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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
- Replies: 5
- Views: 245
Re: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
Well, Cricket Challenge and The Racing Game have tied for first place in the phpBB poll, with two votes each. What we have left, with one vote, is Football Fever. Can we expect a breakthrough in the proportional results? Football Fever 6 Racing Game, The 3 Rugby Fifteen 2 Cricket Challenge 1 Erm... ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 206334
Re: Spectrum memes
I reckon the entire softography of John George Jones would do. There's even an actual book about the impact of these largely unknown games.SteveSmith wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:42 pm It might be quite good fun to try and identify a Speccy game for each one.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
- Replies: 5
- Views: 245
Re: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
Let's fix that awful BBcoding I did and show you the full four... Cricket Challenge https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/c/CricketChallenge.scr&border=0 Football Fever https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/f/FootballFever.scr&border=0 Ra...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
I don't see R-Type on the list though - was that a C+VG Spectrum/C64 dual tape? I can't remember if I played it or not; I got the real game as soon as it was available. Yes, it was a C&VG covertape, and the Commodore 64 demo is really quite different to the game that was eventually released . A...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3202
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
I've not heard of Dane McLellan and can't find anything on Google about that name and a connection to any gaming magazine, but I'm reminded of the irony (well, alright, hypocrisy) surrounding the writer 'Robert Galbraith'.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
My suggestion is that, if you have very specific definitions for your categories, then you'll have to play and categorise the games yourself. Because while I can play the games and give my opinions on them, I can't never be as specific as you are. The problem is that... I'm not really a good games ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
As you wish. I find that when the list is so long I lose track. By the time I get to the bottom, I've forgotten what's at the top. I feel that way with my own polls which are very very long, such as this one. The way I mustered up my choices for this one was have Notepad open in a window and I scro...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
oh, so it's different from RexDemo.tap i see but how to find all those covertape versions here to download? is there a way to search for a specific title? Back when I was doing the Covertape Wars polls, I relied on PDFs of all the major three UK Speccy magazines (thanks to archive.org) really helpe...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Randomly or alphabetically order them, run 4 polls, then a final with the winners of the 4. I've never been keen on the 'World cup tournament' way of finding a winner. I mean, it does usually lead to a worthy winner, but it also has a strong probability that mediocre entries get towards the top. My...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
but IIRC Rex demo isn't actually playable , it's just an animation (~rzx) Right, I've loaded up a .tzx of YS Smash Tape 10 to check my memory isn't cheating me. I'm not great at Rex, but so far I've decided to define keys (not a fan of joysticks). It's very much playable! And I'm still crap at it! ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by D&H Games: discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 131
Re: The best Speccy game by D&H Games: discussion
Well spotted! I've rectified that now, thanks!
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Poll's too big. Break it up into a series. Ironically enough, it has been! My first thought was to throw in every playable demo from a YS/Crash/SU covertape, but that - at 138 entries - goes above the phpBB poll limits, so I've broken it into full price and budget. And yeah, it is still quite huge ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Didn't we had the Cybernoid II conversation a while ago? I thought it was related to that thread. Ah, probably during the Covertape Wars polls. Which feels like an eon ago. PS. Also it was very hard to decipher what kind of games you actually wanted. I was reading the first post of this page and ag...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 800
Re: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
Ridiculously happy with this Dixons pack-in for my 128K +2 in late 1987. I genuinely don't think there's been a better pack-in selection, and that's even counting the Tynesoft duffers and Harry S Price plagiarism. (Alright, maybe if you count a bunch of games from a second-hand seller and/or some C9...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3202
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
I don't have any evidence but personally would assume a real staffer who was just assigned tips as her remit. There were plenty of women working on magazines, but but women with any interest in home computing prior to the WWW — particularly technical interest — seem to have been extremely rare. Kat...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Cybernoid II: A lovely demo that I've played a long time, not as much as the main game, but that's because Dustin was really good as well. Did I mention this demo is an exclusive level? [...] Rex: Another exclusive level demo, which is nice. Rats. I did have a discussion phase on this, and nobody b...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3202
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
Is this really still going? She is real. Crash's Nick Roberts was a guest on Maximum Power Up's podcast in 2019, when they had their Top 10 Games Magazines episode (actually spanned across two episodes) and talked of his time taking over from her tips section and making it his own. https://maximumpo...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
I'd come to vote for Lords of Chaos, but after noticing it was missing I checked the relevant magazine and it's down as being an (exclusive?) 4th scenario, not included in the main game. So, I'm guessing that's why it doesn't count as a demo. Yep, exactly that. There will be a poll for ''Special Ed...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Shame the poll is limited to those magazines, missing out the C&VG demo of R-Type Not a bad point. However, if we included all magazine covertapes with ZX Spectrum content on them, then ACE's demo of Bubble Bobble (just the first five levels) would have been my 1st vote, pushing Lemmings into 2...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by D&H Games: discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 131
The best Speccy game by D&H Games: discussion
Advertised on page 93 of YS #19, this mail order specialist in sports management games would later create an imprint called Cult Games, which I'll take a look at next week. Here though, it's time to look at the 13 tangible ZX Spectrum games they put out, I believe this is it: Boxing Manager 2 Champi...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
- Replies: 12
- Views: 416
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
The Colour Of Magic has got this - only just - by five votes! The Big Sleaze and Bored Of The Rings by Delta 4 were joint second, four votes each. These four games: Intravoid; Mindfighter; Murder Off Miami and Quest For The Holy Joystick - all have one vote each to be in joint third position. Propor...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
Re: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
7 votes means Fruity is the winner and that really is it!
And all the proportional voting follows the same pattern:
Fruity 12
Fruit 2010 8
Fruit 2000 4
And all the proportional voting follows the same pattern:
Fruity 12
Fruit 2010 8
Fruit 2000 4
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
- Replies: 5
- Views: 245
The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
BASIC games being sold at full price from 1986-88? Ah, it's a mail order sports management outfit! Pick yer fave from these four: Cricket Challenge https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/c/CricketChallenge.scr&border=0[/fimg [url=https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entr...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 856
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
How come Trantor: The last stormtrooper isn’t on the list? This was one of my all time favourite playable demo’s even if it was just to watch the intro sequence with the amazing tune. It's not a playable demo, it's a rolling demo - ie: unplayable! (The worst type of item on a covertape if you ask m...