Spectrum Computing

My favourite screen$ artist from BITD. If he'd just done Pogo and Hunchback and nothing else he'd still be a legend. I was reading about him the other day on that binaryzone page, after his last few Speccy (and a couple of Amstrad) screens in 87 he went back to architecture and designed this office ...

WhatHoSnorkers wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:55 am My hand-me-down record player had 33 1/3, 45 and 78. So every single I bought automatically had two remixes, the dance version at 78 RPM and the depressing album version at 33 1/3!

Frog Chorus at 78 RPM was a banger...

You are John Peel and I claim my five Half Man Half Biscuit sessions.

I got past that bit (assuming you mean trapping the knights in the pits), but then stupidly died at the top.

As you say, the collision takes some getting used to. I'm pleased there's ten lives!

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:14 pm Mushroom Soup.

I'm reassured by it only having ten levels, perhaps I'm less rubbish than I thought. (Got as far as The Pits)

Tease me, tease me, tease me, tease me, tease me! Is it Advanced 1990s Pop Reggae Simulator?

ka Demus

I was thinking 23 lives was too generous, until I reached level 3 and that bloody trident thing at the bottom left. Argh!

Ah, that's exactly the bundle I got. Shockingly, I went in with my mum to get a C16 as that's what my best friend had but the shop assistant in Dixons talked her into getting me a Speccy and whoever he is, he's basically the man to have ever lived. I very nearly got a C16 too, because I knew we had...

Another 48K with the Sinclair Six pack here. I played Horace and Chequered Flag a huge amount, also Survival, but then got fascinated by Make-A-Chip (probably why I went on to do an degree in electronics 10 years later!) Oh so that's where I went wrong! If only I'd loaded it more than once. Mind yo...

Dixons Spectrum+ bundle, Christmas 1985. In descending order of how often I loaded them: Horace Goes Skiing Chequered Flag Starion Planetoids Scrabble Reversi Chess Survival Make-A-Chip VU-3D No Horizons tape, but there was a Spectrum+ guide which included a sideways Breakout/Thro The Wall clone and...

Wot no Bobby Bearing, Hickey the Kreezer or the scaredy cat from Jack The Nipper? Heresy! Sacrilege!

I've never played it until now. I'm very good at it, if the object of the game is to bounce around a bit and die.

Nick Ross? Sleep well, don't have nightmares.

I wonder if Stuart Ross is still a fruit graphic designer?

Apparently some of these Design Design score tables also had a whole load of responses if you typed certain things into the high score table. ( Crash letters page ). Not sure if there's a full list somewhere? There's a load of info about Design Design/Crystal games here: https://worldofspectrum.net...

Terra Cresta had an interesting hi-score table if you read it top to bottom: https://i.postimg.cc/5jN8QTKh/Screenshot-20240401-131933-Spectaculator.jpg I always wondered why Claire had that nickname in Lap of the Gods: https://i.postimg.cc/fkrStL9d/Screenshot-20240401-131447-Spectaculator.jpg

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:09 pm There was a bug that made the game freeze in level 42.

I was playing the game until The Sun Goes Down, but I'm in Hot Water now, I don't want to Take A Look at it ever again, It's Over for me.

I didn't realise it was set to Hard mode automatically. I tried on Easy but didn't find it that much easier.

I keep dying on level 6 so might have to start saving my progress too.

Ok let's start the high score challenge. Not tried Play-Hard mode yet.

(Ummm... there was supposed to be an image there! High 147, level 6.)

Oh I think I get it now. This thread is about being able to traverse the same level with a choice of different characters or vehicles. For example, Glider Rider where you can play as a glider or a bike. That makes this different to the other thread, which was about a single character changing appea...

I love Frank N. Stein and this is a great "remix", although I haven't made it off level 2 yet. (Took me long enough to work out how to dodge the snake)

Hell, let's have JSW just for the Nightmare Room screen.

If we're allowing stuff like Exolon then Starquake must count too.

Thunderbirds (you switch between Thunderbird 1 and Thunderbird 2 during the game)

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:56 amIt's just that the commentary shows he wasn't an owner back in the day and has given these familiar titles a cursory playthrough.

I'd go further and speculate that the author got AI to "write" most of it. The whole thing just seems like a lot of hot air to me.

Finally in the 1724 club! Only took me about 100 attempts.

ketmar wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:00 am it is so sad to see poor snake having no votes at all… i'll prolly change mine now.

It's a good game! I find it more fun than Wizard's Lair, which I couldn't get into at all.