The best Speccy game by Bulldog Software: vote

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The best Speccy game by Bulldog Software

Poll ended at Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:11 am

Colony
3
14%
Destructo
0
No votes
Feud
12
55%
Galletron
0
No votes
Invasion
0
No votes
Jackle & Wide
1
5%
Rigel's Revenge
0
No votes
Scumball
2
9%
Shard Of Inovar
0
No votes
Spore
1
5%
Streaker
2
9%
Wolfan
1
5%
 
Total votes: 22

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You've got the wrong screenshot for Spore! It wasn't a text adventure, but a rather spiffy shoot em up. Well, on the C64 it was. It was a bit rubbish on the Spectrum.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4777
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toot_toot wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:52 pm You've got the wrong screenshot for Spore! It wasn't a text adventure, but a rather spiffy shoot em up. Well, on the C64 it was. It was a bit rubbish on the Spectrum.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4777
Gah, you're right! I hate it when there are more than one game that has the same name.

Anyways, this is what Bulldog's Spore looks like...

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1. Streaker
2. Feud
3. Scumball

As good as Feud is, you do tend to spend a lot of the time wandering around in circles, a bit like Robin O' The Wood in that respect.
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stupidget wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:42 pm I can only vote for Scumball as that’s the only game I played out of this list :oops:
Ditto. Sorry to say, i hated Feud.
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As is completely right, Feud wins this poll, with a landslide victory - 12 votes. It truly is an fantastic and underrated game. Everything else in the forum poll is far behind, but hey, moving on...

Second place with 3 votes is Colony. (Press BREAK on the menu screen to turn your ZX Spectrum into a terrible computer, btw.)

In joint third place, Scumball and Streaker (the former has some wonderful 50fps movement), each with 2 votes.

Joint fourth place with 1 vote each: Jackle & Wide; Spore and Wolfan.

Proportional top-three system brings up slightly different results...

Feud 7
Streaker 6
Destructo 3
Scumball 1
Wolfan 1
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I missed this one but would have voted for Colony.

Feud always felt a bit 'style over substance' to me. One of the emptiest games ever.
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Fued and Jackle & Wide were the only two games I owned from Bulldog software. Have to confess that I have no recollection of Jackle & Wide. Played Fued quite a lot but never got anywhere with it. Have been surprised to read in the last couple of years that it was apparently a really easy game! As a kid I just couldn't fathom it at all.
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I owned Destructo which had very little depth and Jackle & Wide which didn't hold my attention at all.
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Feud is a legend. Colony is fun... but after a while it does seem a bit pointless. Invasion is VERY slow. Jackle and Wide irritated me, so I've been trying to get people to stream it. Wolfan! I once got moderately far with it. GIVE ME LAGER OR GIVE ME DEATH. It was fun!

Bulldog was a good brand.

Never got very far at all with Shard of Inovar, but it was clearly trying, bless it.
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