Spectrum Computing

worcestersource wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:21 am The Adventure Game.

And yes, looks like a certain isometric futuristic game whose name I cannot quite place.

Yeah, that’s the TV show. Still can’t think of the game.

The company that moved into the factory unit next door periodically throws stuff out the back as waste. Piles of fire extinguishers, office chairs etc. Well a collection of rather fine wooden barrels has just appeared. I have a great desire to go an bodily push them about to be able to get on top of the shipping container.

5MinuteRetro wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 4:51 pm Yeah, that’s the TV show. Still can’t think of the game.

Surely School Daze. Throw something at it to see what happens.

With the barrels I thought of Fairlight.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:23 am wooden barrels

Turn them on their sides and they become secret passages

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:10 pm Turn them on their sides and they become secret passages

Chuck 'em at a plumber.

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:10 pmTurn them on their sides and they become secret passages

How to tell everyone you're a serf without admitting you're a serf.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:25 am Surely School Daze. Throw something at it to see what happens.

I think you misunderstood. The shield is Skool Daze, yes, (and I think you’re the first to get that one) but the vortex thing reminds me both of TV show The Adventure Game *and* a Spectrum game — the name of which my mind will not conjure.

OK so here's (probably) a bit of a vague one.

This ad keeps popping up on social media. The logo reminds me of a certain thing that is Speccy-related.



Anyone else seeing it?

Morkin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:01 am Anyone else seeing it?

A Flash Smash

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:35 pm A Flash Smash

Exactly

worcestersource wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:21 am The Adventure Game.

And yes, looks like a certain isometric futuristic game whose name I cannot quite place.

Well this bit of the show is obvious:

Terrible photography, but familiar nonetheless

AndyC wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:10 pm

Terrible photography, but familiar nonetheless

Reminds me of this icon on the Firefly intro screen but I’m sure plenty of Spectrum games had similar icons here and there.

Nothing specific, but this news story has 'text adventure' written all over it.

X WOODEN PANEL

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:51 pm Well this bit of the show is obvious:

I added the arcade version of this to my RetroPie setup and was quite taken aback when I gave it a try recently!

If you've ever wondered why the playing area sometimes seems quite small and there are large areas of brick wall background - well, let's just say, on the arcade original (unless you set a certain DIP switch) as you play some of the bricks fall away in the manner of pub peanut packs!

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:51 pm Well this bit of the show is obvious:

As for The Adventure Game, clearly not entirely obvious, they're still trying to work it out!

Spoiler

Looks like it's RED or PENTAGON this week!

Now that's from an early series, before the vortex grid. You had to get across that token board without setting off the buzzer. If you didn't figure out whatever the basic rules were for safe squares, you were in trouble on the way back as you were given a different layout but with the same rules applying. This time if you got it wrong, instead of a buzzer, you were disintegrated!

Joefish wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:44 pm I added the arcade version of this to my RetroPie setup and was quite taken aback when I gave it a try recently!

If you've ever wondered why the playing area sometimes seems quite small and there are large areas of brick wall background - well, let's just say, on the arcade original (unless you set a certain DIP switch) as you play some of the bricks fall away in the manner of pub peanut packs!

Yeah the original is a totally awesome girly game, totally ruined on home conversions!

Spoiler

(Potentially NSFW)

Must be before they worked out the rules for the drogba game too? Later on they didn't have white drogba, they only used ROYGBIV (and maybe not all of those since indigo and violet pretty similar tbh - indigo and violet being distinct was kind of made up by Newton since he was an alchemist/religious wackjob and thought that the ultraviolet spectrum should have 7 colours cos of 7 having religious/mystical significance).

Value of the drogba was number of sides of the polygon * index of the colour (R = 1, O = 2, Y = 3, etc.). They also only used circles and regular polygons later on as well IIRC (not the weird 12 sided plus shape thingio). EDIT: I think they may also have had 2 sided shape as well that looked like an eye as well, can't remember.

Err - can you perhaps photoshop one more brick into that image and re-post it?

Joefish wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:39 pm Err - can you perhaps photoshop one more brick into that image and re-post it?

Oops. Could have sworn that brick wasn't missing. Must have got poked out.