Little bugs in the database 3

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[mention]jpablo[/mention] , the very maintainer of SPA2 maybe can shed light on this!

[StooB]

IBSA is a sort of ERBE second label. It always contains the 'Serie Leyenda' seal. So in this case, it seems it's really the IBSA inlay as it has the SL seal. Something similar happens with Gremlin's Avenger, for example.

And the Erbe inlay being too similar to the US Gold one, it seems Erbe published it with the same inlay than in the UK in those early years. Only the instructions were in spanish.

A-ha! Thank you - this explains things!

[Einar Saukas]

That title:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=32133

Was published in that tape:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=20717

And is a spanish traslation of that:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6595

Good catch!

All programs in this tape are Spanish translations from 16/48 Tape Magazine, except for "Libano" apparently. I added them all to ZXDB, they will appear in the next update.

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[Einar Saukas]

- Amiga emulator demo is assigned to "Scorpion [2]", instead of "Scorpion (Czech)". If it helps, Space Crusaders Demo uses the correct Scorpion.

Do you mean Scorpion and Scorpion[2] are the same company so their information should be merged?

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[Rorthron]

This ZX81 game is missing from the archive:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/Baron

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[+3code]

These should have:
"Programming Language: Compiled BASIC (Hisoft)"

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35340

Info here: http://octocom.speccy.org/Juego8.html

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=18540

Info here: http://octocom.speccy.org/Juego5.html

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=23859

Info here: http://www.mojontwins.com/mojoniaplus/v ... .php?t=420

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35102

Info: the manual

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[R-Tape]

Sorry to add to the pile, but could these two games be added to the Rainbow Graphics (Multicolour) group please? (ID 1019)

Space Monster meet THE HARDY (35156)
Yazzie (35157)

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[8BitAG]

The website address for
František Fuka
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=4903

No longer works and should probably be changed to...
http://www.fuxoft.cz/english.htm

Which is what is linked to on the associated Fuxoft page.

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[Patrik Rak]

- Amiga emulator demo is assigned to "Scorpion [2]", instead of "Scorpion (Czech)". If it helps, Space Crusaders Demo uses the correct Scorpion.

Do you mean Scorpion and Scorpion[2] are the same company so their information should be merged?

No, they are two different companies.

What I am saying is that one of the recently added entries is attributed to the wrong of the two companies. While another entry added in the same batch is attributed to the correct one.

Hope it makes sense now.

EDIT: actually, what I answered to above was the situation when I originally reported it. At that point I believe the wrong Scorpion was this one: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19491, but I may be remember it incorrectly.

As it is now, yes, you are right, this Scorpion (Czech) and this Scorpion [2] are the same company, and the latter can be merged into the former.

Patrik

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[StooB]

Superted - The Search For Spot


The title of the game is Superted - The Search For Spotty, as shown on inlay. There was no "Spot" in Superted. They even got it wrong on the loading screen:



This is Spot:

This is Spotty:

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[StooB]

Blue Max

The PCW review is for Blue Max 2001 on the Commodore 64.

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[StooB]

Flak (1984)

was released in 1985 - it's only review was in YS 7/85, and it appears on US Gold's flyer of Spring/Summer 1985 releases:

https://ia800604.us.archive.org/view_ar ... er1985.jpg

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[StooB]

Starring Charlie Chaplin (1987)

Originally scheduled for a Christmas 1987 release according to the previews, it obviously wasn't as the earliest of the reviews are in June 1988.

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[StooB]

Sega Master Mix (1991)
Platinum (1991)

These two compilations are both reviewed in Sinclair User January 1991 which was published on December 18th 1990. The Your Sinclair review even states "yet another compilation competing for your Xmas dosh", so the date on both should be 1990.

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[StooB]

Pole Position

The US Gold version was released in 1985 - the earliest reviews for that version are from August 1985.

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[StooB]

Ms Pac-Man (1984)

The Your Spectrum review of September 1984 is of Pac-Man, not Ms Pac-Man.

The other reviews are from March and April 1985, so the year of release should be 1985.

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[StooB]

Galaxian (1984)

Reviewed in April 1985, year of release should be 1985.

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[StooB]

Xevious (1987)

was released in 1986.

ZX Computing list it as a release for Autumn 1986.
The Sinclair User preview gives a streetdate of December 1986.
The C&VG February 1987 review says "What better way to finish off the year of the arcade conversion".

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[StooB]

California Games (1987)

Originally scheduled for September 1987, it wasn't released until 1988. The preview in Your Sinclair February 1988 says it's available "now". The PCW review states "It is the first week of cold January and US Gold have finally got around to releasing the Spectrum version of California Games."

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[StooB]

Jet Bike Simulator (1988)

The exact release date according to Your Sinclair is 7th December 1987.

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[StooB]

10 Great Games (1988)

Released for Christmas 1987 according to Your Sinclair.

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[Stefan]

Galaxian (1984)

Reviewed in April 1985, year of release should be 1985.

On the other hand it gets a mention in issue 1 of Crash Magazine (Feb 1984) - not sure why Galaxians is not linked as magazine ref:

Turning their attention to the Spectrum and other computers, games giant Atari International are releasing some of their famous games like Pac Man, Miss Pac Man, Defender, Galaxians and Centipede over the next few months.

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[StooB]

On the other hand it gets a mention in issue 1 of Crash Magazine (Feb 1984) - not sure why Galaxians is not linked as magazine ref:

Turning their attention to the Spectrum and other computers, games giant Atari International are releasing some of their famous games like Pac Man, Miss Pac Man, Defender, Galaxians and Centipede over the next few months.

That might have been the plan but Centipede and Defender didn't even happen!

[Stefan]

On the other hand it gets a mention in issue 1 of Crash Magazine (Feb 1984) - not sure why Galaxians is not linked as magazine ref:

That might have been the plan but Centipede and Defender didn't even happen!

It's all a bit uncertain, there only being one review seems a bit odd, maybe everybody was bored with Galaxian clones - even if this was the official port.

The loading screen shows 1983 and MobyGames has a picture of the cassette showing (C) 1984 - so I'd say keep it at 1984 unless there is more compelling evidence to the contrary.

[StooB]

Limited Edition Chart Attack

is not MIA, it's on this page -link removed*- , complete with wav files and hi-res scans.

According to the box, the release year is 1989 and the machine type is 48/128, not 128k only.

*R-Tape - this is material from a denied publisher, and there were many more in the link. PM Sent. Sorry!

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