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Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 6:11 pm
by R-Tape
WIWC wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:47 pm Ok, I've finally finished this piece of junk of a game. And I don't want to see it again for the rest of my life. I hate it.
Congratulations Cruelman. Your followers, the Zythites, are pleased by your efforts; however, your negative comments are heresy, and you shall be ceremonially drowned in a beer barrel.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 6:12 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
This an example of a story with a bad ending...

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:28 pm
by WIWC
Very bad. I hate beer.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:30 pm
by WIWC
Ast A. Moore wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:30 pm
WIWC wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:47 pm I don't want to see it again for the rest of my life. I hate it.
Love . . . hate . . . That’s just semantics. Besides, you only say that because you barely beat me by a few points.
But snapshot-wise I beat you by the thousands.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:33 pm
by Ast A. Moore
WIWC wrote: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:30 pm
Ast A. Moore wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:30 pm Love . . . hate . . . That’s just semantics. Besides, you only say that because you barely beat me by a few points.
But snapshot-wise I beat you by the thousands.
Not very sportsmanlike. But I’ll let it slide. This time. :evil:

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:34 pm
by Ast A. Moore
WIWC wrote: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:28 pm Very bad. I hate beer.
You don’t know it’s beer. There could be your favorite libation in those barrels. Have you checked?

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:53 pm
by R-Tape
Ast A. Moore wrote: Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:34 pm
WIWC wrote: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:28 pm Very bad. I hate beer.
You don’t know it’s beer. There could be your favorite libation in those barrels. Have you checked?
The Zythites are compassionate: Cruelman is to be ceremonially drowned in a libation of his own choosing.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:31 pm
by WIWC
I have to think about it. It is probably going to take a while.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:27 pm
by WIWC
Had a Knight Tyme.

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Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:32 pm
by Ast A. Moore
WIWC wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:27 pm Had a Knight Tyme.
And on a proper CRT TV to boot. The best tyme to have.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:43 pm
by R-Tape
Had a hour's blast on Loony Zoo last night. It's certainly one to file under 'charming', but I keep returning to it. The difficulty is up to usual early spectrum standards (difficult, often frustrating), but once you get used to its unusual physics you can get several levels in.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:48 pm
by WIWC
Terra Cognita by Code Masters through emulation, almost every evening.

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And had a go at a recently purchased copy of Arkanoid on the grey +2, scored about 83000 points.

And also at Robocop, first time I'm able to load all the levels in one go.

No Zythum.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:30 pm
by Ast A. Moore
WIWC wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:48 pm No Zythum.
You’re slipping.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:47 pm
by WIWC
:(

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:43 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Wandering around in Alien 8. I've gone further than I had thought!

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Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:43 pm
by R-Tape
Fired up my +2 for the first time in a while:

-Slubberdegullion, novel shmup, with the most arsekicking AY. Unfortunately my +2 has a beeper bias, so the fire and spot effects sound really loud, and the music light in comparison.
-Dingo. Didn't load this time. Usually does. No idea why :o
-C is for Crabby. Whatever design tool he uses, Gabam can't help but spunk his passion and talent all over it. Great game, very hard, got nowhere.
-Manic Miner. It loaded; It's great. Nuff said.
-Mole Rat! :mrgreen:

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:49 pm
by Ast A. Moore
Hypaball by Odin Computer Graphics (1986)

I used to enjoy it back in the day, and firing it up today managed to beat the computer 20:10.

Only just noticed that one of the selectable players is called Joffa Smifff and the developer, Doug Burns, spells his name Bernie Dugggs on the main menu screen. A nice homage to Joffa and his humor.

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Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:40 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
I'm sure I've seen 'Bernie Dugggs' in another game.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:13 pm
by Metalbrain
Bernie Dugggs was the main developer of Ping Pong, which has music by Joffa.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:08 pm
by stupidget
Hypaball sounds like it has the same 'Applause' sound as Ping-Pong.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:19 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Metalbrain wrote: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:13 pm Bernie Dugggs was the main developer of Ping Pong, which has music by Joffa.
That's it

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 12:24 pm
by druellan
Super Scramble Simulator - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5034
A difficult but very interesting and rewarding game by Gremlin, and a powerful soundtrack by Ben Daglish.

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Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:12 pm
by R-Tape
Fired up my Vega not plus. It's perfect for a feet up, lazy play of the games that suit it, the less keys the better.

Albatrossity: great golf inspired puzzle platform game
Coracle: an unusual shmup that went under the radar
Dominator: atmospheric shooter, inventive beeper use, captures the oppressive feel of 'go to hell'. I never reach zone 2
Humphrey: about as polished as a painter game could get. Hard.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:13 am
by MatGubbins
Played Albatrossy a few weeks ago, snapped each level as I was going along. Great game and hard - especially the last level (basketball style) but it can be done.

Been playing 'take apart the Samsung N130 netboot' as the CMOS battery has finally died. Removed every screw, unplugged every ribbon cable, removed the motherboard, cleaned out 8 years of dead skin cells dust and hair, found the CMOS battery, pondered on how to remove it from the shrink wrap plastic stuck to the motherboard, created a new CMOS battery by carefully slicing the connectors off then electrical taping them back onto a fresh battery, bunging everything back together and finding that it is still switched on (yay!) and spent the last half hour trying to get the base back on. The bunging the screws in and finding none were left over - that's a first, and it's still working.
Hopefully the new battery will last another 8 years, as the old one did.

It made Albatrossy look like a walk in the park.

Re: Game of the day...

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:26 pm
by R-Tape
Strider. Haven't reached level 2 yet, but I'm enjoying the acrobatics.