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1 - Embassy Assault
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3 - Tai-Pan
12 - Codename Mat 2
12 - Codename Mat 2
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10 - Arkanoid
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Indeed. My first thought for that was FEUD, but my ageing brain muddled the C64 loading screen with the Speccy inlay.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:02 amWow! I didn't expect it was going to be guessed so soon! Well done!
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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!Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:02 am 11, 6 & 13 are correct.
Wow! I didn't expect it was going to be guessed so soon! Well done!
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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:
Now, 30 years later I still miss knowledge that I didn't learn in my childhood
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:
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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Bananas??? Birthday??? SLIME???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:
Now, 30 years later I still miss knowledge that I didn't learn in my childhood
They were hard days, definitely...
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Correct!
Well Done!!
Well spotted!
Correct!!! (Bonus points for guessing CM II, I think it's the hardest of the lot)
Coooooorrect!
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Let's summarise:
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17 Critical Mass
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19 TT Racer
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Raid Over Moscow in a SC Quiz??? Naaahhh
(Yes, actually! )
Correct!!!
Correct!!!
Stop guessing games, Matt!!!
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4 - Alchemist
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9 Speed King 2
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Both 4 and 9 are correct
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15 Rambo III
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That's correct.
Only 5 & 20 remain. Anyone?
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20. Enigma Force
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Correct!
Only 5 to guess. I think it's time to tip time!:
It's a spanish game, but not from the three big companies: neither Dinamic, nor Topo nor Opera...
Which game it is?
Only 5 to guess. I think it's time to tip time!:
It's a spanish game, but not from the three big companies: neither Dinamic, nor Topo nor Opera...
Which game it is?
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Its a tough one, I can`t remember it and I scanned it. Was going to say Abu Simbel profination but think that is wrong
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Donations are welcome of items to scan that are no longer needed
Donations are welcome of items to scan that are no longer needed
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No, Abu Simbel is from Dinamic
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But be sure you scanned it as I got all the pics from your site!