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4-2. Green Beret
4-7. Firefly
4-8. Mikie

R-Type Spot the Difference:

7. Missing little cyan star in the background
8. Missing fourth green bullet

R-Type Spot the Difference:

4. Rotation difference in circular parts of the yellow arms
5. Missing yellow canon in bottom right
6. Cyan versus white bottom part of the ship

R-Type Spot the Difference:

1. Difference in amount of lives left (4 versus 5)
2. Red versus green "hills" at the yellow arms
3. Difference in beam charge meter

2-3 Lunar Jetman
2-5 Uridium

1. Quazatron
2. Ranarama
3. Intensity

Absolutely love Quazatron. Completed it many times. Even though it's based on the principles of Paradroid the isometric platforming makes it unique again.
I had high hopes for its sequel -- Magnetron -- but was utterly let down by it.

That's the infamous Firebird BleepLoad loading scheme there. It was used in many of Telecomsoft’s titles BITD. My copies of Starglider 128K, Magnetron, and Brainstorm used it. One of the most annoying loading schemes in my opinion. It made an already lengthy loading process even longer because of al...

Happy to hear. Hope you all in the UK get them very soon!

Got mine last week in The Netherlands. In comparison to the KS1 version it’s really nicely boxed and protected by the cardboard packaging.

So many great games -- Costa Panayi deserves more recognition as one of the best of the Speccy era.

1. Highway Encounter
2. Cyclone
3. H.A.T.E.

The Great Escape where you can wear the enemy’s uniform.

If you have a toastrack 128K -- this is still Basic:

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The Netherlands, summer of 1985: an original rubber keyed Spectrum 48K. Bought new (by my elder brother) at a V&D department store together with a copy of Fighter Pilot and Falcon Patrol II. The two of us spent half an hour on his tiny Peugeot 103 SP moped to get to the shop, and then the same a...

I'll happily end this quiz then!

4. Octan

18. Fist II

Tantalus (1986) has a playing area of a whopping 32 x 32 = 1024 screens.

I always thought this is one of the biggest maps of any Speccy game.
(Apart from procedurally generated maps such as in The Sentinel and Explorer.)

1. Tau Ceti 128K Special Edition
2. Brainstorm
3. Micronaut One

Definitely an original thinker. I appreciate how many of Pete Cooke's games were trying to do something new.
As a result his games were not always very accessible.

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:31 pmHorizontal shooters were almost none-existent, with Defender being just about the only prominent example.

I find that hard to believe. Scramble (1981) is one of the first side scrolling shooters and was a huge arcade hit.

Bruce Lee
Spy Hunter

Commando
Bomb Jack

Zynaps
Exolon

Z-Man (DJL)
Galaxians (Artec)

I. Thanatos

Nice idea for a quiz!

1. Renegade
2. Target: Renegade
3. Robocop

Ooph, what a list and so hard to pick only three! Both WEC Le Mans and Arkanoid Revenge of Doh are favourites too.

Spy Hunter!

I appreciate how the course of this discussion fits so well with the title of the game itself...