Best BASIC game?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Wasn't Viking Raiders written in BASIC?

My fave is Indiana Jones y el Idolo de Oro (list published in Microhobby).

[Morkin]

My fave is Indiana Jones y el Idolo de Oro (list published in Microhobby).

I assume it got a "Seal of Approval"

I'm sure someone said The Witch's Cauldron was a BASIC game? Haven't checked. Seems to be quite highly rated.

[Einar Saukas]

Apparently I liked it so much, that I did a own loading screen for it (which is btw. muuuch nicer the the one that came with the sold version).

Why don't you upload it to ZX-Art?

[uglifruit]

My vote would be for The Biz. It's still great. (Also, as mentioned, Mined Out is also still very good and worth a play)

[Kweepa]

I'm sure someone said The Witch's Cauldron was a BASIC game? Haven't checked. Seems to be quite highly rated.

The tap contents don't look very BASICy:

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Program: CAULDRON LINE 0
Data (490 Bytes)
Data (6913 Bytes)
Data (40886 Bytes)
End if Tape

[FFoulkes]

"Go to Jail" (Automata) - Monopoly in Basic (for 2 to 5 players), how cool is that?

[FFoulkes]

This IQ-Test is really nice. Not really a game, though.

"Mined Out" would be one of my favourites, too. Very well done.

[R-Tape]

The Wild Bunch is a cracker. It is pure BASIC isn't it?

[Dark]

My first Spectrum was a +2, so Basic games were pretty much a thing of the past by then. But the one I did play, and play a lot was Football Manager, and thought it was a great game. I had a shot of it recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will definitely play it again when I get my Next and spend a bit more time playing Speccy games.

[Ralf]

Is Dictator writen in Basic?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1388

[Ast A. Moore]

Is Dictator writen in Basic?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1388

Yes.

[Vampyre]

Wasn't The Great Space Race written in Basic? It would be far, far down the list of Best Basic Games though

[stupidget]

Not actually a released BASIC game as it was a type-in, but none the less, still an excellent game:

Forest of Long Shadows

This was pretty good as well:

Pixy the microdot

[Morkin]

I'm sure someone said The Witch's Cauldron was a BASIC game? Haven't checked. Seems to be quite highly rated.

The tap contents don't look very BASICy:

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Program: CAULDRON LINE 0
Data (490 Bytes)
Data (6913 Bytes)
Data (40886 Bytes)
End if Tape

Ah yeah - just checked, that's definitely not stonk.... errrr.... BASIC...!

[zxbruno]

Can we include games released in the past 15 years? The Bytemaniacos BASIC competition, for example, had a few games that impressed me when they were released. And wasn't there a game completely written in BASIC that was released just months ago? A good one, that is.

[PeteProdge]

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll by K-Tel. Properly superb. Far better than Rock Star Ate My Hamster.

[Einar Saukas]

JAWS: The Text Adventure perhaps?

[PeterJ]

JAWS: The Text Adventure perhaps?

Are you allowed to vote for your own games?

[R-Tape]

Are you allowed to vote for your own games?

I think it's shameful. Especially when, as far as BASIC games go, Sixteen Skirmish is much better.

[Morkin]

Those Jaws graphics aren't BASIC are they?

[Einar Saukas]

Those Jaws graphics aren't BASIC are they?

Yes they are!

[PeterJ]

Those Jaws graphics aren't BASIC are they?

Yes they are!

[Morkin]

Those Jaws graphics aren't BASIC are they?

Yes they are!

[Einar Saukas]

Yes they are!

The UDG graphics are loaded separately using LOAD ""CODE. You probably assumed it was Assembly code.

[Kweepa]

I suspect he was thinking that the graphics were drawn using basic commands, and that the game could have been published as a type-in.
Obviously there's no clear definition of a basic program...