The best classic Speccy game beginning with Q: discussion
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with Q: discussion
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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with Q: discussion
Yeah, it’s pretty neat, actually.
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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 Q: discussion
Quann Tulla is a nice title, whatever it means.
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with Q: discussion
But do any of these come near the majesty of Quazatron? Nope. Next letter please.
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 Q: discussion
Well thanks a lot folks!!! I hadn't played Quazatron since 1986 so I just fired it up and wasted 45 minutes of my life . I forgot what a brilliant game it was and I still love that grapple mini game.
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Sounds like 45 minutes well spent to me.
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 Q: discussion
Rock hard though. I played it a lot as a kid and I don't think I ever made it past level 3!
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with Q: discussion
Quetzalcoatl - it had a nice bit of box art and a cool name..? Honestly I thought it was an adventure game, not a 3D maze. Still, at least they coloured it in.
I bought Quartet as I liked the idea of Gauntlet done as a run-and-gun game. But on the Speccy it was done with far too much glaring colour in the background and none on the sprites. Without another player it got dull quite quickly. With another player it still got dull.
The only 8-bit run-and-gun game I've ever really enjoyed was Probotector on the GameBoy. There's something about the screen ratio that makes it far more playable than Gryzor or anything else from the Contra series. That's not to put down Midnight Resistance, but I had that on the ST in proper hi-res colour.
No, but Quazatron, obviously.
I bought Quartet as I liked the idea of Gauntlet done as a run-and-gun game. But on the Speccy it was done with far too much glaring colour in the background and none on the sprites. Without another player it got dull quite quickly. With another player it still got dull.
The only 8-bit run-and-gun game I've ever really enjoyed was Probotector on the GameBoy. There's something about the screen ratio that makes it far more playable than Gryzor or anything else from the Contra series. That's not to put down Midnight Resistance, but I had that on the ST in proper hi-res colour.
No, but Quazatron, obviously.