The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote

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The best classic Speccy game beginning with C

Poll ended at Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:03 am

Cabal by Ocean
0
No votes
Camelot Warriors by Dinamic
0
No votes
Canyon Warrior by Mastertronic Plus
0
No votes
Capitan Trueno by Dinamic
0
No votes
Captain Blood by Exxos
0
No votes
Captain Dynamo by Codemasters
0
No votes
Carrier Command by Rainbird
1
3%
Cavelon by Ocean
0
No votes
Cauldron by Palace Software
0
No votes
Cauldron II - The Pumpkin Strikes Back by Palace Software
2
6%
Chaos by Games Workshop
6
19%
Chase HQ by Ocean
7
22%
Chequered Flag by Sinclair Research
0
No votes
Chess by Sinclair Research
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No votes
Chronos by Mastertronic
1
3%
Chuckie Egg by A & F Software
4
13%
Critical Mass by Durell
0
No votes
Crosswize by Firebird
0
No votes
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy by Code Masters
1
3%
Cobra by Ocean
0
No votes
Codename Mat by Micromega
0
No votes
Commando by Elite
4
13%
Cookie by Ultimate
2
6%
Cybernoid by Hewson
1
3%
Cybernoid II : The Revenge by Hewson
0
No votes
Cyclone by Vortex
3
9%
 
Total votes: 32

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The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote

Post by PeteProdge »

I think we all know the drill by now.

This will run for a week, so just after 10am on Monday 29th, this'll conclude. Vote for your favourite choice of Chaos immediately.

Cabal by Ocean
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Camelot Warriors by Dinamic
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Canyon Warrior by Mastertronic Plus
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Capitan Trueno by Dinamic
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Captain Blood by Exxos
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Captain Dynamo by Codemasters
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Carrier Command by Rainbird
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Cavelon by Ocean
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Cauldron by Palace Software
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Cauldron II - The Pumpkin Strikes Back by Palace Software
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Chaos by Games Workshop
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Chase HQ by Ocean
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Chequered Flag by Sinclair Research
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Chess by Sinclair Research
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Chronos by Mastertronic
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Chuckie Egg by A & F Software
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Critical Mass by Durell
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Crosswize by Firebird
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Crystal Kingdom Dizzy by Code Masters
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Cobra by Ocean
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Codename Mat by Micromega
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Commando by Elite
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Cookie by Ultimate
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Cybernoid by Hewson
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Cybernoid II : The Revenge by Hewson
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Cyclone by Vortex
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Cyclone for me. Orignal and technically brilliant.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:34 am Cyclone for me. Orignal and technically brilliant.
That's not how you spell Chaos.
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Hold on, man! Obv you should vote with your heart on this one and not let me or any others influence your vote. But you should vote, so..get going, Mr Driver!
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Chuckie what???
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Ooh, this must be one of the most contentious letters we've had so far...! ;)

Chaos, obviously.

Chuckie Egg a close second. Well, not that close really...
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Clive Sinclair is clearly lying, as no-one could ever get Chuckie Egg to work with a joystick!
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Has anyone given any thought to what will happen when we have the inevitable five-way draw?

I say we go on loading screens.

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Look no further! Chuckie Egg has the best loader hands down.

Simple, classy and stylish. It eschews the vulgarities of the Cookie, Chaos, Cobra & Commando loaders in favour of imparting information.
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I voted for Chaos. Cobra and Chase HQ were also in the running. Cobra is a technical tour de force from the title music to the sheer amount of stuff being thrown around on screen. It also has a sense of humour - the weapon's duck and 'Game Under' - and actually has a playable (though rather unforgiving) game to back up all that clever stuff. Chase HQ is arguably the best of all the available home computer conversions, even giving the 16 bit versions a run for their money. It's not that great a game but the amount of effort put into the conversion at the late stage in the commercial life of the Spectrum is commendable.

That said on pure replay terms, Chaos trumps both of them. You can play against friends or just watch the computer fight it out amongst itself - which would sometimes crash the game - that's how seriously the battle was being taken. You can give the wizards silly names and kill other players with imaginary creatures. And when it all gets too much and you realise that golden dragon coming your way isn't an illusion you can go and hide in some magic trees or ride a horse.
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These are all good points, but to counter I'll just say that I haven't even played Chaos and yet I *know* that Chuckie Egg is better.
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R-Tape wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:53 am I'll just say that I haven't even played Chaos and yet I *know* that Chuckie Egg is better.
You're not missing anything; it's rubbish.

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Rorthron wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:16 pm Has anyone given any thought to what will happen when we have the inevitable five-way draw?

I say we go on loading screens.
I know your comment's tongue-in-cheek, but I've not formally clarified what happens in the event of a draw (which nearly happened during one of these).

I think it's best to do the poll again, keeping only the tied games in. This gives the opportunity for those who picked the lesser-voted games, to back a likely winner. (Of course, I do recognise that this could also end up in a draw again.)
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Rorthron wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:47 am
R-Tape wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:53 am I'll just say that I haven't even played Chaos and yet I *know* that Chuckie Egg is better.
You're not missing anything; it's rubbish.

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"Hello, Cookie Monster here! Now you'd think I'd be well in favour of Ultimate's Cookie as my pick in this poll, but no, even I recognise the absolute superiority of Chaos over all the others. In fact, every other Spectrum game. Hell, every other game. It's that good. I'd actually give up my biscuit-heavy diet if it meant I could play Chaos forever. Vote for Chaos. Chaos is awesome. Even Oscar the Grouch agrees."
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MAKE THE LETTER C GREAT AGAIN

VOTE COOKIE
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DON'T VOTE FOR CHAOS
VOTE FOR COOKIE'S STRONG AND STABLE LEADERSHIP
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I see Rorthron is following both Hilary Clinton's and Theresa May's election strategies.

Excellent.

Edit - actually that's Trump and May. Both of whom won. Damn.
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R-Tape wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:31 am Edit - actually that's Trump and May. Both of whom won. Damn.
Yes, those were literally votes for chaos.
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Time to subliminal advertising!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/YtvaX4AE54E [/youtube]

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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:05 pm Time to subliminal advertising!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/YtvaX4AE54E [/youtube]

Vote wisely!
Wow, that looks like chaos out there!
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PeteProdge wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:10 pm
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:05 pm Time to subliminal advertising!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/YtvaX4AE54E [/youtube]

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Wow, that looks like chaos out there!
Looks like these people have left their headquarters to chase the eye ;-)
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Ooh, good to see Chaos HQ pulling ahead in the race...

Oh... hang on...
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