Guess the screen$

[stupidget]

Jasper?

Correctamundo

I was hoping that people would think it was Kokotoni Wilf.

[Morkin]

Woop...!

Don't have one to hand so anyone can jump in.

[SteveSmith]

This might be really easy or really hard.

[bluespikey]

THEATRE EUROPE

[SteveSmith]

THEATRE EUROPE

I knew it'd be really easy.

[bluespikey]

Its annoying that copying from the website makes it all appear in caps like I'm shouting. But if I typed it myself then you'd all laugh at my inability to spell Theater.

Anyway, similar vein, but much more obscure :

[ParadigmShifter]

Theatre is correct unless you're one of those American US English spellers.

Both are allowed in UK Scrabble of course. I'm used to seeing theater (which gets underlined as a typo with my windows settings) because of Civilization IV (which I would spell as Civilisation IV - but both are ok - Oxford dictionary seems to really like ize instead of ise for some reason, I'm not a big fan). Abe Lincoln's city advisor in civ suggesting I should build more theaters was a good moment of irony though, considering where he was assassinated

I'm also used to seeing color in most programming languages. And normalize (which again is an allowed variant but I always spell it as normalise myself).

"meter" for a unit of distance is definitely evil though (again the US spelling, why do they redefine the spelling of SI units? Probably too French for their liking).

I'm also disappointed the scientific community seems to have adopted US spellings aluminum, phosphorus and sulfur now though.

[AndyC]

Oxford dictionary seems to really like ize instead of ise for some reason, I'm not a big fan). Abe Lincoln's city advisor in civ suggesting I should build more theaters was a good moment of irony though, considering where he was assassinated

-ize is, despite often being assumed American, originally the English spelling. There was a weird period on history where words were changed in an attempt to eradicate the "unnecessary" letter Z - it didn't pan out but some aspects have persisted, such as -ise now being commonplace. Actually a lot of "American" spellings are really just historical English spellings which we've since changed (there is no good excuse for Aluminum though).

[Oloturia]

Its annoying that copying from the website makes it all appear in caps like I'm shouting. But if I typed it myself then you'd all laugh at my inability to spell Theater.

Anyway, similar vein, but much more obscure :

Travel with Trashman?

[TMD2003]

I'm also disappointed the scientific community seems to have adopted US spellings aluminum, phosphorus and sulfur now though.

I've never seen any spelling other than "phosphorus" anywhere, ever.

When I was about 13 I made a joke that the Yanks would probably try to change the spelling to "fosforus", change the symbol to F and change fluorine to Fl just to hammer the point home. They've had three decades to do it, and I'm slightly surprised they haven't, yet.

At least we have Sarah-n-Tuned on our side as far as "aluminium" is concerned, though she usually pronounces it "alu-mini-um" as if it has a small car in the middle. That might grind her countrymen's gears a bit, for which I will laugh at them. Then again, she is very fond of deliberately-mispronounced words, to the point where there could be a drinking game every time she says "schport", "schteel", "alu-mini-um", and two drinks for the lesser-spotted "cabron fibrei". Also, she likes very short skirts. Just thought I'd mention that.

[ParadigmShifter]

Aluminum is particularly bad since -ium is a standard ending for metals (and helium!) but they decided to change the pronunciation and ending for aluminium only! You would have thought they would also change Americium and Californium as well since they are named after America and California FFS).

I may have been was wrong about phosphorous for the element although phosphorous is of course also a word


phosphorous: (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus. phosphorus: (noun) a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms.

lol

EDIT: Anyway sorry for going OT... theater is definitely incorrect in UK English though.

[bluespikey]

Travel with Trashman?

Not Travel With Trashman (or should that be rubbish man?) , though the yellow on blue BBC identity does look similar.

It's a wargame by one of the usual suspects. You've got to be able to put up with flashing characters to play it. (Crank the emulator speed up to 400% and it's still quite good fun).

[WallyX]

Its annoying that copying from the website makes it all appear in caps like I'm shouting. But if I typed it myself then you'd all laugh at my inability to spell Theater.

Anyway, similar vein, but much more obscure :

NATO Alert?

[bluespikey]

NATO Alert?

That's it, well done. I must have dozens of hours of enjoyment on this. 90% of them was watching the flashing screen waiting for something to happen.

Anyways, your turn.

[WallyX]

Behold! Some pixels.

[WallyX]

Well no guesses yet, so zooming out.

First hint, it's not an adventure game but an arcade game.

[WallyX]

Released in 1986 by a well-known publisher.

[worcestersource]

No idea but it looks nice.

[Van_Dammesque]

Released in 1986 by a well-known publisher.

Streethawk?

[WallyX]

Streethawk?

That's it, congrats. Released in 1986 by Ocean Software and got average reviews.



https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4938

Over to you.

[Lee Bee]

↑ I wasn't too familiar with Streethawk but it seems this gorgeous little graphic pops up several times during the game. Would be nice to have a whole game in this style.

[WallyX]

↑ I wasn't too familiar with Streethawk but it seems this gorgeous little graphic pops up several times during the game. Would be nice to have a whole game in this style.

Definitely. When I was choosing this one for an entry I was wondering if I was "cheating" a bit by taking a screencap from a lesser-seen part of the game. It's not that easily googlable. Seeing great graphics like this, we can often think in retrospect, that there was so much more that could have been done with the Spectrum, but that is with the knowledge we have today. Back then the perspective was probably very different depending on where you were in time and what was built on before and what was thought of as possible.

[Evil Genius]

Is that the whole game? Ride around town on a motorbike and execute some kids robbing an off-licence

[Van_Dammesque]

Is that the whole game? Ride around town on a motorbike and execute some kids robbing an off-licence

Yep very boring and disappointed when I bought this game!

[blucey]

Hammerfist?