The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
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The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
Only just a tiny handful of... what?! EIGHTY-ONE!!?
Oh, C.C.S., your huge output has caused me to spend a lot of Sunday getting this formatted.
You lot know the drill. 7 days from the start of this post to determine your favourite C.C.S. ZX Spectrum game...
180
1942 Mission
Abyss
Ace Low
Air Defence
Air Raid
Airline
Arnhem
Ashes, The
Austerlitz 1805
Auto Chef
Avalanche
Barrowquest
Battle 1917
Battle Of The Bulge, The
Blaze
Blitzkrieg
Blocked In
Blue Riband
Brewery
British Lowland
Broodslayer
Byte
Camelot
Card Sharp
Changeling, The
Chickamauga
Corn Cropper
Crete 1941
Cromwell At War 1642-1645
Cube
Dallas
Desert Rats
Diamond Quest
Dix Mille
Dominoes
East Front
Encyclopedia Of War: Ancient Battles
Gallipoli
Gangsters!
General, The
Gettysburg
Hicksted
Insurgency
Invasion Force
Jungle Adventure
Keycode
Magic Joker
Matching Pairs
Mathsted
Maverick
Napoleon At War
NATO Alert
Nuke Lear
Oligopoly
Open, The
Overlord
Pacific War
Plunder
Polaris
Prince, The
Print Shop
Rainy Day
Shift Shaft
Smuggler
Solitaire
Staff Of Zaranol
Stalingrad
Stockmarket
Superpower
Swords Of Bane
Tomb Of Akhenaten
United
Vulcan
War 70
War Of The Roses
Wellington At Waterloo
Whodunnit?
Zulu Wars
Oh, C.C.S., your huge output has caused me to spend a lot of Sunday getting this formatted.
You lot know the drill. 7 days from the start of this post to determine your favourite C.C.S. ZX Spectrum game...
180
1942 Mission
Abyss
Ace Low
Air Defence
Air Raid
Airline
Arnhem
Ashes, The
Austerlitz 1805
Auto Chef
Avalanche
Barrowquest
Battle 1917
Battle Of The Bulge, The
Blaze
Blitzkrieg
Blocked In
Blue Riband
Brewery
British Lowland
Broodslayer
Byte
Camelot
Card Sharp
Changeling, The
Chickamauga
Corn Cropper
Crete 1941
Cromwell At War 1642-1645
Cube
Dallas
Desert Rats
Diamond Quest
Dix Mille
Dominoes
East Front
Encyclopedia Of War: Ancient Battles
Gallipoli
Gangsters!
General, The
Gettysburg
Hicksted
Insurgency
Invasion Force
Jungle Adventure
Keycode
Magic Joker
Matching Pairs
Mathsted
Maverick
Napoleon At War
NATO Alert
Nuke Lear
Oligopoly
Open, The
Overlord
Pacific War
Plunder
Polaris
Prince, The
Print Shop
Rainy Day
Shift Shaft
Smuggler
Solitaire
Staff Of Zaranol
Stalingrad
Stockmarket
Superpower
Swords Of Bane
Tomb Of Akhenaten
United
Vulcan
War 70
War Of The Roses
Wellington At Waterloo
Whodunnit?
Zulu Wars
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
So many wonderful war strategy games. But my vote goes to Vulcan...
Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
Voted for Arnhem.
Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
Oh my goodness. 81 games and i'm ashamed to say i don't think i played a single one. I never liked war games, looks like 90% are war. And even the ones that aren't based on war don't look great. Eek, no vote. What a mammoth post...
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
Not many strategy games I've played but these ones were cool:
1-Vulcan
2-Arnhem
3-NATO Alert
1-Vulcan
2-Arnhem
3-NATO Alert
Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
I've never forgiven C.S.S. for "Byte". The first game I got, as I couldn't quite afford JetPac.
(Then when I was so upset by it, Mum bought me JetPac).
(Then when I was so upset by it, Mum bought me JetPac).
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
I always got CCS and PSS confused, maybe because PSS made a lot of turn based war games, but PSS games always seemed a bit more accessible to the 12 year old me! But I did appreciate a few of the CCS games when I was older, especially Encyclopaedia of War, which came in a nice big box and had the ability to create your own scenarios. A school friend was really into strategy war games, but Encyclopaedia of War just felt a bit easier to play. It also helped we were studying Julius Caesar in History, it was great playing out some of his battles in it!
However, in saying that I have to say my favourite game is Gangsters!, which has got my vote in this. I had this on a C90 tape someone gave to me - at a time when C90 tapes were a rare thing as cheap tape-to-tape ghetto blasters weren't a thing - and I loved the fact it was quite a deep strategy game but it was easy to pick up, even without the instructions! Since then I've managed to pick up an official copy of the CCS version, which also made me realise this wasn't originally a CCS release. It was originally a "P Boulton Software" release, here's the original cover, so maybe it doesn't count?!!??
However, in saying that I have to say my favourite game is Gangsters!, which has got my vote in this. I had this on a C90 tape someone gave to me - at a time when C90 tapes were a rare thing as cheap tape-to-tape ghetto blasters weren't a thing - and I loved the fact it was quite a deep strategy game but it was easy to pick up, even without the instructions! Since then I've managed to pick up an official copy of the CCS version, which also made me realise this wasn't originally a CCS release. It was originally a "P Boulton Software" release, here's the original cover, so maybe it doesn't count?!!??
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
I'm not into turn based war games as I don't have the patience for them. So instead I tried several of the other types of games on the list.
1 Gangsters
2 Smuggler
3 1942 Mission
The Prince would have been in the top three had it not been for four players only.
1 Gangsters
2 Smuggler
3 1942 Mission
The Prince would have been in the top three had it not been for four players only.
Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
1. Swords Of Bane
2. Cromwell At War
3. War Of The Roses
It was close but Swords Of Bane just pipped the two historical games for me.
2. Cromwell At War
3. War Of The Roses
It was close but Swords Of Bane just pipped the two historical games for me.
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
Cripes! Yes, you are right. Gangsters should NOT be in this poll, it is indeed C.C.S. doing a rerelease from the P Boulton Software label.toot_toot wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:24 am However, in saying that I have to say my favourite game is Gangsters!, which has got my vote in this. I had this on a C90 tape someone gave to me - at a time when C90 tapes were a rare thing as cheap tape-to-tape ghetto blasters weren't a thing - and I loved the fact it was quite a deep strategy game but it was easy to pick up, even without the instructions! Since then I've managed to pick up an official copy of the CCS version, which also made me realise this wasn't originally a CCS release. It was originally a "P Boulton Software" release, here's the original cover, so maybe it doesn't count?!!??
That should have been caught in the 7-day 'discussion' phase of this, but it wasn't, so I'm ignoring ALL votes for it.
If you've voted Gangsters, you still have until Sunday to change your mind to something else!
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
In that case I've changed my vote to Smuggler and now my top three are:
1. Smuggler
2. 1942 Mission
3. The Prince
1. Smuggler
2. 1942 Mission
3. The Prince
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Re: The best Speccy game by C.C.S.: vote
We've come to a bit of a tie here!
Four games occupy the top slot, having gained 2 votes each: 180; Arnhem; Swords Of Bane and Vulcan
In joint second place, with 1 vote each: 1942 Mission; Broodslayer; Encyclopedia Of War: Ancient Battles and Smuggler.
I was hoping the proportional voting system might throw us a clear winner or at least narrow it down. Nope! All three people voted for entirely different games to each other, the results are, um, looking like this...
Smuggler 3
Swords Of Bane 3
Vulcan 3
1942 Mission 2
Arnhem 2
Cromwell At War 1642-1645 2
NATO Alert 1
Prince, The 1
War Of The Roses 1
A tie break is needed, I'm concluding it'll be with the top four games in the phpBB poll.
Four games occupy the top slot, having gained 2 votes each: 180; Arnhem; Swords Of Bane and Vulcan
In joint second place, with 1 vote each: 1942 Mission; Broodslayer; Encyclopedia Of War: Ancient Battles and Smuggler.
I was hoping the proportional voting system might throw us a clear winner or at least narrow it down. Nope! All three people voted for entirely different games to each other, the results are, um, looking like this...
Smuggler 3
Swords Of Bane 3
Vulcan 3
1942 Mission 2
Arnhem 2
Cromwell At War 1642-1645 2
NATO Alert 1
Prince, The 1
War Of The Roses 1
A tie break is needed, I'm concluding it'll be with the top four games in the phpBB poll.
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