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I'm 90% sure it was a spectrum game. It was text-input adventure but with graphics on the screen. It's theme was pirates and the dialogue was funny but it wasn't called Pirate Adventure. I think the title of the game was the pirate's name and strangely enough his name was quite quirky like Guybrush Threepwood but it obviously wasn't this either! It definitely pre-dated monkey island and monkey island it probably the closest game to it. |
Can anyone remember the name of this old spectrum game
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buchowski 1 posts
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Zenobi Software published a hell of a lot of text adventures on the Speccy. Hopefully this link will work, but if not, run a search for their name on World of Spectrum and see if any of the results ring a bell. -
wayneh 2,599 posts
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The only pirate game I can remember from that era is Booty. Sorry that's not much help. Great game though .gif)
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Gambit1977 10,398 posts
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Registered 14 years ago@EMarkM you didn't play Treasure Island? Getting past blind pew was a killer 
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@Gambit1977 Never did 
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andyc1980 1,621 posts
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Registered 13 years ago@Gambit1977 fuck me that brings back some memories. -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNot a text adventure game, but I remember getting a game called Treasure Island free with my 128K Speccy (I say 'mine', it was really my Dad's) - horrendously difficult at the time - it still pops up in the odd nightmare. -
PhoenixFlames 9,263 posts
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Registered 14 years agocaligari wrote:
Loved this game although I never got very far! Solid.
Not a text adventure game, but I remember getting a game called Treasure Island free with my 128K Speccy (I say 'mine', it was really my Dad's) - horrendously difficult at the time - it still pops up in the odd nightmare.
Edited by PhoenixFlames at 21:35:29 23-12-2013 -
X201 22,150 posts
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Pirate by Chalksoft?
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011997 -
Clive_Dunn 4,862 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAhh, Pirate Adventure. I spent hours on those old Scott Adams games as a kid, happy days. -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPhoenixFlames wrote:
Hah, good to hear that somebody else actually played the thing. The Frogger-section was so tough because of the isometric angle (possibly my memory playing tricks on me) - and you'd be treated to an ear-splintering drilling noise if you died - which I did - over and over again.
caligari wrote:
Loved this game although I never got very far! Solid.
Not a text adventure game, but I remember getting a game called Treasure Island free with my 128K Speccy (I say 'mine', it was really my Dad's) - horrendously difficult at the time - it still pops up in the odd nightmare. -
PhoenixFlames 9,263 posts
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Registered 14 years agocaligari wrote:
You mean at the start when you had to jump barrels? Then you had to dodge something (rats?) before making it to the island.
PhoenixFlames wrote:
Hah, good to hear that somebody else actually played the thing. The Frogger-section was so tough because of the isometric angle (possibly my memory playing tricks on me) - and you'd be treated to an ear-splintering drilling noise if you died - which I did - over and over again.
caligari wrote:
Loved this game although I never got very far! Solid.
Not a text adventure game, but I remember getting a game called Treasure Island free with my 128K Speccy (I say 'mine', it was really my Dad's) - horrendously difficult at the time - it still pops up in the odd nightmare. -
Anyone remember Taipan? I can't remember if it was shit or not after all these years.
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caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPhoenixFlames wrote:
Christ - I'd forgotten about the barrel section - that was a killer, too. I think the next section saw you having to move your character across the screen, avoiding (what I thought were) pirates walking backwards and forwards - perhaps they were rats, though? Either way, I rarely saw the section after this. ;_;
caligari wrote:
You mean at the start when you had to jump barrels? Then you had to dodge something (rats?) before making it to the island.
PhoenixFlames wrote:
Hah, good to hear that somebody else actually played the thing. The Frogger-section was so tough because of the isometric angle (possibly my memory playing tricks on me) - and you'd be treated to an ear-splintering drilling noise if you died - which I did - over and over again.
caligari wrote:
Loved this game although I never got very far! Solid.
Not a text adventure game, but I remember getting a game called Treasure Island free with my 128K Speccy (I say 'mine', it was really my Dad's) - horrendously difficult at the time - it still pops up in the odd nightmare. -
wayneh 2,599 posts
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Registered 13 years agostatssonic wrote:
I vaguely remember the name and enjoying it
Anyone remember Taipan? I can't remember if it was shit or not after all these years. -
EMarkM wrote:
What do you know I actually have this game, I'll have to try it. I bought an amstrad cpc 464 from ebay a while back because it was my first gaming machine, with a bunch of (mostly old crap) games.
The only pirate game I can remember from that era is Booty. Sorry that's not much help. Great game though -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Gambit1977 10,398 posts
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Registered 14 years agoandyc1980 wrote:
dying on the island and watching captain whatshisface run around the entire map
@Gambit1977 fuck me that brings back some memories. think I could draw it from memory by the end! -
statssonic wrote:
Enjoy
EMarkM wrote:
What do you know I actually have this game, I'll have to try it. I bought an amstrad cpc 464 from ebay a while back because it was my first gaming machine, with a bunch of (mostly old crap) games.
The only pirate game I can remember from that era is Booty. Sorry that's not much help. Great game though -
djronz. 516 posts
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Registered 10 years agoAh booty, remember it well, had impressive shimmering water effect on the title screen, for a Speccy that is. -
Jolly Roger?
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002639
Seas of Blood?
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quadfather 39,069 posts
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BUMP!
This thread will do nicely.
I remember playing a game on a covertape. It was a game where it was like some kind weird sport. It was presented side on, two men (white in colour) were inside a green box. Both men were attached to their side of the box by a yellow bungee cord.
The game was to catch a little ball with a kind of glove that looked like the end of a Lacrosse paddle, then throw it into one of two holes in the ceiling of the opponents side of the box. The rope would be slowly pulling you backwards, jumping would make it go faster, crouching would stop it pulling altogether.
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Hah, never mind. Blerk already has it. Bounces.
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Tonka 31,979 posts
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
Naturally.
Hah, never mind. Blerk already has it. -
Turns out the cover tape part was important, it was on this Crash cover tape.
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGambit1977 wrote:
/gets flashbacks of the goat in Broken Sword
@EMarkM you didn't play Treasure Island? Getting past blind pew was a killer
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1992. Explains why I have no recollection. I stopped gaming completely in 1988/89.
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