Spectrum Computing

41D Super Sprint

34D Simulator
37D Bobby Bearing
39D Yes, Prime Minister

Sorry, I wrote the wrong number for Street Cred Boxing.

6D Super Space Invaders
25D Rogue Trooper
30D Castle Master

34A Survival
40A White Heat
1D Match Day

3A Star Control
11A Strider
12A Street Cred Boxing

Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important ;) I've reverse-engineered the grid, ParadigmShifter https://i.postimg.cc/284V1HRJ/Picture1.png The symmetry breaks down in the bottom right. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10177#p10177 SOLUTION https://i.postim...

The Bard's Tale

I'm off to try to get some sleep.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:26 am Crazy Stealth Bread

is another one of mine I remember fondly

How many letters?

There's a library of premade clues here: viewtopic.php?p=23589#p23589

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:11 am Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important

Think of it as an extra challenge.

It's definitely more Daily Star level than Times/Guardian anyway ;) I'm sure a 15x15 symmetric grid would be possible if we included BASIC keywords/tokens, peripherals, hardware terms, Z80 opcodes etc. It's just really hard with games only. The closest I got was this one, though the grid image is n...

7D Skool Daze
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)

Should 26D be 8 letters?

42A Terra Cresta?
46A Airwolf
47A Viz

22A Rambo
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers

OK. Sorry if I got it wrong.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am EDIT: Also "canonised pigs lacking one roman numeral" which you credited to someone else, tsk.

I remember the clue. What do you mean about the credit, though?

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am It's difficult doing a proper crossword (rotational symmetry and proper crossers so defo no more than 3 non-crossing letters in a row - I'm looking at you Metro cryptic crossword) themed on speccy games though.

Yes. It's near impossible. I've never quite managed it.

There's an error in the grid. 1D needs an extra space on top.

29A Ace of Aces
31A Imagine
33A Jet Set Willy (No, he wasn't; that was the fictional Micro Men version!)

15A Tai-Pan
16A Monty Mole
17A Starglider

No rotational symmetry. Tsk.

2A Gunrunner
6A Spy vs Spy
8A RoboCop

zup wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:07 am H.A.T.E., and Highway Encounter demonstrates that isometric scroll may be done, and the first is also a 1985 game.

HATE was 1989. Highway Encounter was 1985, but does not scroll.

9. 10th Frame

The first two letters look like S and C, consistent with the initials on the other games. I'm not sure about the next few letters. The first looks a bit like W, but that makes no sense. Maybe it's a U. There might be an R next, or maybe another letter and an E. The last couple of letters look to me ...