Guess the screen$

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Ast A. Moore wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:26 pm Little Puff in Dragonland.
Ah, I KNEW it was a Codemasters game from around 1990, I just got the wrong game!
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Ast A. Moore wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:26 pm Little Puff in Dragonland.
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And Little Puff it is, well done.
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Squares, squares, wonderful squares!

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No takers, eh?

Zooming out:

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Pixy the Microdot 2?
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Die Alien Slime?
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Pobulous wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 1:32 pm Die Alien Slime?
Right you are!
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.

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Ast A. Moore wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm Right you are!
Ha ha - no way. :o

After I reaslised it wasn't one of the Pixys, I thought it looked a bit similar to UCM, so I looked at the other games from the same author and thought it looked a bit like that one. :P
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Pobulous wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:48 pm After I reaslised it wasn't one of the Pixys, I thought it looked a bit similar to UCM, so I looked at the other games from the same author and thought it looked a bit like that one.
That’s some impressive detective work!
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How about:

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It’s a bird! No . . . It’s a plane!
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Byte Bitten?
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The Flying Formula?
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Not Byte Bitten or Flying Formula.
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1942?
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Time Flight?
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worcestersource wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:38 pm1942?
You win a klaxon for falling into my trap.

Not 1942 and not Time Flight.
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Helpfully, the magazine reviews of the time either have no screenshots at all, or show a very similar screenshot to each other that doesn't look like this.
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Blue Thunder?
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Black Hawk?
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Night Gunner?
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Van_Dammesque wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:28 am Black Hawk?
We have a winner!
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Here we go:
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Found it on first guess, but I'm gonna leave it to someone else!
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Part of the same screen:
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