Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!

[Gears of Games]

Found this in my attic the other day! Wonder what it could be worth?!

[cmal]

Interesting find! Never heard of "Monstertronic". Looks like it's trying to copy Mastertronic.

[lister_of_smeg]

Wonder what it could be worth?!

It'd be worth checking the screenshot for attribute cells with 3 colours

Great job all the same, though!

[R-Tape]

Looks like I slept right through March. They'd be onto a winner if they took a proper sportsman like Jack Charlton.

(Fine work btw )

[Gears of Games]

It'd be worth checking the screenshot for attribute cells with 3 colours

Great job all the same, though!

Thanks! I do put an effort in to make the attributes correct, but usually make one that has more than two colours! Just not to disappoint anyone that looks closer! But can't remember which one I messed up here, it's a couple of years ago I made this.

[Gears of Games]

Interesting find! Never heard of "Monstertronic". Looks like it's trying to copy Mastertronic.

They are pretty lazy though, just blatantly ripping of the Mastertronic logo like that!

[XTM]

The young padawan (in regards to correct Speccy gfx) needs to know that you can't have bright 1 and bright 0 in the same 8x1 pixel row, or in the same 8x8 pixels attribute cell under "normal" circumstances (=not using any sort of multicolour routine/engine). In any case, Paper and Ink will always have the same brightness level.

So for example, your bright 1 yellow sun or the bright 1 white clouds on a bright 0 white sky are impossible.

[Gears of Games]

The young padawan (in regards to correct Speccy gfx) needs to know that you can't have bright 1 and bright 0 in the same 8x1 pixel row, or in the same 8x8 pixels attribute cell under "normal" circumstances (=not using any sort of multicolour routine/engine). In any case, Paper and Ink will always have the same brightness level.

So for example, your bright 1 yellow sun or the bright 1 white clouds on a bright 0 white sky are impossible.

Damn! I have no memory of that!

[Morkin]

We didn't think it was possible, but maybe... life found a way.

[Gears of Games]

We didn't think it was possible, but maybe... life found a way.

and NHL always finds a way! To make more $$$!

[Timmy]

Found this in my attic the other day! Wonder what it could be worth?!

I'd definitely give you -50 quid for it.

[XTM]

I'd definitely give you -50 quid for it.

Mate, that is quite unreasonable. You should at least add -5 packets of Rolo, or, seeing as you are Dutch, -5 stroopwaffels, mmkay?

[Gears of Games]

I'd definitely give you -50 quid for it.

Awfully decent of you!

[Ast A. Moore]

There’s a couple of typos that need to be fixed in the loading instructions: tap —> tape, “symbol” in “symbol SHIFT” needs to be capitalized, and I’m not sure if the “R Type Loading Error” is a nod to Dave or also a typo.

P.S. I’d use straight quotes (shocker!) for the LOAD "" instruction. Sacrilege, I know, but correct for the Spectrum. Now, in the game instructions themselves, all quotes and apostrophes should be curly, though.

[XoRRoX]

There’s a couple of typos that need to be fixed in the loading instructions: tap —> tape, “symbol” in “symbol SHIFT” needs to be capitalized, and I’m not sure if the “R Type Loading Error” is a nod to Dave or also a typo.

P.S. I’d use straight quotes (shocker!) for the LOAD "" instruction. Sacrilege, I know, but correct for the Spectrum. Now, in the game instructions themselves, all quotes and apostrophes should be curly, though.

Good advice from Ast - The Master Forger

[Gears of Games]

There’s a couple of typos that need to be fixed in the loading instructions: tap —> tape, “symbol” in “symbol SHIFT” needs to be capitalized, and I’m not sure if the “R Type Loading Error” is a nod to Dave or also a typo.

P.S. I’d use straight quotes (shocker!) for the LOAD "" instruction. Sacrilege, I know, but correct for the Spectrum. Now, in the game instructions themselves, all quotes and apostrophes should be curly, though.

Given how the texts often were back in the day, I was rather thinking I needed more typos to make it look legit!

[Ast A. Moore]

Given how the texts often were back in the day, I was rather thinking I needed more typos to make it look legit!

Fair enough, but then you need to emulate the halftone grid in the colored portions of the J-card, apply some relicing, and convert the whole thing to CMYK.

[Gears of Games]

Fair enough, but then you need to emulate the halftone grid in the colored portions of the J-card, apply some relicing, and convert the whole thing to CMYK.

Had this been a paying job, absolutely!

[Mpk]

In a similar vein, this popped up on The Socials the other day