Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): vote

PeteProdge · Post by **PeteProdge** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:37 am

Never mind the Zolyx, here's Pete Cooke!

Seven days to make your choice, then we'll find out which is number (Micronaut) one!

20 Tons by Spectrum Computing

3D Maze by Spectrum Computing

3D Noughts And Crosses by Spectrum Computing

Academy by CRL

Artificial Intelligence by Sinclair User (type-in listing)

Brainstorm by Firebird

Chopper Chase by Spectrum Computing

Codebreaker by Spectrum Computing

Earthlight by Firebird

Inferno, The by Richard Shepherd Software

Invincible Island by Richard Shepherd Software

Jet Set Gertie by Spectrum Computing

Juggernaut by CRL

Mad Crusher, The by Spectrum Computing

Maze Chase by Dorling Kindersley/Sinclair Research

Micronaut One by Nexus Productions

Moonlander by Spectrum Computing

Room Ten by CRL

Ski Star 2000 by Richard Shepherd Software

Sliding Block Puzzle by Sinclair User (type-in listing)

Stunt Car Racer by Micro Style

Tau Ceti by CRL

Tau Ceti - The Special Edition by CRL

Urban Upstart by Richard Shepherd Software

Whole New Ball Game, A by Crash

Word Hunt by Spectrum Computing

Zolyx by Firebird

Mpk · Post by **Mpk** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:34 am

1. Urban Upstart - A computer game? Set in the real world? Not a laser or an orc in sight? Amazing.
2. Academy - I think I prefer this to Tau Ceti, and playing about with the GUI was fun.
3. Juggernaut - Beep beep. Beep Beep. Yeah.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:21 pm

1. Academy (and one of those silly things you remember, the space ship's thrust on the loading screen was used for loading bars)
2. Tau Ceti
3. Stunt Car Racer

Jbizzel · Post by **Jbizzel** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:29 pm

Juggernaut

Hell yeah!

Andre Leao · Post by **Andre Leao** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:11 pm

a very difficult one, he is a genius:

1. Academy
2. Stunt Car Racer
3. Micronaut One

blucey · Post by **blucey** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:46 pm

Always technically impressive but not always all that much fun.

Brainstorm got my vote.

PQR · Post by **PQR** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:04 pm

1. Tau Ceti 128K Special Edition
2. Brainstorm
3. Micronaut One

Definitely an original thinker. I appreciate how many of Pete Cooke's games were trying to do something new.
As a result his games were not always very accessible.

Matt_B · Post by **Matt_B** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:28 pm

1. Academy - For the mission variety. skimmer designer, star map, and the minified version of Tau Ceti just in case I was still in any doubt
2. Tau Ceti 128K - This is the definitive version although there's not a huge difference between the two
3. Micronaut 1 - Spectrum graphics never looked better

I can't stop there though. There's way too much good stuff left to end with a bubbling under.

4. Juggernaut - Whenever anyone asks what useful skills I learned thanks to the Spectrum, I usually answer with reversing a trailer
5. Stunt Car Racer - Great port of the Geoff Crammond classic
6. A Whole New Ball Game - The best game ever on a cover tape
7. Urban Upstart - The pick of his text adventures and certainly a change from the fantasy treasure hunts of the time
8. Room Ten - Yeah, it's basically 3D Pong but that's no bad thing
9. Earthlight - Quality scrolling shooter with neat parallax effect
10. Brainstorm - Another neat little puzzler

PeteProdge · Post by **PeteProdge** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:55 am

Matt_B wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:28 pm 6. A Whole New Ball Game - The best game ever on a cover tape

I'm going to have to direct you to Your Sinclair issues 57 and 89.

Matt_B · Post by **Matt_B** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:30 am

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:55 am I'm going to have to direct you to Your Sinclair issues 57 and 89.

Er.. OK then. The best game that you could only get a on a cover tape.

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:46 pm

1. Academy - a masterpiece. Never played Tau Ceti (if you're wondering why it's not below).
2. Invincible Island - the second text adventure I ever played (after The Hobbit) and a decent one even if it is written in BASIC.
3. Earthlight - the only other Pete Cooke game I've played (well Micronaut One - but I hated that).

Although not a Speccy game I thoroughly enjoyed Pete's game on the Atari ST - Tower of Babel. And let's not forget that he helped out Geoff Crammond with Grand Prix 1, 2 and 3.

hitm4n · Post by **hitm4n** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:11 pm

Juggernaut (Loved how you had to be quick and efficient, but couldn't speed and how it was hard to reverse without jack-knifing the vehicle. Tough to master, but great fun).
Tau Ceti (I never had instructions, never understood what to do, but i kept coming back to it and playing it (best i knew how) so many times...
Urban Upstart. Another great adventure game.

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:14 pm

1 Room 10
2 Stunt Car Racer
3 Tau Ceti

Nitrowing · Post by **Nitrowing** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:46 pm

I can't remeber playing any of those games except Tau Ceti (which I won from Crash for my spaceship design} and I didn't enjoy that

Robbeasy · Post by **Robbeasy** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:12 pm

1. Tau Ceti - expanded. Humbly submit that final vote count should combine the Tau Ceti scores - there is not much difference..
2. Stunt Car Racer. Unique, very playable.
3. Room Ten. Again, very playable.

Never played Juggernaut - I am going to be firing it up on my emulator tonight, as there seems to be a fair amount of love for it. Ditto Brainstorm.

Tan Coul · Post by **Tan Coul** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:43 pm

1 Juggernaut
2 Brain Storm
3 Urban Upstart

XvarZ · Post by **XvarZ** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:52 pm

1 Academy
2 Micronaut One
3 Earthlight

Morkin · Post by **Morkin** » Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:02 pm

1. Brainstorm
2. Academy
3. Urban Upstart

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:10 pm

1. Stunt Car Racer
2. 20 Tons
3. Room Ten

PeteProdge · Post by **PeteProdge** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:56 am

Academy is Pete Cooke's best ZX Spectrum game, according to this poll, where it gained 7 votes. (Mind you, if you take original Tau Ceti and the special edition Tau Ceti votes, put them together, you'd have a tie, as, combined, they get 7 votes too.)

In second place, Juggernaut - 6 votes.

Joint third? Stunt Car Racer and the original Tau Ceti. 5 votes each.

Urban Upstart has 3 votes, making it fourth.

Brainstorm, Maze Chase, Micronaut One, Room Ten, the special edition of Tau Ceti and A Whole New Ball Game each get 2 votes, making them joint fifth place.

Then you have Earthlight and Zolyx, gaining 1 vote each to be in joint sixth place.

Oh and here are the proportional results!:

Academy by CRL 19
Stunt Car Racer by Micro Style 10
Tau Ceti - The Special Edition by CRL 8
Brainstorm by Firebird 7
Juggernaut by CRL 7
Urban Upstart by Richard Shepherd Software 6
Micronaut One by Nexus Productions 5
Room Ten by CRL 5
Tau Ceti by CRL 5
20 Tons by Spectrum Computing 2
Earthlight by Firebird 2
Invincible Island by Richard Shepherd Software 2

Jbizzel · Post by **Jbizzel** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:08 pm

Love that Juggernaut came second.

How I cam to play it...

Year 2000. Talking to a fellow student at uni.

Talking about our first computers

I mentioned I had once had a spectrum.

He got very excited and took the the internet. Found Juggernaut online and taught me to play it.

What a game!

It's like crashing a car in bullet time

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