The best Speccy game by Software Projects: vote

[DouglasReynholm]

JSW for me, though after someones recommendation last week during the discussion thread I fired up Lode Runner for the first time ever and found it extremely playable, so I can see what people are on about. Decent AI too, as someone else also pointed out. However - No memory of my formative years quite sticks out like that warm summers day, windows wide open, the Speccy on a rare excursion out of my bedroom and me playing JSW with Queen playing their Live Aid set on in the background. You could say it was a kind of magic, but that may be corny.

Edit: Pete - what made you pick Bug Byte and Software Projects to be first in the new series given that Matt Smith titles were the most likely to win?

[PeteProdge]

Pete - what made you pick Bug Byte and Software Projects to be first in the new series given that Matt Smith titles were the most likely to win?

I'm going through the software houses listed in the POLL OF POLLS, in order of the votes. After this, it'll be Microsphere's turn, then Ultimate, then... things get really tense with Imagine (who have made, like, a squillion games).

[DouglasReynholm]

I'm going through the software houses listed in the POLL OF POLLS, in order of the votes. After this, it'll be Microsphere's turn, then Ultimate, then... things get really tense with Imagine (who have made, like, a squillion games).

Ah, I see - I missed that. Thanks for the clarification.

[Fahnn]

Yeah, like I wrote in the other thread, this is Lode Runner by a mile for me. Getting close at the top now!

My top three:

1. Lode Runner
2. BC's Quest For Tires
3. Jet Set Willy

[djnzx48]

I went for Lode Runner, mostly to give JSW some competition*. And Lode Runner is a good game in its own right.

*and also because I forgot there's no vote switch option.

[Joefish]

JSW was impressive at the time, but is it really such a great game? It's as famous for its catastrophic bugs as anything else. And it suffers from a mix of empty screens and ludicrously difficult set-piece routes.

Software Projects has a better line-up here than Bug-Byte, anyway. My vote goes for the much more technically impressive and arcade-action orientated Hysteria.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

A priori, it was going to be a sure win for JSW... but now it's only one up (12/11)... wow!

[WIWC]

1) Ometron
2) Lode Runner
3) Astronut / Thrusta

[PeteProdge]

Jet Set Willy wins the poll, but only just! It's one point ahead of second-placed Lode Runner.

Incidentally, from the proportional-top-3-place voting (of which I've had to discard WIWC's vote, as the third place is ineligible), Lode Runner comes out on top...

10 points: Lode Runner
6 points: Jet Set Willy
3 points: Thrusta
2 points each: Jet Set Willy 2, BC's Quest For Tires
1 point: Hysteria

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Lode Runner got a sort of 'moral victory'. Unexpected.