Your favorite underdog (game)

[stupidget]

Another underdog game that I used to play a lot was Se-Kaa of Assiah https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... of Assiah. From what I remember it was a pretty run of the mill text adventure, but for some odd reason I invested a great deal of time playing it.

[Dark]

I also loved Curse of Sherwood, but I don't think I got anywhere near to completing it. Certainly off the top of my head I have no recollection of a maze.

[blucey]

I also loved Curse of Sherwood, but I don't think I got anywhere near to completing it. Certainly off the top of my head I have no recollection of a maze.

It's been a while (a few decades) but it was a maze hidden by being a swamp. Either way I remember that being the end of my adventure.

I might have to fire this up again!

[Juan F. Ramirez]

N.E X.O.R. by Design Design is another cool isometric game I like. A bit difficult at first.

[blucey]

Fired up Curse of Sherwood for a quick go. The walking spot effects were in danger of driving me insane. Especially as I was wearing headphones.

[Dark]

I also loved Curse of Sherwood, but I don't think I got anywhere near to completing it. Certainly off the top of my head I have no recollection of a maze.

It's been a while (a few decades) but it was a maze hidden by being a swamp. Either way I remember that being the end of my adventure.

I might have to fire this up again!

I went on YouTube and watched a walk through video of the game, and as soon as I saw the swamp I remembered it. But like yourself, I never got through it, was amazed that the person who did the video just sailed through it.

[blucey]

I suspect a little bit of editing with those things!

[RWAC]

I made it through the swamp back in the day somehow.
Played it a few years ago via emulator and even save scumming my way through it took me forever!

[blucey]

I made it through the swamp back in the day somehow.
Played it a few years ago via emulator and even save scumming my way through it took me forever!

IIRC one of the mags had a map of the game and it was absolutely useless.

Playing it now, I do like it but it's a bit basic. If it had Feud's visuals, it'd have been getting accolades though.

[blucey]

I've just realised you're Rebelstar Without A Cause (RWAC) from WoS. D'oh!

I was about to mention our very similar avatars and then realised we've chatted about the game before.

[777]

super cycle, played it for hours, dont know if it got a bad review or not

also the comet game, which was pretty bad but still played this alot

and ticket to ride, pretty awful but played this alot, trying to work out how to play it

[RWAC]

I've just realised you're Rebelstar Without A Cause (RWAC) from WoS. D'oh!

I was about to mention our very similar avatars and then realised we've chatted about the game before.

Guilty as charged!

[Alone Coder]

Hmm, do you know Mega Tetris 2000? It includes a lot of music and 1000 levels (I only completed 500 of them)!

Thanks for the tip off! I just gave it a go and I really enjoyed it.

Here is the full walkthrough, played by the author himself:
https://youtu.be/0NZ0_SqfBZg
https://youtu.be/rbVydLZO4Zw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6BO03a8qMM
https://youtu.be/gSV99BnR6S0
https://youtu.be/lx7BmHo7MPo
https://youtu.be/N4_e510rt_k
https://youtu.be/tJ5e7lpd0Ik
https://youtu.be/sSXIxLKevP4
https://youtu.be/J2JhQz_u1-s
https://youtu.be/fkZqv1GlKuo

[Turtle_Quality]

Space Zombies by Micro-Gen. Primitive but somehow satisfying shmup

[zup]

Some underdogs I played a lot...
- Mig 29: Best defined as a "low-cost Afterburner".
- Convoy Raider: I don't really know how I got into this game, but played it a lot. Does it have an ending?
- Super Trux: Didn't played it as much as other games... but that trucks feel faster than Out Run's Ferrari.

[cmal]

I played Fashionsoft's Menace waaaay more than I should have. The game seems to go on forever as long as you don't lose your lives. There's only one screen in the game, and it's very repetitive. Thankfully the game does speed up as you finish each screen (finish by placing an object on each of the pupil's desks) so at least if offers more challenge as you complete each round.

The two silly reason's I played it so much are:
- It was the first game I bought
- Each time you finish a round, you get another life, which is indicated by an additional white candy stick printed on the bottom left. I wanted to see what would happen if you had so many lives that the candy sticks start over-writing the object on the bottom center of the screen. I never was able to accumulate that many lives but I did come close. The action just gets too fast after a while. I'm expecting some sort of buggy behavior.

[DarkTrancer]

Cholo
Elite being my fave all time game naturally Cholo was a must buy , i don't remember anyone i knew at school had heard of it or played it and so i class it as an underdog. I even remember reading through the novella and then playing it as i had the same experience with Elite and The Dark Wheel.

Zx Spectrum : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYbOro8z1c

PC Remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHn8xLCcU8Q

[blucey]

Cholo
Elite being my fave all time game naturally Cholo was a must buy , i don't remember anyone i knew at school had heard of it or played it and so i class it as an underdog. I even remember reading through the novella and then playing it as i had the same experience with Elite and The Dark Wheel.

Zx Spectrum : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYbOro8z1c

PC Remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHn8xLCcU8Q

I remember the adverts. Never played it though. Good to see someone pick a real underdog. I might have to give it a go.

[arjun]

I used to play the following titles quite a bit even though they weren't quite good TBH:

1) Bazooka Bill - An arcadey shoot-em up screen flipping platform-y game. I'm not sure why I played it because for a 1986 game, it was pretty poor. Although, SU bizzarely gave it 4/5!

2) Treasure Island - Loosely based on the book, the game was a flip screen mazy adventure. I quite liked the colourful look of the game and the slight puzzle nature of it. Plus I loved the book.

3) Bounder - I know this is fairly well known but I don't see it appearing in anyone's fav game list so I thought I'll put it down here. It's a scrolly arcade game with large well drawn monochromatic game and a brill main menu tune.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Yeah, Bounder is fantastic!

[PeteProdge]

It's never even talked about, like the game doesn't exist any more and I can't think for the life of me how I acquired this game brand new, but Gremlin's Compendium is something I played a lot.



It's listed as a compilation, I suppose technically it is, but none of the games had been released before (or since). Four separate programs, yes, but all featuring the same characters (a family at Christmas) just in different situations - giant board games!

• Snakes and Hazards (Snakes and Ladders)
• Xmas Ludo (er, Ludo)
• Shove-a-Sledge (Shove Ha'penny)
• Tiddly Drinks (Tiddlywinks)

It's never going to be revered, most of you will think "so what?" and deem it at the level of an original covertape game (I can't argue). I can't even find anyone playing it on YouTube, and it suffers from a name that's going to bring up irrelevant results when you hunt for it on Google.

Yet it came out from one of the biggest major full price publishers, at the Spectrum's commercial peak, for all three major 8-bit platforms (plus MSX). Nobody I know has ever talked about it. And frankly, I've never even replayed it on emulation. I sometimes think I dreamt it all up, but when I saw this thread, I knew this was perfect for it.

In Crash reviewer mode, my 'personal' score would be in the 80s, but to a typical Spectrum user, I'd have to say you're not going to enjoy it unless you have the weird brain patterns I have which makes quirky and quintessentially British games highly compelling. I'd stick it around 60% if I was writing for a normal gaming audience.

I still maintain it's not sh*t.