Always enjoyed this game but never once questioned its graphics or presentation. Looking at it now without my rose-tinted spectacles on it does look rather bollocks. Still plays very well though - this is one of the games I still play from time to time when I want a Spectrum fix.
Awful graphics, but a brilliant game
Re: Awful graphics, but a brilliant game
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Realm of Impossibility.
Re: Awful graphics, but a brilliant game
I'm not sure about "brilliant", but playing it with a friend was hilarious.
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I *think* I’ll take this as a complement!PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:07 pm To include a more modern game - LumASCII has to be noted, made out of the pure Sinclair ROM font. (It does look good when you see it play though.)
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Re: Awful graphics, but a brilliant game
bobs, happy to see you here! I never heard of this game before, it's great! Is there any chance for you to participate in Your Game 6?
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For that I’d need to know what Your Game 6 is... link? (Sorry, I don’t follow the retro scene closely)Alone Coder wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:34 pm bobs, happy to see you here! I never heard of this game before, it's great! Is there any chance for you to participate in Your Game 6?
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Thanks, but that’ll be a no then, as work and family life means that I simply can’t commit to producing something to a deadline. And besides, Melkhior’s Mansion is taking any spare time that I do get.
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Another vote for Viking Raiders
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I had both of those! Not lookers, but huge fun.uglifruit wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:11 pm Return of the Things (Design Design software, 1984... but apparently had very little distribution at the time and slipped under most people's radar until it was on Sinclair User's cover tape in 1991)
The sequel to the equally spartan looking "Hall of The Things" and it is flipping brill. I want to go and play it right now. You should too. (And if you redefine the keys, make sure you define the keys so that the one for each direction also presses fire).
Not beautiful is it? But it's blisteringly fast.
Re: Awful graphics, but a brilliant game
Though Out of the Shadows was fantastic despite its sparse and UDG-esque graphics.
When I first saw the screenshots in magazines, I assumed it was written in BASIC...
When I first saw the screenshots in magazines, I assumed it was written in BASIC...
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