 cards with Sinclair User #63 (1987/Jun) and another 20 cards with Sinclair User #68 (1987/Nov). Does anyone know which cards came with each one? There are 18 cards in this link: https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_User_PokeCards/ I don't know if they correspond to either of the...