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Here is a gambler addicts thing. I'm not sure if I must play... I can become one of them!

erm... whole 2nd column looks like Target Renegade... Bingo?

Commodore's law, Sixty Four!

QAOP, Thirty Three!

Erm?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:59 amErm?

Bingo calls.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:53 am erm... whole 2nd column looks like Target Renegade... Bingo?

Yeah, I'll give that a nod, although I just wanted to present the cliches of beat 'em ups as a bingo card for comedy value.

A few of them are a little more inspired by arcade/Sega Mega Drive games (like Final Fight and Streets Of Rage), as the Speccy doesn't have that many scrolling beat 'em ups.

I've nothing against the genre - Double Dragon is my favourite arcade game of all time. It's just that I've been playing a lot of them recently to do a video for my forthcoming retrogaming YouTube channel, and discovering the games creators often took cues from movies like The Warriors. Now that's a film which is undeniably the inspiration for Renegade. (I'm close to saying Renegade is a game of The Warriors in all but name.)

I love that underground railway stations are a typical backdrop for these games, and I'm nerdy enough to want to sit down and write a beat 'em up that is actually set on the London Underground, with as many stations as possible in it.

The cliche of these violent subways (also depicted famously in the opening titles of The Equaliser) made me very nervous the first time I set foot on the New York Metro.

Trap Door - Twenty Four

Alien 8 - Sixty Eight

Room Ten... On it's own, number nine

Renegade III... pile 'o sh...

Also if you drop a weapon after being hit, it will disappear from view.

MatGubbins wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:46 am Trap Door - Twenty Four

Alien 8 - Sixty Eight

Room Ten... On it's own, number nine

Renegade III... pile 'o sh...

Pile of shee?