The best classic Speccy game beginning with L: discussion

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hitm4n wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 11:02 pm Luna Crabs
Wow Luna Crabs!!!! I forgot about that little gem. It was the first game that I bought when we our little rubber-keyed beauty back in '84!! We'd had a Dragon 32 in 83 but after several tech issue we went back to Boots (yes, you could get a computer from a Chemists back in the 80s :) ) got a cash refund, and me and my Dad ran trough Wolverhampton (you'd do the same if you had a wodge of cash on you in Wolverhampton) went to Comet and bought a Speccy 48k. So when I saw the Lunda Crabs high-res graphics I was gob smacked :shock: :shock:
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Has Loopz been mentioned yet? Got a lot of mileage out of that puzzle game.

For me it's probably going to be Leaderboard. It set the template for just about every subsequent golf game since and I had many happy hours playing it back in '87.
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Lightforce looks good, but it suffers from the same cheap shots as nearly all other horizontally oriented vertical scrollers - chucking in enemies from the two top corners at the same time so you can't get to both.
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Joefish wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 9:08 am Lightforce looks good, but it suffers from the same cheap shots as nearly all other horizontally oriented vertical scrollers - chucking in enemies from the two top corners at the same time so you can't get to both.
Yeah, I always felt that it looked amazing but the gameplay wasn't any better than any of the Speccy's other good vertically scrolling shooters. I'd rather play Moon Cresta than Lightforce, for instance. Then a couple of weeks after Lightforce was released Uridium came out and blew it out of the water. Still a good game, but a bit over-rated IMO due to the incredible graphics.

One thing always confused me with Lightforce was that it came second in the 1987 Crash Readers Awards for Music (http://www.crashonline.org.uk/51/awards.htm). I don't recall any music, not to mention it was a 1986, not 1987 release...?
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 11:29 am There are three 007 games beggining with L:

- Licence to Kill
- Linving Daylights, The
- Live and Let Die

The only 007 game I've played a lot it's been A View to a Kill, none of the above though, so do you think it's worth including these three games in the poll?
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stupidget wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 8:15 am
hitm4n wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 11:02 pm Luna Crabs
Wow Luna Crabs!!!! I forgot about that little gem. It was the first game that I bought when we our little rubber-keyed beauty back in '84!! We'd had a Dragon 32 in 83 but after several tech issue we went back to Boots (yes, you could get a computer from a Chemists back in the 80s :) ) and swapped it for a Speccy 48k. So when I saw the Lunda Crabs high-res graphics I was gob smacked :shock: :shock:
Yeah, Luna Crabs was an early title for me too. Basically 3D Tank but with crabs as i recall. And more fun.

And you're a fellow Dragon owner. We had a Dragon 32 at home too. Dad brought it home one day, i'd have been about 12. Probably around 1983 like you. There was a nice pool game on the Dragon, an awesome text adventure called Jerusalem, Pedro was good and Donkey Kong was great (i might be wearing rose tinted specs, emulating all these might straighten my memory).
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hitm4n wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 8:18 pm
Yeah, Luna Crabs was an early title for me too. Basically 3D Tank but with crabs as i recall. And more fun.

And you're a fellow Dragon owner. We had a Dragon 32 at home too. Dad brought it home one day, i'd have been about 12. Probably around 1983 like you. There was a nice pool game on the Dragon, an awesome text adventure called Jerusalem, Pedro was good and Donkey Kong was great (i might be wearing rose tinted specs, emulating all these might straighten my memory).
Xroar is probably the best Dragon32 emulator for Windows & MAC (http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/). Donkey Kong or Donkey King as it was called (how they got away with that is anyones guess) was probably the best Donkey Kong conversion as far as I remember, very close to the arcade with regards to speed and joystick response. The best adventure we had was called Mansion Adventure and me and my folks spent ages getting off the first screen. Basically you had to 'Prise Door' with the iron bar you found!!!! My dad used to spend hours playing Mined-Out from Quicksilva and Leggit (Jumping Jack on the speccy). I got a Dragon off ebay a couple of years ago and still had a blast playing Cuthbert Goes Walkabout :-)
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Vampyre wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 10:04 am Yeah, I always felt that it looked amazing but the gameplay wasn't any better than any of the Speccy's other good vertically scrolling shooters. I'd rather play Moon Cresta than Lightforce, for instance. Then a couple of weeks after Lightforce was released Uridium came out and blew it out of the water. Still a good game, but a bit over-rated IMO due to the incredible graphics.

One thing always confused me with Lightforce was that it came second in the 1987 Crash Readers Awards for Music (http://www.crashonline.org.uk/51/awards.htm). I don't recall any music, not to mention it was a 1986, not 1987 release...?

Dunno... I just fired up Lightforce for the first time in 30 years and had a literal blast, and am gonna go back for some more a bit later. The graphics are fantastic, with all those lovely attribute-masking tricks at play. Didn't hear any music, though. Perhaps there was a 128K version? Not on my ZXDS setup, anyway...
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The L list as it stands...

Laser Squad by Blade Software
Lazy Jones by Terminal Software
Last Ninja 2, The by System 3
Last Ninja Remix by System 3
Leader Board by US Gold
LED Storm by GO!
Legend Of Kage by Imagine
Lemmings by Psygnosis
Licence To Kill by Domark
Light Cycle by PSS
Light Force by Faster Than Light
Little Puff by Cartoon Time
Live And Let Die by Domark
Living Daylights by Domark
Livingstone Supongo by Opera Soft
Loco-Motion by Mastertronic
Loopz by Audiogenic Software
Lorna by Topo Soft
Lode Runner by Software Projects
Lone Wolf - The Mirror Of Death by Audiogenic Software
Lords Of Chaos by Blade Software
Lords Of Midnight, The by Beyond
Lost Tomb Of Ananka, The by Compass Software
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Luna Crabs by Micromega
Lunar Jetman by Ultimate

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