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
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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: vote
- Replies: 5
- Views: 239
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: 838
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...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 838
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
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 ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 838
The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
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...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
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...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
- Replies: 42
- Views: 907
Re: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
Well, at least we have #2 and #6 who have appeared officially on the ZX Spectrum.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
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...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
Eg. Dustin was originally released in Spain as a Spanish-language game; the only English-language release it got was on a YS cover tape. So it’s technically a re-release of a game, but it’s kind of an exclusive version too. You're right that it's technically a re-release of a game. I've categorised...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Longest wait between Speccy sequels?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 635
Re: Longest wait between Speccy sequels?
I own both. Can't get the latter to run on a Speccy, though!
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Accolade: vote
- Replies: 3
- Views: 202
Re: The best Speccy game by Accolade: vote
Looks like I didn't set the poll to expire (gah!), but to take a proper check after seven days... The winner is The Duel: Test Drive 2, with four votes. Gunboat comes second, with three votes. The Cycles and Star Control are joint fourth - two votes each! We only had one proportional comment, which ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 579
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
Unsurprisingly, by a huge margin, Starquake is the winner here, with 33 votes. Nearest thing to it, is Firelord, a distant second with seven votes. Factory Breakout get three votes to be in third place. Joint fourth goes to Laser Snaker and Wizard's Lair - two votes each. Similar story on the propor...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
- Replies: 12
- Views: 416
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
I think your editing has somewhat merged Intravoid with Mindfighter somewhere. Oops!! I forgot to close BB tag somewhere! Perhaps there's still time to edit the post. Sadly, no, but the next best thing is to post up the corrected profiles, which I'll do now! Intravoid by Delta 4 Software https://ww...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 77
Re: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
You're an early bird today Prodge - has switching to BST messed with your biorhythms too? Naah, nothing to do with the long Easter weekend. I just sometimes go for a Saturday afternoon/evening beer binge, go home, have dinner and go to sleep early and then wake at stupid o'clock! This one is a comp...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
Playable demo (of a full price game) Phew, the first category I'm suggesting and it's a very long list! 104 entries in this proposed list: 19 Part 1: Boot Camp (playable demo) by Cascade Games Addams Family, The (playable demo) by Ocean Adidas Championship Football (playable demo) by Ocean Altered ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 77
The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
Cricket Challenge Football Fever Racing Game, The Rugby Fifteen Sporting Combination Yep, another mail order software house identified from page 93 of #YS 19. I believe the above is their tangible ZX Spectrum output. Let me know if there are any errors in the above before I start the poll properly n...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
Re: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
1) Fruity. Well, it's obvious. The most recent (1987) and clearly most feature-packed. It's practically objective, isn't it? 2) Fruit 2010. Er, the second most recent and clearly an advance on the previous, which is... 3) Fruit 2000. Duh! Pretty much, I expect everyone to arrive at the same conclusi...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
It's the poll everybody has been waiting for! [citation needed] Contain your excitement as we cover the software brand that everybody fondly remember [citation needed] and always talks about! [citation needed] Yep, from page 93 of YS #19, we've hit the classified ads and it's homebrew gaming before ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
- Replies: 12
- Views: 416
Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
The final of this series, for now. It'll return at some point. I'm concentrating on a series of polls about covertape items , but not a retread of the Covertape Wars polls. Honest. Anyway, here is a poll about Fergus McNeil's games output for the ZX Spectrum, lots of it being Delta 4 text adventures...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 596
Re: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
I always heard the main one as "Minky". I have absolutely no idea what this means and I'm almost certainly mishearing it.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
- Replies: 8
- Views: 234
Re: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
They’re using the Amiga or ST version of Starglider Oof! Well, that's a spectacular clanger from me then. I clocked the Spectrum ROM font and the low amount of colours, which felt quite Spectrum-ish, especially on the blurry resolution of a VHS recording - but yes, I very much stand corrected. And ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
No, it's not actually Covertape Wars again, but I am delving back to that era. This time, I'm not portraying it as a YS vs SU vs Crash battle, but breaking it down into a 'best covertape [thing]' of a certain type. I do try to keep my polls objectively configured and there'll always be a few grey ar...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
- Replies: 8
- Views: 234
Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
I remember the Get Mucky segment on ITV Saturday morning show Get Fresh using Starglider in series 2, and then Xenon on some 16-bit platform for series 3. Not being a computer owner at the time, I couldn't distinguish which platform was used for Starglider, but someone's uploaded a nearly full editi...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Sales/Commercial
- Topic: The Horace Collection | Kickstarter
- Replies: 9
- Views: 724
Re: The Horace Collection | Kickstarter
Horace And The 10 Foot Bargepole Acting as Horace, you have to cross a busy road probably once used by a giant frog, to pick up a 10-foot bargepole. Once you are armed with it, navigate your way through a maze where cassettes from an ethically dubious 'IP rights holder' are floating about. You must...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 680
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
Using Vampyre 's prompt in Google's AI offering, Gemini, brings a result citing a shorter game list which will give you deja vu. The ZX Spectrum: A Spark That Ignited the UK Gaming Industry The arrival of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982 wasn't just a moment in tech history, it was a revolution for ...