Out of context Spectrum games

[Arcachnar]

Sorry Tim, but you're in trouble.

[R-Tape]

Sorry Tim, but you're in trouble.

Nope—Tim's bagsied it. This chap will have to change his name to The Hedge™.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[+3code]

[Arcachnar]

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[Arcachnar]

[PeteProdge]

Close enough?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Nice try, @PeteProdge !

[PeteProdge]

Just going through next week's covertape games for the usual poll, and you can buy this hot sauce...

[TMD2003]

If I wasn't watching the pennies as much as I have to, I'd be all over that sauce without hesitation.

The Hurricane Harry Habanero Sauce as well, but they've sold out of it. Bah! Also, if Hurricane Harry isn't already the name of a Spectrum game, then someone needs to write it - even if it's a five-minute CSSCGC entry.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[Lee Bee]

(The official spelling was "Kwik", but this varied, as seen on the cassette:)

[Alessandro]

[PeteProdge]

I know I nailed this one with the new Jonas Akerlund film, but here, Killing Joke is just one letter out...

[MatGubbins]

[Lee Bee]

[Rorthron]

[MatGubbins]

[Lee Bee]

Whoa… at first I thought you'd faked this, but this is a REAL album cover, which came out 3 years before Firebird launched. So they either ripped it off, or it's the same designer! Blimey.

[Rorthron]

The Firebird logo was created by Terry Finnegan:

"James Leavey employed design company Simonson Finnegan to create the Firebird logo, having used them for other BT projects in the past. Only one version of the logo was ever designed, with Creative Director Terry Finnegan nailing it at the first attempt. Despite a few tweaks here and there, the logo survived relatively untouched for the whole eight years that the Firebird label published computer games."

https://web.archive.org/web/20090419140 ... _hist2.php

I had a look at images of the outer sleeve of the record (front and back), and there's no credit for art or graphic design. It's possible there's something on the inner sleeve, but I couldn't find that.

(If you're searching for the album cover, it's the 1981 Contour Red Label edition, performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet.)

[Juan F. Ramirez]

[MatGubbins]

Ideal for eating with a Gargoyle.

[MatGubbins]

Have you got what it takes....
...to dodge the rain and not be struck by lightning?