Friday Quiz - backstories
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7. Camelot Warriors
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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Yep, thought Juan might have got that one.
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8 - Ikari Warriors
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9 - Star Paws
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1 - 9 Peter Shilton’s Handball Maradonna
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Yes to Daren's. Just three more to go. 5 & 6 can be worked out, but I think you just need to know 2.
1 - You control this mutant creature who will stop at nothing to satisfy its only driving life force ... INSATIABLE, FEROCIOUS, VIOLENT HUNGER SQIJ
2 - It has been blue once, this sun. As blue as ice, and as hot as Satan's Heart.
3 - The sort of town where rebuilding means a new coat of paint, and where people queue up to queue up for a job! Urban Upstart
4 - For countless nights I have slept chained to trees to keep my deathly curse at bay, but now I am here.. Knight Lore
5 - Your mother, The Android Queen, has been badly damaged in an accident. Your father has been locked in a fridge with evil spirits by your mother. (Nice family eh!). Soft & Cuddly
6 - From the moment that Captain Xod's face appeared out of the static on the communicator, you knew he was in trouble.
7 - Thou fallest asleep in the 20th century and awake in the time of King Arthur and Camelot. Camelot Warriors
8 - Your plane crashlands in the dense jungle some distance from the headquarters. After deciding whether to go it alone or attempt the rescue together you set off. Ikari Warriors
9 - Out in the farthest reaches of our Galaxy there lives a rare creature known as the Tasty Space Griffin. Star Paws
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5 - Soft & Cuddly (an old favorite of mine )
[6- Xenon] Guessed by Mat while I was editing the post
[6- Xenon] Guessed by Mat while I was editing the post
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That's #2! Well done.
(Not really)
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Ha, I thought you might have got that.
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6 Xenon
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Just these left:
2 - It has been blue once, this sun. As blue as ice, and as hot as Satan's Heart.
6 - From the moment that Captain Xod's face appeared out of the static on the communicator, you knew he was in trouble.
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I wouldn’t have known it if I hadn’t (upon request) made a couple of fixes for it. One of them was enabling the cheat mode, which revealed the “fall asleep in the 20th century” bit.
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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Yes! Though thinking again I always have the Amiga version in my mind, which actually shows what I assume is Captain Xod emerging from the static. I wish the Speccy version did that.
Silly bugger. No.
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I think 2 is too hard, so here's a bit more that at least hints at the game:
Underneath this dead sun, beyond the surface lizards, beyond the tunnel of death, lay the biologic power generators of the evil Vard. The Vard, in all their hideous guises, had harnessed a colony of infant Zorr, and subjected them to the terror of biologic power, long since outlawed in the civilised zones.
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2 - Shadowfire?
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Nope.
The game in question is very strange.
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I did wonder before about Deus Ex Machina, because the copy sounds a bit like something Mel Croucher might've penned. Now I'm not so sure but Deus Ex Machine is certainly strange, so let's try that...
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Wait, is this the one where you collect tapes?R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:44 am I think 2 is too hard, so here's a bit more that at least hints at the game:
Underneath this dead sun, beyond the surface lizards, beyond the tunnel of death, lay the biologic power generators of the evil Vard. The Vard, in all their hideous guises, had harnessed a colony of infant Zorr, and subjected them to the terror of biologic power, long since outlawed in the civilised zones.
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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Errr - Strangeloop?
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Rogue Trooper
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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While it could easily have been Horace goes Skiiing, Peter Shilton, Fred's Fan Factory or Mr Wong's Loopy Laundry, the answers is in fact:
Yep! That is one barking mad, slightly scary game. All done, drop me a PM if you've got an idea for a Friday Quiz™ and want to take next week's slot.
1 - You control this mutant creature who will stop at nothing to satisfy its only driving life force ... INSATIABLE, FEROCIOUS, VIOLENT HUNGER SQIJ
2 - It has been blue once, this sun. As blue as ice, and as hot as Satan's Heart.. Sarlmoor
3 - The sort of town where rebuilding means a new coat of paint, and where people queue up to queue up for a job! Urban Upstart
4 - For countless nights I have slept chained to trees to keep my deathly curse at bay, but now I am here.. Knight Lore
5 - Your mother, The Android Queen, has been badly damaged in an accident. Your father has been locked in a fridge with evil spirits by your mother. (Nice family eh!). Soft & Cuddly
6 - From the moment that Captain Xod's face appeared out of the static on the communicator, you knew he was in trouble. Xenon
7 - Thou fallest asleep in the 20th century and awake in the time of King Arthur and Camelot. Camelot Warriors
8 - Your plane crashlands in the dense jungle some distance from the headquarters. After deciding whether to go it alone or attempt the rescue together you set off. Ikari Warriors
9 - Out in the farthest reaches of our Galaxy there lives a rare creature known as the Tasty Space Griffin. Star Paws