Game of the day...

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West Bank by Dinamic. Always a good option to play.

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Turmoil. A profoundly good platformer, so difficult right from the first screen, but
just brilliant in gameplay and looks, nothing like it anywhere else I have ever seen.
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MtM wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 10:45 pm https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5471

Turmoil. A profoundly good platformer, so difficult right from the first screen, but
just brilliant in gameplay and looks, nothing like it anywhere else I have ever seen.
If Manic Miner hadn't existed, it's Bug Bytes greatest title - in my humble opinion
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I hear what you are saying. Manic Miner & JSW need no defence from me or anyone else, they are of course seminal games. I am not
au fait with every Bug Byte release, though most of them I imagine. I put Turmoil on a par
with MM though, as much as I love MM & JSW.

I would love to have seen a Turmoil style JSW flick screen game. The levels in Turmoil are
all so busy and their design is just glorious, including their look. If I had to criticise it
it would be its sheer difficulty. I even like the Bizet in game tune, find it relaxing to play
to. There are differences with MM & JSW, in that you cannot learn the patterns of the
nasties in Turmoil, as they change, and have a degree of autonomy in their movement,
this gives it a different feel to a standard left, right and jump platformer. I find the controls
very crisp and the keyboard layout is perfect. It was a very worthy Crash smash.
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I've spent the last 2 days playing through Urban Upstart.
It's a bit slow but crank up the emulation speed and it's pretty enjoyable.

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Not sure how well Urban Upstart has aged, with its simplistic graphics and sluggish parser. I remember last time I tried to play it, it was a bit of a painful experience.

I guess it was a breath of fresh air when it was released, as its setting was different from the many fantasy/dungeon hack adventure settings.
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I couldn't play it at normal speed, the graphics take too long to load. Speed it up a bit and it's fine.
It took me a while to realise you could enter the buildings. It told me I was outside a bookshop but when I tried to "Enter Bookshop" it didn't understand "bookshop". Later I tried "Enter" by itself and it worked!
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Having conquered Urban Upstart I thought I'd try another Pete Cooke adventure, Invincible Island.

It didn't seem so invincible until I tried to get to the last piece of parchment which was on a small island.
Spoiler
I had the dingy, how hard could it be?

Enter Dingy?
Board Dingy?
Sail Dingy?
Go Dingy?
Row Dingy?

After about 3 years I looked up the answer which was simply "Cross"

Wtf?!!!!!
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Jason's Gem by Mastertronic.

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I only heard of it here but never played it. It's a very nice surprise. I'm sure there's a lot of fans here ;)
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Another cool find: Bestial Warrior by Dinamic

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I've not played many 1989 onwards games like this. My first impression was it's very similar to Game Over, what is great as it's one of my faves Dinamic games.

I don't know how 'Bestial Warrior' sounds to an english spoken person, but to a spaniard is something like 'eh, we're Dinamic and with this name you know what you're come across' :mrgreen:
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 8:02 pm Another cool find: Bestial Warrior by Dinamic

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I've not played many 1989 onwards games like this. My first impression was it's very similar to Game Over, what is great as it's one of my faves Dinamic games.

I don't know how 'Bestial Warrior' sounds to an english spoken person, but to a spaniard is something like 'eh, we're Dinamic and with this name you know what you're come across' :mrgreen:
It's not the, er, most wholesome title, but when did Dinamic ever play by anyone's rules? 🙃
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Pyracurse [1986, Hewson Consultants]

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This is one of the most frustrating games ever. I hate headless zombies, flying skulls and giant scorpions. And I always will.
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WIWC wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 11:10 pmI hate headless zombies, flying skulls and giant scorpions. And I always will.
I think that's fair.
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Being a fan of Avalon/Dragontorc, I was very excited when I started seeing the adverts and previews for Pyracurse. Hewson at a strong period in their lifetime.

Ultimately I was a little disappointed when I played it - I just couldn't get anywhere.

Nice that you get to play as a dog though... :lol:
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Morkin wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:35 am Being a fan of Avalon/Dragontorc, I was very excited when I started seeing the adverts and previews for Pyracurse. Hewson at a strong period in their lifetime.

Ultimately I was a little disappointed when I played it - I just couldn't get anywhere.

Nice that you get to play as a dog though... :lol:
And as a damsel in distress. Pyracurse received a lot of good reviews at the time, but it's very, very difficult to get into.
The energy of your characters gets drained very quickly, the nasties are very hard to avoid, as they tend to follow you around very stubbornly.
It's also very well done. But it really takes a lot of patience and effort to get somewhere with it.
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WIWC wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:47 pmBut it really takes a lot of patience and effort to get somewhere with it.
I think that's where the problem lies... :lol:
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Ali Baba by Suzy Soft. Fast paced and very addictive. I ran into it just the other day.
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I don't know if I've posted it before, but I must say Robber by Virgin Games.

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Cute & enjoyable.
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cmal wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:28 am Image

Ali Baba by Suzy Soft. Fast paced and very addictive. I ran into it just the other day.
One of the early ex-Yugoslavia commercial titles.
It was not published in England like some other well-known ex-Yu titles, although it was very professionally done with excellent packaging.
Luckily I have the original, I made inlay scan a long time ago, one of the most valuable Spectrum games in my modest collection.

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I took the link for my inlay scan from here, I don't know if sc has all these boxart pictures.
http://thumbnails.libretro.com/Sinclair ... d_Boxarts/
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Amazing you have the original. Hang onto it. It must be rare.
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Menace is probably my rarest original. It's the very first game I bought at a Dion store in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I've never seen this game anywhere else after that and it's mostly advertised in magazines as the Firebird re-release.
A few years ago I submitted it to WOS.

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Eric & the Floaters [Sinclair Research, 1984]
(but already released the year before as Bomberman by Hudson Soft, I think)
Lately I'm always having a game or two at this simple but playable game, in the evening.

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Today is 10 years since Chris Sievey passed away, so I will be playing The Biz.

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Maybe today will be the day I get a reply from a record company and not die of a heart attack!

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cmal wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:24 pm Menace is probably my rarest original. It's the very first game I bought at a Dion store in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I've never seen this game anywhere else after that and it's mostly advertised in magazines as the Firebird re-release.
A few years ago I submitted it to WOS.

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Hi [mention]cmal[/mention],

Please could you check that we have everything that you submitted? Thanks:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3121
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Yep, it's all there. I do have the original inlay scan still in BMP format (300 dpi) if someone with photoshop skills wants to beautify it.

Thanks
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