The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: vote

1. Heartbroken - a bit primitive but I genuinely had many hours of fun playing this one
2. Moontorc - similar game, still kind of fun
3. Snoball In Hell - I don't think I liked this quite as much as I wanted to from the artwork, even though Arkanoid clones were a thing I usually loved. I have a feeling there was something very annoying about it but I can't remember what.

hitm4n · Post by **hitm4n** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:50 pm

Sceptre of Bagdad
Supercom
Super Brat

I guess i like games starting with S...

A mixed bag here, but some cool looking games that passed me by...

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:02 pm

Has to be Sceptre Of Bagdad for me. The best budget game I owned!

Thanks for doing these @PeteProdge. It must be a real labour of love.

Tan Coul · Post by **Tan Coul** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:14 pm

1 Vagan Attack - in my all-time top 5 most-played games and still one I go back to
2 Supercom
3 Timezone - just for K9

bluespikey · Post by **bluespikey** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:16 pm

Shaw Brother games sure are pretty, but I never enjoyed playing them.

Vagan Attack
Satcom
Marie Celeste

Maybe the best Star Trek clone on the Spectrum (A surprisingly low bar, but still).
An interesting puzzle game.
A nice little adventure.

Timmy · Post by **Timmy** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:04 am

1. Sceptre of Bagdad. A great game. Can't remember much of it, too long ago I've played it. But I foundly remember it.
2. Cavemania. Yes, it's a really simple go right and then back left game. But it's colourful, nice explosions, and really great looking simple graphics. I think this is one of the first games when I realised Spectrum graphics could look simple and colourful and effective, and more importantly, that I could probably draw in this style. (In the end I never did this style, though.)
3. Marie Celeste. I just spent some hours playing and finishing this. The fact that I managed to finish a game before I got bored, makes it good enough. Do note that the game is probably not finishable without using the walkthrough. I used it for several puzzles in the game, especially the maze that I can't be bothered mapping. I also got the majority of the puzzles solved without the help, so it's adequate.

I wanted to add more Shaw Brothers games in, but I forgot most of them, because they were denied games. (I don't actually know, or care if they are denied now.)

Daveysloan · Post by **Daveysloan** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:42 am

Robot Rumpus
Colditz Story
Last Vampire

RWAC · Post by **RWAC** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:14 am

1. Sceptre of Bagdad.
2. Moontorc
3. Survivors

Juan F. Ramirez · Post by **Juan F. Ramirez** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:01 pm

The Colditz Story
The Last Vampyre
Heartbroken

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:14 am

1 Sceptre of Bagdad
2 Colditz Story
3 The Last Vampyre

Starquack · Post by **Starquack** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:15 pm

1 Hypa raid
2 Colditz story
3 Skatin' usa

Sceptre of baghdad, I can see it's a good budget game but a)it's too similar to the Wally week games b) the walkthrough is over an hour long. Too convaluted!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:10 pm

1. The Colditz Story
2. Heartbroken
3. Sceptre Of Bagdad

PeteProdge · Post by **PeteProdge** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:27 am

Only a week late with the summing up of this poll!

The Sceptre Of Bagdad has come out tops, with 8 votes.

Then in second place, with 3 votes, we have The Colditz Story.

Joint third, 2 votes each: Gunfighter; Heartbroken and Vagan Attack

Joint fourth, 1 vote each: Cavemania; Cerius; Eights; Pro Golf II; Robot Rumpus and Sinbad

And here are the proportional votes!

Sceptre Of Bagdad 13
Colditz Story 12
Heartbroken 6
Vagan Attack 6
Last Vampire, The 4
Moontorc 4
Supercom 4
Hypa Raid 3
Robot Rumpus 3
Cavemania 2
Marie Celeste 2
Satcom 2
Skatin' USA 1
Snoball In Hell 1
Super Brat 1
Survivors 1
Timezone 1

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