The best Speccy game by CDS Microsystems: vote

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The best Speccy game by CDS Microsystems

Poll ended at Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:29 am

3D Painter
2
9%
Backgammon
0
No votes
Bozy Boa
0
No votes
Brian Clough's Football Fortunes
1
5%
Castle Blackstar
0
No votes
Catterpillar
1
5%
Colossus Chess 4
3
14%
Dominoes
0
No votes
European Superleague
0
No votes
Gobble A Ghost
2
9%
Leapfrog
1
5%
Magic Meanies
0
No votes
Othello
0
No votes
Pool
6
27%
Reversi
0
No votes
Sporting Triangles
0
No votes
Steve Davis Snooker
5
23%
Tank Attack
0
No votes
Time Bomb
1
5%
Video Card Arcade
0
No votes
Winged Warlords
0
No votes
Wordsearch
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 22

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1 Pool
2 Colossus 4 Chess
3 Leapfrog (yeah, I know it's a crappy frogger conversion, but I played a lot back in the day, and I love the inlay)
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Tank Attack.

It was a weird board game/video game crossover that game with lots of little tanks. The game would have been better if the rules were more strictly applied.

For example.. if you are in cover you can only be hit at a distance of 1. But you can fire out of cover... and the enemy can fire back and kill you at any distance.

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It’s basic, but I used to love 3D Painter when I was a kid.

It probably doesn’t hold up, but that’s not the issue.
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Gobble A Ghost
Caterpillar
Leapfrog

3 nice clones.
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1 Steve Davies Snooker
2 Winged Warlords
3 Pool
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1. Brian Clough's Football Fortunes
2. Steve Davis Snooker
3. Winged Warlords
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Where can I find Steve Davis 128k? It’s definitely my favourite game by CDS as my friends and I used to setup our own little tournaments using a pen and paper, then playing the actual game! But I’d love to see what enhancements are in the 128k “hack”!
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toot_toot wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:45 am Where can I find Steve Davis 128k? It’s definitely my favourite game by CDS as my friends and I used to setup our own little tournaments using a pen and paper, then playing the actual game! But I’d love to see what enhancements are in the 128k “hack”!
Ooooh, boy. Out of all the weeks where the mythical Steve Davis Snooker 128K could be brought up again, it happens when the fantasist behind it, is the major target of (very justifiable) anger.

Steve Davis Snooker 128K does not exist. It has never existed. It was the invention of 'Mr Kizza' aka Kieren Hawken, probably better known as the 'Laird' of Laird's Lair. Years ago, he wrote on the AtariAge forum that he wrote this game for the ZX Spectrum, along with some budget titles. Some huge huge stuff has kicked off this week about him. I know this forum likes to avoid drama, so all I can say, is take a look elsewhere for what Kieren has been up to!

Ah, I did joke on Twitter this week that we'd never genuinely see Steve Davis Snooker 128K on the Speccy!
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1. Steve Davis Snooker
2. Winged Warlords
3. Pool

Not a massive amount of choice really...
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PeteProdge wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:14 pm Ooooh, boy. Out of all the weeks where the mythical Steve Davis Snooker 128K could be brought up again, it happens when the fantasist behind it, is the major target of (very justifiable) anger.

Steve Davis Snooker 128K does not exist. It has never existed. It was the invention of 'Mr Kizza' aka Kieren Hawken, probably better known as the 'Laird' of Laird's Lair. Years ago, he wrote on the AtariAge forum that he wrote this game for the ZX Spectrum, along with some budget titles. Some huge huge stuff has kicked off this week about him. I know this forum likes to avoid drama, so all I can say, is take a look elsewhere for what Kieren has been up to!

Ah, I did joke on Twitter this week that we'd never genuinely see Steve Davis Snooker 128K on the Speccy!
Does that mean that I won't be able to vote on a best game by Kieren Hawken poll then? I was looking forward to that one!

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Wow, this seems to be a battleground for those who like pool or snooker!

On the main (phpBB) forum poll, the winner is Pool, with 6 votes.

Closely followed behind, it's Steve Davis Snooker (no, not the mythical 128K version), with 5 votes.

In third place, Colossus Chess 4, with 3 votes.

Joint fourth place: 3D Painter and Gobble A Ghost, 2 votes each.

Joint fifth place: Brian Clough's Football Fortunes; Catterpillar; Leapfrog and Time Bomb.

Over on the proportional top-three votes from the comment, we have a different indoor sport at the top position - that's Steve Davis Snooker! Pool is in second place...

Steve Davis Snooker 8
Pool 5
Winged Warlords 5
Brian Clough's Football Fortunes 3
Gobble A Ghost 3
Catterpillar 2
Colossus Chess 4 2
Leapfrog 2
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