The best classic Speccy game beginning with #: discussion

[Juan F. Ramirez]

3DC

Good point.

I'd also add 19 part one: Boot Camp

[PeteProdge]

I'd like to add...
11-a-Side Soccer by Code Masters
2088 by Zeppelin Games

Although I won't be voting for them. Clearly, the winner, if we're all sane, has to be Mastertronic's 180. That is gaming perfection for me, one of the greatest budget games ever made.

720° would be my second choice.

Big thanks to everyone who has taken over the running of this poll in my absence BTW.

[WIWC]

British people and darts. A mystery.

I'm going for 1942 probably.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Clearly, the winner, if we're all sane, has to be Mastertronic's 180. That is gaming perfection for me, one of the greatest budget games ever made.

IIRC, the intro tune in 128k mode was cool. And a great game.

[Hank Scorpio]

20 tons, a simple but addictive Boulderdash type game.

[Frankie]

Don’t forget 1984 and 1994 - Ten years after

[Ast A. Moore]

2ythum (by Mirrorsoft).

[Juan F. Ramirez]

2ythum (by Mirrorsoft).

You're sick, man!

[Blerkotron]

3D Seiddab Attack an obvious missing classic there?

I'd also add 3D Painter to the list. It wouldn't win in a million years, but it was one of the games I got with my 16K Speccy so I have a soft spot for it.

180 is the obvious standout for me here - best darts game ever!

[hitm4n]

I would have added 911TS too but Juan remembered it...

[Mort]

For me it would be 3d Deathchase followed by
180 the best Darts game period.

[Morkin]

720° would be my second choice.

I quite enjoyed 720 but couldn't work out for ages why I couldn't score many points when doing tricks etc. Turned out that it was because I was using Cursor/Sinclair controls. As soon as I switched to the standard keys with rotational movement, it was quite easy..

Those bees could get annoying though..

[Joefish]

Really enjoyed 3D-Tanx.
And 3D Space-Wars was the first game I ever owned on a Spectrum.

Anyway, why are some '3D...' games listed alphabetically under their subsequent title and not all in one place under '#'?
That and you can't search for '3D' either as the search insists on at least 3 letters. And if you search for '3-D' you get one page of results, then it refuses to let you advance to page 2.

[StooB]

And if you search for '3-D' you get one page of results, then it refuses to let you advance to page 2.

Attention [mention]PeterJ[/mention] - you probably want to fix this: the search box on the front page isn't filtering non-alphanumeric characters correctly. It removes "-" from "3-D" but it doesn't remove "&", "%" or "*" (maybe others too) which appear to be working as wildcards. This means you can bypass the 3 character minimum, and even use "***" which returns most of the zxdb database on a single page!

[PeterJ]

Thanks [mention]StooB[/mention]

I will fix the ***

Special characters do cause us a bit of a nightmare (checkout previous postings). Sometimes you need them, other times not.
We will review again

PS. In future could you PM things like this? Cheers.

[PeterJ]

Really enjoyed 3D-Tanx.
And 3D Space-Wars was the first game I ever owned on a Spectrum.

Anyway, why are some '3D...' games listed alphabetically under their subsequent title and not all in one place under '#'?
That and you can't search for '3D' either as the search insists on at least 3 letters. And if you search for '3-D' you get one page of results, then it refuses to let you advance to page 2.

Thanks [mention]Joefish[/mention]. We will check that out.

[PeterJ]

Thanks @StooB

I will fix the ***

Special characters do cause us a bit of a nightmare (checkout previous postings). Sometimes you need them, other times not.
We will review again

PS. In future could you PM things like this? Cheers.

Most of the obvious wildcard issues have been fixed. You should search with A-Z and 0-9 for the short-term

[WIWC]

Are we ever going to vote.

[namco]

Are we ever going to vote.

NO!