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Terra Cognita
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How the bloody hell did you get that??!!! I'd never heard of the game until I bought a big box of tapes from eBay last year.
Well done anyway, your go.
Well done anyway, your go.
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I had it back in the day. Infuriating game - never did get far. It's a shame that it didn't have some splashes of colour to differentiate the tiles - I reckon it could have been done with judicious use of black borders.
How about this one:
The screenshots on Moby Games make the game look quite exciting, so this is cropped from one of them.
The screenshot in the DB has literally nothing going on in it!
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Invasion. I recognise the tank. Its a sort of futuristic Stonkers but feels annoyingly unfinished. Plus it crashes out, just like Stonkers.
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That's the one. Shame about the crashing, as it looks quite nice in a busier screenshot at least.bluespikey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:18 am Invasion. I recognise the tank. Its a sort of futuristic Stonkers but feels annoyingly unfinished. Plus it crashes out, just like Stonkers.
I thought I had already replied, but my dog ate my internet line....
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Yes, Brian Bloodaxe. Well done. You can always tell when a Spectrum game developer is running out of ideas for new sprites because they include angry toilets as baddies. Manic Miner, Brian Bloodaxe, The Pyramid all have them. Maybe its a British thing.
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Daleks were another fallback.bluespikey wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:06 am Yes, Brian Bloodaxe. Well done. You can always tell when a Spectrum game developer is running out of ideas for new sprites because they include angry toilets as baddies. Manic Miner, Brian Bloodaxe, The Pyramid all have them. Maybe its a British thing.
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Feel free if anyone wants to jump in with a new one
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Uh oh! My game has both!!
More of a tribute to classic games than being out of ideas, obviously.
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I think ZXDB should create the group 'features: Toilets'
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Renegade?
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It's not from Renegade, but I remember to have seen a floor like that only recently, it being from a bad Renegade clone. Subway Vigilante came to my mind - and this exact floor tile is present in this game indeed, but ... it's in yellow. Walkthrough videos of the game on YouTube also don't show any levels where the background is in white. I looked through the Players catalogue but didn't see a game where they may have re-used this floor tile ... or maybe I just missed it
The CPC and BBC micro versions have it in white though
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XTM wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:25 pm It's not from Renegade, but I remember to have seen a floor like that only recently, it being from a bad Renegade clone. Subway Vigilante came to my mind - and this exact floor tile is present in this game indeed, but ... it's in yellow. Walkthrough videos of the game on YouTube also don't show any levels where the background is in white. I looked through the Players catalogue but didn't see a game where they may have re-used this floor tile ... or maybe I just missed it
The CPC and BBC micro versions have it in white though
For the love of god, is there a game that you don't know?!!! Yep you're correct.
I got the screen shot from Moby Games and it definitely looks like the speccy version:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spect ... Id,156788/
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There's an option to turn the colour off.
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Of course, there are lots of games I don't know (I didn't post anything for the last half dozen or so)! However, I only post here when I'm correct (or convinced I am, like in this special case). I never actually "guess".
New pic:
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Time Machine?
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Not Time Machine.
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Assault Course
I suddenly thought it looked like Player's graphics, so checked the Player's titles.
(For some reason I thought Andy Severn was the graphics guy)
I suddenly thought it looked like Player's graphics, so checked the Player's titles.
(For some reason I thought Andy Severn was the graphics guy)
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Yes, congraturation you sucsess, I deliberately picked another Players title after the previous picture.
Also, I will say this about the Players catalogue of games - I find it is full of "blaverage" games, going over them I saw a few titles that I'd played in the late 80s/early 90s and completely forgotten about, just not memorable enough I guess ...
Also, I will say this about the Players catalogue of games - I find it is full of "blaverage" games, going over them I saw a few titles that I'd played in the late 80s/early 90s and completely forgotten about, just not memorable enough I guess ...