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ZX Spectrum: lets talk about some actual RETRO gaming. • Page 5
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mrpon 37,366 posts
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jonsaan 27,052 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYES!
MWAH! -
I finished Atic Atac again yesterday afternoon on the DS. Impressed the kids with my retro awesomeness.
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angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agoRenegade, Target Renegade, Movie.
3 of my fave Speccy games of the era, great stuff. -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agolucky_jim wrote:
Funny you should mention Spain and Italy, two areas where the Spectrum did massive business (especially Spain).
And Spain gave us Sir Fred. -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI remember going to the shops, buying Spellbound and Robin o' the Wood. Then couldn't wait to show off to my best mate, who I later that day discovered had gone to the shops and bought Spellbound and Robin o' the Wood.
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mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoangerisagift wrote:
Nothing more satisfying than the back kick to the gonads. Loved that game.
Renegade -
Spectrum fags
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoCrispyXUK64 wrote:
Spectrum fags
/possibly jealous
Oooh, someone here had a VIC-20 then! -
Blerk wrote:
Yoink!
Two new Speccy games released over the weekend:
Horace in the Mystic Woods, a conversion of the final official Horace game that only appeared on the Psion 3.
Oddi the Viking, an isometric puzzler (which I haven't played much yet). -
Murbal wrote:
C64 my man.
CrispyXUK64 wrote:
Spectrum fags
/possibly jealous
Oooh, someone here had a VIC-20 then! -
Horace is pretty cool. Hard, though. -
CrispyXUK64 wrote:
As was I, but I had plenty of mates with Spectrums. We just saw them as different but still cool because they were computers and we could play games on them. Had mates who'd buy, say, Sacred Armour of Antiriad and we'd complete it on one format and then go to the other house on another night and complete it on the other format.
C64 my man.
Only the arseholes would try to pull the 'your computer is crap!' card. -
Same here, we all seemed to want to play on others computers, same with the SNES / Megadrive ara, even if the megadrive was a bit pants. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agomrpon wrote:
angerisagift wrote:
Nothing more satisfying than the back kick to the gonads. Loved that game.
Renegade
Damn straight! I basically clocked the whole of Renegade* and the sequel exclusively using the back kick! Kicked Mr Big's ass, and the horse he rode in on!
*(The first Renegade was actually rock hard. Target Renegade was a lot easier, especially in co-op) -
Let's not mention Renegade III, eh?
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I really enjoyed Renegade III. Should I be ashamed? -
Is it wrong that I've only played the renegade games on the Amstrad 464? -
lucky_jim wrote:
Ashamed? No. Strung up? Yes.
I really enjoyed Renegade III. Should I be ashamed? -
The Spectrum conversion of the TMNT arcade game was hilariously impossible. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIIRC you couldn't play co-op on the C64 Target Renegade. Another win for the Speccy, which I believe was the definitive version! (don't even mention the shitty NES version)
Renegade III was just a bit loopy....Mummies and dinsosaurs?? WTF? And no Co-op?? They really dropped the ball on that one. Still bought it and clocked it though of course. -
Renegade III was awful. It even got bad reviews at the time, that's how awful it is. -
I liked Renegade III on C64. At the time.
Some of the music was aces.
Helped that I had it on disk, though, seeing as it was multiload. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDDevil wrote:
Renegade III was awful. It even got bad reviews at the time, that's how awful it is.
Actually, no, it got surprsingly good reviews at the time, despite it being a bit shite. CRASH! magazine for example gave it 90 odd percent. -
Retroid wrote:
It wasn't multiload on the Speccy 128. It was 'shit', though.
Helped the I had it on disk, though, seeing as it was multiload. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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The Egyptian level music is still some of my favourite C64 musics.
The game also made excellent use of sprite multiplexing and hi-res overlays on multicolour sprites on the C64, so that helped - especially after the only-ever-two-enemies-onscreen version of Target Renegade! -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe Spectrum was the first machine I played on where the graphics on a game were actually black and white. -
It's a pity that with the constant out with the old, in with the new nature of the industry developers rarely get asked questions about older titles.
I'd love to know what happened with Renegade III. It's actually a miracle that it's so bad, they could have just changed some sprites slightly, added some new backdrops to Target Renegade and you'd get a well received title.
Instead they start from scratch with all new sprites, in a new style which don't look quite so good plus animation that doesn't work as well as it's predecessor. Then colour gets removed and the game goes monochrome, and the final insult, the time travel scenario, the last standby of the unimaginative and permanently stumped.
My guess. It wasn't a Renegade game at all to start with.
And it got a Crash Smash. There's somebody else who should have been asked a few questions. So how many liquid lunches did Imagine take you out for before you did the review?
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