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« Reply #45 on: April 25, 2007, 11:18:07 PM » |
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I don't remember Double Dragon as a Spectrum game, mainly because (I guess) that was such a late-era coin-op, the Speccy couldn't really handle it. (Multiple loads for each level...  ) God knows how many 10p pieces got eaten by DD machines down at the arcades though... Gauntlet was a classic, one of the first games I recall that you could play with a mate at the same time instead of taking turns. |
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« Reply #46 on: April 25, 2007, 11:19:58 PM » |
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I'm pretty sure I had double dragon on the speccy.
Of course it looked a lot worse on that than on a friends Atari ST!
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« Reply #47 on: April 25, 2007, 11:23:45 PM » |
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It came out right at the end of the Spectrum-era.
I was saying that I didn't ever play it on the Spectrum because by then other computers had taken over (like the ST and the Amiga), and all the reviews I read said that DD on the Speccy wasn't worth it because it wouldn't replicate the coin-op experience (which was really what we wanted), i.e. it would be slowed up and with long breaks for loading new levels.
I had DD on the Sega Master System I think, which was a lot closer to what we wanted to see.
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« Reply #48 on: April 25, 2007, 11:24:30 PM » |
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« Reply #49 on: April 25, 2007, 11:26:34 PM » |
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yeah i remember buying loads of games on the strengh of the pics on the back of the box for the 64 just hoping and praying they would nearly be as good, oh and afterburner that was quite good
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« Reply #50 on: April 25, 2007, 11:29:06 PM » |
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just to change the subject a little does anyone remember a coin op called bad dudes? was in the arcades around 89/90 that was top class
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« Reply #51 on: April 25, 2007, 11:32:49 PM » |
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Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja... we generally called it "Dragon Ninja", for the obvious reason  |
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« Reply #52 on: April 25, 2007, 11:37:09 PM » |
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« Reply #53 on: April 26, 2007, 09:56:20 AM » |
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My favourite speccy game was Sabrewulf however all of the the Ultimate games were great.
Talking of retro gaming as anyone found a working emulator for the BBC B.
Love to see if I could complete a level of Frak.
Was that that one where you were a caveman with a yoyo? Exile was a classic beeb game that was ridiculously big for a comp with 32k to handle. All in one load. An amazing work of programming... The playground battles were funny. Anytime a speccy owner would try and claim it had dominion over the c64, I would just fall over laughing saying "rubber keys rubber keys" relentlessly. Then the 16 bits came and the amiga/ st fans went to war! |
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« Reply #55 on: April 26, 2007, 04:32:46 PM » |
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I seem to recall a great multiplayer game called Rampage where you played as a monster: godzilla, female godzilla or mateymonster  were their names if i recall! You basically all had a skyscraper to knock down by punching it and windows would open up with people and other things in them which you could grab for bonus points. Anyone else remember this game or am I thinking of an amiga game?? Apart from that all I used to do was play Football manger games on the speccy. Footballer of The Year, Football Manager and Tracksuit Manager being the pre-eminant games, although to be fair I'd buy anything with football in the title. edit: forgot about M.A.S.K and Run the Gauntlet, both great games. |
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« Reply #56 on: April 26, 2007, 04:41:21 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #57 on: April 26, 2007, 04:49:01 PM » |
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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. |
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« Reply #58 on: April 26, 2007, 09:57:49 PM » |
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caves of doom, booty, and chuckie egg were kept me up all nite, gr8 games
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