PLAY - Top Trumps; Computer Games

[AlanM]

Another classic now enjoying a new lease of life on mobile phones is BombJack. Downloaded it from Vodafone for the princely sum of £1

Can be played online here

Score 9/10

Alan

[dcvr]

Lunar Jetman and Paradroid eh? A man of taste

It's well worth checking out the Lunar Jetman remake (and loads of others too) at http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=ljm if you haven't already...

My own favourites:



Atic Atac - crappy graphics but addictive gameplay, and the first game I ever played on the Spectrum. 5 for graphics, but 8 for sound (hey, it's a spectrum - it was comparitavely good!) and 10 for gameplay/addictiveness. Extra points because it's Ultimate, making it a 9.



Ranarama - the follow-up to Quazatron (speccy version of Paradroid) which was also pretty cool. Runes and a cursed frog - these guys were on something. 8.



StarQuake. Nuff said. 9

[YokerBloke]

To mark my 300th post, another C64 belter...




'nuff said...

[McShad]

I remember loving Starquake... but I can't for the life of me remember what it was about!

[Bex Bissell]

An Eastenders game? on a 48k computer? did the suicide rate increase around the time this was out.
Was it role play?
"Play the part of Den, see how many taxi drivers you can shoot before Arthur runs off with the Xmas club kitty."
or Cath, are you able to talk around the traffic cops after you've been caught performing horatio in a landrover on the hard-sholder of the M25.

Any here was a good wee platform game Dynamite Dan
Score 7

Is it me or is that Gordon Ramsey in the Zepplin?

[AlanM]

The recipient of most 10p's during my mispent youth had to be Galaxians, absolute class, Space Invaders with groups of enemy ships diving at you, and no poofy shields to hide behind.

[engineer]

when not building up my right arm with daley thomson decathlon, i was doing it with this:


a pretty terrible game, i have a friend who made his wee brother buy it for him

[Vinny the Mackem]

[Bex Bissell]

Nice collection there V.
Was the hobbit a role play thingy ma bob?


A sort of prequel to GTA. 8

[YokerBloke]

It was, is used a technique called Inglish for the vocabulary. Was very good for its time (1983). You could muck it up and cause it to crash, getting hilarious descriptions....

Araw it! The Black Sea evaporates!

[Vinny the Mackem]

I remember getting The Hobbit when it came out, and it being hugely expensive. At a time when top priced games were about £5, this was around £15.99. Equivalent, if you think about it, of paying around £120 for a PS2 game now! Mind you, the actual book was supplied too!

[stranger]

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i know this is a bit ot but did anyone notice the name of the program after
horace looks like c**t to me or is it just my eyes playing tricks

[dazed_and_confused]

Blimey!

[red_kola]

i know this is a bit ot but did anyone notice the name of the program after
horace looks like c**t to me or is it just my eyes playing tricks

This may come as a bit of a surprise to you, but nobody has ever actually made a film version of Horace goes Skiing. Sorry...
TVGoHome: http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/090799.html

[red_kola]

A sort of prequel to GTA. 8

Nice choice. This first game in which you could run down pedestrians IIRC. All you got was a brief sharp squeal and you couldn't leave bloodstained skidmarks but it must have been an inspriration to the makers of GTA and Carmageddon.

I also remember being particularly blown away by teh fact that they managed to get 2 channel sound out of the spectrum's 1 channel audio circuitry...