Spectrum Computing

Night Hunter [Ubi Soft, 1990]

Time to suck some blood. Crash Smash (91%).

Rainbow Islands [Ocean Software, 1990] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/r/RainbowIslands.gif Crash Smash (94%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), Sinclair User Classic (94%), C+VG 95%. Spectrum version programmed by David O'Connor, the author of Zythum. Which is better. http...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:55 am

catmeows wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:13 am It was really great.

I'd have been disappointed with it at a budget price. At best, it'd be interesting as a magazine covertape inclusion.

Bought it full price and I was quite satisfied.

Better than the coin op conversion, with its trite and repetitive smash-everybody gameplay.

Robocop 2 doesn't even give you the chance of mindless destruction because some of the baddies must simply be arrested by touching them, and if you shoot them, your energy is drained, so you must constantly be careful. A pain in the iron bottom.

Robocop 2 [Ocean Software, 1990] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/r/RoboCop2.gif Simply too hard. You even have to make the old heap of rusty iron jump from platform to platform. Well done, but a bit overrated: Crash Smash (93%), Sinclair User Classic (91%) and Your Sinc...

Hammerfist [Activision, 1990] Never understood back in the day how this peculiar sci fi game works, but now that I know, looks like I can't stop playing it (played it for hours last night). After all, it was a Crash Smash (95%), a Sinclair User Classic (92%) and a TGM Star Player too (92%). https:/...

ST. DRAGON [Storm, 1990] As in Dragon Breed, released the same year, you control a sort of dragon which can use its tail as a shield or as a lethal weapon, while shooting at myriads of nasties in a horizontally scrolling enviroment. It was a Crash Smash. Pretty tough too. https://spectrumcomputing....

What did Bob Pape do after the miraculous R-Type conversion? Another horizontal space shoot'em up conversion of a Irem coin-op: Dragon Breed [Activision, 1990]. Not spectacular as R-Type but still a high level effort. Damn hard though. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/D...

Hank Scorpio wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:25 pm Realm of Impossibility.

I'm not sure about "brilliant", but playing it with a friend was hilarious.

I've started to play The House on the Tor , a 1990's text adventure by Zenobi Software. It's pretty playable, with no Sudden Death Syndrome, in fact, with no death at all until now. It's a mystery concerning a house that your uncle left you. No elfs nor trolls. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoI...

1. Enigma Force
2. Spy vs. Spy
3. Lords of Midnight

1. New Cylon Attack
2. Chuckie Egg
3. Painter

That's how the Twitter version of the poll ended:



59.1% for Ghosts 'n Goblins (and it's missing my vote)

Different answer on Twitter.

I don't know what to believe anymore.

Well done.

7 - 7 : it's a DRAW!

Isn't it... THRILLING?

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:36 pm Ghouls and ghosts is in no way harder than Ghosts and Goblins

Ghosts N Goblins has one of the most difficult areas, level 2, I have ever played in a Spectrum games (and I have playd thousands!).

It is easy in Ghouls to reach level 3 after a few goes.

Not with my "few goes"...

I've played both games tonight AGAIN. My final response is that Ghouls is more difficult and less fun than Ghosts, and so my vote goes to the latter, and my recent statement about Ghouls being better is... OVERTURNED! edit: Wow, in the meantime Ghouls had reached Ghosts and it became a draw until my...

From 5 and 0 to 6 and 4: Ghouls 'n' Ghosts has gained ground!

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 11:16 pm I kind of remember Ghouls n’ Ghosts more, because it’s by the Follin brothers. And you turn into a duck. So, I’ma go with that.

True, you can turn into a duck. Is it something happening in the arcade too?

Anyway, I don't see any vote for Ghouls.

I've just played them one after the other, and I've realized that the first part, which is very similar in both games (zombies emerging from the ground) is harder and more frustrating in Ghouls 'n' Ghosts: the collision detection is unforgiving, while it is more friendly in Ghosts 'n Goblins, and th...

Hello. I recently wrote somewhere that the Ghouls 'n' Ghosts conversion is better than its prequel conversion, which is, of course, the Ghosts 'n Goblins conversion. But I didn't play the latter in a while. In some years, in fact, probably. Now that I've tried it again, just yesterday, I'm not so su...

Do they serve you with kung fu moves.

It doesn't seem that good to me...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:29 am But now I'm thinking about Toposoft, which is the spanish for Mole... 'Molesoft'... sounds weird as well!

But I think there's a 'slight' difference in quality of both companies...

I didn't know that. I thought "topo" was mouse, because "topo" means mouse in italian.