Spectrum Computing

I (regretfully) ditched my Speccy around 1991 when I switched to an Amiga. From there I switched to console gaming (PS1/PS2 etc.) throughout the 90s and early 00s. No Speccy in sight. Started lurking on WoS around 2007, mainly for nostalgia purposes. Then I realised just how much people all over the...

Druid?

Nice. Could be an interesting challenge to balance builds and branching eventualities. I remember trying a strength/melee-based Fallout character and failing miserably as I was a walking pincushion when trying to close distances between gun-firing enemies... :lol: Interesting that you can succeed in...

Head Over Heels is an interesting debate - I personally wouldn't have rated it anywhere nearly as highly as Crash did. It is an originality issue for me. Knight Lore was released in 1984, that's a whole 3 years earlier. Since its release we'd seen Alien 8, and countless other similarly-styled games ...

Marauder?

I have a walking commute to/from work, and to break up the boredom I sometimes lapse into the arm-swinging, loping gait of the dudes out of Tir Na Nog/Dun Darach. It's quite an economical way to walk if your legs are tired. I prefer to do it when nobody's watching though. :oops: When I do gym-style ...

Great stuff....! I would've 100% thought someone would've done this scroll before, but not sure I've seen one till now. Ooh... Ooh... I wonder if it'd be possible to do this scrolling message while the game is loading ..? That would've been awesome back in 87/88 8-) (Oi - stop throwing things at me....

Haven't read the whole thread (again, forgive me, it's a long one) but see if you can guess this piece of dirt: ZX Computing : "[software house] had a band of semi-naked girls running around their stand with whips!" Sinclair User : "All the monsters are bright green, which lends a si...

Mpk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:55 pm Some choice quotes from one review then.

Hard mode :

Easy mode :

Spoiler

instantly recognisable by his giant paper-mache head.

I'm guessing this one might be Max Headroom?

No worries. From playing it, it seems that: - It scrolls from left to right, and you have to collect the little yellow fish - If you run out of air, or hit something, you don't die, but your fish score resets to zero - You can replenish your air at any time by going up to the surface I don't know wh...

It works in Spectaculator after enabling Currah in the options. Everything loads normally. On the menu, you either press '0' to start the game, or just wait with the tune playing for a bit, for the game to start automatically. I then got this static start screen (as shown, without any of the moving ...

Before I opened this thread I thought someone might have released some customised Alphacom toilet roll.

Vampyre wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:42 amWizball?

Correct..! It's one of the static power-up dropping aliens you encounter when you start the game.

Sorry for the delay. Here's one:

I reckon that's Rogue

Slightly Magic?

Just because of the clue

I've previously tweaked the Music Box code that Beepola creates, but only to run a quick Kempston joystick check between each note, to see if the player is using Kempston and pressed the fire button (to stop the tune). It may have changed, but I think the exported code contains this bit: NEXTNOTE: C...

I did wonder how Laser Squad AI worked. It's tricky to figure out as a player as it's hidden. However, you can see which direction the units are moving if you watch the compass during the computer's turn. I may have imagined it, but from this it does look as if certain units have standard 'patrols' ...

Reminds me of the dude from Carlos Michelis...

My first reaction was that it's a platform from Head Over Heels...

Voted for Jack Charlton's Match Fishing.

It's a classic. And the best thing is that you successfully reach your fishing location without falling over and spannering your hooks everywhere.

Haven't played enough of the other games to give a 2nd and 3rd place.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 11:23 am stupidget is half right

Hmmm, 'Branson', sounds a bit like Bronson....

Death Wish 3?



(The last few have been too hard, please can we have another Manic Miner SCREEN$ or two? Thanks )

I was going to guess Wizard's Lair.

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:31 pm 60 IF b$(SGN PI)="X" THEN GO TO CODE "SCREEN$ "

Hehe, thought that bit was nice...

There was a quite cool two plane one screen dogfight type game that I've played in recent years, can't remember its name though.