Classic ZX Spectrum Games

[jezza777]

Does anyone remember a game where you could design a car(with weapons) and then take it to a track and race a mate or go to an arena and just slug it out? May have been a specy or Amiga game.

Do you mean SuperCars/Supercars 2? Where you could fir missles and stuff to your cars, which you paid for through prize money you won from races? You also did interviews etc which got you money. That game was on the amiga i think.

nope, not super cars, fairly sure it was earlier and prob on the speccy. Super cars two was awesome.

"have you gat a Police record?"

"No but ive got a Sting album"

great stuff

[FlyingPig]

Did anyone ever think that you could try to record your voice on to a tape by copying the noises it made when loading, and hope that you would somehow create a program??? doooooooooooode doooooooooooodededadededalalalslo. ,, stop recording rewind and see if anything loaded.... Haha... great days......

I must of went through 10 of them mats that sat under the rubber keys. N and M were always breaking on mine...I think they cost about a tenner to get, which was a lot of money to my old fella..He used to moan like crazy. I would put a new one in then 10 minutes later bashing hell out of it playing daley thompsons decathlon......Or Hypersports........ With the vaulting... and the archery....Cant remember any other events from Hypersports....

[dino1980]

Or Hypersports........ With the vaulting... and the archery....Cant remember any other events from Hypersports....

Swimming was event one, then there was clay pigeon shooting, then vaulting (that one used to screw me over), then archery, then i think weight lifting after that not sure, but wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Sports

[JungleCat03]

Or Hypersports........ With the vaulting... and the archery....Cant remember any other events from Hypersports....

Swimming was event one, then there was clay pigeon shooting, then vaulting (that one used to screw me over), then archery, then i think weight lifting after that not sure, but wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Sports

lol i used to play this all the time. You forgot the triple jump!

[mex]

Rose tinted days. TBh good in the day but most games don't stand up these days, some are just impossibbly difficult, there was a game called 'pyramid' that claimed 365 levels, but they couldnt make enough levels in time, so they made level 32 impossibble to finish.

The arcade remakes were rubbish outrun etc.

The best games were the early ones'horace goes sking' 'underwurld' 'sabrewulf'



XBOX360 market place you can download a new remake of speccy classic JETPAC, by a company called ultimate play the game (now called RARE).

[Bongo]

I remember a great game - Turbo Esprit.

You drove round a 3D city (complete with other cars, pedestrians, traffic lights, roadworks etc) hunting down drug dealers.

Was awesome, I never really played the game, just hooned round!

[Tractor]

Does anyone remember a game where you could design a car(with weapons) and then take it to a track and race a mate or go to an arena and just slug it out? May have been a specy or Amiga game.

Do you mean SuperCars/Supercars 2? Where you could fir missles and stuff to your cars, which you paid for through prize money you won from races? You also did interviews etc which got you money. That game was on the amiga i think.

nope, not super cars, fairly sure it was earlier and prob on the speccy. Super cars two was awesome.

"have you gat a Police record?"

"No but ive got a Sting album"

great stuff

Was it Rock n Roll racing, cant remember what format it wqas on, but that rocked.

On a side note any one used to play Speedball/Speedball2 ? On the Amiga?

[JungleCat03]

Does anyone remember a game where you could design a car(with weapons) and then take it to a track and race a mate or go to an arena and just slug it out? May have been a specy or Amiga game.

Do you mean SuperCars/Supercars 2? Where you could fir missles and stuff to your cars, which you paid for through prize money you won from races? You also did interviews etc which got you money. That game was on the amiga i think.

nope, not super cars, fairly sure it was earlier and prob on the speccy. Super cars two was awesome.

"have you gat a Police record?"

"No but ive got a Sting album"

great stuff

Was it Rock n Roll racing, cant remember what format it wqas on, but that rocked.

On a side note any one used to play Speedball/Speedball2 ? On the Amiga?

Speedball 2 was brilliant. Great feeling with full 2x multiplier on, an electrified ball(!), shipping it down the wing, lighting all the stars for 40pts then pinging it off the dome for another 4, bouncing it into the goal on the angle. SCHOOLED FOOLS!

[I, Zimbra]

Turbo Esprit was made by Durell, the same guys that did Saboteur.

It was sort of like GTA before GTA; the plot had something to do with a drug bust (there were meant to be two other cars meeting with an armored van and you had to get them all before they made it out of the city limits), but like with GTA us kids figured it was more fun to mostly just tool around the city.

I don't think I ever managed to get more than two of them before the third one got to the border...

[dino1980]

On a side note any one used to play Speedball/Speedball2 ? On the Amiga?
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Speedball 2 was brilliant. Great feeling with full 2x multiplier on, an electrified ball(!), shipping it down the wing, lighting all the stars for 40pts then pinging it off the dome for another 4, bouncing it into the goal on the angle. SCHOOLED FOOLS!
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Ah Brutal Deluxe, what a franchise! Always a decision whether to bring in a big money signing or develop your exisiting team. Do you go for the pacey black spikey haired winger? Or the tattoed midfield hardman?

My favourite move was electrfying the ball, bouncing it off the point just in front of the 'penalty area' see it loop towards the oppisite goalie, pound the defenders in the way, then just as the goalie catches the ball beat him to a pulp and score.

I can remember that there were nine players on the pitch, i think my record was injuring 14 in one game lol

Anyone know of any amiga emulators?

[JungleCat03]

WinUAE is a  good stable amiga emulator.
http://www.winuae.net/

You need to setup a kickstart rom in its configuration.

PM me if u need a link...google is your buddy though as usual....


It's slightly fiddly and you need to adjust the configuration to work different games but i think most amiga roms should work with some messing about. Not sure about speedball 2.

If you have any probs, pm me and I'll see if I can help!

(Never got kick off 2 to work well sadly )

[I, Zimbra]

I also had Speedball 2 on the ST... agree it was loads of fun.

Xenon 2 was a good one as well for that era, great soundtrack by Bomb The Bass (basically a reworking of John Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13" score), and at the time, groundbreakingly good graphics...

[Tractor]

Any one play Project X by Team 17 on the Amiga, it was a tough shootem up.
i loved that game.

[dino1980]

Any one play Project X by Team 17 on the Amiga, it was a tough shootem up.
i loved that game.

Yeah I remember that game fondly, it was kind of like cannon fodder but before cannon fodder was released right? You had to do different missions and select which soldiers to use and kit them out with guns/supplies etc. The more supplies etc they had the less moves they had each turn.