Spectrum Computing

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:30 am 42 - Richard Altwasser

No....

43 - Nigel Searle
41 - Richard Altwasser

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:32 am 43 - Nigel Searle
41 - Richard Altwasser

...yes!

42 - Steve Vickers

Logo 11 = Romantic Robot?

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:37 am42 - Steve Vickers

Correct.

Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:37 am Logo 11 = Romantic Robot?

Right.

45 - Eyes in the pic = Joffa?

Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:39 am 45 - Eyes in the pic = Joffa?

Boom!

Sorry, I mean "That's right".

17 - Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt

22 - Popcorn

1&2 'Brataccas' and that other 16-bit 'Barbarian'

16. Dinamic

23 - Scarborough Fair

1 - Gift from the Gods?

17 & 18. The Blue Danube and In The Hall of the Mountain King.

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:43 am 17 - Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:50 am 17 & 18. The Blue Danube and In The Hall of the Mountain King.

Yes. (In the Hall of the Mountain King is from Peer Gynt.)

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:47 am 1&2 'Brataccas' and that other 16-bit 'Barbarian'

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:48 am 1 - Gift from the Gods?

Brataccas is right, but [mention]GreenCard[/mention] beat you to it.

The other game derived from Bandersnatch is indeed Gift from the Gods.

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:45 am22 - Popcorn

mzx wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:48 am 23 - Scarborough Fair

Both correct.

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:48 am16. Dinamic

Also right.

39 - SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:00 am 39 - SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR

If only it were....

Not right, though.

An update. I couldn't work out how to do strikethrough, so I have shrunk fully answered questions, instead.

HISTORY ROUND

1&2. Name two games that emerged from the remnants of the Imagine megagame Bandersnatch.
3&4. At launch what was the minimum age you had to be to drive a C5 in the UK, and how much would it have cost you to buy one (in pounds)?
5-8. The very first batch of Crash Smashes (NOT Game of the Month awards) were awarded to five games. One was Jet Set Willy. What were the other four?

LOGO ROUND
9-16. Name the software houses from their partial logos (from left to right, then top to bottom).



MUSIC ROUND

17&18. What two pieces of classical music feature in Manic Miner?
19. What is the title music to Dynamite Dan II?
20. What piece of classical music appears in The Birds and The Bees?
21. What tune plays on the title screen of Mikie?
22. What music plays between levels in Eskimo Eddie?
23. What music plays on the title screen of Camelot Warriors?
24. What is the music that plays on the Hunchback title screen?

ART ROUND

25-7. Who painted the following pieces of Spectrum-related art?



28. One of the paintings above was re-used in a game for the Amiga. What is the game?
29-32. The following two covers contain art copied from another source. Name the original art AND the original artist for each of the sources.



PUZZLE ROUND

33&34. The following game titles have had their vowels removed. What are they?

LTR
TLS

35&36. The following game titles have been rendered in T9 code. What are they?

28422822
3784669



37&38. The following describe homophones of two Spectrum games. What are the games?

FORMAL DRESS GROWL
FEATHERWEIGHT QUADS

39&40. Solve the following anagrams:

SCARCER HAIRLINES
TRAGICOMIC PUNT

FAMOUS FACES ROUND

41-43. Who are the following people (from left to right)?



44-48. The following image is a blend of five different people. Who are they (from top to bottom)? (44 is the hair, 45 the eyes, 46 the nose, 47 the mouth and 48 the chin.)

39 - Sinclair Research

28 Mutants (Bob Wakelin) has the helmet from Game Over (Luis Royo)

20 - Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Rachmaninoff)