Spectrum Computing

stupidget wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:49 am Paddington’s Garden Game?

Correct!

(I'm curious where the similar sign is in Chuckie Egg 2 - I watched a quick vid but couldn't see anything?)

A bit more:

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:32 pm Chuckie Egg 2?

Nope, sorry.

Here's one:

It might be quite good fun to try and identify a Speccy game for each one.

Pobulous wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:41 pm This doesn't look like it's been mapped yet, and was only reviewed by one of the big 3 mags.

Which one? If it wasn't reviewed in SU, I'll never have heard of it. (Not that I recognise it anyway!)

Longest of long shots: Gregory Loses His Clock?

I'm not sure if or how this is fixable, and/or if I've posted this in the wrong forum, but I've just noticed that the instructions for Voyage into the Unknown (taken from the old Spectrum Games Database entry written yonks ago at ) say that it received a Crash score of 9/10, when in fact it was 9%. ...

Incredible Shrinking Fireman?

I think, like a lot of these "what were the best", a lot of it is cognitive bias. If you played a particular game or read a particular mag or hang around particular websites, it's very easy to assume everyone else in the world thinks the same thing. Having literally only played 4 of the ga...

Future Knight?

Hijack?

Technician Ted?

From what I hear of Barcadia, you have to pay £10 for a bunch of American quarters, which gets you about 10 goes on the arcade machines, it's also located on probably the worst street for dealing with drunk clubbing types. Meanwhile, five minutes away there is an arcade in the mall which, for the p...

Rampage? Thought not.

In reference to this (rightly) locked thread at https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11222 I've just done a google, and there is bot software called STM32. (Apologies if this was blindingly obvious and/or has already been posted by someone). https://github.com/u2man/stm32-telegram-...

For me one of the games that defines the Speccy is Wanted:Monty Mole. I know it was multi-platform but when it was released it was one of the games that everyone wanted (pun fully intended). At the local computer club our 1hr allotted time in the high cool canteen was spent making as many copies of...

If we are talking about iconic rather than best, I'd remove Chaos. It only seems to have found fame after the Spectrum era ended, into the emulator age. I was aware of it thanks to the review in the adventure section of Crash, but I never saw it in the shops until the yellow SU coverdisk in 1991. *...

It is definitely a good list, but if I was being pedantic, should Elite be on there, what with it being a BBC game. I think most of the others, with the obvious exceptions, were mostly Spectrum exclusives.

The page for Rally Cross ( https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... ally_Cross ) links to the Crash review of Rally Cross Simulator, a different game.

Are there any games suspected of doing this? It would be fun to do an investigation.

Dan Dare 3?

worcestersource wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:48 pm Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I know it’s completable but there’s always something I’ve missed to get stuck at 99% a complete person.

I've got a vague memory of reading that this is a bug in the game.

Maybe someone else can shed more specific light.

Scuba Dive?

Andre Leao wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am You must try Abu Simbel Profanation. Or not...

God no! I've watched the video. There seems to be a particular section where you have to get past an enemy, and it seems it's only possible because of a glitch, and you have to time it correctly down to the millisecond.