Carry On Playing Spectrum Games

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"Er, so what is it, Sir Eccentric-Billionaire?"

"Well, you like the old games, don't you? The Pac Invaders, Super Space Man, Sonic The Mario and all that?"

"Erm, kind of, yeah."

"Well, I decided that with my love of the Carry On films and the rise of this retrogaming, I've decided to buy the rights to sell a Carry On themed compilation of games. 30 of them, all matching each film. Now, what's that computer you like? The XYZ Rainbow, isn't it?"

"The ZX Spectrum actually."

"Great! That's the system we'll target. 30 themed games on each Carry On movie, I want you to start with the first - Carry On Sergeant - then tackle the rest."

"I've not coded a game in decades and when I did, it was in BASIC and not that much cop."

"I need it done by next month."

"Um... f***. How about we just go through what's already out there for the Spectrum, acquire it legally and get someone off the web forums to lightly hack each one so it has the name of the film in it? (Although it's going to be blatantly obvious it's a familiar old game that is roughly in line with the movie's theme, frankly.)"

"Great idea! Crack on!"

Carry On Sergeant
Duet from Elite could work here.
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Carry On Nurse
Mad Nurse by Firebird Software, obviously.
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Carry On Teacher
Oh, definitely Skool Daze. This is too easy.
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Carry On Constable
Drunk Policeman by Automata UK.
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Carry On Regardless
Ah, this is the one where they set up the 'Helping Hands' agency, allowing the team to get up to all kinds of silly 'do-good' exercises isn't it? Kind of like the concept for The Goodies, before The Goodies even existed.
This is a real head-scratcher, but I think we can get away with lumbering the buyer with Contact Sam Cruise by Microsphere.
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That's the first five sorted out. As for the rest, which are:

Carry On Cruising
Carry On Cabby
Carry On Jack
Carry On Spying
Carry On Cleo
Carry On Cowboy
Carry On Screaming!
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Carry On Follow That Camel
Carry On Doctor
Carry On Up The Khyber
Carry On Camping
Carry On Again Doctor
Carry On Up the Jungle
Carry On Loving
Carry On Henry
Carry On At Your Convenience
Carry On Matron
Carry On Abroad
Carry On Girls
Carry On Dick
Carry On Behind
Carry On England
Carry On Emmannuelle
Carry On Columbus

...I'm reckoning the Spectrum Computing forum could help out there...

"Looks like you've started an interesting thread."

"Tsk, flattery."

"You do realise I'm a figment of your imagination though?"

"Yeah."

"And that those unfamiliar with British pop culture of the 50s-70s may not even have the slightest clue what this is about?"

"Never stopped me posting daft ideas here before."
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Carry on Abroad
The `Carry On' regulars embark on a package holiday to the Spanish resort of Elsbels. The revellers find that the Palace Hotel hardly lives up to its name - not least because the builders have not yet finished erecting the place.

For which I offer "Terrormolinos" by melbourne house.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=7088

The game revolves around surviving a package holiday to the Spanish resort of Terrormolinos (a play on Torremolinos) and bringing back home ten snapshots. The user takes the role of the husband and goes away on a package holiday with wife Beryl and two children, Ken and Doreen. To successfully complete the game, a player must take ten photographs to illustrate the "happy" holiday.
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Carry On Cruising

how about "Worst Things Happen At Sea"?

Carry On Up The Jungle

Sabre Wulf? Tusker?
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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head

Barbarian?
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Carry On Up The Khyber

Fantastic Voyage? You do get into the Colon.
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'Carry On Up The Jungle' is surely Three Weeks in Paradise.
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Carry on at Your Convenience:

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Carry On Cowboy

The Wild Bunch! Hunt down Sid James, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Williams, Charles Haughtrey and Peter Butterworth to help Jim Dale clear his name. Featuring Hattie Jaques as the Saloon Owner, and Harry H Corbett as the Pinkerton Agent!
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Carry On Abroad

Spoilt for choice here - Costa Capers, Terrormolinos, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Travels with Trashman.

EDIT: Oh, Terrormolinos has already be done! As you were.
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Carry on Loving - Paradise Café

I don't know much what is that 'Carry On' stuff actually!
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I'll tenuously suggest that Carry On Follow That Camel can be represented by...

Top Cat In Beverly Hills

Because of this Carry On... staring Phil Silvers (and feeling very little like a Carry On because of that), and Top Cat the cartoon being based heavily upon The Phil Silvers Show.
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Been a couple of suggestions already for, Carry On Up the Jungle, my first thought for it though was, Jack the Nipper 2: Coconut Capers
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Carry On:
Cabbie - Taxi
Henry - Henry's Hoard
Jack - Booty
Doctor - St. Crippens
Again, Doctor - Livingstone, I Presume
Behind - The Archaeologist
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