The best classic Speccy game beginning with Z: discussion

[Vampyre]

I dunno, I have a feeling Zzoom might give it a run for its money. I'm still undecided between the two.

[stupidget]

I forgot about Zub! Excellent little Mastertronic game which came with the great hidden Lightfarce game!!!

[WIWC]

Ah, yes, Zithum. Thanks for reminding me, Juan.

So there.

[Mort]

I would go for Zombie Zombie , the follow up to Ant Attack , then Zolyx , the excellent 1.99 Quix Clone

[R-Tape]

Ah, yes, Zithum. Thanks for reminding me, Juan.

So there.

Damndamndamndamndamndamn! I nearly put "Zithum" that in the excluded word list too.

Curse you Cruelman!

Namco—could we include Zythum, by Mirrorsoft pleez.

(Joke's over—I'll enable them again )

[R-Tape]

I'm still quite pleased with my censored alternative to "Berkeley Hunt" though...

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Our evil plan failed!

All is lost. Zythum will win .

[R-Tape]

Our evil plan failed!

All is lost. ****** will win .

That's no bad thing. By endlessly banging on about it, Cruelman has converted me.

My vote will go to Zythum (by Mirrorsoft)

[DouglasReynholm]

A vote for Zynaps*, a great shmup that has its colour clash well taken care of.

* removed extra letter, sorry.

[Ast A. Moore]

Zub is undoubtedly an unusual, clever, and technically wonderful game, but the heart wants what the heart wants. I’m going to go with Zythum (by Mirrorsoft).

[hitm4n]

I'd just mention Zarjaz for the list.

Now for me theres 3 runners. Zub, Zzoom and Zynaps.
I'd have to go with Zzoom as the truest "classic" being the oldest of the 3, these 3 games got plenty of equal playtime from me, will be a close run race i think.

Never got much out of Zombie Zombie, and i don't think i've ever played any other Z game. Whats a Zythum ?

Apart from Z on PC.

[Ast A. Moore]

Whats a Zythum?

Zythum (by Mirrorsoft) is objectively the best game beginning with Z (and a few other letters).

[Vampyre]

I forgot about Zub! Excellent little Mastertronic game which came with the great hidden Lightfarce game!!!

Crikey! I forgot all about Zub too. Loved the 128K version of that game (bonus with the hidden Lightfarce too) as the great music added so much to the frantic action. So now I've got to decide between Zzoom, Zub and Zynaps...

[stupidget]

Any ideas as to what we’re going to do once this poll is completed? Best Genre poll ie Commando vs Ikari Warriors vs Rambo etc?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

After the Z thread we'll still have the # thread (numbers).

After it, we might propose ideas like you said: Best sports game, text adventure, or by companies: best Ocean or Ultimate game, etc

[Ast A. Moore]

It’s simple, really. Take the winners of all the letter polls and throw them into a new one so that Zythum (by Mirrorsoft) can finally go down in history as the best ZX Specturm game.

[Einar Saukas]

Afterwards you could have "best modern Speccy game beginning with..."

It will keep us busy for another half year

[Juan F. Ramirez]

It’s simple, really. Take the winners of all the letter polls and throw them into a new one so that Zythum (by Mirrorsoft) can finally go down in history as the best ZX Specturm game.

I only like the first part of your post.

A sort of 'The mother of all A-Z polls' sounds cool!

[R-Tape]

[Frankie]

From top of my head it would be a battle between frustrating Zub or relaxing Zythum, and I know the last one isn't wildly popular