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The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
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The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Time for the poll where we couldn't really tear them apart, so we bunged in all three labels together, because, well, they're all interlinked anyhow.
You have seven days to pick the best out of this lot...
Adventures Of Brian The Bold
Alter Earth
Antteroo
Classroom Chaos
Commando
Countdown
Crystal Quest
Curse Of Shaleth, The
Desperado
Devil's Descent
Dragon Slayer
Earthbound
Eye Of Vartan
Golden Rose, The
Hexagonal Museum, The
Hidden City
Jason And The Golden Fleece
Last Will And Testament, The
Moreby Jewels, The
Murder Hunt
Operation Turtle
Orc Island
Prelude
Rifts Of Time, The
Sealed City, The
Survival
Tangled Tale, A
Time Quest
To the Manor Bourne
Trail
Traveller, The
Urquahart Castle
Valley Of The Dead
Witch Hunter, The
You have seven days to pick the best out of this lot...
Adventures Of Brian The Bold
Alter Earth
Antteroo
Classroom Chaos
Commando
Countdown
Crystal Quest
Curse Of Shaleth, The
Desperado
Devil's Descent
Dragon Slayer
Earthbound
Eye Of Vartan
Golden Rose, The
Hexagonal Museum, The
Hidden City
Jason And The Golden Fleece
Last Will And Testament, The
Moreby Jewels, The
Murder Hunt
Operation Turtle
Orc Island
Prelude
Rifts Of Time, The
Sealed City, The
Survival
Tangled Tale, A
Time Quest
To the Manor Bourne
Trail
Traveller, The
Urquahart Castle
Valley Of The Dead
Witch Hunter, The
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Commando is other Commando: https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... m/Commando
Edit: I mean, the graphics
Edit: I mean, the graphics
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Woah, how did I make a clanger like that? There are four games of that name for the Speccy and yeah, everyone knows the really big famous one and I accidentally got their screenshots in there, for a TEXT ADVENTURE! Aaargh!+3code wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:28 pm Commando is other Commando: https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... m/Commando
Edit: I mean, the graphics
But thanks for pointing it out, I'm within the hour time limit to edit the above post, so it's been corrected!
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Central Solutions also has Podder by Greg & John Holmes. It's not much of anything but it's the only one I've played.
Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
ercart castle, only one i played i think.
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Devil's Descent for me, the only one I've played, though.
But it's a cute game I never played before.
But it's a cute game I never played before.
Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
Funnily enough, a guy at school also mistook Commando for its more famous namesake and I ended up picking up the tape it was on as a makeweight in a swap.
It's not much of a game, to be honest. Operation Turtle on the reverse of the tape is a clear cut above it, so that's what I've voted for.
It's not much of a game, to be honest. Operation Turtle on the reverse of the tape is a clear cut above it, so that's what I've voted for.
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I checked out the non-adventure ones and picked the least worst - Devil's Descent. It's also the only one I was previously aware of - I think Nick Jenkins covered it on YouTube.
Both that and Valley of the Dead would be a lot better without having to sit through annoying sound effects/"music".
Hidden City would do well to stay hidden. (edit: I just noticed it's written by Tim Gilberts, the Gil in Glisoft! He did well to specialise in adventures!)
I couldn't be bothered sifting through the adventures. Imagine asking for Commando for Chrimbo and getting this low-effort Quilled adventure.
Both that and Valley of the Dead would be a lot better without having to sit through annoying sound effects/"music".
Hidden City would do well to stay hidden. (edit: I just noticed it's written by Tim Gilberts, the Gil in Glisoft! He did well to specialise in adventures!)
I couldn't be bothered sifting through the adventures. Imagine asking for Commando for Chrimbo and getting this low-effort Quilled adventure.
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
1 Devils Descent
2 Earthbound
3 The Witch Hunter
2 Earthbound
3 The Witch Hunter
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
It's been pointed out in this thread by @Arcachnar and @clebin that I've missed out Murder and Podder.
Now, I could re-do this whole poll on Sunday, although I don't know about the popularity (or lack of) for these games. I'm a bit embarrassed to have left them out, it's not come up in the discussion phase the previous week, but, for completeness' sake, here they are...
Murder
Podder
I'll let them in for new proportional votes, certainly, and if you've made a proportional vote above and want to change your mind, I'll allow that too.
Not sure how to deal with the main forum vote though if you wanted to change that to Murder or Podder. Um... let me know?
Now, I could re-do this whole poll on Sunday, although I don't know about the popularity (or lack of) for these games. I'm a bit embarrassed to have left them out, it's not come up in the discussion phase the previous week, but, for completeness' sake, here they are...
Murder
Podder
I'll let them in for new proportional votes, certainly, and if you've made a proportional vote above and want to change your mind, I'll allow that too.
Not sure how to deal with the main forum vote though if you wanted to change that to Murder or Podder. Um... let me know?
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Thanks for adding. Easily done though given its multiple as such and lots of games.
I do think on the whole though you did get a fair bit for your money with these, the double play ones anyway. The pack I got well they were not great but for the couple of £ , I could of done a lot worse and had done in the past too. < That's 'then' not now.
I do think on the whole though you did get a fair bit for your money with these, the double play ones anyway. The pack I got well they were not great but for the couple of £ , I could of done a lot worse and had done in the past too. < That's 'then' not now.
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1. Jason And The Golden Fleece
2. The Witch Hunter
3. Devils Descent
Also missing off the list is The Greatest Show On Earth, a set of mini-games set in the circus, it's rubbish but I do play it occasionally, and A Trick Of The Tale, a plodding MM clone which is beyond rubbish. I don't think the inclusion of them would make any difference to the outcome of this poll, given how obscure the label is.
2. The Witch Hunter
3. Devils Descent
Also missing off the list is The Greatest Show On Earth, a set of mini-games set in the circus, it's rubbish but I do play it occasionally, and A Trick Of The Tale, a plodding MM clone which is beyond rubbish. I don't think the inclusion of them would make any difference to the outcome of this poll, given how obscure the label is.
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Re: The best Speccy game by Central Solutions/Pocket Money Software/Double Play: vote
With 4 votes, Devil's Descent is the outright winner.
Second place goes to A Tangled Tale with two votes.
What's in joint third place? Well, one vote each to: Jason And The Golden Fleece; Operation Turtle; The Traveller and Urquahart Castle.
The proportional results? Well, here we go...
Devil's Descent 4
Jason And The Golden Fleece 3
Witch Hunter, The 3
Earthbound 2
Second place goes to A Tangled Tale with two votes.
What's in joint third place? Well, one vote each to: Jason And The Golden Fleece; Operation Turtle; The Traveller and Urquahart Castle.
The proportional results? Well, here we go...
Devil's Descent 4
Jason And The Golden Fleece 3
Witch Hunter, The 3
Earthbound 2
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