Spectrum Computing

goodboy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:30 pm the shadow of the beast also belongs to this category, she's not playable

Oops! You are indeed right!

No wonder I'll re-run this poll at a later date. Consider this a dress rehearsal!

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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! ...

StooB wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:01 pm International Manager is missing.

Well spotted! I've rectified that now, thanks!

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Has to be Lemmings for me. I don't think I even got the full game though, which would have been a strange decision... 1) Lemmings 2) Hero Quest 3) Rex Bubbling under, in any old order: Switchblade; Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Coin-Op; Hammerfist; Cybernoid II; Batman: The Movie and The Bard's ...

Here's a massive poll - every playable demo (of full price games) that featured on a magazine covertape given away with the three major British Speccy mags. Ideally, I'd have you take the actual demo into consideration, but in an age of online abundance where you can freely get ~99% of all ZX Spectr...

For 14th March 2024: Playable demo (of a budget game) More Tea, Vicar? (playable demo) by Cronosoft Sensitive (playable demo) by Peter Gordon Motorbike Madness (playable demo) by Mastertronic F14 Tomcat (playable demo) by Players Shanghai Warriors (playable demo) by Players Street Cred' Football (pl...

Well, at least we have #2 and #6 who have appeared officially on the ZX Spectrum.

I already know which one of these I'm going to vote for... Putting up a selection of playable demos for a vote is mostly going to mean fans of a game will vote for it, unsurprisingly. I mean, if such a thing as a Chaos playable demo existed, of course I will go for it immediately over anything else...