Spectrum Computing

It's a miracle if in JB's Squash I hit the ball once or twice.

La Espada Sagrada [Toposoft, 1990] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/e/EspadaSagradaLa.gif Very cute and playable Spanish arcade/adventure. No British magazine reviewed it. MicroHobby gave it only 72%. It probably deserved more. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage....

1. Cyber Zone is a riot
2. Invasion of the Body Snatcha!
3. It's the Wooluf!

1. Trashman, of course
2. Travel with Trashman
3. The Custard Kid

Pang [Ocean Software, 1990]

Sinclair User Classic (95%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), 93% in C+VG, 81% in Crash Smash.

Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters [Domark, 1990] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/e/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheRobotMonsters.gif Crash Smash (90%), Sinclair User Classic (91%), The Games Machine Star Player (91%), Your Sinclair Megagame (when re-released as a bud...

Dan Dare 3: The Escape [Virgin Games] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/DanDareIII-TheEscape.gif Crash Smash (92%), Sinclair User Classic (93%), 89% in Your Sinclair, 83% in C+VG, 80% in The Games Machine. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/...

It's pretty good once you learn how to control your character and how to use his transformations. Yeah, that’s something I struggled with. How do I use the keys on doors? Also, I can’t seem to be able to land on the second floor as a vampire. I can fly up there as a bat, and then, once I transform,...

The Last Vampire [Atlantis Software, 1990] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/l/LastVampireThe.gif Hunt the vampire in a Hewson's Firelord environment, with night sequences. 72% in Crash, 80% in Your Sinclair. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair...

It's pretty good once you learn how to control your character and how to use his transformations.
Also, it's got nice details, like the women pointing their crucifix at you, or the way you suck the blood of the people until they wither and become just bones falling to the ground.

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.