The best classic Speccy game beginning with H: vote

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The best classic Speccy game beginning with H: vote

Poll ended at Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:59 am

Hacker by Activision
0
No votes
Hades Nebula by Nexus Productions
1
3%
Halls Of The Things by Crystal Computing
1
3%
Hammerfist by Activision
0
No votes
Happiest Days Of Your Life, The by Firebird
0
No votes
Harrier Attack! by Durell
1
3%
H.A.T.E. by Gremlin Graphics
0
No votes
Head Over Heels by Ocean
6
16%
Heartland by Odin Computer Graphics
1
3%
Heavy On The Magick by Gargoyle Games
1
3%
Henry's Hoard by Alternative Software
0
No votes
Herbert's Dummy Run by Mikro-Gen
0
No votes
Hero Quest by Gremlin
1
3%
H.E.R.O. by Activision
0
No votes
Heroes Of The Lance by US Gold
0
No votes
Highway Encounter by Vortex
7
18%
Hijack by Electric Dreams
0
No votes
Hobbit, The by Melbourne House
11
29%
Hobgoblin by Atlantis
0
No votes
Horace And The Spiders by Sinclair Research
0
No votes
Horace Goes Skiing by Sinclair Research
2
5%
How To Be A Complete Bas**rd by Virgin
0
No votes
Hudson Hawk by Ocean
0
No votes
Hunchback by Ocean
0
No votes
Hunchback II by Ocean
0
No votes
Hunchback - The Adventure by Ocean
0
No votes
Hungry Horace by Sinclair Research
0
No votes
Hydrofool by Faster Than Light
0
No votes
Hyperaction by Silversoft
0
No votes
Hyper Sports by Imagine
5
13%
Hysteria by Software Projects
1
3%
 
Total votes: 38

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I hope Jon Ritman doesn't stumble on this poll.
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His best game (IMHO) was in the B thread, that got a similar position. I presume he would hate us all.
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I went with HoH even though I asked for The Hobbit to be added to the list :lol:

If I could I would have voted for both, but, for me HoH was just astounding. Even the 48k version was good, but, when I upgraded to a 128 the sound just added another level of brilliance to the game. Saying that, The Hobbit was a jaw-dropping moment for me as well. Prior to the speccy we'd had a Dragon 32 at home and the text adventures were pretty simple and text only. When the Dragon died (excuse the Hobbit related pun) and we got a Speccy, The Hobbit was one of the first games we played as a family and seeing that first screen still gives me that warm fuzzy feeling of us all sat around our rubber-keyed baby playing that brilliant game.
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Went for The Hobbit, pipping Hypersports to a close second place.

As people have mentioned already, just from a games player it was a big leap from the adventure software that was available at the time. The 'quirks and features' of the game added some amusement and intrigue value at the time, and reflect the imaginative way it was designed and put together - the complexity of which I only recognised in latter years.
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Hobbit. Without a second of hesitation.

Actually I didn't play it much in the 80ties. I'm not a native English speaker and my English was too poor then to truly enjoy text games.

But I can see now it was a great game. Truly groundbreaking. Nothing seen before.

There were some articles online about Hobbit parser. Find and read them if you didn't. It was really advanced, allowed to some very complex
commands. Many much later games were simpler in that area.
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It was between The Hobbit and Hypersports for me too, but I decided on The Hobbit. To this day, it's still my favourite text adventure and, like Morkin said, it just seemed to do what no other text adventure had come close to doing by that point. Actually felt like a "living, breathing" game world that would keep ticking along even if you weren't doing anything.
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The Hobbit for me too. Having been a big fan of text adventures before the Spectrum, it was incredible to see the leaps which this game made. It was so incredible to play this at the time it came out compared to what had come before.
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What's up with the Heavy On The Magick loading screen? Somehow I don't think it's supposed to have that message at the bottom.
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This poll running for only two days and we clearly have a winner! :)
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:07 am This poll running for only two days and we clearly have a winner! :)
Blimey, if I had to put money on this one before it started, I'd have said Head Over Heels by a long margin. It's currently languishing in fourth place. I'm stunned!
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PeteProdge wrote: Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:15 am
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:07 am This poll running for only two days and we clearly have a winner! :)
Blimey, if I had to put money on this one before it started, I'd have said Head Over Heels by a long margin. It's currently languishing in fourth place. I'm stunned!
Never bet on these threads, the winner is always susprising! :D
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Still quite surprised at the number of votes for Highway Encounter.

Not that I don't think it's a good game, just that I wouldn't have expected it to surge into second place, with games like Hypersports, Head over Heels etc. in the mix.
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I wouldn't have expected more than two votes for The Hobbit...
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All great games (well it's a shortlist), Head over Heels, Hudson Hawk, Hysteria, HERO, Highway Encounter and Henry's Hoard especially, but for me it's a clear choice of:

-Horace or Hunchback?
-Which one of the series?

It may be a tarted up version of Frogger and a Type In bolted together, but I'm going to let go of the branch and get swept downstream in the whitewater of nostalgia:

Horace going Skiing.
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Is Hudson Hawk that good? I've never played it...
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:18 pm Is Hudson Hawk that good? I've never played it...
I've no idea.

You know when you confuse 'Hudson Hawk' with 'Contact Sam Cruise'? :?

(At least I didn't vote for it!)
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I was tempted by Horace Goes Skiing.

Last time I fired it up I played it for what seemed like ages.
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Is Hudson Hawk that good? I've never played it...
Just watch the recording.

[media]https://youtu.be/ZrNVxZRQsdE[/media]

It's a very allright game. Big, colourful, with nice graphics and decent gameplay.

I read that's based on some crap film. But it shouldn't matter when you evaluate the game itself, right?

It's a rather late game in Spectrum commercial history so many people may not know it. And it seems that people
have stronger sentiments for earlier games so it's not going to be a winner here.

But as I said it's rather good.
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I was tempted by Horace Goes Skiing.

Last time I fired it up I played it for what seemed like ages.
When I checked time, it was actually 7 minutes ;)
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Ralf wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:18 am
Is Hudson Hawk that good? I've never played it...
I read that's based on some crap film. But it shouldn't matter when you evaluate the game itself, right?
I had thought: 'a game based on a Bruce Willis film?... nah!' :lol:
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The outright winner is The Hobbit, with 11 votes. Quite a surprising victory in my view.

In second place, with 7 votes, is Highway Encounter.

Third placed, with 6 votes, is what I would have thought had won - Head Over Heels.

In fourth place, with 5 votes: Hypersports

Then in fifth place with 2 votes: Horace Goes Skiing

With one vote each; Hades Nebula; Halls Of The Things; Harrier Attack!; Heartland; Heavy On The Magick; Hero Quest and Hysteria.
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