Spectrum Computing

bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:40 pm Cliff hanger?

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...yes!

Surely this will give it away...

stupidget wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:39 am Fat Worm Blows a Sparky?

I do believe that game's Official Colour was green, so no.

Pobulous wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:28 amSentinel?

Nope. Okay, let's zoom out some more... getting very close to giving it away completely, I'd say.

GreenCard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:07 am Stunt Car Racer?

Nope. Perhaps this is proving harder than I thought! Though admittedly, I anticipated at least some of the above guesses. I guess there were a lot of yellow games on the Spectrum.

Okay, plenty of guesses already -- so let's zoom out a bit.

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:43 am Chronos?

No sir.

Robbeasy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:15 amQuazatron?

Also nope.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:08 am Contact Sam Cruise?

Nope.

Okay, next. I bloody loved this game, BITD. Think it holds up pretty well today.

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Kid Cadet, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

(Edited cos I messed up!)

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Maze, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

Grongy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:52 am Thanks! UriS recently did SPECScii art, his work is more impressive imo:

These are indeed spectacular. And the disco one is hilarious!

Maybe this one? Jumping Cross. Thanks, but no. It's the right year (1984... 85/86 at the *very latest*) but the game I'm trying to recall was purely top-to-bottom scrolling. I recall the mud being quite the obstacle, and it could properly slow you down. The game felt like a challenging 'slog', rath...

Did Macsen ever produce anything even halfway decent? I’m not sure it did.

Thanks, but sadly not. Again, similar — but there were no pseudo 3D bits in the game I’m trying to recall.

I found Rally Bike, which looks kinda similar to what I remember but this is 1988, so definitely not it. It’s also way faster than the game I’m trying to recall…

There are probably more relevant forums on which to ask this but I’m not a member of any of those… So, today I walked past a cafe that, back in about 1985, was home to a solitary arcade game that swallowed many of the 10p pieces meant for my bus ride to and from school (I generally walked, so I coul...

Grongy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:08 pm

Almost everything you produce impresses me but this one, wow -- you've surpassed yourself! It just seems impossible to pack so much detail into so few pixels.

On a similar subject, there seems to be hardly any interviews/videos/blogs about or from the people who worked on the magazines. You can pretty much find an interview with any developer from back in the day, but nothing from old journo's. It's a bit scattergun in both content and style, not to ment...

If you could go back in time to be a writer on your favourite computer magazine, what kind of era and what section/genre would you like to write in? 100% Crash. 100% 1984-85. 100% reviews (because what teenager didn't want to be an influencer, even if we didn't call it that back then?). As it happe...

Surely School Daze. Throw something at it to see what happens. I think you misunderstood. The shield is Skool Daze, yes, (and I think you’re the first to get that one) but the vortex thing reminds me both of TV show The Adventure Game *and* a Spectrum game — the name of which my mind will not conju...

Turrican or Turrican 2?

Skip to 19m51s on Part Four of this episode to hear it: https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/2024/01/06/chart-music-73-march-4th-1993-frank-bald/ I love throwaway anecdotes like the one aired here: they bring to life what as a (much) younger person I fantasised it'd be like working for the likes of...

4-3 - Journey’s End.