The best Speccy game by New Generation Software: vote

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The best Speccy game by New Generation Software: vote

Poll ended at Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:16 pm

3D Tunnel
1
3%
Cliff Hanger
6
20%
Corridors Of Genon
0
No votes
Custard Kid, The
0
No votes
Escape
2
7%
Jonah Barrington's Squash
3
10%
Knot In 3D
1
3%
Trashman
16
53%
Travel With Trashman
1
3%
 
Total votes: 30

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1. Trashman, of course
2. Travel with Trashman
3. The Custard Kid
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1 Travel With Trashman
2 Trashman
3 J B Squash
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1 Trashman
2 Travel With Trashman
3 Escape
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1 Trashman
2 Travel With Trashman
3 Knot in 3D
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
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Trashman
Knot In 3D
JB Squash
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1. Trashman
2. Jonah Barrington's Squash
3. Corridors of Genon
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
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It's a miracle if in JB's Squash I hit the ball once or twice.
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WIWC wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:43 am It's a miracle if in JB's Squash I hit the ball once or twice.
Sounds like squash in real life.
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I played Jonah Barrington's Squash more than anything else (2 player with my brother) so that gets my vote.
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1 Cliff Hanger
2 Trashman
3 Travels with Trashman
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beanz wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:21 pm I played Jonah Barrington's Squash more than anything else (2 player with my brother) so that gets my vote.
2 player Jonah Barrington with a sibling was great. The real game being who could do the best impression of the Speccy screaming "not up" at you.
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I'd not played Custard Kid, and downloaded it to have a go. (It's ... okay).

Interesting that it's not by Malcolm E Evans (as nearly all of these are), and I had a quick peek around the memory to see if I could find any reference to who the author was (as it's not listed on the inlay) and spotted this...

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... a chunk of (presumably) its own source code in there!
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1. Trashman
2. Cliff Hanger
3. Travel With Trashman
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Well, Trashman has run away with this. An immensely popular game that got 16 votes, the majority of them cast. It's a solid placing.

Strangely, the sequel, Travel With Trashman, fares rather badly in the phpBB poll, but let's move over to who won the second place, which is...

Cliff Hanger, with 6 votes.

Then Jonah Barrington's Squash in third place, with 3 votes. Possibly the only squash game on the ZX Spectrum?

Escape is in fourth, with 2 votes.

In joint fifth place, 1 vote each: 3D Tunnel; Knot In 3D and the aforementioned Travel With Trashman.

Trashman dominates the proportional poll too, but there's a respectable second placing for the sequel...

Trashman 22
Travel With Trashman 11
Cliff Hanger 5
Jonah Barrington's Squash 4
Knot In 3D 3
Corridors Of Genon 1
The Custard Kid 1
Escape 1
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