The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
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The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
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
Camelot Warriors by Dinamic
Canyon Warrior by Mastertronic Plus
Capitan Trueno by Dinamic
Captain Blood by Exxos
Captain Dynamo by Codemasters
Carrier Command by Rainbird
Cavelon by Ocean
Cauldron by Palace Software
Cauldron II - The Pumpkin Strikes Back by Palace Software
Chaos by Games Workshop
Chase HQ by Ocean
Chequered Flag by Sinclair Research
Chess by Sinclair Research
Chronos by Mastertronic
Chuckie Egg by A & F Software
Critical Mass by Durell
Crosswize by Firebird
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy by Code Masters
Cobra by Ocean
Codename Mat by Micromega
Commando by Elite
Cookie by Ultimate
Cybernoid by Hewson
Cybernoid II : The Revenge by Hewson
Cyclone by Vortex
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
Camelot Warriors by Dinamic
Canyon Warrior by Mastertronic Plus
Capitan Trueno by Dinamic
Captain Blood by Exxos
Captain Dynamo by Codemasters
Carrier Command by Rainbird
Cavelon by Ocean
Cauldron by Palace Software
Cauldron II - The Pumpkin Strikes Back by Palace Software
Chaos by Games Workshop
Chase HQ by Ocean
Chequered Flag by Sinclair Research
Chess by Sinclair Research
Chronos by Mastertronic
Chuckie Egg by A & F Software
Critical Mass by Durell
Crosswize by Firebird
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy by Code Masters
Cobra by Ocean
Codename Mat by Micromega
Commando by Elite
Cookie by Ultimate
Cybernoid by Hewson
Cybernoid II : The Revenge by Hewson
Cyclone by Vortex
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Cyclone for me. Orignal and technically brilliant.
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That's not how you spell Chaos.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:34 am Cyclone for me. Orignal and technically brilliant.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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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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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Pete's Undead Golden Dragon takes aim at Rorthron...
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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
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.
Excellent.
Edit - actually that's Trump and May. Both of whom won. Damn.
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Yes, those were literally votes for chaos.
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Wow, that looks like chaos out there!Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:05 pm Time to subliminal advertising!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/YtvaX4AE54E [/youtube]
Vote wisely!
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Looks like these people have left their headquarters to chase the eyePeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:10 pmWow, that looks like chaos out there!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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Ooh, good to see Chaos HQ pulling ahead in the race...
Oh... hang on...
Oh... hang on...
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