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Robocop 2 [Ocean Software, 1990]
Simply too hard. You even have to make the old heap of rusty iron jump from platform to platform.
Well done, but a bit overrated: Crash Smash (93%), Sinclair User Classic (91%) and Your Sinclair Megagame (93%).
Simply too hard. You even have to make the old heap of rusty iron jump from platform to platform.
Well done, but a bit overrated: Crash Smash (93%), Sinclair User Classic (91%) and Your Sinclair Megagame (93%).
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I don't know why they had to turn the sequel into a crappy platform game.
Even if they'd just re-hashed the original with some new levels, baddies and graphics it would have turned out a much better game.
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I think it’s pretty good. Certainly impressive both technically and graphically.
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.
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Robocop 2 doesn't even give you the chance of mindless destruction because some of the baddies must simply be arrested by touching them, and if you shoot them, your energy is drained, so you must constantly be careful. A pain in the iron bottom.
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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.
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Rainbow Islands [Ocean Software, 1990]
Crash Smash (94%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), Sinclair User Classic (94%), C+VG 95%.
Spectrum version programmed by David O'Connor, the author of Zythum.
Which is better.
Crash Smash (94%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), Sinclair User Classic (94%), C+VG 95%.
Spectrum version programmed by David O'Connor, the author of Zythum.
Which is better.
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The programmer of Zythum also made Rainbow Island??
Blimey, he was the dr. Jekyll & mr. Hyde of coders!
Blimey, he was the dr. Jekyll & mr. Hyde of coders!
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Why? Zythum is a great game. David O’Connor also did Soldier of Fortune, which is pretty good, too.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:00 pm The programmer of Zythum also made Rainbow Island??
Blimey, he was the dr. Jekyll & mr. Hyde of coders!
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.
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I think I can hear WIWC on his way to kill you....Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:00 pm The programmer of Zythum also made Rainbow Island??
Blimey, he was the dr. Jekyll & mr. Hyde of coders!
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Night Hunter [Ubi Soft, 1990]
Time to suck some blood. Crash Smash (91%).
Time to suck some blood. Crash Smash (91%).
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It's pretty good once you learn how to control your character and how to use his transformations.
Also, it's got nice details, like the women pointing their crucifix at you, or the way you suck the blood of the people until they wither and become just bones falling to the ground.
Also, it's got nice details, like the women pointing their crucifix at you, or the way you suck the blood of the people until they wither and become just bones falling to the ground.
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The Last Vampire [Atlantis Software, 1990]
Hunt the vampire in a Hewson's Firelord environment, with night sequences.
72% in Crash, 80% in Your Sinclair.
Hunt the vampire in a Hewson's Firelord environment, with night sequences.
72% in Crash, 80% in Your Sinclair.
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Yeah, that’s something I struggled with. How do I use the keys on doors? Also, I can’t seem to be able to land on the second floor as a vampire. I can fly up there as a bat, and then, once I transform, I fall through to the first floor. Bummer.
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.
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That's because this vampire was distracted when they teached how to land on the second floors, at the bat flying course. I tried again and again too, but you just can't. The old stair-climbing method is the only way.Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:01 pmYeah, that’s something I struggled with. How do I use the keys on doors? Also, I can’t seem to be able to land on the second floor as a vampire. I can fly up there as a bat, and then, once I transform, I fall through to the first floor. Bummer.
So, how do you get past the trapdoors on the second floors? With the other available transformation.
As for opening the doors, it's just up+fire, IIRC. Of course, you need the right key.
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Thanks. Will give it another go. Just need to sharpen my teeth first.
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.
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The Last Vampyre seems a cool game. I didn't know it.
There are lots of hidden gems in those Shaw Bros. games made in late 80s/beginning 90s: Cerius, Heartbroken, ...
There are lots of hidden gems in those Shaw Bros. games made in late 80s/beginning 90s: Cerius, Heartbroken, ...
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Dan Dare 3: The Escape [Virgin Games]
Crash Smash (92%), Sinclair User Classic (93%), 89% in Your Sinclair, 83% in C+VG, 80% in The Games Machine.
Crash Smash (92%), Sinclair User Classic (93%), 89% in Your Sinclair, 83% in C+VG, 80% in The Games Machine.
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters [Domark, 1990]
Crash Smash (90%), Sinclair User Classic (91%), The Games Machine Star Player (91%),
Your Sinclair Megagame (when re-released as a budget, 90%), 700/1000 in ACE.
Crash Smash (90%), Sinclair User Classic (91%), The Games Machine Star Player (91%),
Your Sinclair Megagame (when re-released as a budget, 90%), 700/1000 in ACE.
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This is a really high quality game, and the release date reminds me that me & friends caught the speccy right at the end. Don't know exactly where, but it's somewhere in my top 10. I fired it up a while back 'just to remind myself' and ended up playing several levels (it's relatively easy to make progress). I don't know exactly why, but you can really picture yourself as the sprite.
Amazing graphics, even though it dares to use the ROM font!
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Pang [Ocean Software, 1990]
Sinclair User Classic (95%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), 93% in C+VG, 81% in Crash Smash.
Sinclair User Classic (95%), Your Sinclair Megagame (94%), 93% in C+VG, 81% in Crash Smash.
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La Espada Sagrada [Toposoft, 1990]
Very cute and playable Spanish arcade/adventure.
No British magazine reviewed it.
MicroHobby gave it only 72%.
It probably deserved more.
Very cute and playable Spanish arcade/adventure.
No British magazine reviewed it.
MicroHobby gave it only 72%.
It probably deserved more.
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I never got to grips with the rotate and move controls. Good game though, especially with 2 players.R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:52 pmThis is a really high quality game, and the release date reminds me that me & friends caught the speccy right at the end. Don't know exactly where, but it's somewhere in my top 10. I fired it up a while back 'just to remind myself' and ended up playing several levels (it's relatively easy to make progress). I don't know exactly why, but you can really picture yourself as the sprite.
Amazing graphics, even though it dares to use the ROM font!