Spectrum Computing

Killa Gorilla, Transistors Revenge and Daredevil Dennis on the BBC Micro are ones I remember from my youth when my half brother used to visit with his Beeb in the mid-late 80's. Still fire them up in the browser sometimes.

Perhaps I should be a bit ashamed to admit this, but I sold a lot of Amigas/ST's off the back of the fact I couldn't "see the PC platform going anywhere" in the late 80's and early 90's. In defence of my myopia, we did only have EGA/VGA at the time, and then you'd have to buy a Soundblaste...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:06 pm
What were they smoking when they said that!?

Probably smoking cracks, Pete

Just noticed that High Score is narrated by Charles Martinet, AKA the modern voice of Mario.

A nice touch.

I worked in a games shop in 1986 and then again in 1989 we never even stocked the NES. The shop went with the Sega Master System as it was easier to get hold of. I remember that you had to sign a legal contract that if you were going to be a Sega dealer then you weren't allowed to also sell Nintend...

[mention]Ersh[/mention] Purely anecdotal I realise, but I worked for an independent computer/console retailer in the UK 87-97, and I can tell you that the NES was FAR outsold by the Master System in consoles and games, possibly even as much as 20 to 1. Nintendo didn't start to make a dent in the mar...

[mention]TMD2003[/mention] Having seen what the SID effects look like on an oscilloscope I now know that this is created by a square wave that's "more up than down" or "more down than up" The technical term for this is PWM, or Pulse Width Modulation, a common technique used on mo...

The biggest embarrassment of all, though, came when New Computer Express had some abject moron cover the budget re-release and somehow manage to assert that the 128K version didn't have any music. (Having presumably loaded the 48K version into a Speccy 128 by mistake.) Perhaps the issue with the mu...

Number 20 is a Design Design game I think, either Warlock, Halls or Dark Star. I'm sure they all used the same health bar...? I knew I'd seen it somewhere! I'm guessing Dark Star! Edit: I think HOTT was similar but in white. It doesn't appear to be the correct answer as there's been no ding ding.. :(

Number 20 is a Design Design game I think, either Warlock, Halls or Dark Star. I'm sure they all used the same health bar...? Yeah, my first thought was HoTT, but then I thought straight away that it looked a bit 'fat'. After I posted I had a look back and I agree. I mean, it's the most generic a h...

Number 20 is a Design Design game I think, either Warlock, Halls or Dark Star. I'm sure they all used the same health bar...?

ketmar wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:47 pm simple, but surprisingly fun. final boss is a Bas**rd!

Don't you mean 'Batsard'?

Older members of this site will know I've gone on about this before, so I hope they can forgive me for mentioning it one last time.. But I find it so bloody frustrating that I worked for Altera for 7 years, and tried to get the retro computing/gaming sceners interested in FPGA for so long, only to b...

First one that springs to mind is Melbourne Houses 'Terrormolinos', an adventure about Brits on the P?s? in Spain. Doesn't get much more British than that. I remember the advertisement strap line years on without looking it up. 'Wish you were here in Torremolinos - instead of me!'

It's like watching a pinball game score go up with the pledges right now, almost 1/2 a million quid in 30 minutes. Insane. Just bought a second, for the grand kids - 'in my day you had to load a tape, uphill, both ways'

The nearest for me would probably be style 2. My ideal is high res, no colour clash using the original spectrum palette only, with perhaps a couple more variations on the brightness of the original colours. Anything else to me just looks like Atari ST/Amiga, which while nice just doesn't invoke the ...

Skull is giving me Atari Xybots vibes. Wonder if they stole it like they did Dandy for Gauntlet.

Ultimate's 'Filmation' is presumably doing something in-between. As it looks good, but has horrible slowdown at times. My first memory of frame rate problems, even if I didn't understand the concept at that young age. But I certainly remember noticing it. They really were pushing that machine to it...

If I'm not too late:

Atic Atac
Exolon
Arkanoid 2
Starquake
Bubble Bobble

Perhaps less rock like than some of the other suggestions, but I always liked the 'rocky cores' of the planets of Starquake and Cybernoid.

I get there is no hunger for an off topic section for the forum, and respect the decision not to. Having said that, there were two topics in the last 6 months I would have liked to have got the opinion of, from other 'like minded' people of a certain age and demographic, and this forum would have be...

1 - The off license

*hic*

Hmmm. I think people's definition of "retro" is always likely to be wholly subjective. With respect to Retro Gamer, I'm still subscribed (since issue 5) but thinking of stopping it myself. Firstly because of the shrinkflation (under the excuse of Covid 19 no less!) From ~128 pages to ~96 w...

Despite lockdown, you are now allowed a haircut.

1bvl109 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:00 pm

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 7:53 pm

This game's as difficult as running on stilettos through the jungle. You've been warned, Bro.

Appreciate your dedication to trying it out for us!