The best Speccy game by Elite: vote

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The best Speccy game by Elite

Poll ended at Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:14 am

1942
1
2%
911 TS
0
No votes
Airwolf
0
No votes
Beyond The Ice Palace
0
No votes
Bomb Jack
9
20%
Bomb Jack II
0
No votes
Buggy Boy
2
4%
Commando
16
35%
Duet
1
2%
Dukes Of Hazzard, The
0
No votes
Fall Guy, The
0
No votes
Frank Bruno's Boxing
4
9%
Ghosts 'N Goblins
2
4%
Grand National
0
No votes
Hopping Mad
0
No votes
Ikari Warriors
4
9%
Kokotoni Wilf
4
9%
Overlander
0
No votes
Paperboy
0
No votes
Question Of Sport, A
0
No votes
Roller Coaster
1
2%
Scooby-Doo
1
2%
Space Harrier
0
No votes
Super Trux
0
No votes
Thundercats
1
2%
Wanderer
0
No votes
World Championship Soccer
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 46

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The best Speccy game by Elite: vote

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Right, at last, one of the major full-price labels for the ZX Spectrum - Elite. A west midlands outfit that had strong rivalry with US Gold, and well, these days they're not exactly endearing themselves to the retrogaming community with some rather questionable 'legal' activity, but hey, enough of that. Let's hear of your favourite Elite game on the Speccy.

You have 7 days to vote, this poll concludes around 10:15am UK time on Sunday 8th September 2019...

1942
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911 TS
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Airwolf
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Beyond The Ice Palace
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Bomb Jack
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Bomb Jack II
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Buggy Boy
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Commando
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Duet
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Dukes Of Hazzard, The
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Fall Guy, The
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Frank Bruno's Boxing
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Ghosts 'N Goblins
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Grand National
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Hopping Mad
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Ikari Warriors
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Kokotoni Wilf
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Overlander
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Paperboy
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Question Of Sport, A
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Roller Coaster
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Scooby-Doo
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Space Harrier
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Super Trux
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Thundercats
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Wanderer
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World Championship Soccer
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No doubt about the best this time: Commando. Excellent conversion, as good as the original arcade.

As to the 2nd and 3rd, hard to choice: Kokotoni Wilf, 911 TS, Bomb Jack, 1942, Airwolf, ... so my final election is:

1 - Commando
2 - Bomb Kack
3 - Kokotoki Wilf
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I'm the one who voted for Buggy Boy, and I reckon I'll be the ONLY one to have done so. Sorry, but it's the one I spent most time on. It's a pretty nice racer compared to the dog's dinner that is Out Run.

Of course, this is largely a battle between Commando and Bomb Jack - I'd have picked one of those if Buggy Boy didn't exist. They are both so incredibly good. Ghosts N Goblins also astonishing.

1. Buggy Boy
2. Bomb Jack
3. Commando
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As I mentioned in the discussion thread, this is between two absolute classics for me. It's almost a coin toss because they're both so good. But I think Bomb Jack just about edges it. 3rd place to Kokotoni Wilf; although not really close to the standard of the first two, still a good, fun game.

1. Bomb Jack
2. Commando
3. Kokotoni Wilf
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Erm - you've got Duet on two lists...
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Joefish wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:35 pm Erm - you've got Duet on two lists...
Ooooh feck. This was what I was trying to avoid.

Okay, Duet should not be here. It's a Hit-Pak titles. One person's voted for it on this poll, but I'm declaring that (and any future votes for it) null and void. Pop over to the Hit-Pak poll if you like Duet!

Thanks Joe for spotting this. A regrettable mistake.
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Put my vote in for Commando as it gave me the warmest feeling of nostalgia compared to Bomb Jack and Airwolf, but genuinely surprised to see it that high in the poll. Elite had some good games.

1. Commando.
2. Bomb Jack.
3. Airwolf.
4. Kokotoni Wilf.
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Got to be Kokotoni Wilf for me as that the one I spent the most time playing. Ghosts and Goblins and Frank Bruno's Boxing were pretty damn good too.

1 - Kokotoni Wilf
2 - Ghosts and Goblins
3 - Frank Bruno's Boxing

For some strange reason I also spent ages playing The Fall Guy :shock:
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stupidget wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:41 pm For some strange reason I also spent ages playing The Fall Guy :shock:
Yeah, same here, it's the usual crap game but inexplicably attractive to play!

It's something usual in some Elite games.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:54 pm It's something usual in some Elite games.
Weird how I know exactly what you mean. They just added some sort of gloss, but not necessarily to the game..? Hard to articulate.
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1. Ikari Warriors
2. Commando
3. Bomb Jack

Difficult to get that top 3, there are some good games in that list that I played quite a lot. Really enjoyed Thundercats but it couldn't quite sneak into the scoring positions.
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1 :: Bomb Jack
2 :: Commando
3 :: Scooby Doo

Bomb Jack is such a polished game. Absolute perfection.
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At the time I thought Space Harrier, but it was a bit too ambitious for the Speccy.
Kokotoni Wilf was a very well-balanced and playable game. Maybe overshadowed a bit at the time by JSW but well up there as the best of the platform / maze / collect-em-up genre.
But it has to go to Commando for taking an arcade conversion and making a better game of it than the original. Something I tried to do myself! :mrgreen:
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1 - Thundercats
2 - Bomb Jack
3 - Scooby Doo
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Went for Commando in the end, but it was a gnat's hair between that and Bombjack. Both are so playable AND improve on the arcade versions - they're both just astonishing conversions.

1. Commando
2. Bombjack
3. Ghosts 'N' Goblins

Again, it was a gnat's hair between GNG and Roller Coaster, but I wen't for GNG simply because it was an incredibly playable conversion of a vastly more powerful coin-op. How Burkhill got it to fit into 48K is amazing and that full-screen scrolling is just lovely.
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1. Frank Bruno's Boxing
2. Ghosts n Goblins
3. Space Harrier
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1. Commando
2. Kokotoni Wilf
3. Scooby Doo
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For me Commando was just ahead of Paper Boy, very close. Thinking about it, I have a hankering to have a go now. The other game I really thought about was 1942, so that completes my top 3.

1. Commando
2. Paper Boy
3. 1942
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I know Bombjack was pretty slick, but (a) I never really got into the arcade game - I thought its enemy sprites were paticularly badly drawn. And (b) the emphasis on getting the background graphics looking so good on the Spectrum made the sprites even harder to make out.
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Sorry everyone but I've just clocked the awful, awful attempt to draw Lee Majors/Colt Seavers on 'The Fall Guys' loading screen.

"Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, but I've been seen with Farrah.."

Yeah, Mo Farrah.
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DouglasReynholm wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:19 pm Sorry everyone but I've just clocked the awful, awful attempt to draw Lee Majors/Colt Seavers on 'The Fall Guys' loading screen.

"Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, but I've been seen with Farrah.."

Yeah, Mo Farrah.
Nah, I reckon he looks more like Patrick McGoohan....

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You’s people are alls crazy. Commando is rubbish compared to Ikari Warriors. :evil:
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1. Commando
2. Roller Coaster
3. Overlander

I also considered Frank Bruno, Kokotoni Wilf and Scooby Doo.

Thundercats would have been a contender also if I didn't lose a life every few seconds.
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PeteProdge wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:51 pm I'm the one who voted for Buggy Boy, and I reckon I'll be the ONLY one to have done so. Sorry, but it's the one I spent most time on. It's a pretty nice racer compared to the dog's dinner that is Out Run.

Of course, this is largely a battle between Commando and Bomb Jack - I'd have picked one of those if Buggy Boy didn't exist. They are both so incredibly good. Ghosts N Goblins also astonishing.

1. Buggy Boy
2. Bomb Jack
3. Commando
I voted for Buggy Boy too!

It was a brilliant game, got lots of fun out of it. I’d also agree that Bomb Jack and Commando are up there too, although I always had a soft spot for Bomb Jack II (which was definitely originally a Thundercats game, check out the C64 version and listen to the in-game music as well as the sprite looking more like Lion-O than Bomb Jack!
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