tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62400480084554747112024-03-06T08:33:18.208+08:00 COMP SYS SINCLAIR CRAP GAMES COMPETITION 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-43253072293620341102014-01-05T01:13:00.001+08:002014-01-07T04:42:55.493+08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAofy_mqrk_Bc4Vt8ZucMf1IKIKRz8ck5TNriafhNrDzn_5HXYXggjq6dzihe7CIB6_oWQRDRQ5bQLeZCDeN6vCiOZtXcYdOMTGVbnHrlvJUAbTtKWzSno_1y3WhEvbNgVc-TMot23Wq4/s1600/CGCOVER.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAofy_mqrk_Bc4Vt8ZucMf1IKIKRz8ck5TNriafhNrDzn_5HXYXggjq6dzihe7CIB6_oWQRDRQ5bQLeZCDeN6vCiOZtXcYdOMTGVbnHrlvJUAbTtKWzSno_1y3WhEvbNgVc-TMot23Wq4/s320/CGCOVER.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
There's something in my eye...<br />
<br />
EDIT<br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdN3FFTlFfdlpVaDg/edit?usp=sharing">ALL FILES NOW AVAILABLE IN ONE ZIP</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-4828526531521624122014-01-05T01:09:00.000+08:002014-01-05T01:18:37.199+08:00!!CGC 2013 RESULTS!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well it's judging time I'm afraid, but before that give yourselves a big cheer for the final tally of <u>102 CRAP GAMES!</u><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb84kGBZk04qG58Y6Iss_vHUEdj3j5yuaBsfRE5glgqq71qY2uMi8e_Tl3mzsliVK1AqCg-FuMLcOKw16Qq-4j-6f1hsndL0SN9ubzTof6XtSO3yhHcv5hHdIqw1hUgF6cZ79G_fGCrgs/s1600/Cassette102.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb84kGBZk04qG58Y6Iss_vHUEdj3j5yuaBsfRE5glgqq71qY2uMi8e_Tl3mzsliVK1AqCg-FuMLcOKw16Qq-4j-6f1hsndL0SN9ubzTof6XtSO3yhHcv5hHdIqw1hUgF6cZ79G_fGCrgs/s320/Cassette102.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damnations joke (c) RebelstarWAC :-)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
In judging something so subjective as this I've let the chuntey guide me almost entirely. If I could say before announcing the winners/losers I'd like to say a huge thanks to everyone who entered and joined in the banter on the way, it's been great fun.<br />
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
OVERALL WINNER (Crappest game)<br />
Joystick Hero by pgyuri<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKN-52a0V1KZey_5ghAN-szn5IgaNN-7hIhKNbLtblAjAddwU1WO_LEcq6kiQwwBstJciK-bwgQT7fQFrKkmn7og9bh2R98AhyJHUGUaoQIhXTGFZS1pXG2um-nIzPchHzUbXFup_x-o/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKN-52a0V1KZey_5ghAN-szn5IgaNN-7hIhKNbLtblAjAddwU1WO_LEcq6kiQwwBstJciK-bwgQT7fQFrKkmn7og9bh2R98AhyJHUGUaoQIhXTGFZS1pXG2um-nIzPchHzUbXFup_x-o/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
I'm pleased to announce you get first prize of a 75p and a packet of rolos, plus a bonus Cassette 50!<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjoqq4psL3n_L6qb944QRKwK1JMgox-JZQne1Ao77V-U8kvFJtlXqn2vXdMMc-rumfPmzgm2ByB734yPR0yPaSLsK7tAsj2W65QypLPZn6q7rN-b9sDZSl5TnqsKkyu_05gp1Cb5Ptzs/s1600/DSCN0232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjoqq4psL3n_L6qb944QRKwK1JMgox-JZQne1Ao77V-U8kvFJtlXqn2vXdMMc-rumfPmzgm2ByB734yPR0yPaSLsK7tAsj2W65QypLPZn6q7rN-b9sDZSl5TnqsKkyu_05gp1Cb5Ptzs/s320/DSCN0232.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
OVERALL LOSER (one of the best games and next years host)<br />
Super UDG Fighterz 2 Turbo by MykeP<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOA5YqWCUp5He4-nkjlw3z1zacmgq9Tin8VADE5CUz9oZbqKF_mRfwsXXc-fNS38wPJA1bwfDbeo6t1oUK6zEoEr8IeI_HHVKbETOKlo8eg1QvN69qqjhhfpbKzyQi1vCWzGLpQrleyw/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOA5YqWCUp5He4-nkjlw3z1zacmgq9Tin8VADE5CUz9oZbqKF_mRfwsXXc-fNS38wPJA1bwfDbeo6t1oUK6zEoEr8IeI_HHVKbETOKlo8eg1QvN69qqjhhfpbKzyQi1vCWzGLpQrleyw/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
________________________________________________________________________<br />
LAWNMOWER MINICOMP<br />
ALS Tactics by Jason Railton<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtXGKvQUptUlBP5Vw7Uw7QYKLJ5u2tGxD8yajYu-6TdHMl6csEQSlMkoPKEKaYZrNiPf3SF710Hp9P5pXV7YGN7ULRRQF0tN2dTxEsont5dXqFi0j2EMOTI5yUrofcF6YxCz_SfqXF50/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtXGKvQUptUlBP5Vw7Uw7QYKLJ5u2tGxD8yajYu-6TdHMl6csEQSlMkoPKEKaYZrNiPf3SF710Hp9P5pXV7YGN7ULRRQF0tN2dTxEsont5dXqFi0j2EMOTI5yUrofcF6YxCz_SfqXF50/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
OTTER MINICOMP<br />
Otters on a Plane by Anders Carlsson<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuV9pmhBW_alhtozn1-HbVRNKEUK7dXOj-44YDlJkYOO8unlLuaay9nY4Xn_nSclpEV_lTEREvRAjxBLcHGi89tiqWi4SF_2UF6QP2cCDcdy0uV9N3SGwoGTPZ7P8tH2ZmWFFtR6rQnuM/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuV9pmhBW_alhtozn1-HbVRNKEUK7dXOj-44YDlJkYOO8unlLuaay9nY4Xn_nSclpEV_lTEREvRAjxBLcHGi89tiqWi4SF_2UF6QP2cCDcdy0uV9N3SGwoGTPZ7P8tH2ZmWFFtR6rQnuM/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
PEASANT'S PRIZE<br />
Mental Disorder Pacman by Paul Equinox Collins<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ1SAvbUw7fBwzmXAaZwCDbjxfQj4LSnc93u3bt6A8JuuJZMxHDCLrCWrUMr1ZoBCzQq1AQkwQ0u-MK8pffF0QpJg5teSh9SoqnwIb8ixo9iNr1jWGwbQjUc_guvi-dadCGDij2DEXdk/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ1SAvbUw7fBwzmXAaZwCDbjxfQj4LSnc93u3bt6A8JuuJZMxHDCLrCWrUMr1ZoBCzQq1AQkwQ0u-MK8pffF0QpJg5teSh9SoqnwIb8ixo9iNr1jWGwbQjUc_guvi-dadCGDij2DEXdk/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
BEST TYPE IN<br />
Mega Ski by Shaun Bebbington<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCo2F2B3tq0mEfgfgEE7ZM88tRGstcOPC_E15bSy7cLH0udG-TR_-y0FScmgfm7KkgtA2ouIJc6JUQ-EKRuJUpntGuk4BLGXx0YS3dTeqVOig0a3nYTAyvMv2mQcb26R918P1hyphenhyphenNqvYPI/s1600/ScoreToBeat.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCo2F2B3tq0mEfgfgEE7ZM88tRGstcOPC_E15bSy7cLH0udG-TR_-y0FScmgfm7KkgtA2ouIJc6JUQ-EKRuJUpntGuk4BLGXx0YS3dTeqVOig0a3nYTAyvMv2mQcb26R918P1hyphenhyphenNqvYPI/s320/ScoreToBeat.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
HARRY S PRICE BURSARY<br />
Noah and the Mower by RebelstarWAC<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8QuyXcIeyPCfXAgOAHPLHr-ggvdxFTBhn8qpyaRxbNMcH22rbe-21wXBu6X3NB956YKyiz3m3ey8dt4qweH5PNJJOY9CcftFZG9vsrbXkXmrBs9yjH2uMOpDtBi0EGtbXfSsY8WcI7ks/s1600/both.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8QuyXcIeyPCfXAgOAHPLHr-ggvdxFTBhn8qpyaRxbNMcH22rbe-21wXBu6X3NB956YKyiz3m3ey8dt4qweH5PNJJOY9CcftFZG9vsrbXkXmrBs9yjH2uMOpDtBi0EGtbXfSsY8WcI7ks/s320/both.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
BEST MUSIC<br />
Advanced Junglist Simulator by Lee Spoons<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxA4blgpzy0hyTJQCT6KxdcZOP7ptxcIvgYFqZdObZC8o-Q2Hh9JoZIK9cYv429ed7JvqYxEnVhxenRt35w_xOhDQzhkULPJmpKkEIdjmbCEISLhgj6DzEyipaNjHEabrp53hgXJAfeU/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxA4blgpzy0hyTJQCT6KxdcZOP7ptxcIvgYFqZdObZC8o-Q2Hh9JoZIK9cYv429ed7JvqYxEnVhxenRt35w_xOhDQzhkULPJmpKkEIdjmbCEISLhgj6DzEyipaNjHEabrp53hgXJAfeU/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
BARMIEST GAME<br />
Vaticania by apenao<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2bebAgctQo4GYyr8SwHoVh9wO6o7Za9JqxxaVZfy_XjVQcrPH_8QaffdoTfiNgaj-f0UwbC2cu2wbre71QGx2RF4qPS5BEdl6n_bu1gsGen7idaPJ-a5z0YvSfvBbxm-9-gam8ZnqFW8/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2bebAgctQo4GYyr8SwHoVh9wO6o7Za9JqxxaVZfy_XjVQcrPH_8QaffdoTfiNgaj-f0UwbC2cu2wbre71QGx2RF4qPS5BEdl6n_bu1gsGen7idaPJ-a5z0YvSfvBbxm-9-gam8ZnqFW8/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
SMARTARSE AWARD<br />
Chromatrons Attack by guesser<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulzrFKDmAYSKAj46ncdyMNN3oBrBwWbzO0N5rtX3D237Vpamm5_zrUTUU_XUybwAfLpMBvYhUkO9AHcnv_OPkkFwR8gINLI0RyGmGreANaE1cdMrhmVqvWxfm_JhO_Cp-aCGiHrxNL9k/s320/loadingscreen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulzrFKDmAYSKAj46ncdyMNN3oBrBwWbzO0N5rtX3D237Vpamm5_zrUTUU_XUybwAfLpMBvYhUkO9AHcnv_OPkkFwR8gINLI0RyGmGreANaE1cdMrhmVqvWxfm_JhO_Cp-aCGiHrxNL9k/s320/loadingscreen.png" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
TROOPER AWARD and BEST CRICKET GAME<br />
Steve McCrea for his 25 entries!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9dHpbB-PMlF4H1RqEVZtpVltss9ngirluGUg3UNhPjP6WPJpAZ4N0WKSB403pyMG8bh298C8DzX2HHTUT-1Kkr7NwXLUYVWrkuHmaYsOLy14Qw8se_t1Z7JJztkEPsU48699Vpw0yO0/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9dHpbB-PMlF4H1RqEVZtpVltss9ngirluGUg3UNhPjP6WPJpAZ4N0WKSB403pyMG8bh298C8DzX2HHTUT-1Kkr7NwXLUYVWrkuHmaYsOLy14Qw8se_t1Z7JJztkEPsU48699Vpw0yO0/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
SLOWEST GAME<br />
S.N.A.I.L by Wookiee<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WIgD_JmuZi88vJuQCVKO_shu8QuKIr24_jZfQZ5pR5G_fdAqOIesMaCCMh7Nop43-z9xNw4xu2jXEbm01sbbNt_V6qgpn2BLDHmAotCPFGeHC1_zraOU0br-TXsXW1NOS_PDY7mOhEg/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WIgD_JmuZi88vJuQCVKO_shu8QuKIr24_jZfQZ5pR5G_fdAqOIesMaCCMh7Nop43-z9xNw4xu2jXEbm01sbbNt_V6qgpn2BLDHmAotCPFGeHC1_zraOU0br-TXsXW1NOS_PDY7mOhEg/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
BEST SUPPORT MATERIAL<br />
Monkey Doo's Fruit Salad for the hit single by retromad<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk3oCEc8WoxA7q2jeJbF2gkk5H_hTLfvhf1PUj1k_XfRkJKTcrxgg_7PInE9EcVXYAN-4RMBQL_OCr8nrQdPOWyS7lv7LACpm9BoxnmQx8O_KlTrN7uuw7CSdW0qnGos3rhGnpT5vgFI/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk3oCEc8WoxA7q2jeJbF2gkk5H_hTLfvhf1PUj1k_XfRkJKTcrxgg_7PInE9EcVXYAN-4RMBQL_OCr8nrQdPOWyS7lv7LACpm9BoxnmQx8O_KlTrN7uuw7CSdW0qnGos3rhGnpT5vgFI/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
________________________________________________________________________<br />
SQIJ BUGGED GAME AWARD<br />
Crisp Snatcher by Steve Broad<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wCok8n6CEhSjKBL6IFhyLZgqK6zf-gKyovYVRSFqufBf4BvqMpJYuZI2aiRiGu55zDkRf4gNto-qJaGoKwCV8zCBbRccEWsjtRTWZQqQuCBhUwsGFzaJcA7gboybfAFHNUHaMPHtze8/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wCok8n6CEhSjKBL6IFhyLZgqK6zf-gKyovYVRSFqufBf4BvqMpJYuZI2aiRiGu55zDkRf4gNto-qJaGoKwCV8zCBbRccEWsjtRTWZQqQuCBhUwsGFzaJcA7gboybfAFHNUHaMPHtze8/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
Thanks again for all entries, it's been an absolute treat and honour to host this competition, it was exciting every time a new game appeared in the inbox.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to pgyuri, commiserations to MykeP!<br />
<br />
Good luck to MykeP in hosting the 2014 comp, and I will be getting my own back on him with a crap game or two of my own!<br />
<br />
Disagree with any of the decisions? Why not leave a comment and we can have a chat about your favourites.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-24867533780020849072014-01-04T19:28:00.001+08:002014-01-04T19:45:31.243+08:00Daniel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Paul Equinox Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Existential
flinch</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This marks Paul’s second
entry to the competition and it’s another introspective one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Done in the 1990’s the game is based on a
bonus stage from Super Mario on the GameBoy and named after his then best friend at school,
Daniel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through Paul, Daniel met and is
now married to one of Paul’s exes, and they are now committed Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul said he didn’t have time to weave this
tangled web into the game, but I would suggest that given the themes explored
here – luck, fate, life, death, purpose, longevity, in a way he already has.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH5a-5u3kIM7cIpsUjJkjkZnoR2-0zGH6LwmujxZhYyxc2l0YTLAmS4SJp2Y8xHxFRXEYL7Tcw_-5Q_u1Zb3t5LTxIWRpG8KzbbQENABJFiPxM_BGKbkCNHtSg98n4B97pGVU1jFDGSM/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH5a-5u3kIM7cIpsUjJkjkZnoR2-0zGH6LwmujxZhYyxc2l0YTLAmS4SJp2Y8xHxFRXEYL7Tcw_-5Q_u1Zb3t5LTxIWRpG8KzbbQENABJFiPxM_BGKbkCNHtSg98n4B97pGVU1jFDGSM/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ready or not, on loading
you leap straight into the game (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no
introscreen or wait for keypress here</i>) and have to work out what to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You randomly appear on one of the 4
platforms at a disarmingly fast rate and must press a key to ‘get’ the object
on that platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Objects are green
crosses (lose a life), clocks (extra time) and yellow boxes (extra life).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no scoring to speak of, unless you
count the number of goes as such. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The speed of change is too fast to properly target anything, so it is
at best guided, at worst random which item you get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So like life, Daniel is a game of chance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQlKssvdgkaVHZWg40fLaEKpr_gwRaVSno_p8HLaqDAMyn3oAPLNTWmYM6weLIjroGYhr_6owNWo0BZumJTu1xQu3Z07W9xqs3DSJ940Z6BMRm6Al1ifEnnMMzwb0O0muArH8C8j-HxM/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQlKssvdgkaVHZWg40fLaEKpr_gwRaVSno_p8HLaqDAMyn3oAPLNTWmYM6weLIjroGYhr_6owNWo0BZumJTu1xQu3Z07W9xqs3DSJ940Z6BMRm6Al1ifEnnMMzwb0O0muArH8C8j-HxM/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I tried to play through to
the magic number, 256 goes, but annoyingly lost all my lives at the last few
tries after plain sailing for ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
it was game over and reincarnation straight back on the trampoline…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Paul!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdSDlTUGVLV3dGQ00/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-16392270801018137352014-01-03T21:05:00.000+08:002014-01-04T02:29:49.373+08:00Agatha Christie's Parrot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Jason Railton</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Swoop ‘n’
Snoop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jason points out that the
idea for this game was conceived decades ago “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">when a children's nature programme on BBC TV asked viewers to send in
wildlife-themed computer games</i>”, but only now has he realised this vision.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0zW0vRLfg78K0iSLLuaJ37jIe7GoJz3NN_kuK1V9BTkGLRCjEzvZwXZNKXY7XFyFK9Jc1SJamVG2xNim_kne3npoHxyHZUUzKfTr_gM7kmCINAbsMOkUJWqWwnM-1o9lBZmGPoElnr0/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0zW0vRLfg78K0iSLLuaJ37jIe7GoJz3NN_kuK1V9BTkGLRCjEzvZwXZNKXY7XFyFK9Jc1SJamVG2xNim_kne3npoHxyHZUUzKfTr_gM7kmCINAbsMOkUJWqWwnM-1o9lBZmGPoElnr0/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">We can breathe a sigh of
relief in that unlike Jason’s other entries, Agatha Christie’s Parrot doesn’t
attempt to be a technical marvel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
first ‘flaw’, as Jason points out, is that it doesn’t actually even feature a
Parrot – it is in fact a Scarlet Macaw (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ara
Macao</i>)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a keen birder of course I
recognised this instantly as I keep several in my study at any one time.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8r0b3Smpztn5FKECxkIBSBY_QeJ-RBcTHPbzRgT4d9xpuAxIQ-LOS-EPoqW0KROkeNlJeckW58z1YspBoCeikaeCMeP5X4e080uVRzT4FkfsrD6x_qC3segKA9W668LNmqxhc1SJ6lY/s1600/agpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8r0b3Smpztn5FKECxkIBSBY_QeJ-RBcTHPbzRgT4d9xpuAxIQ-LOS-EPoqW0KROkeNlJeckW58z1YspBoCeikaeCMeP5X4e080uVRzT4FkfsrD6x_qC3segKA9W668LNmqxhc1SJ6lY/s1600/agpic.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">These instructions were
provided:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">****<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In
this you take on the role of the famous crime-solving bird, flying <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">high
and swooping down to collect important clues to solving a great <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">murder-mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Press any key to dive, and try to collect
more clues <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">than
you miss in order to solve the mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">****</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1cT-S26qOGOEOUVZC7MjLFZbxWwuYHQkcQuv7Q5rpetvgiGA9mhId1zq7hFMpHCP0tVzsWVhraP6d5jVtZH3DDb6Gha3FxoGffMyi4D4dyJpFvkqytRdHyfrOkmBSoZmzKyVP77kdqg/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1cT-S26qOGOEOUVZC7MjLFZbxWwuYHQkcQuv7Q5rpetvgiGA9mhId1zq7hFMpHCP0tVzsWVhraP6d5jVtZH3DDb6Gha3FxoGffMyi4D4dyJpFvkqytRdHyfrOkmBSoZmzKyVP77kdqg/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s actually quite fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you press the any key, the bird follows a nice
character spaced swoop (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">perhaps Agatha
Christie’s Peregrine would be more appropriate</i>?) down onto a passing clue
and upon acquisition you are one step closer to solving the mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bird animation is great, as are the UDGs,
representing typical clues you might see in a murder mystery, like the dagger,
the cocktail, the bomb, the train (?) and the err teddy bear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Barmy, funny, simple and a
bit crappy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ticks all the boxes for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ah
mon ami, ze little grey beak ‘az eet all</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Merci
beaucoup Jason</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdOG02ZVV3QmcwLUk/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-50266600395985924412014-01-03T20:17:00.001+08:002014-01-03T20:18:15.365+08:00Real Miner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Arda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Ore-full Maze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It gives me great pleasure
to announce that Arda, host of the <a href="http://cgc.zx.gen.tr/">2012 CSSCGC</a> and author of <a href="http://www.mojontwins.com/csscgc2011/arda-drawlander/">Drawlander</a>, has
been biding his time and entered a sizzling little maze game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcW_g5q28z6R7lTbsIdHlQkrWi6qD81WCp_4y1EexrMa0luzIa4Qva5ZCcn58t_3M5NKE420UySRjAAdxP5SmLmBW3t4K7t5D5ymhSmVNFEiGlYFf-Q3cvfX86iyaitDAHcwqBxNw6-jA/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcW_g5q28z6R7lTbsIdHlQkrWi6qD81WCp_4y1EexrMa0luzIa4Qva5ZCcn58t_3M5NKE420UySRjAAdxP5SmLmBW3t4K7t5D5ymhSmVNFEiGlYFf-Q3cvfX86iyaitDAHcwqBxNw6-jA/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Done completely in BASIC,
it brings to mind the joys of ScrapYard Scrapes, and I’m pleased to say I’ve
enjoyed Real Miner just as much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim
of the game is to get to the green exit and get as much ore as you can en
route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can move through bright red
material and, Charles Atlas style, push the rocks that are larger than
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To move through diamond and rubble
you must use your pick axe, which appears to be made from substandard material
as each one is capable of doing only one hit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mercifully, like any real mine it is scattered with equally unserviceable
pickaxes in sealed pockets throughout.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlC2AL_4vHyvAiGaeaZdW7fB0Y7i7RnUTFfRAjWXXjMb2FZCgWHpLguIOdb2Ew-kgvwvB07zVA_6I1xZktBd0f0gUy2JjKU-t8d-DfWYn45fqbhPjao_B2Oss7_Rjww8AgygJCuqnFlg/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlC2AL_4vHyvAiGaeaZdW7fB0Y7i7RnUTFfRAjWXXjMb2FZCgWHpLguIOdb2Ew-kgvwvB07zVA_6I1xZktBd0f0gUy2JjKU-t8d-DfWYn45fqbhPjao_B2Oss7_Rjww8AgygJCuqnFlg/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">R</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">eal Miner offers a nod to
some modern gaming styles with its ‘Career Mode’, in which you play a preset
game and follow a real life emulation of what it’s like to be a miner (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and what an uncanny representation it
is!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Alongside this, more fun can
be had with the random game and coded game, the screens in real miner are
generated cleverly using procedural generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDGmep4LE6CqrfVNvnlheomji80Kcv7FrMflwASdAYC1deaN0NLpepeYtg3Z3OlljXrOSbtZ8oootxiqKzVT9EnjTGcWlLdCf6nevSBYXvcYd5PkySYluE5ccoD1uJx9z4p1MRHZzdxI/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDGmep4LE6CqrfVNvnlheomji80Kcv7FrMflwASdAYC1deaN0NLpepeYtg3Z3OlljXrOSbtZ8oootxiqKzVT9EnjTGcWlLdCf6nevSBYXvcYd5PkySYluE5ccoD1uJx9z4p1MRHZzdxI/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What’s crap about it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some the UDGs, it returns to BASIC for
the random and coded game (see HACKSACK), the career mode <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">may</i> be impossible (though I’m not sure – more play needed) and
random generation of impossible screens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I love it to bits though, and it would sit nicely on the Cassette 50.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You might be wondering why
it’s called real miner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well during play
you may be sent into a mine with no pickaxes or in impossible traps and it
becomes clear just how hazardous the life of a miner can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arda’s game is clearly a call to arms for
better working conditions in the mining industry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Arda!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdUjgyVnIyTkcwREk/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HACK SACK:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdT2JnZ015UENNT2c/edit?usp=sharing">Download bugfixed versionhere</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">More
pickaxes</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">: Line
3000, LET pf=X, where ‘X’ is number of pickaxes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span id="goog_2083962620"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_2083962621"></span><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-57866607865139606542014-01-03T05:04:00.001+08:002014-01-04T03:58:50.586+08:00Murk Alfa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Jason Railton</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Vexing vectors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBK4Tn8xuY2SaSWyfyoa4MopxkxAJmNBxigppGDC4nq2DfhYRupFfo9_419j4OVzAnX5rTwi8osR5Fu-6lSvLO1S_ac60Vf_Exs4oWyyq71KSU18d1L89zuvZKXu1ZNL7May8cTeH6IQ/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBK4Tn8xuY2SaSWyfyoa4MopxkxAJmNBxigppGDC4nq2DfhYRupFfo9_419j4OVzAnX5rTwi8osR5Fu-6lSvLO1S_ac60Vf_Exs4oWyyq71KSU18d1L89zuvZKXu1ZNL7May8cTeH6IQ/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Murk Alfa (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a Star Wars reference?</i>) is Jason Railton’s
third entry to this year’s competition and this one is a jaw dropper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It features wireframe graphics and brings
great games and demos like ‘Escape from Targ’ and ‘Hunter’ to mind, and they
were on the more powerful Amiga.</span><br />
<br />
EDIT > It's been pointed out that it is in fact 'Mercenary: Escape from Targ' and there was a perfectly good <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003126">Spectrum port available</a>. Not sure about 'Hunter', and short of doing a quick web search for it there is literally nothing I can do.<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXVi5YOPrN-J9OpKg5Hh43jJqZbEvNbMB0tM_tLCtB25k2Ac3mLxdSxAPkWxpCb_XDEz9GeSnz0EAfqetVnphOAZ2DHuwJZNmiI4oq55BvhNzHvNNaEmEUXx9WvU3VDsvuu48U1LjOXk/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXVi5YOPrN-J9OpKg5Hh43jJqZbEvNbMB0tM_tLCtB25k2Ac3mLxdSxAPkWxpCb_XDEz9GeSnz0EAfqetVnphOAZ2DHuwJZNmiI4oq55BvhNzHvNNaEmEUXx9WvU3VDsvuu48U1LjOXk/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jason provided the
following info:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">************************<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">MISSON BRIEFING<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Due to an impending
meteoric catastrophe, an entire but obscure <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">planetary system has been
entirely evacuated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your task is to <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">infiltrate the capital
trading district of one of the wealthiest <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">planet's major cities and
steal the largest diamond in the history of <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">the universe for your shady
employer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You arrive and leave via the <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">city's Spaceport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to automated security systems still in
place, you <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">must procure all the
materials to complete your quest from within the <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">city itself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">CONTROLS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">O and P - turn left / right<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Q and A - step forward /
back<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">W and S - sprint forward /
back<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">SPACE or M - Fire / Select<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">To enter a building, walk
under it, stand on its lift pad and press <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">FIRE, then B or 1-9 for the
floor, 0 to exit.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">When you have a suitable
ticket, stand at a bus stop and press FIRE to <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">summon the bus.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">When you have obtained a
city map, press M to view it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Press I to view an
inventory of collected items.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">With a suitable transport
device, press E and D to move faster, but only <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">along roads.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">With a suitable flight
device, hold FIRE to gain altitude.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">************************</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">So far so good, in fact you
might be wondering why this game isn’t in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">best</i> game 2013 competition instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, as good as Murk Alfa is there are a few <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tiny</i> drawbacks, firstly the speed is buttock clenchingly slow (which
is understandable because there is a lot going on), secondly the upper screen
clears as it is redrawn, so you get a blinking effect when moving, third I can’t
seem to solve any of the puzzles or make lifts work and fourth it returns to
BASIC quite a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this in mind I
began to suspect that Murk Alfa is not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">quite
</i>the finished article, however Jason gave his assurance that this is “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a fully complete technical marvel, and has
in no way given up because MCoder III runs out of memory trying to compile it</i>.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ah.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIn6rdTGEypUo9RnSTkyWvCpH7896eoPTcXCpaLENdqh9D6VME8PXL0dDTUvMOGB8_gVYFEBGmq77TWED_ARCJsQjahDnK9VAlbpTRSce-X9sVLB4Htr4f3-yRx85_Q1NxTm1wxRCtDQ/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIn6rdTGEypUo9RnSTkyWvCpH7896eoPTcXCpaLENdqh9D6VME8PXL0dDTUvMOGB8_gVYFEBGmq77TWED_ARCJsQjahDnK9VAlbpTRSce-X9sVLB4Htr4f3-yRx85_Q1NxTm1wxRCtDQ/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Nevertheless, Murk Alfa is
a tantalising glimpse of a (potentially) amazing game, so whack your emulator <u>right</u>
up and watch your Spectrum throw some astonishing wireframe shapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And erm if you can solve any of the puzzles
let me know…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Jason!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdbDFSekdlbEJUcTQ/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-77729161489650602932014-01-01T17:22:00.002+08:002014-01-01T17:22:32.936+08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The CSSCGC deadline will be extended to midday* on Saturday 4th January. Results will be announced <u>very</u> shortly after.<br />
<br />
*UK time</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-40945691967735541142014-01-01T17:20:00.000+08:002014-01-01T17:20:26.400+08:00Advanced Anticlimactic New Years Simulator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Lee Spoons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Utility: It’s so
true!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As a brave new year
approaches, Lee has submitted (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hopefully
at the thin end of a bottle given the time</i>) this rather compact bit of code
to the competition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEhgB4Zm0okoSXNqZGhNl9cEYlCfudEwUqZBWC6SYl8Rw43iYKhhrBW4nbNrZt7cEJuGThgLF9J_flHhJH99XwaJS3MCbuMbnD1bmUZwzPe58A4xe5WPLkB4QMqsPwUToJlGjYzsK6F-A/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEhgB4Zm0okoSXNqZGhNl9cEYlCfudEwUqZBWC6SYl8Rw43iYKhhrBW4nbNrZt7cEJuGThgLF9J_flHhJH99XwaJS3MCbuMbnD1bmUZwzPe58A4xe5WPLkB4QMqsPwUToJlGjYzsK6F-A/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">AANYS is a work of genius
because it is ahistorical*.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
past, present or 100 years hence, people can count down to a new year in which
everything will be better, and it might be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">*<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">apart from the computer bit but, y’know.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Lee!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdemtESFh3d0NOVlU/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-44260297088476719112014-01-01T17:19:00.000+08:002014-01-01T17:19:45.154+08:00Advanced Power Cut Detector Simulator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Lee Spoons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Utility: Chocolate
Fireguard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswkYL_YD__Zge-hiE1gsgCm_v44ur1wjOOBVPqDie8S_U4oJAS24f7-8i3L-FqthQBkhkGvvHGcTwmsvWAD0JjU78K2GuAumsZXmQvy6uKEPnCu5jsE3PD3dIc-7YKap86ewrNqOei6g/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswkYL_YD__Zge-hiE1gsgCm_v44ur1wjOOBVPqDie8S_U4oJAS24f7-8i3L-FqthQBkhkGvvHGcTwmsvWAD0JjU78K2GuAumsZXmQvy6uKEPnCu5jsE3PD3dIc-7YKap86ewrNqOei6g/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This utility was inspired
by the unfortunate weather induced power cuts over the festive period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were unaffected in our locality, and were
jealous of those without power, who were set free from the restraints of the grid
– just imagine the things you could do: play scrabble by candlelight, eat raw
meat, write a poem, contemplate a wall and so on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbcOLfm6n2mabanr-1d7ozcdI9cdPsXTs0mUxb94QWUuyRXRUnxactHBJ6_hv9o_ZfhF-zj7m4BN7ixmDwYcyeUvB2RFyIUGZNagFyn4DTBhe86pNdf4fmakMl7fhsaEBTv4w76MOCjo/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbcOLfm6n2mabanr-1d7ozcdI9cdPsXTs0mUxb94QWUuyRXRUnxactHBJ6_hv9o_ZfhF-zj7m4BN7ixmDwYcyeUvB2RFyIUGZNagFyn4DTBhe86pNdf4fmakMl7fhsaEBTv4w76MOCjo/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">So to use this tool simply
load into your real Spectrum, which unlike your PC can run on the <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/cssfolklore/#chuntey">chuntey</a> alone
in the absence of proper juice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply
follow the questions and after the rather nice interlude music, it will decide
and tell you if you have a power cut and how to act accordingly.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdaWdDakdFaklpR28/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-26916944418970376192013-12-31T21:50:00.001+08:002014-01-01T00:16:52.560+08:00Irate Avifauna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By MykeP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Pig Pester</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This marks number 5 of the
quadrilogy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDQp36BfL9afH_5yxUrnOv1CCoUiQGoUAks3mN5luS7aIZEBTjETWb8ayGERKryhrsi9G-5le59TAi__tKRO_Lrwy898iaCygTKaALKkPzu23BEWukjeNmXZCNyrGuDJ4olv0Sobdf50/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDQp36BfL9afH_5yxUrnOv1CCoUiQGoUAks3mN5luS7aIZEBTjETWb8ayGERKryhrsi9G-5le59TAi__tKRO_Lrwy898iaCygTKaALKkPzu23BEWukjeNmXZCNyrGuDJ4olv0Sobdf50/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I’m probably in the
minority in that I’ve never played the original game on which MykeP has based
his Spectrum version, but I’m going to assume any similarities are
cosmetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a complex engine that emulates
gravity and power accurately would make a very playable game, and Myke’s version
applies neither of these properties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3BlM_bXx9KIoWjYAj_VatiN8QIPYdAZhFWAIzzc-Mu7NMaCg-W4BU7VBzMkTuYREZPCw5OSthjui-G0JoYEXywdOpQMUJCdy7tQnjCMBbwbciCsIOMu1pmEWb3716l3TocDop0JJS_4/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3BlM_bXx9KIoWjYAj_VatiN8QIPYdAZhFWAIzzc-Mu7NMaCg-W4BU7VBzMkTuYREZPCw5OSthjui-G0JoYEXywdOpQMUJCdy7tQnjCMBbwbciCsIOMu1pmEWb3716l3TocDop0JJS_4/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Like his other games it’s a
visual treat (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">especially the gorgeous
loading screen</i>) and an audible assault, as the intro screen displays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my great surprise this game operates at a
playable speed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using QAOP to control
angle and power, the aim is to hit the green blobs (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oops sorry – Pigs</i>) at the top of the screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately the angle can only be shifted
in 15 degree increments, and there are only 3 steps of power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may be missing a trick but as far as I can
tell each screen is impossible to complete as a result!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">though
if someone manages it please tell me how</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoj9h00oQiSIMLw7S88_oYceobOs-1myC6CZWsqVZxY7bRdWvgXdAGPvSa6zDH9p5WXK7TkBO8DTivitbAbylqL62bPxBjkMXlv-gJO8poLpbSLlnCmizwLVG7H46Fr7rOv9nKyfZa08/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoj9h00oQiSIMLw7S88_oYceobOs-1myC6CZWsqVZxY7bRdWvgXdAGPvSa6zDH9p5WXK7TkBO8DTivitbAbylqL62bPxBjkMXlv-gJO8poLpbSLlnCmizwLVG7H46Fr7rOv9nKyfZa08/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There are some lovely
success screens throughout this game, but unfortunately I’ve only managed to
see them via hacking rather than playing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Myke!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">EDIT > The game is actually playable, I made the mistake that you were aiming for the pigs at the top of the screen. You are in fact aiming for invisible pigs off screen to the right. To get you started (as per the Excel sheet) to beat screen 1 in one go fire 50 degrees and power 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdUThIMF94VkJpTlk/edit?usp=sharing">Download TZX here</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUddE5vYl85ckI4WkE/edit?usp=sharing">Download Excel pointers here</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HACK SACK<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdY18yUXllR0hpbVk/edit?usp=sharing">Download unlocked version</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-4303699275631249492013-12-30T05:01:00.000+08:002013-12-30T17:00:28.068+08:00Lucky Bird Shit Dude<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Wookiee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Shart Interceptor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">LBSD marks Wookiee’s third
entry into the competition and this time he’s had help, from a certain Mrs
Wookiee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know which of the two
were responsible for the C: Nonsense in BASIC error that results after loading
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">before even starting the game</i>) but
it gets bonus points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am however,
deeply concerned that daveysludge’s toilet humour syndrome is contagious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfUEpIfkVzXLRaV9uWt7t0SxLHNlRkwVPSQk5mKUkc-ozo_G9M9KgznNxHFeylHpIe3HF6jVjceesYS4nRg7yZaMUcLvY4l9WmsQoWx0RJhYaxgfhlWk_hzaS0V04TleElycU14qoMF8/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfUEpIfkVzXLRaV9uWt7t0SxLHNlRkwVPSQk5mKUkc-ozo_G9M9KgznNxHFeylHpIe3HF6jVjceesYS4nRg7yZaMUcLvY4l9WmsQoWx0RJhYaxgfhlWk_hzaS0V04TleElycU14qoMF8/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">EDIT >> Oops apologies, Lucky Bird
Shit Dude is a 128k only game, use the Tape Loader option on a 128K model and
you’ll be fine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">LBSD
follows the classic formula of so many catch the cash games, but with a ploppy twist,
and the cultural inclusion that having a bird crap on you is in fact good luck*.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use ‘O’ and ‘P’ to move laterally and catch
the poop from the bird, which leaps 3 character squares sideways on every
release (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some kind of googly?</i>) for
some reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every successful ‘catch’
increases your luck by one, and every one that reaches the lawn does the
opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim of the game is, I
presume, to last until the end of the time limit and accrue as many poo-butts
as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With hacking it looks like
the best possible is 14 in the allotted time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">*<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">E.g. China and the more sophisticated parts
of France</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitI0QfnCwkFDdwGZ6EdnIQtYHqbOqBwxqSYJPVbHe-DsGCi50X5WSPK6vJG0y0Vwmgy4f5bJRE_6WDuQVrP-xlNrZ9y916-P9IdU2KbM8tevvWCRD4-IDNQ19YBzT1CXFfp1Y0ut-rJ1U/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitI0QfnCwkFDdwGZ6EdnIQtYHqbOqBwxqSYJPVbHe-DsGCi50X5WSPK6vJG0y0Vwmgy4f5bJRE_6WDuQVrP-xlNrZ9y916-P9IdU2KbM8tevvWCRD4-IDNQ19YBzT1CXFfp1Y0ut-rJ1U/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I
can’t find any trace in the code or game of the ‘used johnny’ hazard as
promised by the intro screen (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but then I
am demob happy and have been at the xmas sherry</i>), so I’m going to put this
down as a lazy, incomplete, rush job that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly</i> what this competition is looking for!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2WJDrHzFQA384qSys4OPjh1XEg76VaBleztysWMQt1nX5ZQHmi5XPeiqw7TQMjHGKj1AAEKm0nbEJwg9nVFgjSQH6j-pDFylT9kedjhRfn2FYXOMcSx8iXz5YpWh21q_hFrN535h3Z4/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2WJDrHzFQA384qSys4OPjh1XEg76VaBleztysWMQt1nX5ZQHmi5XPeiqw7TQMjHGKj1AAEKm0nbEJwg9nVFgjSQH6j-pDFylT9kedjhRfn2FYXOMcSx8iXz5YpWh21q_hFrN535h3Z4/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Like
Wookiee’s other releases you have to be impressed with it, as it’s totally in
BASIC and uses a mix of classic UDGs and ASCII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Qualities that render this perfect Cassette 50 material.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Wookiees!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdZnlaSjJRSEVCNXc/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-32958812755321975602013-12-22T23:14:00.001+08:002013-12-22T23:14:46.550+08:00R-SWYPE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By daveysludge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Christmas Crapper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-jqJE9GJtPM6iTh-1Cd6vriDUX-tJIXXDBRIJpIunTe6XcACz0A1cCFuP0IjSZv0YoauRqT2UPpjzknAtEXyPdX8hWLJmZw51SNdN7aehtw-r0ZA7CVOjGNpKBBQ6TaloNKGi2ED-lk/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-jqJE9GJtPM6iTh-1Cd6vriDUX-tJIXXDBRIJpIunTe6XcACz0A1cCFuP0IjSZv0YoauRqT2UPpjzknAtEXyPdX8hWLJmZw51SNdN7aehtw-r0ZA7CVOjGNpKBBQ6TaloNKGi2ED-lk/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">With R-Swype, davey has
completed his copro-trilogy and also coined another excellent poop-pun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It bears more similarities to Dung Darach
than Thunderturds, though it’s not a mere rehash – it has some pretty nifty new
additions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should also be pointed out
that like his other games, it is programmed in machine code, features great
graphics making clever use of the spectrum’s attributes, is very playable and
far too good for the CGC!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, as we approach that time of year in which many of us spend a lot of time working on a hearty yule log, it is well timed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJyii6NDWVZHZH__cMsGO-_0bsKZj_4Nax8APmk6TMuDB36Bauf28XFXeN7gX6tRBV_33EzduBhiwhJyKzotTk96SjVwi7A2aqLv8kUF5zxfGKyR0LF86uIL50Hv5_3-tKbsDi_tirSw/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJyii6NDWVZHZH__cMsGO-_0bsKZj_4Nax8APmk6TMuDB36Bauf28XFXeN7gX6tRBV_33EzduBhiwhJyKzotTk96SjVwi7A2aqLv8kUF5zxfGKyR0LF86uIL50Hv5_3-tKbsDi_tirSw/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The aim of the game is to
guide Mark Barton Dung around and ram 3 poops down the bog, at which point
Scott Faece appears (announced by a bit of BEEP FX digital speech) and you must
collect the Omega Cider which fuels the rocket out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a nifty bit of gameplay in the later
levels with the bog roll, which Mark Barton Dung can shift but Scott Faece
cannot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you have to think ahead to
allow Scott to access the cider, and ensure the rocket is not impeded by the
bogroll (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hmm, what sort of rocket can’t
go through paper</i>?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time limits
often prove prohibitive (<em>see hack sack</em>) but what can I say, this game is
fantastic – play it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfPJn6fIlw1wKCQxb2hHWhLF-prJ7NzGIn__pmY3Fp2voFDzIgN12ZI6xru9P4yVCoplPrnEfHiNWhp-YloW8M2mHllblkpjXK0tqScInFJ01otiuwvZNhRgSKI70WAk8C1PiJRkZqmU/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfPJn6fIlw1wKCQxb2hHWhLF-prJ7NzGIn__pmY3Fp2voFDzIgN12ZI6xru9P4yVCoplPrnEfHiNWhp-YloW8M2mHllblkpjXK0tqScInFJ01otiuwvZNhRgSKI70WAk8C1PiJRkZqmU/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Not crap at all, an
afternoon consuming great game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankyou
davey!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdaVRuQW1yaWRGaTQ/edit?usp=sharing">Download TAP</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdYk5Nb1Z2YmRSXzA/edit?usp=sharing">Download inlay1</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdb3hXS3dKcXhJODA/edit?usp=sharing">Download inlay2</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HACK SACK: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oodles of time: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">P</span>OKE 53499,x<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Infinite time:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>POKE 53581,0<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-57566364091298112802013-12-21T01:19:00.000+08:002013-12-21T17:43:48.034+08:00Advent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve McCrea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Christmas Cack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><em>"What's for Christmas Ma?"</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><em>"CARP!"</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Picture the scene – it is
December 1983 and you scamper down the stairs 4 at a time in your dressing gown
to open the next door on the advent calendar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What delights may it contain? A prayer? A nice picture of a festive
scene? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A captured dream?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly though one hoped for a chocolate to
have on the bus to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But while
chomping on this low quality confection you may have wondered, “is it possible?
could the excitement of the advent calendar <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i>
be captured on my ZX-Spectrum?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmyeemOYPElsTw99HKdQbp8LgwqPYht9LxtbT_qKclYar7NopB67im5wT0mcjy7HMYlqkN_NYmuErLBLWLQ94niRvADg8j6J9BOE_F95VJt3fNtSkg6vV7WB5VdcImajVCdtqiudjbW0/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmyeemOYPElsTw99HKdQbp8LgwqPYht9LxtbT_qKclYar7NopB67im5wT0mcjy7HMYlqkN_NYmuErLBLWLQ94niRvADg8j6J9BOE_F95VJt3fNtSkg6vV7WB5VdcImajVCdtqiudjbW0/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Well you <em>probably</em> didn’t
wonder that, but Steve has created it anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here we have a computer version of the advent calendar, each day giving
a new treat (or UDG if you prefer, and speaking as a UDG addict it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> actually a treat for me).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve admits this is a quick one by his usual
standards, though he still couldn’t avoid it being a charming little erm,
utility?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps if released during the
80’s it would have set the world alight (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and
I dare say a few Christmas trees, as youngsters left their Spectrums on
overnight to save time in the morning…).</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOO_y6JAWMg-T_wjxq6Srk4du-jsmSZwjycmMSxJq75Msk37S6yzYM9jgxDwxyAotGZPzGZAvXz3oyowHvDyYRmBT-VU93CoC81GIHRm4LZTNqaojQqpz1vTx1bLdgem1c0r94MNORe_w/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOO_y6JAWMg-T_wjxq6Srk4du-jsmSZwjycmMSxJq75Msk37S6yzYM9jgxDwxyAotGZPzGZAvXz3oyowHvDyYRmBT-VU93CoC81GIHRm4LZTNqaojQqpz1vTx1bLdgem1c0r94MNORe_w/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I think some mornings would
be less disappointing than others though, as I can’t even tell what the bloody
hell the 22<sup>nd</sup> is meant to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s more compact than
Steve’s other 24 entries, and if I didn’t know better I’d say it was a shameless attempt
to bump his total entries for the year to a round 25.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Steve!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdb2lEbGFJRGtYYm8/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-8588875943834342992013-12-21T00:33:00.000+08:002013-12-21T00:33:41.952+08:00UDG Strip Snap<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By MykeP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Catch the Camisole</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimR0YuWnjnPQboAMSIz3nKHJhmJ7TlXp7jruMGpgXayid-eKz5HHEhGQFgyqwJsyyD8OCUvzm3ZAMEIRi5Ork0w_m_CiJ5E-onyHNGADa6Gv8d5kDvcJTmIBjxRADhCDSYzepy9E_ydVo/s1600/game00.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimR0YuWnjnPQboAMSIz3nKHJhmJ7TlXp7jruMGpgXayid-eKz5HHEhGQFgyqwJsyyD8OCUvzm3ZAMEIRi5Ork0w_m_CiJ5E-onyHNGADa6Gv8d5kDvcJTmIBjxRADhCDSYzepy9E_ydVo/s320/game00.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">UDG Strip Snap marks Myke’s
4 entry to his trilogy and the second strip snap game in the 2013 competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Andrew Greene’s version pitted your twitching
digits against the might of Sam Fox, UDG strip snap caters for the full range
of tastes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to begin you select your
opponent from the handsome Hank, tasty Tina and the er..KT 81 for the
technosexuals I presume, which is a thing apparently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You also get some lovely
nudey UDG graphics and animations, which I can in all honesty imagine my much
younger self getting frightfully excited about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8G82AwaIyQdr-739a0DB52S0ovSr2D9pvQERL0u4mXfg-Mmr_UFQWvTP8S8fZI610nus8KefHTH2DMv7sxbqx04hjnlsgMFaDZWgnKBL5Lz8jpmu6ZY3zIQ4ZmBq8VVAK3Qv9duxn6DE/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8G82AwaIyQdr-739a0DB52S0ovSr2D9pvQERL0u4mXfg-Mmr_UFQWvTP8S8fZI610nus8KefHTH2DMv7sxbqx04hjnlsgMFaDZWgnKBL5Lz8jpmu6ZY3zIQ4ZmBq8VVAK3Qv9duxn6DE/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s standard strip snap
rules, last to say ‘SNAP’, or press S in this case, removes an item of
clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This version has a financial
aspect where items of clothes are sold back when a mistake is made, reducing the
tally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy mode really is easy, to lose
that round you’d need to be virtually catatonic, but intermediate provides more
of a challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Expert setting is
bugged (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see hacksack</i>) and has the same
time settings as BASIC (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bonus points
there</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There is a really smart in
game easter egg, press ‘E’ on the intro screen and you’ll see what I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of easter eggs there is a hash scan
thingy hiding under the attributes on the loading screen, since I lack the
technology to read where it leads I hope someone else can help out here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDH-iC5XWf64VSws7bcoH3u8tD2qfgxWE1kxPMiBK1DXge5vLGLPaEYDAna2ll_Bt2yZDbtE3S-kFW0i1T4OWgXDVUJZVc9DGrCT1EOjQCwroq81894anRxl0ZkFceLcGNQmAZ73z_wI/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDH-iC5XWf64VSws7bcoH3u8tD2qfgxWE1kxPMiBK1DXge5vLGLPaEYDAna2ll_Bt2yZDbtE3S-kFW0i1T4OWgXDVUJZVc9DGrCT1EOjQCwroq81894anRxl0ZkFceLcGNQmAZ73z_wI/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">They say the brain is the
biggest erogenous zone (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and after my
genitals that’s true</i>) which is good because you’ll need a bit of
imagination to get aroused by this game!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><em>(and yes, you do get to see everything)</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Myke!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lovely 15<sup>th</sup> anniversary update
to the original version.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdSWlpa1lkV0FtdVU/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HACK SACK:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Fix EXPERT setting: LINE
2180 change betspeed to 0.7<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Very long pause: change
betspeed to 10.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-21170426522908354282013-12-17T04:37:00.003+08:002013-12-17T04:37:49.393+08:00The Half Ashes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve McCrea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Sport: fine legs and
silly sods.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEiO4ebwNIf5pTV-6aUxu_FoRVoI8miApFkCREA9jrwJxJVvJhJSeXmOI42ABr7Gpe6pmsXrOSU3R1C7uFCcOqswXKttVu5biZAfP5zM7IEqEbQsEaBNGzIZdLaXGhcvvOQ9beeN4tms/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEiO4ebwNIf5pTV-6aUxu_FoRVoI8miApFkCREA9jrwJxJVvJhJSeXmOI42ABr7Gpe6pmsXrOSU3R1C7uFCcOqswXKttVu5biZAfP5zM7IEqEbQsEaBNGzIZdLaXGhcvvOQ9beeN4tms/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Oh wow, I’m so pleased my excessive
bleating about there being too many football games has paid off – this year’s CGC
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally</i> has a cricket game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an especially well timed one too,
because at the time of writing England are about to launch the most heroic
sporting comeback resulting in them winning the 2013/14 ashes 3-2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Half Ashes is here to help us celebrate
this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">historic</i> victory to come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9dHpbB-PMlF4H1RqEVZtpVltss9ngirluGUg3UNhPjP6WPJpAZ4N0WKSB403pyMG8bh298C8DzX2HHTUT-1Kkr7NwXLUYVWrkuHmaYsOLy14Qw8se_t1Z7JJztkEPsU48699Vpw0yO0/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9dHpbB-PMlF4H1RqEVZtpVltss9ngirluGUg3UNhPjP6WPJpAZ4N0WKSB403pyMG8bh298C8DzX2HHTUT-1Kkr7NwXLUYVWrkuHmaYsOLy14Qw8se_t1Z7JJztkEPsU48699Vpw0yO0/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Programmed in C, and like
so many of Steve’s other CGC games, this has so much to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going by most people’s standards T.H.A. is a
crap game, mainly as the graphics are simple but I would say the spectrum’s palette
was heaven sent for a cricket game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You take control of the
fielding side, and unsurprisingly have to bowl out 10 batsmen within 30 <em>(rather unorthodox)</em> overs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first glance the keys appear a little unwieldy
but bearing in mind you need to control 11 men they are actually excellent once
you get to grips with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you
have set (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your ideally unorthodox</i>)
field you get to the task of bowling, the speed and aim of the ball can be
regulated by bowler position and the rate you toggle keys ‘C’ and ‘M’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is possible to get a batsman out in the
usual ways, run outs being most common, then being bowled, followed by catching
least.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtV3Owkqwc3lLwhHTLRWKxNhEkAzEtdm7_EvOoss9JIBVth9Hnw-annYXNFpQVVA4ddKDxvNVEDPGKXdiaLxVa3FpMvQvgYj-XxPGUyaSJCMHjlFSxGxsSjVkY3uNue_sYJampDnRYew/s1600/game+1_5.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtV3Owkqwc3lLwhHTLRWKxNhEkAzEtdm7_EvOoss9JIBVth9Hnw-annYXNFpQVVA4ddKDxvNVEDPGKXdiaLxVa3FpMvQvgYj-XxPGUyaSJCMHjlFSxGxsSjVkY3uNue_sYJampDnRYew/s320/game+1_5.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Cricket is not everyone’s
cup of tea, so for those people The Half Ashes will be just as tedious as the long Wednesday
afternoons spent standing around playing pocket billiards on the boundary during
P.E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for people who enjoy such a
profound game as cricket it’s a real treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As said, there is so much to it – setting fields, getting the ball right,
stopping the ball hitting the boundary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Absolutely fascinating, and I will keep returning to this game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBEAijMeWk09Fx681ak-qivJVp8gP4YVUWNcHcVhiT9kiqYeTCOFqbTlJpjj3GdcRY2FNo1lT35N-v-EO3aZagdHdeUh0C1VWqVJRYBUQAlqybCJY6pq58lqQdsFNIlWpzdT9r3W97Ek/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBEAijMeWk09Fx681ak-qivJVp8gP4YVUWNcHcVhiT9kiqYeTCOFqbTlJpjj3GdcRY2FNo1lT35N-v-EO3aZagdHdeUh0C1VWqVJRYBUQAlqybCJY6pq58lqQdsFNIlWpzdT9r3W97Ek/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">At least I would, if it was
a bit more stable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I managed to make it
return to BASIC (Out of Memory Error)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> and
</i>crash over about 1 hours play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
Steve has just about saved face with these rather irritating flaws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if he sorts the bugs and gives it a bit more
polish (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">starting with a nice wicket
clattering noise</i>), this would probably be the best cricket game for the
Spectrum ever!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thank you Steve, and as
Geoffrey Boycott so often says:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qq4IANEqT7qHR1WgcqNvWpr8FkHxepplQPmyekRJBQjlZ4osTihbtdDqSVR3AHx4tTdI_hjgUumPEswNlBGGmjhTynv2POrFdSUpchs4AYr8_ZA1yfEr6eqModqlgm5_-xhIEgJVZ74/s1600/boycott.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qq4IANEqT7qHR1WgcqNvWpr8FkHxepplQPmyekRJBQjlZ4osTihbtdDqSVR3AHx4tTdI_hjgUumPEswNlBGGmjhTynv2POrFdSUpchs4AYr8_ZA1yfEr6eqModqlgm5_-xhIEgJVZ74/s1600/boycott.png" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Grandmother coulda programmed that wi' a stick o' Rhubarb</i>.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdbUlTVTB1YmZFU2s/edit?usp=sharing">Download TAP here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.kweepa.com/step/games/csscgc2013/HalfAshes.zip">Download support files(remote link)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdeDFCcWMxelFONU0/edit?usp=sharing">Download my RZX playing it,until the unfortunate ending</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-3285759986681519522013-12-14T05:57:00.000+08:002013-12-14T05:57:50.372+08:00Burndown Takeout ZX<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By MykeP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Reckless
driving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEaxqQ6FCNPUjJUU86nBpjIgmW_BDj55ndRpChTlQgpYMu9K36W1xhQ1LYrLUpxuug6yGJWfj4rKrcCOoquIGDu3TK6XEEgkvKvRfkKXwq6GnTS7Zl1B3SiOZYZwzehlrZHV6f_9Wf04/s1600/game00.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEaxqQ6FCNPUjJUU86nBpjIgmW_BDj55ndRpChTlQgpYMu9K36W1xhQ1LYrLUpxuug6yGJWfj4rKrcCOoquIGDu3TK6XEEgkvKvRfkKXwq6GnTS7Zl1B3SiOZYZwzehlrZHV6f_9Wf04/s320/game00.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This Race ‘n’ shunt game
marks MykeP’s 3<sup>rd</sup> entry into the competition, and what a late
spurter he’s proving to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those in
the know BDTOZX is based on a modern game of a similar name, in which (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after a bit of research</i>) you need to
drive in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frightfully</i> unsafe manner,
crashing into other cars in order to cross the finish line first.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMKqMPV_jfRSMDM8G7P6xMV4PoNEIsYGNZVGjz7q28HmIxXRDrLA5fDZN_NRgUh6jN7nrnW-FwqnwoPUFhFxMey4fbfxbG6FLwye9JfyRWBHQG1Dlva9y-p0sjTdLx7j-E-9dXzx8NCU/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMKqMPV_jfRSMDM8G7P6xMV4PoNEIsYGNZVGjz7q28HmIxXRDrLA5fDZN_NRgUh6jN7nrnW-FwqnwoPUFhFxMey4fbfxbG6FLwye9JfyRWBHQG1Dlva9y-p0sjTdLx7j-E-9dXzx8NCU/s320/game0.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I actually thought that
with the release of <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0018868">Rally Driver</a> in 1984,
there was nothing new that could be added to the genre, but how wrong I
was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If RD offered sweaty, palpitating,
touch sensitive action, BDTOZX can be described as being at the opposite end of
the Spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is from the get go,
because as soon as it loads you are treated to an incredibly long pause while
it loads, populates, randomizes* and initialises…..stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though as it turns out this pause seems
unfortunately brief because after it comes the ‘music’ which I gather is by ‘My
Chemical Romance’ and ‘Lady Gaga’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as
Myke calls them</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it may be accomplished,
it hurts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A huge amount of work has
gone into this game (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which I’m not sure I’m
doing justice to here</i>), which has numerous nods to modern gaming events
like ‘unlockable games’ which of course, fail to work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAI9wrtwPh_uIE9Db4julExlEgLiuQ6PI5XgekcXSXhraTfXajROxqHxfuiBYAPRLodSJHcPJtRuaQxyGwg4-QgNDBNOO43PoTEd-z5synPSGym3RUToXWu9Tyq8s9tuBD51TUf88pNis/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAI9wrtwPh_uIE9Db4julExlEgLiuQ6PI5XgekcXSXhraTfXajROxqHxfuiBYAPRLodSJHcPJtRuaQxyGwg4-QgNDBNOO43PoTEd-z5synPSGym3RUToXWu9Tyq8s9tuBD51TUf88pNis/s320/game1.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s amazing how slow
Spectrum BASIC can be sometimes (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thankfully
I had a mountain of ket** delivered last week</i>), and I’d say Myke has pushed
in all the stops to make it so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this
game to be exciting in any real sense you have to crank the emulator <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right</i> up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at a pedestrian 3.5MHz you take on a zen
like understanding of the world, where you can see everything, and/or nothing,
happening all at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while a
nicely drawn (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and it is nicely drawn</i>)
explosion can pump up the adrenaline at faster speeds, it takes on a more
poetic, contemplative angle at the snail’s pace BDTOZX was intended to run at.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Good fun this, crank up the
emulator, have a look through the code at all the references, and be generally
impressed with an accomplished piece of absolute carp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Great work and thankyou
Myke!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdSGk0OWF2MExZbEU/edit?usp=sharing">Download here.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> why did the speccy ROM use ‘z’ in randomise, for shame</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">**chup<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-57141736632566227052013-12-12T22:05:00.001+08:002013-12-14T04:17:29.616+08:00Jet Rocket v 2.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Iceman (Darken)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Shoot 'em left</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Here we have a piece of not
so abandoned-ware, as it first made an <a href="http://csscgc2010.zxlife.net/Games.aspx#L38">appearance in the 2010 CGC</a> and work
began on it some 25 years ago!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after all
this time and refinement this game had better be <u>pretty bloody perfect</u>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv21mxVXAieKkunOKOpfau-uHCY5MDyik7JTDh9-wJxfNfIfS71835rEd1r4P3OLoVvwFt8m1xbAcj3EJd8C4oV5jzioYx6j1o-Uc6gU0JvnkmeRDe-OiCVj-uuW71u_RRCK1GmfTjb7k/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv21mxVXAieKkunOKOpfau-uHCY5MDyik7JTDh9-wJxfNfIfS71835rEd1r4P3OLoVvwFt8m1xbAcj3EJd8C4oV5jzioYx6j1o-Uc6gU0JvnkmeRDe-OiCVj-uuW71u_RRCK1GmfTjb7k/s320/game3.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">One of the biggest
differences is that this version was done in asm rather than compiled, but the
thing is I can’t tell any difference between the two!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The aim of this game is to
protect your rocket from the advancing sentient boxes (sorry, robots), or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do so you use the keys 6,7 for up/down and
0 to fire your fearsome laser against the random alien assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The position of the rocket towards the left
means you don’t have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> much time
to move to the correct row and shoot the robot, especially if you cock up the
keys which I don’t find that intuitive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure what your space suit is made of but you have 3 lives, but
if just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i> robot hits the rocket it’s
game over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggwWVJtl7tUxtW_zhXiVBt520ikHY6WmYR-GlmGESl8kWbWSofohvBcE5i3gZc_QEs9NduWYxFL3misUiQ2di7nNOiVU4C4DhnHIs_Qu0QTpsNfE0ngwd3yGS9o-Vql38xK8fenhQVNQU/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggwWVJtl7tUxtW_zhXiVBt520ikHY6WmYR-GlmGESl8kWbWSofohvBcE5i3gZc_QEs9NduWYxFL3misUiQ2di7nNOiVU4C4DhnHIs_Qu0QTpsNfE0ngwd3yGS9o-Vql38xK8fenhQVNQU/s320/game1.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There’s a lot of attention
to detail in this game, from the advanced loading screen to the in game
animations, well animation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it’s a
lovely animation, the thing is you see it every time you complete a level, and
without a skip function it can begin to grate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact I’d swear blind that Iceman has timed it so that it’s not long
enough to take the mickey, but not short enough to avoid frustration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genius!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Though it probably should be said that the graphics are a bit simple (<em>let’s call them rustic</em>). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Would be programmers may
want to check out some of the support material, of which there is an
astonishing amount.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K4HhX6JWtdXPGrGkuPief7KRnoJaTWu8EcQmHZX1AIL5CFLKNlLc_ilvV79OjxilVbUMIo2beCti-1Q50GdIdNhIvE5O-Pi0H4zRr7w7Jiw4WP6WK-TkLJYdFKv-82pnPPAJwe6WYi0/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K4HhX6JWtdXPGrGkuPief7KRnoJaTWu8EcQmHZX1AIL5CFLKNlLc_ilvV79OjxilVbUMIo2beCti-1Q50GdIdNhIvE5O-Pi0H4zRr7w7Jiw4WP6WK-TkLJYdFKv-82pnPPAJwe6WYi0/s320/game0.gif" height="269" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Hi-Score challenge
starts around 6820, I’m sure I could do better but can’t face seeing the
animation again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Lovely little game, nice to
see it (again).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Iceman!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdcl9KMmVFODNTT0U/edit?usp=sharing">Download TAP.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdVHlXemtKSHowMFE/edit?usp=sharing">Download game and supportmaterial.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdOXdFUmctemYzSWs/edit?usp=sharing">Download Loader hack</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">HACK SACK:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">GROUND ATTACK ONLY: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Poke 30517,62; 30518,20;30531,75</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">NUMBER OF LIVES:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Poke 28978,x lives (0-255)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-53596545125203320432013-12-08T20:22:00.000+08:002013-12-12T00:09:07.182+08:00Crisp Snatcher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve Broad<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Catch the
crisps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1Y7lHpbVogad_TgpIJByYdrAS8sPNtUpeNytuxQmZ41cIWUan4Y1OvaCA1pb9k58CaGannS4xVTPmwaY-PrbqcvL9Unorxln_Qg9qotoRG-HjjCv4eR2qzJ67UyQL5Xx-G_J0SEktDU/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1Y7lHpbVogad_TgpIJByYdrAS8sPNtUpeNytuxQmZ41cIWUan4Y1OvaCA1pb9k58CaGannS4xVTPmwaY-PrbqcvL9Unorxln_Qg9qotoRG-HjjCv4eR2qzJ67UyQL5Xx-G_J0SEktDU/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Crisp<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snatcher was apparently created in 1984 with
the intention of setting the blossoming games market on fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve presumably just never found the right
software house, but perhaps he should have sent a copy to The Power House, the
company that saw <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi">SQIJ</a> fit to unleash on the world because Crisp Snatcher is a
confusing buggy howler of a game!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JWCNUkhEGr_B7JjXAVEiJaQjfFvJW3cMk0j_IicTgchIw0XLOiez-32wAvTgFc_AMcARodulPuxgljLsYeJzUnjo7Fofs5ozrNmFCE8Bi95XlyszUFKSvE3IUKzfV8TkYt7jOuKPwHY/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JWCNUkhEGr_B7JjXAVEiJaQjfFvJW3cMk0j_IicTgchIw0XLOiez-32wAvTgFc_AMcARodulPuxgljLsYeJzUnjo7Fofs5ozrNmFCE8Bi95XlyszUFKSvE3IUKzfV8TkYt7jOuKPwHY/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once we start the game we
are assaulted by a gaudy display that would have William Burroughs running from
the telly, and we encounter the first bug .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like SQIJ, Crisp Snatcher has a keyread bug!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are supposed to be 6,7 and 0 but for
some reason occasionally they just don’t register - Excellent work!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once you manage to engage
with your rubber keys you can begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yellow crispy like blobs descend from the sky and you must catch them in
your bag, but beware the green errr thing, that travels from left to right
occasionally dropping crystals of glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course it does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crisps
fall too quickly and you move too slowly to be able to catch them, and it’s not
clear what the laser even does!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wCok8n6CEhSjKBL6IFhyLZgqK6zf-gKyovYVRSFqufBf4BvqMpJYuZI2aiRiGu55zDkRf4gNto-qJaGoKwCV8zCBbRccEWsjtRTWZQqQuCBhUwsGFzaJcA7gboybfAFHNUHaMPHtze8/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wCok8n6CEhSjKBL6IFhyLZgqK6zf-gKyovYVRSFqufBf4BvqMpJYuZI2aiRiGu55zDkRf4gNto-qJaGoKwCV8zCBbRccEWsjtRTWZQqQuCBhUwsGFzaJcA7gboybfAFHNUHaMPHtze8/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Or am I doing something
wrong?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A really nice touch is that
after the inevitable GAME OVER message, when you try to restart the game
crashes!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfa0_ZLarxXRYue0Occ9hfyELu-iAdC5trDt1MWefko55Fo73xXjN9Z1iO1vx2dw2SCCSmgqaDrarMIXvg9qNzDOrBf8hdrZgJMljkxiv6ZEGAucTNLwzTWFEmY9vx2mTF2hu3EU-jXg/s1600/game4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfa0_ZLarxXRYue0Occ9hfyELu-iAdC5trDt1MWefko55Fo73xXjN9Z1iO1vx2dw2SCCSmgqaDrarMIXvg9qNzDOrBf8hdrZgJMljkxiv6ZEGAucTNLwzTWFEmY9vx2mTF2hu3EU-jXg/s320/game4.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A<u> superb </u>piece of
crap gamesmanship.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Well done and thankyou
Steve!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdMGNNb09xZ3FJUGs/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-50762600290710739862013-12-07T23:52:00.000+08:002013-12-10T02:53:30.102+08:00Mountains of Ketchup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Rebelstar without a
cause<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Adventure sauce<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Mountains of Ketchup (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a pun on the ZX Spectrum adventure classic
Mountains of Ket of course</i>) marks Rebelstar’s 15<sup>th</sup> entry to this
year’s CGC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First impressions suggest a
rather simple poorly presented BASIC adventure (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">though is faithful to Ket’s layout</i>) but don’t be fooled – still condiments
run deep.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXk_cjyAAzcW7JUvyusvlXbsKulbxOk0b3VI_hMENsD8r4oyLXTtrSqqic3OBNZ7CBhWBGy1tk7k-bX-KBx1f9jrJFfCQBriLfXAeEf9wINNex3WSYjqjVpoyuw4zvDp4eTQOyAbpd1c/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXk_cjyAAzcW7JUvyusvlXbsKulbxOk0b3VI_hMENsD8r4oyLXTtrSqqic3OBNZ7CBhWBGy1tk7k-bX-KBx1f9jrJFfCQBriLfXAeEf9wINNex3WSYjqjVpoyuw4zvDp4eTQOyAbpd1c/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I like the use of action
keys instead of typing commands, and the fact there is no limit on how much you
can carry (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">though I’m not sure if I could
carry a lawnmower and a mine detector at the same time in reality</i>).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I’m not going to spoil the surprise
but in addition to the simple text puzzles, there are some built in arcade style
mini-games embedded in MOK which brought the biggest smile to my face.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7nXR_EHA5j88jvrc72B2PP4Ezef55LfHdZoVo6mdtQmbW0r8oRgfWWrDO37_q3NGs_-BE4GJWWQdPQXvJsgQ67CiOhQrh_Xe73H9Aai-yHyx0er25BbuF3-6nueM7bv9qoBWw9DaQL8/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7nXR_EHA5j88jvrc72B2PP4Ezef55LfHdZoVo6mdtQmbW0r8oRgfWWrDO37_q3NGs_-BE4GJWWQdPQXvJsgQ67CiOhQrh_Xe73H9Aai-yHyx0er25BbuF3-6nueM7bv9qoBWw9DaQL8/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Mountains of ketchup is
tinged with tripe but is an excellent kernel of an idea that I’d love to see
expanded upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say I was disappointed
it finished so quickly!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s crap, but play it,
really – it’s great.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Rebelstar!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><What the hell are the
slippers for?></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdTzJuMlNpRHF5b1U/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdSFh5WG5FQTZqcUU/edit?usp=sharing">Download Game Map</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-43206457986585687352013-12-07T20:42:00.000+08:002013-12-07T23:43:33.863+08:00Super UDG FighterZ 2 Turbo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By MykeP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Wear you
down.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOA5YqWCUp5He4-nkjlw3z1zacmgq9Tin8VADE5CUz9oZbqKF_mRfwsXXc-fNS38wPJA1bwfDbeo6t1oUK6zEoEr8IeI_HHVKbETOKlo8eg1QvN69qqjhhfpbKzyQi1vCWzGLpQrleyw/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOA5YqWCUp5He4-nkjlw3z1zacmgq9Tin8VADE5CUz9oZbqKF_mRfwsXXc-fNS38wPJA1bwfDbeo6t1oUK6zEoEr8IeI_HHVKbETOKlo8eg1QvN69qqjhhfpbKzyQi1vCWzGLpQrleyw/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s fair to say we have a
game here of epic proportions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In part
it is a rework of a game written in 1998, and with its 2 sided tape,
introduction, great graphics and numerous characters with backstories it’s
going to have to try bloody hard to be crap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thankfully it doesn’t disappoint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You start naturally enough
with side 1, which following an excellent loading screen (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with some more chortleworthy easter eggs</i>) gives us game and character
info.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may notice that SUFTT bears a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">passing</i> resemblance to some classic coin
op beat ‘em ups like Street Fighter, and like most of them it continues the
tradition of barmy backstories and stupendous mismatches (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a cowboy versus an alien?).</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The 10 characters weave a tangled web of various grudges of one type or
another, and the only solution is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">obviously</i>
to have a fighting contest where you kick and punch each other into submission.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZMevR4S2tNpb7mmFRYXvwMNrYoK1vjb_XMkVAtjhjdop9w2ixOMl7oDtFoDPt7MmHIAg0ZK06TT145qBf4YF8WwH0wGq0cPgJJbuQ0JYqMMwQ5F10RSSC8dMwNIOYqSBtRzW0dBgrv8/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZMevR4S2tNpb7mmFRYXvwMNrYoK1vjb_XMkVAtjhjdop9w2ixOMl7oDtFoDPt7MmHIAg0ZK06TT145qBf4YF8WwH0wGq0cPgJJbuQ0JYqMMwQ5F10RSSC8dMwNIOYqSBtRzW0dBgrv8/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s worth mentioning that
SUFFT pushes the spectrums memory to the limits (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which the total of 9 minutes loading attests to</i>), and Myke had to
drop 2 characters and the redefine keys option to save memory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilld0mQF7Cs88C3WXzQ5ewBClbe7WdecZ9hpxn0frSw3vAvKcsqKomTA713E5P-by_fa706Nz-3_rXnF16BW7m8u_rDB6XnYiOOq_pk2qdFogFD6cEydw3QdxwVm0aXogaBirfUXbE-js/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilld0mQF7Cs88C3WXzQ5ewBClbe7WdecZ9hpxn0frSw3vAvKcsqKomTA713E5P-by_fa706Nz-3_rXnF16BW7m8u_rDB6XnYiOOq_pk2qdFogFD6cEydw3QdxwVm0aXogaBirfUXbE-js/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Onto side 2 and the game
itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are so many nice touches
here, great graphics, logos, menu screen – so good that it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nearly</i> doesn’t belong in the competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But like so many other games it comes good (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">well, crap</i>) when it comes down to the
gameplay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can probably get Myke on
the trades description act for having the audacity to have the words ‘turbo’ in
the title!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once you have selected your
character you have to win 3 bouts each against 2 randomly selected opponents,
then you fight your nemesis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
make it that far, win or lose you get a victory or failure message specific to
the character.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUS7tpRARcz4G9hNlvcikgeQTBM2Z5pUY7d0hdgLz2F-Wgop0uA9j5bpYNHCbvGxXdemgiXWidVkYVec0tGu3uTpliIIwv7RqpPMsUYQeMWvynmAvIcx0uUzdDr4QFsHXj4mK0gL_uw8k/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUS7tpRARcz4G9hNlvcikgeQTBM2Z5pUY7d0hdgLz2F-Wgop0uA9j5bpYNHCbvGxXdemgiXWidVkYVec0tGu3uTpliIIwv7RqpPMsUYQeMWvynmAvIcx0uUzdDr4QFsHXj4mK0gL_uw8k/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The fight is a fairly
simple affair, and the same graphics are used every time (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">though there is a lovely detailed backdrop</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moves available are flying kick, punch,
kick and block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which move is successful
depends on how many character cells you are from your opponent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a lot of beat ‘em ups there are certain
moves that do more damage than others and the player can easily win if relying
solely on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The AI is actually quite
good so if you play ‘properly’ you will find the game surprisingly challenging,
and dare I say it – enjoyable (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">especially
if using an emulator you crank the processor up to 14MHz</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">So, Super UDG FighterZ 2
Turbo is definitely worth a go, but steel yourself for a potential physical and
psychological beating, especially if you get to hear the deadly putdown by
ZX-8100.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It looks like you’ve got jam all over your face”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ouch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Myke!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Tipshack</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">: win every fight – walk into your
opponent and hold down ‘P’, you will take some hits but will always land more
yourself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdTzIwU0dCODNDbW8/edit?usp=sharing">Download side 1 here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdcGlRY3AxM3hDRVE/edit?usp=sharing">Download side 2 here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-64972160282044446552013-11-30T19:38:00.001+08:002013-11-30T19:49:31.129+08:00Dearest Urinals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve McCrea<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Text: typing pirates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibU-Nj84IZxz-1FjMCspWKhAiYzPJEbTHbHhgfoi-SbPTNS-R8BpcmrZpIaV7h7y3x-xPHzFZg40iOzUSbKaQnFMiMeJwr9tRGKsNUEhhfV9EYgX40YdHJcZvKYUMclkcaQ7sQEdpl0M/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibU-Nj84IZxz-1FjMCspWKhAiYzPJEbTHbHhgfoi-SbPTNS-R8BpcmrZpIaV7h7y3x-xPHzFZg40iOzUSbKaQnFMiMeJwr9tRGKsNUEhhfV9EYgX40YdHJcZvKYUMclkcaQ7sQEdpl0M/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Garrrr!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come ‘ere Jim laaaad, come sit on Cap’n Long
John Silver’s knee, I ahhzz a deal for ye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>See this in my chest me hearty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That be a ZX-Spectrum, the finest booty I’ve ever swagged during my
sweet trade, from a bald pated lubber while aaat port o’ Cambridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s be playing a grand game, called dearest
urinals – that be an anagram of the finest story evarrrr told me hearty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cassette I be holding here has but one
and twenty kilobytes of text from it, some fine graphics to boot and makes fine use of the <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0028171">F, the Z and the X</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoRE0Mq5VWtVzuFLQn6PSAVhJ7UrH6LCdrZrk3GHa31QqGEYVjzWZmF7jsGDoio72I_Fn9054MVggLzae8waayVBhIMe-HJky2DU67Ccv2OCxkSDN5XUBLXfH6HrPcRLl3T0cCpL1UEE/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoRE0Mq5VWtVzuFLQn6PSAVhJ7UrH6LCdrZrk3GHa31QqGEYVjzWZmF7jsGDoio72I_Fn9054MVggLzae8waayVBhIMe-HJky2DU67Ccv2OCxkSDN5XUBLXfH6HrPcRLl3T0cCpL1UEE/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Now then matey, here’s what
we do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said Speccy be quoted a passage
from said book and you must unjumble them there letters as quick aaaazz you
can, the longer you wait the further me and my gen’lmen o’ fortune go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First one to treasure island wins, or rather
Jim laaad, if the jolly roger gets thaaar first, the squiffies aboard your
swaggy will experience a keelhauling they’ll never forget.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Steve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Now pass the grog)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdXzMtV21TbWRoUlk/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<em>EDIT - reading that back I realise at some point I lost 'Pirate' and took on 'Cornish'</em></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-88792491223672429412013-11-14T03:35:00.000+08:002013-11-14T03:35:55.343+08:00Cheerful Chicken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">By MykeP</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre:
drop ‘n’ don’t hatch</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXOVo_rmnEjbDupKnsr_eDxEbcyiMxeLYgy5HwTMYBa5dn83uj-h53iPV5g6UrO8_yiTeZ4FbUQ72z8PfdLYVwq8S194Ot2fcLSiYlH05VckmlvmOVNlIGG9NgJY8lyz6Q9x1ygd64Gg/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXOVo_rmnEjbDupKnsr_eDxEbcyiMxeLYgy5HwTMYBa5dn83uj-h53iPV5g6UrO8_yiTeZ4FbUQ72z8PfdLYVwq8S194Ot2fcLSiYlH05VckmlvmOVNlIGG9NgJY8lyz6Q9x1ygd64Gg/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This
is more, or less, based on the modern game character of a similar name.
Those familiar with it will know it involves button (or pad) mashing in order
to lay as many eggs as possible, and that this version bears little to no
resemblance whatsoever! The ever increasing number of sprites to be drawn
on the screen presents a problem for the spectrum coder: how to maintain game
speed and keep pushing those pixels around? Well, with some lightening
fast machine code, clever game design and general use of nifty tricks it is
more than possible to make a playable version for the good old ZX-Spectrum.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">But
this is the CGC, and thankfully MykeP has used none of the above!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEHLlDhsmGWwRS3N52PazTJrSCXuOrA5IndiWnZjA5FcxibqnSISxFO2zACrmkHi25EWkagXpJN6HdxupfaoPKTKdTo177uoBQp7fY0S3KsR8GBJ9emwA6yZ3jud5Yx_Y4f5h_EXFqw8/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEHLlDhsmGWwRS3N52PazTJrSCXuOrA5IndiWnZjA5FcxibqnSISxFO2zACrmkHi25EWkagXpJN6HdxupfaoPKTKdTo177uoBQp7fY0S3KsR8GBJ9emwA6yZ3jud5Yx_Y4f5h_EXFqw8/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Fans
of loading screens be sure to turn off turbo load and appreciate the lovely
easter eggs hiding under the attributes. This chicken based game is
programmed in BASIC and marks an excellent first entry from Myke.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I've
not played any modern version, but I <em>think</em> I've got to grips with the
gameplay here. Press <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> any
key and the chicken lays an egg, fail to press a key before a random counter
winds down and they hatch. It is not actually so much about button
mashing, as button holding, as that suffices to keep the game going!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The number of eggs on the screen is your
score. So naturally it is fairly easy to accrue a large number of eggs,
and equally naturally the spectrum slowly grinds to a halt giving <a href="http://csscgc2013.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/snail.html">S.N.A.I.L</a> a
run for its money! I suppose in this sense the biggest challenge is one
of inner strength, how long can you bear to keep mashing a key and
watching your poor spectrum get tortured?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdVMhoBnsFlmm2oRrQEjZ6B2dHC39jLzJY9kk4ysijWehpakE9nNx9iuYm0IeUWwpux-i5sptHtoR-JkQoe-2tHs0UJhLT0ryMVpm_gzRSfuIEbGEBNPAEn5Zd-xdVKAfmdwf-DyXG9E/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdVMhoBnsFlmm2oRrQEjZ6B2dHC39jLzJY9kk4ysijWehpakE9nNx9iuYm0IeUWwpux-i5sptHtoR-JkQoe-2tHs0UJhLT0ryMVpm_gzRSfuIEbGEBNPAEn5Zd-xdVKAfmdwf-DyXG9E/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Nice
presentation, lovely beeper music, and an unplayable load of old carp that is
most welcome in the competition!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
Thank you Myke!<br />
<br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdUVhnd1VxUFZZSDQ/edit?usp=sharing">Download TAPE here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-1267170382182329492013-11-09T22:45:00.000+08:002013-11-09T22:46:01.421+08:00Monkey Doo's Fruit Salad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Retromad<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Fruit flinch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGs-yGfOLQLc7i-qJ4XYyKkirUEF2SEkw_fkJDLahjO5vPuIEYRBS9NNQPmVIYCzO1R8Ms_LYxI4-tL69XsAczhHjMa3JTw9KpfhIENS9CQv4MFO8fSDqppUkZWl74ECSB0-ouROEO54/s1600/Fruit+Salad+inlay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGs-yGfOLQLc7i-qJ4XYyKkirUEF2SEkw_fkJDLahjO5vPuIEYRBS9NNQPmVIYCzO1R8Ms_LYxI4-tL69XsAczhHjMa3JTw9KpfhIENS9CQv4MFO8fSDqppUkZWl74ECSB0-ouROEO54/s320/Fruit+Salad+inlay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This ace BASIC game
features Monkey Doo, remember?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone’s
favourite t-shirted manky, mange ridden Monkey puppet from the 80’s?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, well maybe that’s because Retromad failed
to keep copies of his earlier C15 tapes, or one of the big software houses
failed to spot a smash hit when it dropped on the doormat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter, as Monkey Doo is now available
again for the ZX-Spectrum, and this time it’s the full package – game, inlay <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> hit single, yes, I said hit single.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk3oCEc8WoxA7q2jeJbF2gkk5H_hTLfvhf1PUj1k_XfRkJKTcrxgg_7PInE9EcVXYAN-4RMBQL_OCr8nrQdPOWyS7lv7LACpm9BoxnmQx8O_KlTrN7uuw7CSdW0qnGos3rhGnpT5vgFI/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk3oCEc8WoxA7q2jeJbF2gkk5H_hTLfvhf1PUj1k_XfRkJKTcrxgg_7PInE9EcVXYAN-4RMBQL_OCr8nrQdPOWyS7lv7LACpm9BoxnmQx8O_KlTrN7uuw7CSdW0qnGos3rhGnpT5vgFI/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Monkey Doo’s Fruit Salad
gets off to a great start as it is supplied as a z80 file on which you have to
type RUN to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then follows a
loonnnnnggg intro with piccies, beeps, references to the Grattan catalogue, and
some instructions along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim
of the game is to make Monkey Doo 8 fruit salads, not just any old fruit salad
mind – it has to be composed of an apple and <u>a</u> orange and a banana and a
cherry (different to the one on the inlay which appears to be festooned with Monkey stools, or perhaps blackberries).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There must be no fruplicates (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that’s shorthand for fruit duplicates in
order to save time</i>) and you have to think quick – if you don’t press the
right key in time the game is over and all the fruit salads are lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 fruit salad is manageable but each time it
speeds up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Press A for Apple, B for
Banana, C for Cherry and O for Orange, when a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fruplicate</i> appears press D to discard.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sounds complicated?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t worry if so, because Retromad has
supplied a catchy hit single to help you remember what to do.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWgv3s6PzX5EpjCeLnHgrgQXjjCLtk74HqWEreE-uqSbqN9nXAL7VbNMWiO3ggWDcs6J_jQJiCvko6QFjeBOIayIkXzxxrAHCRQAAzOysqTuY5Thebu-tPjFmKgLmIi45sVAbX-zxNiE/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWgv3s6PzX5EpjCeLnHgrgQXjjCLtk74HqWEreE-uqSbqN9nXAL7VbNMWiO3ggWDcs6J_jQJiCvko6QFjeBOIayIkXzxxrAHCRQAAzOysqTuY5Thebu-tPjFmKgLmIi45sVAbX-zxNiE/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04PF9c_sjs4-kXf0mOCMXNAwpmf2T0OemUUMPiE1nhIREHEEPq9LaPBBse0ZwBZhfnMuj9Pnn4Pxt_G7OAKdBf9qKO0IAwRJhyjS1moFmBnRH_627xFluKM47gnI4fK5emzr8cu7UVq8/s1600/game2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04PF9c_sjs4-kXf0mOCMXNAwpmf2T0OemUUMPiE1nhIREHEEPq9LaPBBse0ZwBZhfnMuj9Pnn4Pxt_G7OAKdBf9qKO0IAwRJhyjS1moFmBnRH_627xFluKM47gnI4fK5emzr8cu7UVq8/s320/game2.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">MDFS is both crap and
brilliant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It encapsulates a lot of
emotions, it looks and sounds like an early 80’s bit of homebrew but there are
no bugs and it’s addictive to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found myself wanting to get to the next level, but mind and body don’t always
seem to collaborate fast enough, each time I read the words “HERE COMES THE FRUIT”
I was genuinely nervous about completing the level.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztbzPkJEYsNisak76-pNd1ZZjqUzx-BWY314RZxMEnuTgIuHOrQI2w0iAOGj3arFS3Og5xaZNeTwap4efpiLXXCFiWdxPKDD4x6UdAL8_B6hLO074WIwbHOVwEnbd3GcJD1a2G6fFzWU/s1600/fruitsalad.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztbzPkJEYsNisak76-pNd1ZZjqUzx-BWY314RZxMEnuTgIuHOrQI2w0iAOGj3arFS3Og5xaZNeTwap4efpiLXXCFiWdxPKDD4x6UdAL8_B6hLO074WIwbHOVwEnbd3GcJD1a2G6fFzWU/s320/fruitsalad.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">So far I can only make a
pathetic 5 fruit salads (poor Monkey Doo), but for the person who completes the
game there is a prize – just jot down the London phone number and give the
code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes I’ve peeked at the program to
see that, and yes I was tempted to ring the (probably made up) number and give
the code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could of course be wrong and
there is actually an amazing prize – but there’s only one way to find out – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GET PLAYING!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Retromad!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdY3dwd2FqR3FVcVE/edit?usp=sharing">Download game here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdcW9laHlCb3F2c00/edit?usp=sharing">Download Inlay here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdZlN6X2FBeWNuRU0/edit?usp=sharing">Download ‘hit’ single here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-73912660323636717152013-11-05T03:02:00.001+08:002013-11-05T03:02:51.217+08:00Maggie Thatcher: Milk Snatcher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve McCrea<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Arcade: Rickets<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-qlEa8c91ZdUPl8Ct_Jn6w_ZnfzfDqcHxG_UZU1lYZY-8n7GGVPYg0lhDIdr2iyo91HnBHgq3fOZAg_SF4F-XWcje0ffzHrPwnGrufbwDtqQV0i3lUpeO_oRKEl8HJINhEFJT83K1xo/s1600/trophy.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-qlEa8c91ZdUPl8Ct_Jn6w_ZnfzfDqcHxG_UZU1lYZY-8n7GGVPYg0lhDIdr2iyo91HnBHgq3fOZAg_SF4F-XWcje0ffzHrPwnGrufbwDtqQV0i3lUpeO_oRKEl8HJINhEFJT83K1xo/s320/trophy.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Firstly, congratulations to
Steve on his <u>world record</u> 22<sup>nd</sup> entry to the CGC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWCly07sxHOUeCEHG3SFXoYfFn-RXpYNzmqoKUT-_zaWXdtRhwfhQlYT2LjvlPpIV28UUwCTmJ0ftbdFXf4qqT1ix_M8N3lxWbrs9jlFvUkGMS-uR5W6Xm4V567M7PyaqyamrEmJYhrDE/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWCly07sxHOUeCEHG3SFXoYfFn-RXpYNzmqoKUT-_zaWXdtRhwfhQlYT2LjvlPpIV28UUwCTmJ0ftbdFXf4qqT1ix_M8N3lxWbrs9jlFvUkGMS-uR5W6Xm4V567M7PyaqyamrEmJYhrDE/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This entry takes us all the
way back to 1971, and you are a primary school teacher trying to evade the milk
snatching talons of Margaret Thatcher.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY53nKLcREvu0MS81Aidk7R96iQx__2aE_k7xM9CYHwhsmFwW-UXj7y5NEN4FK-eskx-xgbEZRqQ2WsqWnBYaSOmCzcyvuYh_LOF55S0FRVqaKlBe3rr2kYQfA7WmJYqXRGNRy1iBHCYM/s1600/game1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY53nKLcREvu0MS81Aidk7R96iQx__2aE_k7xM9CYHwhsmFwW-UXj7y5NEN4FK-eskx-xgbEZRqQ2WsqWnBYaSOmCzcyvuYh_LOF55S0FRVqaKlBe3rr2kYQfA7WmJYqXRGNRy1iBHCYM/s320/game1.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It’s actually a pretty nice
maze game, the object of which is to run around the school desks collecting
milk and giving it to the pupil most in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead of the traditional symptoms of malnutrition, this game
demonstrates need for milk by the sprite flashing on and off!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once delivered, another carton appears
elsewhere in the maze (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you can only carry
one at a time naturally</i>) and you continue until you’ve done 12 pints or
Maggie gets you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The further you progress
in this maze Maggie seems to become better at chasing you, to the point that it
does get pretty frantic toward the end of each level (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steve informs me Maggie uses A* pathfinding!</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO2iFcME-ccj2sSYsa2Sza4neaSHkhltNEvxBfhNbNyVZ8MhIC0078htCUPRR3UCN2ijaybG6csvwP6TF0DVX197gtBihit5dPN3uqUQZiQ2FuamiI4zgWCQyA42F_2tlEFRFtFFUyLDk/s1600/game3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO2iFcME-ccj2sSYsa2Sza4neaSHkhltNEvxBfhNbNyVZ8MhIC0078htCUPRR3UCN2ijaybG6csvwP6TF0DVX197gtBihit5dPN3uqUQZiQ2FuamiI4zgWCQyA42F_2tlEFRFtFFUyLDk/s320/game3.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">MT:MS has plenty of crap
qualities but I must confess to being disappointed to have completed it so
quickly, so it can’t be that bad eh?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The game is silent, apart
from when Maggie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> catch you, and
you hear her utter those terrifying words… “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
want milk</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either
that or ‘I like pomme frites’, I can’t quite tell</i>).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Steve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’ll be an appropriate prize with your
name on it at the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdNUQ3X045ZTFWckE/edit?usp=sharing">Download here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240048008455474711.post-61699225691470026262013-10-29T03:57:00.000+08:002013-10-29T03:57:00.164+08:00Dr Who Adventure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dr Who Adventure<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By Steve McCrea<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Genre: Text Lords<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhg98yZRscEZ56sK9r2wZTMCxmfpzQto_2k_OfXnDW-24YWDuxgWjTTl1nhz6uZ4-ZDc_IJCeaemaa6r-5uacifEhqknabmU8W-TO6faOyL-pXRyWAYj2n31TDACxlMbJK4T1NiGbXUJI/s1600/game0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhg98yZRscEZ56sK9r2wZTMCxmfpzQto_2k_OfXnDW-24YWDuxgWjTTl1nhz6uZ4-ZDc_IJCeaemaa6r-5uacifEhqknabmU8W-TO6faOyL-pXRyWAYj2n31TDACxlMbJK4T1NiGbXUJI/s320/game0.gif" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Oh No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tardis has spun after control after a
heavy session of Galiferian whistling angel juice, or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Steve’s other games this one is
programmed in C and despite being probably impossible without reading the tips/walkthrough
it is rather good (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I say probably
impossible, but that might just be because I’m rubbish at text adventures</i>).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You don’t have to be a Dr
Who expert to recognise the chilling scream of the Dalek – “EXTERMINATE”,
superbly rendered using BEEPFX.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Have a bash & see how
far you get (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clues are cunningly hidden
in the text</i>), then read the tips and see if you can solve it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has some crap qualities but at its heart
is a well designed puzzle with some depth to it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Also put your hands
together to Steve’s entry number 21, equal to the record of most CGC entries in
one year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Thankyou Steve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdcm5CQXJXQXNJMVE/edit?usp=sharing">Download TAP here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByxiMYbPnlUdRHRJQ05jNDdLWTA/edit?usp=sharing">Download tips here</a>
(recommended!)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0