Oops! And so is the link too. I can't edit posts after an hour has gone, so here's the next best thing...
Uh-oh. Another poll that's gonna have to be re-run! Thanks for informing me though.
You did!
PeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:53 am You did!
You see, the only traces of Circus Circus are on Sinclair User's Megatape 11, which had Beach Head and Beach Head 2 on side A, while side B had two demos of Circus Circus, followed by Poke City.
The first demo was a rolling one - totally unplayable, just a slideshow of static screenshots. Then you got prompted to load the second demo, which is the playable one of the human cannonball.
The ZXDB entry here that I'm using to illustrate these items has taken the 'in game' screenshot from the rolling demo. That unicycling tightrope guy, it looks cool, but you've never been able to actually play it.
It does look like they were still cramming the tape with a few full price games without authorisation: https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... n_issue_58Oloturia wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:50 am This is interesting, the demo was bundled in one of the (legal) pirated compilation as a full game.
In Load'n'Run magazine's last years of life they stuffed more and more demos into cassettes instead of cracked full games. I wonder why, but the reasons could be multiple: easier to copy, no fuss in removing piracy checks, less space thus smaller tapes, and anyway no one was going to pass the test level and complete the demo due to the staggering difficulty of games back then.
Ah yes... an odd one really as it's reader/homebrew. But I'll get it in the poll rerun, so thanks for that!
Yeah... the thing to note about that, is that it's an MIA game where I'm not exactly waiting for a full version. A really half-hearted thing made in some tacky game creator, which is noted in ZXDB as only having spawned this effort and a totally MIA mod called Mission Venom. Dismal!
