Spectrum Computing

Turrican wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:48 pm From a search in my Zx App, I found 2 more games:
Maria's Christmas Box and Strip Poker II Plus.
Is this correct?

Blimey, you're right!

These did not come up when I looked because this site has a 'safe' search,

In they go, and I'll be careful on the screenshots I choose!

Apologies if I've asked this previously @PeteProdge, but do you keep a summary list of the winners from each poll? Yes! Just updated it. When you come to the end we could potentially set-up a special page from the main website do show them all. I like the idea of that. I'm not sure what 'the end' c...

Atomic Robo-Kid has won this (faulty) poll (that'll be re-run a few months from now), with six votes! In second place we have Circus Circus, with four votes. Joint third place goes to Armalyte and Dominion. It's roughly mirrored in the proportional results: Atomic Robo-Kid (playable demo) by Activis...

Software House has won this (rightfully in my opinion), with six votes! Definitely a 'meta' game, that! The text adventure, The Damned Forest has come second, with five votes. Kemshu, a fast-moving puzzle-based game, is third, with four votes. The only football-related title to get a vote, is Cup Fo...

For 5th May 2024: Exclusive game from a recognised brand Games that were gifted from commercial brands, sometimes made specially for the magazine (Moley Christmas, The Muncher Compo); were just games they had hanging about that didn't quite make the grade for a shop shelf release (Flashpoint; Quonda...

Ah, Anco. Creators of that overrated and frankly diabolical football game series Kick Off. They put out just five games on the ZX Spectrum, here they are: Kick Off Kick Off 2 Kick Off World Cup Edition Kingdom Of Krell, The Rally Cross ...and they're up for the vote next week, but do warn me if ther...

A two-horse race between a couple of card games from this mail order outlet I saw advertised on page 95 of Your Sinclair issue 19. Gin Rummy https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/g/scr/GinRummy.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage...

Right, I am referring to Games That Are Like Playable Demos Yet Offer An Experience Fairly Exclusive From The Full Game. Here we go, with these seven titles... Cybernoid II: The Revenge (playable demo) by Hewson https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/c/CybernoidII-TheReveng...

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:37 pm He didn't even bother to fully remove the original title underneath!

Well, I am sure that is just a one-off and he wouldn't have done anything like that again...



...oh.

:o :o :o :o No way!! That's incredible. What an obscure game for that to have happened on completely separately...then to be unearthed within months of each other! :lol: Ah, I'd have to take issue with it being obscure, as its inclusion on a Sinclair User covertape in the middle of 1989 when that m...

Incidentally, this has sparked off a bit of curiousity from me. In modern gaming, FIFA is regarded as king of the football games, and Pro Evolution Soccer is the "no, we have FIFA at home" option, with its imaginary teams and players that hint at the real thing , but can't be the real thin...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:51 am Curses! They've seen through my elaborate obfuscation technique of mirroring the image.

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This is interesting, the demo was bundled in one of the (legal) pirated compilation as a full game. In Load'n'Run magazine's last years of life they stuffed more and more demos into cassettes instead of cracked full games. I wonder why, but the reasons could be multiple: easier to copy, no fuss in ...

Is it possible that I played a version of Circus Circus but with the cannon-man instead? You did! You see, the only traces of Circus Circus are on Sinclair User's Megatape 11, which had Beach Head and Beach Head 2 on side A, while side B had two demos of Circus Circus, followed by Poke City. The fi...

goodboy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:34 pm missing in this list game ThunderJaws

Uh-oh. Another poll that's gonna have to be re-run! Thanks for informing me though.

I do publish the shortlist a week in advance for it to be checked over, just like the 'discussion' phase for the 'Best game by...' threads.

Football Director has won this, with four votes! Everything else gained one vote each, to be joint second: Championship Golf; Football Director II; Football Director: 2 Player Super League and Grand Prix. Here are the proportional results: Football Director: 2 Player Super League 7 Football Director...

And the winner is, unsurprisingly, Dizzy - Crash Special Edition! A rare case of a playable demo being issued long after the actual game was released. That got six votes. Another Code Masters effort is in second place - Steg gets three votes. Hi-Tec's Turbo The Tortoise is in third place with two vo...

The Tilt screenshot Is wrong. The MIA Is the other Tilt. Oops! And so is the link too. I can't edit posts after an hour has gone, so here's the next best thing... Tilt (playable demo) by Linel https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/t/Tilt_2.scr&border=0 Thanks for poin...

Just a daft fantasy thread, where we imagine what's hypothetically the best ZX Spectrum set up. How we do this: Start with an official stock ZX Spectrum from the commercial era . Any Sinclair or Amstrad-owning-Sinclair model. That means no clones, no SAM Coupe or Sinclair Next. Add as many hardware ...

Literally just two card games from this mail order outlet that advertised in the classifieds section of Your Sinclair: Gin Rummy Six Card Cribbage It appears to be a brand for Bristol-based programmer Steve Williams, who coded these card games in 1989 and 1987 respectively (and apparently was behind...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:00 am 1. Damned Forest, The

A title that immediately makes me think of Brian Clough, but it's actually one of Cult's rare games that have nothing to do with football.

For 28th March 2024: 'Special Edition' promos AKA Games That Are Like Playable Demos Yet Offer An Experience Fairly Exclusive From The Full Game Cybernoid II: The Revenge (playable demo) by Hewson Dan Dare II: SU Edition by Virgin Games Dizzy 3 And A Half by Code Masters Lords Of Chaos (playable dem...

A kind of reinvention of D&H Games, and this list would be very short indeed if the sport of football never existed! You have seven days to pick your favourite... 2 Player Soccer Squad https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/123/scr/2PlayerSoccerSquad.scr...

Those MIA games where they do actually exist... as a fraction of their intended product! I've always wanted to do this. These six playable demos are all that exists (as far as we know) of the full games. But which is the best? You have seven days to choose. Armalyte (playable demo) by Thalamus https...

https://www.binaryzone.org/thezone/davidthorpe.php "...passed away at the grand age of 84 on January 29th 2024 after a long illness" https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/b/scr/Batman.scr&border=0 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR...