Indeed it was.
Anyone remember Mr Puniverse? Though we're going back to the C16 here, so strictly I'm breaking the rules.
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Indeed it was.
Anyone remember Mr Puniverse? Though we're going back to the C16 here, so strictly I'm breaking the rules.
Acid4Blood
Bluelighter
DIE! ALIEN SLIME on the C64
knock
Bluelighter
^^ The spaceman on the right looks like he's playing a guitar. Must be Bowie.
Acid4Blood
Bluelighter
looks more like an electric mandolin!
Jackal
Bluelighter
Amstrad CPC464: Roland on the Ropes.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
Manic Miner! Thats the one i was tryin to think of on the spectrum....
Looks the same as the top screenshot by the OP....
Spent HOURS on that.
Looks the same as the top screenshot by the OP....
Spent HOURS on that.
badandwicked
Bluelighter
We had to go to mates houses in the early days then our parents realised if they ever wanted to see us they'd better move with the times. So we got an amiga and spent our days drinking squash, eating biscuits and playing The Untouchables and Teenage mutant Ninja turtles. Life was so much less complicated then 
th3 s1aught3r
Bluelighter
We had to go to mates houses in the early days then our parents realised if they ever wanted to see us they'd better move with the times. So we got an amiga and spent our days drinking squash, eating biscuits and playing The Untouchables and Teenage mutant Ninja turtles. Life was so much less complicated then
beautiful
jancrow
Bluelighter
If we're gonna go all 16 bit I've got nostalgia for that era stored up like a smackhead's faeces.
LEMMINGS ONLINE
This game takes over your brain. You become attuned to the rhythms of the bridge makers and the swinging of the blockers' heads. When you send one brave lemming ahead on a solo mission to build complex bridges you place all your hopes and dreams in that tiny pixelated frame and feel genuinely wounded when you fuck something up and he slips into water, fire or one of the traps. The level designs are in places truly sadistic. I feel extremely bad about releasing this link into a forum where a lot of people have addictive personalities. Please don't get hooked.
LEMMINGS ONLINE
This game takes over your brain. You become attuned to the rhythms of the bridge makers and the swinging of the blockers' heads. When you send one brave lemming ahead on a solo mission to build complex bridges you place all your hopes and dreams in that tiny pixelated frame and feel genuinely wounded when you fuck something up and he slips into water, fire or one of the traps. The level designs are in places truly sadistic. I feel extremely bad about releasing this link into a forum where a lot of people have addictive personalities. Please don't get hooked.
knock
Bluelighter
That's amazingly faithful to the original. Have you played Pingus (in the Ubuntu software centre! also available for mac and windows)? It's a very good Lemmings rip-off.
jancrow
Bluelighter
It's pretty clever huh? There are a couple of bugs (eg level 1 Mayhem doesn't kill them all with a fall at the beginning) but an impressive bit of work overall.
Don't tell me there's a ubuntu version when I've got an hour to tidy up before the gf comes round, are you trying to ruin my life?
Don't tell me there's a ubuntu version when I've got an hour to tidy up before the gf comes round, are you trying to ruin my life?
th3 s1aught3r
Bluelighter
anyone else play this Batman game. I could never finish it !
The Caped Crusader
The Caped Crusader
th3 s1aught3r
Bluelighter
IK+
Beak
Bluelighter
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6g5uJTioXpg&v=6g5uJTioXpg&gl=GBGauntlet, great spectrum game back in the day
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
Gauntlet was a great game!
Does anyone else remember typing in pages of code from the ZX81/Spectrum magazines? lol, one mistake, no load, and no idea where the mistake might have been, or even if it was a misprint you'd faithfully copied......
:D
Does anyone else remember typing in pages of code from the ZX81/Spectrum magazines? lol, one mistake, no load, and no idea where the mistake might have been, or even if it was a misprint you'd faithfully copied......
:D
knock
Bluelighter
Yes! I remember typing in pages and pages of code from a copy of Sinclair User, I think, a game, and it never worked, I went over it line by line, character by character to make sure I'd not made a typo. It was definitely a misprint, so annoying! After going through that once, I didn't bother again. I've probably still got the magazine somewhere.
I did once write my own game, though, in BASIC. It was shit, but I was chuffed with myself.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
lol yeah I wrote an "adventure" game in BASIC. That was on a Commodore PET! You can imagine the excitement.
My mum was a teacher at the time and managed to borrow one for the summer holidays from the computer science department.
I realised by the end of the summer that the Commmodore PET was not a very exciting machine, even though it looked straight from the future.
My mum was a teacher at the time and managed to borrow one for the summer holidays from the computer science department.
I realised by the end of the summer that the Commmodore PET was not a very exciting machine, even though it looked straight from the future.
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Tau Ceti was a stand out game for me, as was shoot 'em construction kit and the Ghostbusters game based on the original film (there was one based on the cartoon as well which wasn't as good). The latter was like an early version of Luigi's Mansion.