The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote

[PeteProdge]

It's the poll everybody has been waiting for! [citation needed] Contain your excitement as we cover the software brand that everybody fondly remember [citation needed] and always talks about! [citation needed] Yep, from page 93 of YS #19, we've hit the classified ads and it's homebrew gaming before we were using that term. Here's Rossware's three ZX Spectrum games and I think there's a distinct theme going on...

Fruit 2000


Fruit 2010


Fruity


So, um, yeah, there you go. Shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to get to grips with each one and get this gist of it.

[PeteProdge]

1) Fruity. Well, it's obvious. The most recent (1987) and clearly most feature-packed. It's practically objective, isn't it?
2) Fruit 2010. Er, the second most recent and clearly an advance on the previous, which is...
3) Fruit 2000. Duh!

Pretty much, I expect everyone to arrive at the same conclusion.

[R-Tape]

This breaks Retrogaming Directive 6342.a in which appending a futuristic year at the end of a game title makes it better.

1 - Fruity
2 - Fruity 2010
3 - Fruity 2000

As always, fruit sims are a confusing mess of spinning fruit and flashing lights that I'll probably never bother to learn, but it's clear that the latest one is the most polished.

[Hank Scorpio]

1 Fruity
2 Fruit 2010
3 Fruit 2000

[worcestersource]

This breaks Retrogaming Directive 6342.a in which appending a futuristic year at the end of a game title makes it better.

1 - Fruity
2 - Fruity 2010
3 - Fruity 2000

As always, fruit sims are a confusing mess of spinning fruit and flashing lights that I'll probably never bother to learn, but it's clear that the latest one is the most polished.

I think you’re getting confused with Retrogaming Directive 6343. If you do mean 6342, I’d suggest lowering the aardvark gently.

[R-Tape]

Hehe thanks Kryten

[Lee P]

Nick Ross? Sleep well, don't have nightmares.

I wonder if Stuart Ross is still a fruit graphic designer?

[Timmy]

I don't really play fruit machines nowadays, but I must say the graphics of the 2010 version do look like the symbols on real fruit machines back then. With a number next to the fruit.

Almost nostalgic.

[R-Tape]

I wonder if we'll get any mavericks voting for their earlier stuff. For some people that's always the best.

I wonder if Stuart Ross is still a fruit graphic designer?

StuRoss 8bit Fruit Design LTD made an honest living right up until a few years ago when AI spoiled the party. The Canary Wharf office closed in January.

[Nick]

1. Fruity
2. Fruit 2010
2. Fruit 2000

There is definitely an improvement in quality with each version.

[PeteProdge]

7 votes means Fruity is the winner and that really is it!

And all the proportional voting follows the same pattern:

Fruity 12
Fruit 2010 8
Fruit 2000 4