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Morkin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:47 am Ooh, good to see Chaos HQ pulling ahead in the race...

Oh... hang on...

DISBELIEVE

The only way forward now is to form a coalition of Chuckie Egg and Chaos voters, and throw in some of the fringe loonies. So if you all change your vote to Chuckie Egg we'll have a chance, in return we'll vote Manic Miner when M comes round.

Sound fair?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:03 am The only way forward now is to form a coalition of Chuckie Egg and Chaos voters, and throw in some of the fringe loonies. So if you all change your vote to Chuckie Egg we'll have a chance, in return we'll vote Manic Miner when M comes round.

Sound fair?

This looks like Chaos ends up as the Nick Clegg in this deal. That's a disaster.

(Sincerely, in a choice between Chuckie Egg and Chase HQ, I would go with Chuckie Egg. There is a lot to be said for Chase HQ, it's a technical marvel, one of only two racing games on the Speccy that I can say actually goes at an astonishing speed. I'm not really a fan, I don't like the arcade original - although I acknowledge many do - I don't get the appeal. Chuckie Egg is good old-fashioned fun, filled with the spirit of retrogaming.)

Join up with Chaos, and we'll back future ovoid-centric platform games, like those from the Oliver Twins and Jonathan Cauldwell.

On the off-chance you are counting me as one of the "fringe loonies" (surely someone else shares the Cookie love), I'd like to make clear my second choice would be Chase HQ.

And my third Cyclone.

And my fourth Commando.

Basically anything but Chaos or Chuckie Egg.

8 OUT OF 10 CATS SAID THEIR OWNERS PREFER COOKIE

(BUT QUITE LIKED CHASE HQ, TOO.)

I can't be the only one that wasted their vote on Dizzy? But have to admit it was a tough choice between the two eggs...

Voted for Chaos. Chuckie Egg is also blisteringly good, but Chaos has that old 'infinite replayability' bonus so I think it wins.

Chase HQ.... I realise it's really polished and an amazing conversion, but I never really found it much fun to play. Possibly because I'm crap at it.

Chase HQ currently first... a surprising top game!

Had to be Chaos.

There were others, Cobra, Carrier Command and Chuckie Egg particularly, but when it comes down to it, none of these are Chaos. Unfortunately that is a criticism which can be used against far too many games.

walrus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:43 pm There were others, Cobra, Carrier Command and Chuckie Egg particularly, but when it comes down to it, none of these are Chaos. Unfortunately that is a criticism which can be used against far too many games.

You talk sense. Not Being Chaos is an affliction that Chaos's sequel, Lords Of Chaos, suffers from, as well as the current crop of lesser titles such as Call Of Duty; FIFA; Assassins Creed, etc. Too many games to list, as you said, from 1950's Bertie The Brain to all this VR nonsense.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

Granted, I've yet to play ChaseHQ or Chaos, but the point still stands.

Don't wear underpants... go Commando!

And we're still in the 'C' thread'...

When we reach 'M' thread, this forum will be in a thermonuclear civil war!

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:02 pm

Granted, I've yet to play ChaseHQ or Chaos, but the point still stands.

Erm, your meme uses a character from a fantasy culture of wizards, magic, orcs and elves, all centred on a battle between good and evil.

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:23 am Erm, your meme uses a character from a fantasy culture of wizards, magic, orcs and elves, all centred on a battle between good and evil.

This is exactly the kind of negative comment I'd expect from Project Fear.

Ever wondered why there is so much empty space on the Chaos loading screen?



Vote Chuckie Egg.

After listening to some old Retro Asylum podcasts last night, I realise we are missing a proper classic from this time round. Now, we did do the week-long discussion and it never came up, and now the week-long vote is in full swing and we can't add it in now it's started.

The game I'm referring to is Contact Sam Cruise. Can't believe we missed that. Yeah, it's not as good as the developer's similar titles, Skool Daze and Back To Skool, but I think it'd be a reasonable contender if it were in this poll.

It's worth putting in, along with some of the other games in there that are half decent but which we all know aren't going to win, like Cookie.

I so wanted to love Sam Cruise like I did the Skool games, but I just found it impossibly difficult without a cheat and impossibly cryptic without a solution.

And I never understood why we can't see the interior of the buildings, as in Skool Daze/Back2Skool. The first time I played it I found it bizarre.

Anyway, it's a very interesting game that I tried several times.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:09 pm And I never understood why we can't see the interior of the buildings, as in Skool Daze/Back2Skool. The first time I played it I found it bizarre.

I think it has a much larger playing area than the Skool world, and if they did it the 'dolls house' way, they'd run out of memory pretty soon. (Just a theory I have.)

Morkin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:36 pm ... other games that are half decent but which we all know aren't going to win, like Cookie.

Harrumph.

Will someone else please vote for Cookie? It's getting pretty lonely here in the Cookie-love shack. I promise you it's 16K of pure heaven.

It's getting so few votes I'm starting to suspect Russian electoral interference...

Nomad wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:30 am I can't be the only one that wasted their vote on Dizzy? But have to admit it was a tough choice between the two eggs...

Probably, it was by far the weakest of the Dizzy series. Maybe you can do the sensible thing and change it to Cyclone.

There are just too many good games in there - picking just one just reminds of the definition of agony: a one armed man hanging off the top of a cliff with itchy macadamias.

But went for Chase HQ - the opening sequence of AY + beeper, speech, and a great game to boot.

At least a top 5 would allow some sanity:

1. Chase HQ
2. Cabal
3. Chaos
4. Cyclone
5. Cybernoid

Stefan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:52 pm There are just too many good games in there - picking just one just reminds of the definition of agony: a one armed man hanging off the top of a cliff with itchy macadamias.

Chortle!

This is my top 5 today, tomorrow might be different. I'll need to play Chaos & Chase HQ at the weekend. Who knows my vote may even change.

Chuckie Egg
Chronos*
Cybernoid
Camelot Warriors
Commando

*auto text changed this to Chronic!