SC Friday Quiz(TM): Hi-Res challenge!

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It's your fave day of the week and it's your fave quiz!!!

This time it's about hi-res inlays from [mention]Mort[/mention]'s scans , from his archive.org site he kindly provided.

So I could choose through hundreds of inlays and selected little details of some of them that otherwise it couldn't be spotted with a minimum quality.

'PRESS ANY KEY TO START, PLAYER ONE'

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16. Rasputin
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18 - Uridium
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Both are correct. Well done.
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11 - Pentagram
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6 - E-motion
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Yayyy!

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11, 6 & 13 are correct.
Daren wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:55 am6 - E-motion
Wow! I didn't expect it was going to be guessed so soon! Well done!
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7 - Atic Atac?
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8 - Spectral Invaders
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1 - Embassy Assault
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3 - Tai-Pan
12 - Codename Mat 2
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10 - Arkanoid
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:02 am
Daren wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:55 am6 - E-motion
Wow! I didn't expect it was going to be guessed so soon! Well done!
Indeed. My first thought for that was FEUD, but my ageing brain muddled the C64 loading screen with the Speccy inlay.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:02 am 11, 6 & 13 are correct.
Daren wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:55 am6 - E-motion
Wow! I didn't expect it was going to be guessed so soon! Well done!
As soon as I saw it, I immediately remembered a game with Einstein on the cover. The problem for me was trying to remember its name! :D
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You made me realise now that I totally suck at recognizing inlays

It's probably my Polish background. Actually I have never seen any inlays in my Spectrum days. All we had were cassettes like this one:
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Now, 30 years later I still miss knowledge that I didn't learn in my childhood ;)
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With all the recent use of neural networks to upscale images and textures in higher resolution, I wonder how well it would work on the old low-resolution inlays. Here's some random examples I found showing how good it can look: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neu ... elf.88272/
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Ralf wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:50 am You made me realise now that I totally suck at recognizing inlays

It's probably my Polish background. Actually I have never seen any inlays in my Spectrum days. All we had were cassettes like this one:
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Now, 30 years later I still miss knowledge that I didn't learn in my childhood ;)
Bananas??? Birthday??? SLIME???

They were hard days, definitely...
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Ersh wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:04 am7 - Atic Atac?
Correct!
mzx wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:13 am 8 - Spectral Invaders
Well Done!!
mzx wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:17 am1 - Embassy Assault
Well spotted!
Vampyre wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:19 am 3 - Tai-Pan
12 - Codename Mat 2
Correct!!! (Bonus points for guessing CM II, I think it's the hardest of the lot)
mzx wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:23 am10 - Arkanoid
Coooooorrect!
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Let's summarise:

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14—Raid over Moscow!
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17 Critical Mass
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19 TT Racer
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2 Zaxxon
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R-Tape wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:30 am 14—Raid over Moscow!
Raid Over Moscow in a SC Quiz??? Naaahhh

(Yes, actually! :mrgreen: )
MatGubbins wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:34 am 17 Critical Mass
Correct!!!
MatGubbins wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:35 am19 TT Racer
Correct!!!
MatGubbins wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:38 am2 Zaxxon
Stop guessing games, Matt!!!
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