The best Speccy game by Softek: discussion

General software. From trouble with the Banyan Tree to OCP Art Studio, post any general software chat here. Could include game challenges...
Post Reply
User avatar
PeteProdge
Bugaboo
Posts: 3521
Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:03 am

The best Speccy game by Softek: discussion

Post by PeteProdge »

Ah, Softek. A software company founded in 1980 by Tim Langdell, which produced games and utilities (as well as a book) for the home computers of the age. They disappeared as a games brand around 1984, but still existed, introducing The Edge as their games imprint. I'm treating The Edge separately to the Softek games catalogue.

And yes, I suppose I have to acknowledge that Tim Langdell is rather notorious for being heavily litigious in the field of copyright/trademarks, but that's more to do with The Edge. Although going through these early games, I can't help noticing that a fair few of them are, shall we say, 'inspired' by early arcade hits?

I think Megapede, owes a million to Centipede...
Image

Repulsar, is where you have a missile that is under your command...
Image

Robon is enough to make you go berzerk...
Image

Joust is... erm... Joust... oh, FFS...
Image

That was all a long time ago, and thank goodness the current Spectrum scene is no longer plagued by questionable legal threats from a much-ridiculed businessman who is proud of having invested in some software that rip off famous early arcade games.

Anyway, here's my full list of nominations...

Colony
Cosmic Swarm
Dragon's Lair
Firebirds
Joust
Megapede
Meteoroids
Microbot
Millipede
Monsters In Hell
Ostron
Repulsar
Robon
Starblitz
Ugh!
Zolan

Those are the ZX Spectrum games I'm intending to put up as a poll next week to discover the best Softek ZX Spectrum game. Do give me your feedback, tell me to include anything extra, or why I shouldn't have included [insert title here] or something.
Reheated Pixels - a combination of retrogaming, comedy and factual musing, is here!
New video: Nine ZX Spectrum magazine controversies - How Crash, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User managed to offend the world!
Post Reply