The best classic Speccy game beginning with Y: vote

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The best classic Speccy game beginning with Y: vote

Poll ended at Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:12 pm

YS Capers
2
6%
Yabba Dabba Do!
1
3%
Yacht Race
0
No votes
Yength
1
3%
Yes, Prime Minister
5
16%
Yeti
1
3%
Yie Ar King-Fu
19
59%
Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2
0
No votes
Yogi Bear
0
No votes
Yogi Bear & Friends: The Greed Monster
0
No votes
Yogi's Great Escape
0
No votes
The Young Ones
2
6%
Your Attention Please
1
3%
 
Total votes: 32

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YS Capers by Your Sinclair
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Yabba Dabba Do! by Quicksilva Ltd
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Yacht Race by Hill MacGibbon
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Yength by Dinamic Software (Spain)
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Yes, Prime Minister by Mosaic Publishing Ltd
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Yeti by Destiny Software
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Yie Ar King-Fu by Imagine Software Ltd
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 by Imagine Software Ltd
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Yogi Bear by Piranha
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Yogi Bear & Friends: The Greed Monster by Hi-Tec Software Ltd
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Yogi's Great Escape by Hi-Tec Software Ltd
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The Young Ones by Orpheus Ltd
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Your Attention Please by Scorpion Software
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I can only vote for the one game i played, and i didn't even like it !!
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
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Yeah, difficult election this time because there's not any outstanding game but went for Yie Ar Kung Fu, a good conversion of the arcade, with good graphics and sounds.
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I haven't played any of these games to death, but I went for "Yes Prime Minister".

It's a decent graphic adventure, and a tie-in that made a proper effort to match the TV series. And the alphabet so far has plenty of action games.

Humphrey Appleby: might I take the opportunity to congratulate the minister on a most 'bold' and 'courageous' decision.
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I voted for Yes, Prime Minister as it's a game that I enjoy playing quite a bit even though I have never watched the original TV series or the short-lived remake on GOLD a few years back.
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Had to vote for Yie Ar King-Fu. It's the only game in the list that I've actually played and even then that was sh*te.
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Went for Yes, Prime Minister.

I used to like beat em ups, but I wasn't that impressed with Yie Ar, it was OK but I felt it had less strategy/gameplay than others when it came to the moves (bit of a button masher).
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As to Yes, Prime Minister, just a silly question (I didn't know the TV show):

Why do characters in the loading screen have these so big noises?

Because they're politicians?
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Just your classic lampooning. :)

I think I enjoy the TV episodes more now than I did when they were first aired on British TV.

Anyway looks like Yie Ar Kung Fu has stormed into the lead..!
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Yogi is not happy with the outcome. He deployed his whole Yogi army to no avail.
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Difficult one. Yie Ar Kung Fu gave me the most fun back in the 80s (the 128k version is especially good), but there’s better ways of playing the game now - the Gameboy Advance Konami collection is probably the best, unless you’re emulating via Mame.

I also enjoyed the first Yogi Bear, after picking it up on the Alternative re-release. I’ve not played the other Yogi Bear games, so I’ll give those a try. I’d also forgotten about Yeti, written by Christian Urquhar and whose games I used to really enjoy with Gunrunner being a real favourite. I’ll also give that a blast later and see if they’re worth a vote!
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Who's going to win this round? Tension is high.
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I bet for any Yogi bear game. Sure winners!
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After all, the sum of their votes is an astounding amount.
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Indeed, if one of the Yogis had 18 or so more votes, it'd be be in with a chance.
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God, these are all terrible. I voted for "Yie Ar KING Fu" (fire the proof-reader!), but it was C64 nostalgia.
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Okay... can I instead vote for the utility "Yards, Feet and Inches" by Penny Vickers/Sinclair Research? What a classic.

By the way, how come lottery predictors are filed by WoS under "Gambling: Utilities", but every other type of utility comes under "Utility: (whatever)"? Is this related to the coyness about "adult" titles? Are kids typing "FREE ROMS" into their iPhones, accidentally winding up on WoS, and then getting addicted to high-stakes poker?
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