The best classic Speccy game beginning with P: discussion

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WIWC wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:27 pm My suggestions are:

Psycho Pigs U.X.B. by U.S. Gold
I never played it, but upon reading that I instantly remembered the advertisement for the game.
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Could be an interesting vote this one. A couple of games I played a lot in there.
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A played many of them a lot. Really a huge and great list.
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This is going to be a pretty tricky one. There are four outstanding ones for me:

Pippo - A great budget tittle with some good music.

The Pawn - all time great adventure

The Pyramid - one of the first games I played.

But, for me it’s got to be Ping Pong!! Easily one of the best sports games on the spectrum and probably the best table tennis game on any system and that title tune!!! After over 30 years I still know it off by heart. Superb.
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Apologies if these have already been mentioned:

Psytron
Pacmania
Pentagram
Panzadrome
Paperboy
Ping Pong
Pipemania
Plotting
Pogo
3D Pool (Firebird)
Pool (CDS)
Power Drift
Punchy
Puzznic
Pyjamarama
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Pyjamarama for me, but there's some cracking games in there - it's everything 'O' wasn't.
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Penetrator then Power Drift for me :) Almost the first and almost the last Specy games I played!

Another slightly obscure early one I played round at my friends: Pterodactyl!
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stformatjez wrote: Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:19 pm Penetrator then Power Drift for me :) Almost the first and almost the last Specy games I played!

Another slightly obscure early one I played round at my friends: Pterodactyl!
Pterodactyl? ...Do you mean this one? ;)
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Morkin wrote: Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:57 pm
stformatjez wrote: Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:19 pm Penetrator then Power Drift for me :) Almost the first and almost the last Specy games I played!

Another slightly obscure early one I played round at my friends: Pterodactyl!
Pterodactyl? ...Do you mean this one? ;)
Oh no! Major fail on my part!! Yes, that’s the one though - I just remember it being phonetically Pterodactyl! I see what they’ve done there though.
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Ralf wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:27 am Pac-Land:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3577
nothing special but I recall some people like it
I'm baffled.

The only people I know who like it, like the arcade version, or indeed pretty much ANY version other than the Spectrum. I include myself in this. The bodged conversion of this great horizontal scrolling game to a flip-screen atrocity (on one screen where you reach the far right, you find yourself stuck until you jump over the unseen fire hydrant that just happens to be at the start of the next screen!)
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Vampyre wrote: Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:50 am 3D Pool (Firebird)
That'll come under '#' (numeric characters), which will be the 'letter' after Z.
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Pssst is probably the earliest great classic here, but my vote will deffo go to Pyjamarama.
The next letter is gonna be my favourite, it includes my all time fave speccy game :)
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I'm going to get the vote started a day later - tomorrow from 10am. Another 'thing' has just come up (and I'll explain these soon).
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:21 am And I have a question: Phantomas has a sequel, Phantomas 2 (excellent game, my fave Dinamic game) but released as 'Vampyre' in the UK.

Should we include it here or in the V thread? I think we should take into account the original release.
Good point. I think it should be included here. Original being priority, so we're counting this as Phantomas 2. CodeMasters put it out here as Vampire, so we'll ignore that when it comes to V...

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