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« Reply #45 on: May 23, 2006, 12:17:14 AM »
Manic Miner was the very first game I ever played on the 48k Spectrum (my Grandfather owned the Spectrum, so I only got to play on it during visits), and was the reason I had to get one.

Apparently, when I was little, I would hum the tune from that game without even realising I was doing it. Drove everybody up the wall.    Cheesy
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« Reply #46 on: May 23, 2006, 12:52:53 AM »
yep super hang on, blinding.

I used to love california games with the surfing, skateboarding, and keepy upy with the little ball.

anyone remember altered beast?
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« Reply #47 on: May 23, 2006, 02:03:14 AM »
Just come back from the pub and remembered another speccy classic...
Head over heals...anyone remember this?
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« Reply #48 on: May 23, 2006, 02:56:15 AM »
We had a Tennis Ball (minus the fluff), & some chalk, with which we could mark out a hop-scotch pitch. Wicked!
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« Reply #49 on: May 23, 2006, 03:10:22 AM »
Deffo remember Altered Beast in the arcades... and I think I got it on the Megadrive. (Which reminds me... I wonder what happened to my old Megadrive?)

Head over Heels - another great, but impossible game! I think I got the walkthrough from one of the magazines - and a cheat for infinite lives - and STILL couldn't complete it...
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« Reply #50 on: May 23, 2006, 04:12:25 AM »
Slinky!
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« Reply #51 on: May 23, 2006, 11:25:20 AM »
Five card draw
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« Reply #52 on: May 23, 2006, 11:29:42 AM »
Arcade games, now that's a whole new list of addictions.  I tended to have one game at a time that I played constantly so, in chronological order of addictiveness, they were:

Track & Field
Hyper Sports
Kung Fu Master
Space Harrier
Out Run

Space Harrier is one that has never translated properly onto any computer or console format.  A new compilation was release a couple of months ago for the PS2 and I finally thought I was going to get the arcade version (the version of Out Run on it is pretty much spot on).  Instead I got one that ran about half as fast as the original and had changed all the sound samples.  Bastards!

The game used to begin with a voice telling you, "Welcome to the fantasy zone.  Get ready!"  In those days, it seemed like such an innocent thing to hear.  How times have changed!

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« Reply #53 on: May 23, 2006, 11:33:48 AM »
Speak & spell was the nuts
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« Reply #54 on: May 23, 2006, 12:57:14 PM »
Quote from: I, Zimbra on May 23, 2006, 12:17:14 AM
Apparently, when I was little, I would hum the tune from that game without even realising I was doing it. Drove everybody up the wall.    Cheesy

it was this track that got me into listening to classical music. The piece used in the game is In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Grieg....

Listen to it here

Listening to classical music also got me into playing Frontier: Elite on the Speccy also
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« Reply #55 on: May 23, 2006, 05:33:18 PM »
best arcade game of all time streetfighter!!

i'm undefeated with Ken. come on i'll prove it.

Daytona was pretty good too.
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« Reply #56 on: May 23, 2006, 06:38:42 PM »
I remember Space Harrier on the Megadrive - that was the one with the guy on the jetpack, right?

Elite was truly fantastic - such a strong format. (Go anywhere, do anything.) I had the Atari ST version that was souped up with actual filled-in polygons (i.e. not wire-frame), unfortunately, the downside was that it was impossible to get past 'Deadly', and you were never offered any of the missions. Shame, really.

Streetfighter 2 was another era-defining game, just as Double Dragon was before it. Don't even want to try to work out how much pocket-money went on those two...
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« Reply #57 on: May 23, 2006, 08:34:02 PM »
I still play 2 player toe jam and earl, the levels are random so new game every time.

We stick quote it at times aswell "Ick moldy bread", if something tastes bad.

Paperboy in the arcades was great.

Download mame arcade emulator and playkung fu master (its based on the film bruce lee never made/finished...game of death)

Spectrum was amazing............Sabrewulf.

Anyone roll a golf ball back and forth on the rubber keyed speccy to get top speed on decathalon.
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« Reply #58 on: May 23, 2006, 09:43:35 PM »
arcarde games i spent more money on than i'll probably ever earn through poker.

Moon Cresta
Operation Wolf
Golden Axe
R Type
Street Fighter 2
Paperboy
Double Dragon
Dragon Ninja
Shinobi
Final Fight

and many, many, too many others.

I was pretty tasty at hypersports too although i dont think i could make it past the third round where the gymnastics event required you to score 10.10 or soemthing when the most was 10! And they say online poker is rigged.....
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« Reply #59 on: May 23, 2006, 09:48:23 PM »
I use to own all of the bunkers/illegal immigrants at Street Fighter 2 down the Trocadero in Londons West End.
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