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The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
I chose Daley Thompson's Decathlon in the end. I never owned Deathchase and only became aware of it when Stuart Campbell made it his top 100 Spectrum game in Your Sinclair. I played Decathlon so much, I was genuinely shocked when I turned out to be rubbish at the javelin during athletics at school - turns out it's more than just running a bit and throwing it at as near to 45 degrees as possible. If you ever talk to someone about 80s home computers and games, you're more likely to find common ground with Daley Thompson than Deathchase. Pummeling the keyboard or inflicting terrible physical damage on a joystick seems to have entered the lore of 80s gaming. For me it also marks the point where Ocean became the big licensing company they turned in to and was my first experience of the Speedlock tape loader on the They Sold a Million compilation. I nearly voted for Danger Mouse as I have a soft spot for it. It's silly and colourful like the cartoon and like Bruce Lee, one of a select number of games I can finish (again ).
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
Well, the clear winner is Deathchase, winning with 8 votes. Could there be any other 16K Spectrum games that can top these polls, I wonder?
Three games are joint third with 3 votes each...
Daley Thompson's Decathlon; Dan Dare and Dizzy
The next tier - 2 votes each - has Deflektor and Dragontorc.
Then there are loads of single-voted games: Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge; Dandy; Dan Dare 2; A Day In The Life; Death Stalker; Deus Ex Machina; Deviants; Dictator; Doomdark's Revenge; Driller; Dynamite Dan and Dynamite Dan II.
Now to start the week-long discussion thread on E...
Three games are joint third with 3 votes each...
Daley Thompson's Decathlon; Dan Dare and Dizzy
The next tier - 2 votes each - has Deflektor and Dragontorc.
Then there are loads of single-voted games: Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge; Dandy; Dan Dare 2; A Day In The Life; Death Stalker; Deus Ex Machina; Deviants; Dictator; Doomdark's Revenge; Driller; Dynamite Dan and Dynamite Dan II.
Now to start the week-long discussion thread on E...
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
Not sure about this one. I'd have gone for one among Deactivators, Death Star Interceptor, Druid and Dynamite Dan II.