Spectrum Computing

Gah - forgot about Formula One..

Can I change my answers..?

Graphics are brilliant on all Odin games, but the games are, after the exciting first few days, mind numbing and boring to play, collect the items and get it stolen again by a nasty or need collecting the wrong item to save it. Yeah, what is it with Odin and their annoying 'nick your stuff' gamepla...

Ah OK cool - should have probably guessed 90s...

Very nice conversion, slick and polished, pretty cool if it's your first machine code game. I'm very tempted to stick this on my DS for long train/coach journeys..

I was a bit wary of downloading it at first, as you can get drawn into playing this b*stard for hours..!

Classic GRAPHics, courtesy of Rorthron..!

Yep, I think I learned the rules of baseball from playing WSB.

JBS is a bit jerky & sluggish compared to say, Match Point, which is why it doesn't make my top 5, but I quite enjoyed it anyway

Nice find.

What era are these games from?

1- Hypersports
2 - Match Point
3 - World Series Baseball
4 - Ping Pong
5 - Emlyn Hughes International Soccer

(Am liking the love for World Series Baseball BTW)

Close but no cigar:

Daley Thompson's Super Test
Match Day II
Jonah Barrington's Squash

Honourable mention:

Jack Charlton's Match Fishing

Wasn't the island an April Fools thing in Crash?

And I think the Lunar Jetman trailer mockup appeared in that mag too.

Went for MM.

Liked the exploration side of JSW but the 'next screen!' enthusiasm in MM had me gripped.

Difficult choice though, ask me a different year and I'd probably change my mind.

Quite scary, I could imagine that column quite realistically.

Though I wonder if people would have eventually got sick of film tie-ins, and start bringing back originality points for new game ideas...

Also if you drop a weapon after being hit, it will disappear from view.

MatGubbins wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:46 am Trap Door - Twenty Four

Alien 8 - Sixty Eight

Room Ten... On it's own, number nine

Renegade III... pile 'o sh...

Pile of shee?

Post count doesn't really give any indication of community standing, just that someone has probably taken more photos of their lunch and posted it in the OT section than anyone else. Hardly a useful measure. :shock: Probably a good indication of their state of malnourishment/lardiness though.. :lol...

Only played the first three.

May have a Monty marathon at the weekend and vote after that...

Just voted for the game characters (though I hadn't heard of Microbot either).

Once this poll is done how about another one to define what the ranks will actually be..?

Looks distressingly familiar but I just can't place it.. Aaargh..!

Went for Kong - not the best conversion in the world but the most playable. (After Krazy Kong by C-Tech of course).

When I did Stamp Quest I reset the objects on screen because I didn't know how to do otherwise*, with Biscuits I chose not to do it. I preferred the idea of 8 separate challenges, each one having to be fully completed. *I hope no-one ever does a disassembly on that game. Yes, I guess it changes the...

I'm guilty of this with Biscuits in Hell (well 128 lives anyway), but the game is very, very hard. I don't see a problem One thing about collect-em-ups is that I don't find infinite lives helpful when the game resets the objects on a screen after you lose a life. I accepted it with Manic Miner but ...

11 - Booty.

Some drama happened and the former admin shut down the place. :roll: We've got a new place at http://www.randomflux.info/1bit/ nowadays. Ah cool, I wondered what happened to that site. I was just starting to learn the basics from scratch (the beeper, frequencies etc.) and then the site seemed to di...

6 - Boulderdash?

Explorer by the RamJam Corporation - an amazing game that's huge and full of adventure. Seriously addictive stuff - a cult classic. http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/e/Explorer.gif Tried to get into it, but never properly managed it. Crash gave it 32% which is possibly a b...

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:42 am These are all masterpieces, compared to the conversions we got in 1982. I challenge anyone to find one worse than Krazy Kong:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10570

Krazy Kong, one of my guilty pleasures..!

What was the old wos ranking, maybe that's the best solution? I would personally like the forum to be the same style and design as wos before big crash (from Martjin era) ... Does anyone have a copy of that old web page, I almost forgot how it looked simple but great. I think that was fairly standa...