Hidden gems

[Blerkotron]

One of my all-time favourite Speccy shoot-em-ups is Ano Gaia, which only ever appeared on a late-in-the-day Your Sinclair cover tape. Brilliant little game, very playable and super-colourful!

[blucey]

Megabucks. It never really got the attention or reviews it deserved but, for me anyway, it was the best game in that genre. I’d take it over Spellbound et al all day.

Colony. Seriously underrated resource management gem.

Good shout thee for Reversi. I loved that game.

[PeteProdge]

Another recommendation is Rocman by Magic Team (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4221.

The usual adventure game with objects to use and a map to explore.

I've just been playing this for the first time ever, on your recommendation, and I'm stunned. This is really good. I've never seen a scrolling arcade adventure on the Spectrum before, so it's a real breath of fresh air.

A few grumbles - the main sprite is sloppily drawn, looks like a dinner lady rather than some tough warrior and the walking sound is annoying.

Yet this is certainly an astounding obscurity. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention.

[Ralf]

I'm not sure if it's obscure or well known but let me remind you of Tujad:



https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=999

It's a colourful, nice game and you know what's good about it? It's really easy. I completed it back in the 80s on real Spectrum without any cheats and
I'm sure that you can do it too