Royal Mail Retro video games stamps
Royal Mail Retro video games stamps
Good see to a Speccy game in this rather smart stamp collection:
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stam ... VIDG_PR_01
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stam ... VIDG_PR_01
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These do look great, and I love that this is a thing. But the game/character selection seems... uninspired or even lacking? In terms of stature in UK gaming, Dizzy over Miner Willy. Really?
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I saw that, and thought having Elite and Dizzy in there were quite cool, definitely the two that resonated with me. I was quite surprised though at the choice of Dizzy, I’d have expected it to have been Jet Set Willy. Maybe it was to do with getting permissions to reproduce and sell the images?
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Aye. Perhaps or indeed likely. Still, you'd think Mr Wilcox would be all over an opportunity to have people lick the back of his Willy.Dark wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:56 pm I saw that, and thought having Elite and Dizzy in there were quite cool, definitely the two that resonated with me. I was quite surprised though at the choice of Dizzy, I’d have expected it to have been Jet Set Willy. Maybe it was to do with getting permissions to reproduce and sell the images?
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Amazing.5MinuteRetro wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:00 pm Aye. Perhaps or indeed likely. Still, you'd think Mr Wilcox would be all over an opportunity to have people lick the back of his Willy.
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I thought Dizzy was birthed on the Amstrad so wouldn’t it be more accurate to include the Amstrad version rather than our beloved Speccy one though?
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Both Dizzy and Miner Willy should be there but you’ve only got so many stamps and it’s the Royal Mail so everything would have to be above board regarding permissions and stuff. Also, if they couldn’t be 100% sure then games wouldn’t get used.5MinuteRetro wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:06 pm These do look great, and I love that this is a thing. But the game/character selection seems... uninspired or even lacking? In terms of stature in UK gaming, Dizzy over Miner Willy. Really?
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This is something of a misnomer. It was written on the Amstrad, but it's clear that the primary target platform is the Speccy. Inside the code for the Amstrad version each object is even coloured using the Speccy colour system and then dynamically mapped onto one of the available Amstrad colours. This is why there aren't any Blue background objects in the Speccy version, as the algorithm used would have mapped them onto Black objects on the Amstrad and you wouldn't see them.
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is it possible to recolour it to get some blue in there then I wonder?AndyC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:09 pmThis is something of a misnomer. It was written on the Amstrad, but it's clear that the primary target platform is the Speccy. Inside the code for the Amstrad version each object is even coloured using the Speccy colour system and then dynamically mapped onto one of the available Amstrad colours. This is why there aren't any Blue background objects in the Speccy version, as the algorithm used would have mapped them onto Black objects on the Amstrad and you wouldn't see them.
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Not enough speccy games on these stamps, but I believe Jaz Rignall was involved and he always had it in for the speccy.
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It's because these are games that launched franchises or cross-platform releases across Europe and round the world. Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy had nowhere near the staying power of the Dizzy games. At least it's a Spectrum screenshot, even if the magenta is bit iffy.
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In 2017 the spanish postal service launched a stamp remembering La Abadía del Crimen in his 30th annyversary:
https://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/sit ... ioma=en_GB
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