The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Who’s this mentally unstable collier everybody keeps blabbing on incessantly?
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
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and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Absolutely not. No campaigning, no dirty tricks or messing about. I just hope people vote honestly for the best game.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Has anyone heard the rumour going round Facebook about the profits from Myth being directly traced to funding French nuclear testing in Polynesia?
It’s a shame because it was my second choice before I heard that. Oh well.
It’s a shame because it was my second choice before I heard that. Oh well.
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
I can't understand how a game with UDG graphics might win the poll...
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
This is a one horse race, the rest are donkeys compared to the supreme classicness of Manic Miner. No contest for M.
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Manic Miner. Pfff. It's not a patch on the Vic original I found recently.
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Good point. It makes me wonder how very-very-similar versions should be treated. Not just from different software houses, but things like the 48K and 128K versions. Renegade, for example, has an extra move in 128 mode, on top of the convenience of the levels all being present without multi-load.djnzx48 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:16 am That's an interesting point actually, should the Bug Byte and Software Projects versions be listed as separate games? Then we can find out whether impossible triangles beat those up and down threshing things in the Warehouse. Plus it might give the other games more of a fighting chance!
EDIT: Wow, I never realised until just now that those Warehouse sprites are supposed to be rotating. I always thought that they were just extending up and down. Mind blown...
I'm almost considering running a poll...
- have Manic Miner's Bug Byte and Software Projects versions treated as two games
- treat both Manic Miner's Bug Byte and Software Projects version as the same game, attribute to 'Bug Byte/Software Projects'
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Yeah, I grew up playing the 48K version, so I never figured out how to get that extra move to work.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
This is craven and mendacious manipulation of the constituency boundaries in a shameful attempt to put Manic Miner at an unfair disadvantage. I motion a vote of no confidence in Peter Tramiel-Prodge as chair of the M vote.
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I'm fairly sure it's going to do really well. If I do split across Bug Byte and Software Projects versions, then MM fans will probably group together to pick the leading version, pooling all their votes into that. According to Wikipedia, the gameplay is exactly the same, there are just some minor baddy sprite differences on certain levels.
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Why not make a poll with only two options:
- Manic Miner
- Anything else
Thus, the anti-MM union (I'm the CEO) might have a chance
- Manic Miner
- Anything else
Thus, the anti-MM union (I'm the CEO) might have a chance
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
I have a dossier.
You name it, it's in there - names, emails, PMs, overheard Commodian sympathies expressed in coffee shops. All of it a plot to discredit our most beloved game.
It can be deployed within 48 hours, I hope I don't have to use it.
You name it, it's in there - names, emails, PMs, overheard Commodian sympathies expressed in coffee shops. All of it a plot to discredit our most beloved game.
It can be deployed within 48 hours, I hope I don't have to use it.
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Okay, okay. Even though Micronaut One is clearly technically superior, I’m willing to concede. Myth it is. Sheesh.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
I have never played Manic Miner . Before I vote I will play MM.
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Ok, ok, I can explain it... my only connection with C64 was a work as an advertizing model... you know... I needed money, that's all... I've always been loyal to the Spectrum... IT'S WAS JUST A F*CK*NG ADVERT! JUST A F*CK*NG ADVERT!!!
This thread should have never been made! *sigh*
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
How the bloody hell did you manage that?!
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
By following the strict “no overhyped games” policy, obviously.
Okay, I think I’ll . . .
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
I have no idea. I certainly cannot claim to have avoided the game on purpose. I have loaded Manic Miner on to my Baremulator and have given it a play. My original choice would have been Micronaught One followed by Movie, two games I spent some hours playing, now I am not so sure.
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Then stick with it, buddy!
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Just a reminder for Prodge, don't forget to include Manic Miner in the poll.
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Or halve the poll results for it, since it’s got two Ms.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with M: discussion
Guys, I like a joke as much as the next man, but Manic Miner is a serious matter - please save your japes for the tap room.