Spectrum Computing

Okay, a day without a single guess, so let's go bigger:

Stunt Car Racer?

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:52 am Stunt Car Racer?

Take a big leap:

Start your engines:-

3D Stock Car Racing? Or whatever it was called.

blucey wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:42 pm 3D Stock Car Racing? Or whatever it was called.

Yep. I thought it would take longer than that!

I'm shocked too to be honest!

blucey wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:33 pm I'm shocked too to be honest!

My answer to anything that’s green and black is always Grand National — and I was right once, so let’s try it again.

Not this time, 5MR.

Here's the first zoom out.

Looks to me like a racing game, and a fairly basic one at that.

Chequered Flag?

[Edit: seconds after the new pic - it's definitely not Chequered Flag...]

Not a racing game (no horses either!).

This should do it.

blucey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:55 pm This should do it.

I thought earlier that those might be cabers, and came up with World Games - but I couldn’t find any footage of the caber-toss level in action. So… World Games?!

Sorry, no.

I was going to say Shockway Rider, but the colours are wrong...

A bit more.

Its a budget game from a big, well-known publisher.

But despite that I don't think any of the three mags reviewed it, which has surprised me. YS did a preview though and it ended up in their tips section. It has a type in cheat where you type MONEY FOR NOTHING. Its not too obscure though.

It's a multi-eventer and very much inspired by another game which had a well-received Speccy arcade conversion (which was initially good but ended up awful).

Raw Recruit!

I did not expect a game accompanied by Tim Follin's music to have no reviews, but I now see that it is.

While looking for the previous screen I thought it might be this one, also a multi-parter:

I saw that too while looking.
I think it was Geoff Capes Strong Man

Stefan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:08 am Raw Recruit!

I did not expect a game accompanied by Tim Follin's music to have no reviews, but I now see that it is.

yeah it's odd. I mean it was Mastertronic, 1988 and I bought it in a shop here in the UK, so it wasn't exactly obscure. I wonder if it's just that Mastertronic never sent out review copies but I would have thought that a lot of budget games didn't and so magazines would just pick up retail copies.

Also, not Tim's best tune but certainly a bit of an epic!

Pobulous wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:16 am I saw that two while looking.
I think it was Geoff Capes Strong Man

Well done!

And since I had already prepared the zoom outs:

How about:

Valhalla?

Dragons Bane is usually a good guess if there is a black background, but in this case I'm gonna guess Swords and Sorcery?