Poll: Games you completed without cheats (and let's not cheat NOW!)
Ro da HIT Man
you?
rohit.
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>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
Beleive or not :
Zombie Zombie, Underwurlde, Revolution, Raid Over Moscow,...
and some ("similar" and) not so hard titles:
Ant Attack, Atic Atac, Highway Encounter, Beach Head,...
and many, many more... :-)
Lords of Midnight, Popeye (yes, Popeye1), Spikey in Transilvania, Tarzan
Goes Ape,... :-)
Sinclair-ly yours,
Aleksandar Lukic
la haine
>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
Renegade, and some game where you had to go aroud a mansion collecting
keys. I'm sure there must be more though...
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> some game where you had to go aroud a mansion collecting keys.
That would probably be Haunted House by Jonathan Cauldwell.
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> For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
> you?
Rainbow Islands. (Done this one many times.)
Target Renegade. (Which repeats from the start, but gets harder.)
Colin the Cleaner. (Ha.)
And various other short/easy games.
I bet nobody has completed The Addams Family without cheating. I finished
it with infinite lives and it still took me about three evenings. Worth
it, though; there are some beautiful screens in there.
Eq.
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> For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
> you?
Hmm.
One of the Magic Knight series (can't remember which one)
Manic Miner
Quazatron (inasmuch as it's "completeable")
Ranarama (ditto)
Chuckie Egg
Feud
Wriggler
Probably a few others which don't spring to mind right now.
Geoff
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Geoff Winkless
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> "Ro "da HIT" Man" <rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com> wrote in
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> >
> > you?
>
> One of the Magic Knight series (can't remember which one)
> Manic Miner
> Quazatron (inasmuch as it's "completeable")
> Ranarama (ditto)
> Chuckie Egg
> Feud
> Wriggler
> Probably a few others which don't spring to mind right now.
Oh yeah, Way Of The Exploding Fist.
G
Derek Jolly
>Bruce Lee - 36 times on one life, before I got bored and pulled the plug.
I played Bruce Lee for the first time in years last week, and it was
still as easy as ever. Straight through without losing a life.
Decent games I've completed:
Chase HQ,
Renegade,
Target Renegade,
Highway Encounter,
Knight Lore (only ever completed it once),
Manic Miner (same with this, I've never managed it again),
Head Over Heels (collecting all the crowns)
Hmm, that's about all I can remember at the moment.
Of course Robocop isn't included above as that's far too easy to warrant
a place in this list. :)
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> a place in this list. :)
Oh, sorry, I didn't think it counted... I figured since -everyone- must have
completed it... ooh, at least five times, it wouldn't be worth putting down
:) :) :) :)
G
Derek Jolly
<8ra064$45v$1...@soap.pipex.net>, wrote
Exactly.
Jason Pleavin
> geoff-at-far...@127.0.0.1 (Geoff Winkless), in message
> <8ra064$45v$1...@soap.pipex.net>, wrote
>
> >"Derek Jolly" <derek...@xsage.com> wrote in message
> >news:970490693.4531.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
> >> dpe...@viagra.com (Daren), in message <8r9v8v$m3u$1...@supernews.com>,
> >> wrote Of course Robocop isn't included above as that's far too easy to
> >> warrant a place in this list. :)
> >
> >Oh, sorry, I didn't think it counted... I figured since -everyone- must
> >have completed it... ooh, at least five times, it wouldn't be worth
> >putting down
> >:) :) :) :)
I`ve completed a lot of the easy ones above (including Robocop ;o) ) but the
game that took me longest to complete and I was completely addicted to was
Arkanoid.
That just gives you a well done screen and starts from the beginning again
as well
Do sports games like Decathlon and Hypersports or Ping Pong count?
Richard Halford
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>Ro "da HIT" Man wrote in message
><39d6136b...@pubnews.netcom.net.uk>...
>>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>>
>>you?
>
>Beleive or not :
>Zombie Zombie, Underwurlde, Revolution, Raid Over Moscow,...
>
Zombie Zombie was easier than Robocop ;-)
Ant Attack, Highway Encounter, Dark Star were about the only others
that I completed.
I don't count WotEF becuase it was too easy.
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>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
Bruce Lee (easiest game ever) and Strontium Dog.
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>Bruce Lee (easiest game ever)
Yes along with Dan Dare, the sequel to Shadowfire and Codename MAT.
and Strontium Dog.
Yuk, terrible game.
Rob.
Paolo F. Pugno
<geoff-at-far...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>"Ro "da HIT" Man" <rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com> wrote in message
>news:39d6136b...@pubnews.netcom.net.uk...
>> For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>>
>> you?
>
>Hmm.
>One of the Magic Knight series (can't remember which one)
>Manic Miner
>Quazatron (inasmuch as it's "completeable")
>Ranarama (ditto)
>Chuckie Egg
>Feud
>Wriggler
>Probably a few others which don't spring to mind right now.
>
>Geoff
>
I completed Robocop without cheats. You know, Robocop is indeed hard.
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>"Derek Jolly" <derek...@xsage.com> wrote in message
>news:970491179.8687.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
>> geoff-at-far...@127.0.0.1 (Geoff Winkless), in message
>> <8ra064$45v$1...@soap.pipex.net>, wrote
>>
>> >"Derek Jolly" <derek...@xsage.com> wrote in message
>> >news:970490693.4531.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
>> >> dpe...@viagra.com (Daren), in message <8r9v8v$m3u$1...@supernews.com>,
>> >> wrote Of course Robocop isn't included above as that's far too easy to
>> >> warrant a place in this list. :)
>> >
>> >Oh, sorry, I didn't think it counted... I figured since -everyone- must
>> >have completed it... ooh, at least five times, it wouldn't be worth
>> >putting down
>> >:) :) :) :)
>
>I`ve completed a lot of the easy ones above (including Robocop ;o) ) but the
>game that took me longest to complete and I was completely addicted to was
>Arkanoid.
>That just gives you a well done screen and starts from the beginning again
>as well
>Do sports games like Decathlon and Hypersports or Ping Pong count?
>
>
Hey, that gives me an idea: a new poll!!!!
"Is Bruce Lee harder than Robocop?"
Equin0x
> I played Bruce Lee for the first time in years last week, and it was
> still as easy as ever.
Do most games get harder if you leave them lying around for a few years?
> Knight Lore (only ever completed it once),
I was never quite good enough. I certainly visited every room, but only
over a number of games. And how I used to hate starting in the yellow room
with two doors...
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>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
>
>
at the time.
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<Pine.OSF.4.05.100100...@cpca4.uea.ac.uk>, wrote
>On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Derek Jolly wrote:
>
>> I played Bruce Lee for the first time in years last week, and it was
>> still as easy as ever.
>
>Do most games get harder if you leave them lying around for a few years?
I thought it might've done as I'd have been starting afresh, not knowing
the room layout etc, but no, it was as easy as ever.
Matthew Wilson
rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com (Ro "da HIT" Man) wrote:
>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
>
Fairlight I.
Head over Heels.
Manic Miner (but not until about 1994).
Knight Tyme (without using any tips).
Matthew
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> For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
Ranarama...
and The Hobbit... (Eventually)
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>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
Robocop, and I didn't complete many games without pokes, so it must
have been easy :o)
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>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
>
Bruce Lee
Carrier Command
Starglider II
Wanderer 3D
Rex
Shadowfire
Enigma Force
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Atic Atac
Where Time Stood Still
Out Run
Fairlight
Bionic Commando
L.E.D. Storm
Highway Encounter
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Wriggler (But came last - but who ever actually beat the others?)
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>On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:48:02 GMT, scri...@talk21.com (Jamie P)
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Bruce Lee (easiest game ever)
>
>Yes along with Dan Dare, the sequel to Shadowfire and Codename MAT.
>
Never played any of those...
> and Strontium Dog.
>
>Yuk, terrible game.
Heh! I loved it! Not because it was any good, it was just sooo atmospheric
when you were five years old. And it was the only game I saw that made me
think I had an extra colour - brown... but it turned out just to be the red
and cyan mixing. I stuck with it for 14 years and played it until I finally
completed it.
FishyFish
rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com (Ro "da HIT" Man) wrote:
>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
>
Oooh...let's see now...
Manic Miner
Underwurlde
Sabre Wulf
Starquake
Atic Atac
Monty on the Run
Probably more, but they're the ones of the top of my head.
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Well, not Robocop or Army Moves, obviously. Or Ghost Hunters. Or The Living
Daylights.
Let's see...
Curse of Sherwood (brill game)
Dizzy (plus a couple of sequels)
Kwik Snax
Where Time Stood Still
Um... I'm sure there are others, but not many.
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> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Derek Jolly wrote:
>
> > I played Bruce Lee for the first time in years last week, and it was
> > still as easy as ever.
>
> Do most games get harder if you leave them lying around for a few years?
No, but they do go mouldy unless you store them in the fridge.
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> For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
> you?
I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
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>
>>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>>
>>you?
>
>Renegade, and some game where you had to go aroud a mansion collecting
>keys. I'm sure there must be more though...
>
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>The Resident, comp.sys.sinclair
Pyjamarama
Three Weeks in Paradise
Herbert's Dummy Run
Sabre Wulf
Highway Encounter
ID (I used Multiface to save the game an play later, I don't count it
as a cheat)
Atic Atac
... and a bunch of others I don't remember. Bruce Lee and Robocop, of
course!
Cheers
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>
> you?
Deathchase,I was a gibbering wreck (what's new, Ed) after riding thru the
forest but very disillusioned when all it did was return me to level 1.
Dan Condon-Jones
Underwurlde
Ant Attack
Bugaboo (in about 19 seconds)
Id
Three Weeks in Paradise
Popeye
Jumbly
Splitting Images
Target Renegade
Chuckie Egg
Starquake
Jetpac (can I claim this one?)
Arcadia (ditto)
Most of the Dizzy games
All of the Seymour Games
Teenage Mutant Hero (Ninja) Turtles (on my second go)
Sir Fred (but only in one of the combinations)
Dizzy Kwick Snax/Fast Food (I forget which one, but I did it in my
first go)
Hero Quest + the expansion
Atic Atac
Deathchase
Terramex
Savage
Timegate
Spawn of Evil
There are probably others, but that's all I can remember right now.
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> >Chuckie Egg
>
> LIAR!!!! If you finished it, what level is the last one then?
First off you have the 8(?) levels.. then it repeats with just the flying
bird, then it repeats again with the flying bird and the normal birds, then
it repeats -again- with the flying bird, the normal birds _and_ some extra
birds... soo... erm... 32?
After that, IIRC it just goes round to the beginning. But it was a while
back.
G
Derek Jolly
<stiopag...@corp.supernews.com>, wrote
It's such a relief after the insanity of the final level when you
wrap back to level 1 and the trees suddenly thin out though, isn't it?
Stuart Adair
<i+jYOZSzHppZ0W...@4ax.com>:
>>Chuckie Egg
>
>LIAR!!!! If you finished it, what level is the last one then?
Well, it's the one after the penultimate one, innit?
I think I managed to complete Bruce Lee and Ghostbusters; that's about it,
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> Dizzy Kwick Snax/Fast Food (I forget which one, but I did it in my
> first go)
That would be Kwik Snax, then. Fast Food had more and harder levels.
That should've been on my 'completed' list, too.
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didn't finish, that I was all that bothered about finishing... Jack the
Nipper 2 - Coconut Capers was one of them.. anyone here manage that? I
even had a map, but it didn't help. And How To Be A Complete Bastard,
fantastic game (I loved the turning into a cooker bit), but what was the
point (I expect instructions may have been useful here...)
M.
Derek Jolly
Nope. Never finished Jack the Nipper 2. I did finish the first one
though.
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Stuart Adair wrote in message <8FC276412stu...@127.0.0.1>...
>I think I managed to complete Bruce Lee and Ghostbusters; that's about it,
>though :/
I was always crap at Ghostbusters, and it really annoyed me.
I apologise for this post not being very interesting, but I felt I had to
get that off my chest.
Alan
Equin0x
> I apologise for this post not being very interesting, but I felt I had to
> get that off my chest.
>
> Alan
Alan?
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>On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Llama-Wax Len wrote:
>
>> I apologise for this post not being very interesting, but I felt I had to
>> get that off my chest.
>>
>> Alan
>
>Alan?
Sometimes. See what you miss when you go away for the summer, eh?
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>I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
>IIRC) and, in fact, I don't think I completed it. I needed one extra
>star. But I _nearly_ completed it, does that count?
I bet it wasn't even one of the ones hidden behind a rock or the fence or
anything either - it would be the inevitable one which was always so well
hidden that you only found it by pressing enter on some random part of the
screen. (I'm sure there were at least a couple of them in Spellbound)
Alan
Rohit
>Terramex
You completed TERRAMEX?!! My Dear Sir, I have to hand it to you <Ro hands it to
him> - unBELIEVABLE!
>Timegate
Likewise! I remember the "planet landing" sequence from this one - it was truly
awesome.
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>Yes along with Dan Dare, the sequel to Shadowfire and Codename MAT.
Codename MAT was one of the best games of all time. I want a PC remake NOW. (Was
it the first of that type, before Elite and the like hit the market? I wouldn't
know.... )
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>Curse of Sherwood (brill game)
This was probably the FIRST GAME I ever played on my Speccy. Ohhh the
memories..... <Ro wipes the tears from his eyes>.
What's interesting is that NObody in the entire list mentioned Never Ending
Story - one of the ones that SHIPPED with it. Did ANYBODY, ANYWHERE ever
complete that game,I'd be interested to know? Is it, in fact, completable?
Rohit.
Equin0x
> > Alan?
>
> Sometimes. See what you miss when you go away for the summer, eh?
Ha, he thinks I missed him :)
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> What's interesting is that NObody in the entire list mentioned Never Ending
> Story - one of the ones that SHIPPED with it. Did ANYBODY, ANYWHERE ever
> complete that game,I'd be interested to know? Is it, in fact, completable?
It didn't ship with all of them by any means.
I completed it, working from a solution. (Forgotten where I found it.)
Towards the end there's an infuriating bit with a maze of stairs. Go up
the wrong stairs and you end up back at the bottom.
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Rohit wrote in message <39dc19a7...@pubnews.netcom.net.uk>...
>What's interesting is that NObody in the entire list mentioned Never Ending
>Story - one of the ones that SHIPPED with it. Did ANYBODY, ANYWHERE ever
>complete that game,I'd be interested to know? Is it, in fact, completable?
I hope not, or I'd be on to the trading standards folk.
IGMC.
Len
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>
> >Terramex
>
> You completed TERRAMEX?!! My Dear Sir, I have to hand it to you <Ro
hands it to
> him> - unBELIEVABLE!
>
It wasn't too bad really, but I only did it with one of the characters
you get to choose between - Easier then Pyjamarama and (the bloody
impossible) Treasure Island Dizzy. You wind up building a giant
pinball flipper to deflect the asteroid that threatens to destroy the
earth.
Lister
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>:
>>
>> >Terramex
>>
>> You completed TERRAMEX?!! My Dear Sir, I have to hand it to you <Ro
>hands it to
>> him> - unBELIEVABLE!
>>
>
>It wasn't too bad really, but I only did it with one of the characters
>you get to choose between - Easier then Pyjamarama and (the bloody
>impossible) Treasure Island Dizzy. You wind up building a giant
>pinball flipper to deflect the asteroid that threatens to destroy the
>earth.
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rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com (Rohit) wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:43:48 +0100, "Llama-Wax Len"
><al...@SPAMOFFauldgreytoon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Curse of Sherwood (brill game)
>
>This was probably the FIRST GAME I ever played on my Speccy. Ohhh the
>memories..... <Ro wipes the tears from his eyes>.
>
>What's interesting is that NObody in the entire list mentioned Never Ending
>Story - one of the ones that SHIPPED with it. Did ANYBODY, ANYWHERE ever
>complete that game,I'd be interested to know? Is it, in fact, completable?
Yes you can complete it. Once you know what to do you can go from
start to finish in about 4 and a half minutes. Excellent music though.
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Chris Young
wibbled on for an age:
>
> Chris Young wrote in message
> <39D901BF.MD-1.4....@bigfoot.com>...
> >I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
> >IIRC) and, in fact, I don't think I completed it. I needed one extra
> >star. But I _nearly_ completed it, does that count?
>
>
> I bet it wasn't even one of the ones hidden behind a rock or the fence or
> anything either
It couldn't have been, because I tried moving every fence, tree and
rock in the game.
> - it would be the inevitable one which was always so well
> hidden that you only found it by pressing enter on some random part of the
> screen. (I'm sure there were at least a couple of them in Spellbound)
That'll be the one. Somebody posted a list of where all the stars
were some time ago. I meant to go through and see if I could complete
it at last, but never got round to it.
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>I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
>IIRC) and, in fact, I don't think I completed it. I needed one extra
>star. But I _nearly_ completed it, does that count?
>
Y'know, I've a .Z80 of that game hanging around with all but two
coins found. Might go back to it...
As for things I've completed myself:
Terramax (dead easy!)
Rex (easiest final boss - ever!)
Wizball (gets easier as you go along, kinda')
Kwik Snax (Again, an utter breeze)
Fantasy World Dizzy
Action Biker
Micro Mouse Goes Debugging
The Mighty Magus
Atic Atac
Monty On The Run (On the C64 - spit!)
Skool Daze
Back 2 Skool
Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
Chronos
Cobra
Dan Dare
Supa Nova
Deja Vu 1 & 2
Feud
Throne Of Fire
Terminus
Starquake
Midnight Resistance
Myth - History In The Making (buggy game, that)
Rescue
Soul Of A Robot
Universal Hero
Hmm, not bad, actually. I'm bizarrely proud of myself. :)
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> > > I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
> > > IIRC) and, in fact, I don't think I completed it. I needed one
> > > extra star. But I _nearly_ completed it, does that count?
> >
> > I bet it wasn't even one of the ones hidden behind a rock or the fence or
> > anything either
>
> It couldn't have been, because I tried moving every fence, tree and
> rock in the game.
There was one in the Amazing Illusion Screen below the docks. It was hard
to get in and impossible to get out again. The whole screen appeared to be
a solid brick wall.
Eq.
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Equin0x wrote in message ...
I remember mapping that screen using an emulator and MS Paint. And The
Illusion Returns from Dizzy 5, too. Work of art, they were.
Graham Goring
FFauldgreytoon.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>I remember mapping that screen using an emulator and MS Paint. And The
>Illusion Returns from Dizzy 5, too. Work of art, they were.
Feckin' pain in the arse, they were.
Llama-Wax Len
Graham Goring wrote in message
<0vFgJBAD...@duketastrophy.demon.co.uk>...
>In article <8rq14h$n46$1...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, Llama-Wax Len <alan@SPAMO
>FFauldgreytoon.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>>I remember mapping that screen using an emulator and MS Paint. And The
>>Illusion Returns from Dizzy 5, too. Work of art, they were.
>
>Feckin' pain in the arse, they were.
Not with my handy-dandy maps! (Screen dumps of the two illusion screens,
with every solid block coloured red, and arrows showing where to go - I was
well proud of them)
Llama-Wax Len
Graham Goring wrote in message ...
>As for things I've completed myself:
>
>Terminus
Aah, Terminus. It fell into the FGTH group of games - totally bizarre and
left me completely confused as to what was going on, but oh how I loved it.
Were you any good at Tantalus? I didn't think it was as good myself.
Chris Young
wibbled on for an age:
> On 7 Oct 2000, Chris Young wrote:
>
> > > > I only remember completing one of the Dizzy games (Fantasy World,
> > > > IIRC) and, in fact, I don't think I completed it. I needed one
> > > > extra star. But I _nearly_ completed it, does that count?
> > >
> > > I bet it wasn't even one of the ones hidden behind a rock or the fence or
> > > anything either
> >
> > It couldn't have been, because I tried moving every fence, tree and
> > rock in the game.
>
> There was one in the Amazing Illusion Screen below the docks. It was hard
> to get in and impossible to get out again. The whole screen appeared to be
> a solid brick wall.
I don't recall ever seeing that screen, so that must be the one I
missed.
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>
> Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
>
Do tell...
>
> Midnight Resistance
>
Are you sure ou did that one properly? I ask because the annoying snap
I have of that will give you invincibility if you hit the wrong key
when you load it. It too me ages to realise that it wasn't just a
ridiculously easy game.
A bit similar to Rastan where the official version will give you
inincibility if you accidentally hit the wrong combination of keys
while playing and IIRC I always seemed to hit that combination
Dan
AndyC
On 7 Oct 2000, Chris Young wrote:
> > - it would be the inevitable one which was always so well
> > hidden that you only found it by pressing enter on some random part of the
> > screen. (I'm sure there were at least a couple of them in Spellbound)
>
> That'll be the one. Somebody posted a list of where all the stars
> were some time ago. I meant to go through and see if I could complete
> it at last, but never got round to it.
Treasure Island Dizzy was the only one with a *really* hard to find coin.
YOu could only get it if you stood in exactly the right place so that you
could pick up the top bit of a tree. All the others were pish easy. Even
the illusion screens...
AndyC
AndyC
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Nat Cross wrote:
> > erm, I completed treasure island dizzy, I think
>
> I couldn't finish it, and I had both invincibility and the screen skip
> cheat.
Wuss.
AndyC
Derek Jolly
<8rrq0h$c0l$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, wrote
>
>>
>> Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
>>
>
>Do tell...
Torka lying naked across the control panel at the end of the game.
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Equin0x wrote:
[Neverending Story]
> I completed it, working from a solution. (Forgotten where I found it.)
> Towards the end there's an infuriating bit with a maze of stairs. Go up
> the wrong stairs and you end up back at the bottom.
Arrrgh. I remember spending ages trying to map that bit. In the end I gave
up, having spent an infuriatingly long period of time on it. From that day
on I never bothered with any adventure games if I even got a hint of a
maze bit.
AndyC
Derek Jolly
<Pine.OSF.4.05.100100...@cpca7.uea.ac.uk>, wrote
>Arrrgh. I remember spending ages trying to map that bit. In the end I
>gave up, having spent an infuriatingly long period of time on it. From
>that day on I never bothered with any adventure games if I even got a
>hint of a maze bit.
Why did so many adventure games have mazes in them?
Get some proper puzzles and bugger off with your mazes!
Equin0x
> > [Neverending Story]
> > Towards the end there's an infuriating bit with a maze of stairs. Go up
> > the wrong stairs and you end up back at the bottom.
>
> Arrrgh. I remember spending ages trying to map that bit. In the end I gave
> up, having spent an infuriatingly long period of time on it. From that day
> on I never bothered with any adventure games if I even got a hint of a
> maze bit.
Fairly Difficult Mission had a maze, which you could only solve by sending
off an SAE (as an action in the game) for a solution. FDM was brilliantly
funny in parts - not that I ever got beyond the start of part 2.
Eq.
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> Arrrgh. I remember spending ages trying to map that bit. In the end I gave
> up, having spent an infuriatingly long period of time on it. From that day
> on I never bothered with any adventure games if I even got a hint of a
> maze bit.
Ya wuss! Drop an object in several locations, and wander round a bit. I mapped
out the maze in Zork 1 using that method. Which now looks like a child has got
hold of a pencil and drawn lots of sprials..
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Graham Goring
FFauldgreytoon.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
>Graham Goring wrote in message ...
>>As for things I've completed myself:
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>Terminus
>
>
>Aah, Terminus. It fell into the FGTH group of games - totally bizarre and
>left me completely confused as to what was going on, but oh how I loved it.
FGTH?
>Were you any good at Tantalus? I didn't think it was as good myself.
Tantulas? With 4096 screens? Sod off, mate!
Graham Goring
<d...@retrospec.co.uk> writes
>
>>
>> Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
>>
>Do tell...
When you complete it you are awarded with an Ondoyante creature
sprawled across your control panel with her (and I hesitate to use
such course language here ;) ) boobies showing. That's right,
boobies.
>> Midnight Resistance
>>
>Are you sure ou did that one properly? I ask because the annoying snap
>I have of that will give you invincibility if you hit the wrong key
>when you load it. It too me ages to realise that it wasn't just a
>ridiculously easy game.
Yes, I completed it properly. even saving all six family member's
lives, once. :)
>A bit similar to Rastan where the official version will give you
>inincibility if you accidentally hit the wrong combination of keys
>while playing and IIRC I always seemed to hit that combination
Really? Never got that bug myself... :(
Nat Cross
For this dishonour, I challenge you to a duel. Meet me at the top of
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>AndyC wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Nat Cross wrote:
>>
>> > > erm, I completed treasure island dizzy, I think
>> >
>> > I couldn't finish it, and I had both invincibility and the screen skip
>> > cheat.
>>
>> Wuss.
>
>For this dishonour, I challenge you to a duel. Meet me at the top of
>Trenchard Street car park at noon on Saturday. Bring your own sword.
Why did I just think of the sport of cockfighting?
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AndyC
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Derek Jolly wrote:
> Why did so many adventure games have mazes in them?
> Get some proper puzzles and bugger off with your mazes!
Exactly. Mazes are just plain crap. It's like the programmers just thought
"Hmm, how can I make this bit last longer? I know, I'll just stick a crap
maze there". Stupid.
AndyC
Stuart Adair
<8rukd7$j1t2r$1...@ID-44533.news.cis.dfn.de>:
>Nat Cross wrote in message <39E27AB3...@ys3.co.uk>...
>>AndyC wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Nat Cross wrote:
>>>
>>> > > erm, I completed treasure island dizzy, I think
>>> >
>>> > I couldn't finish it, and I had both invincibility and the screen
>>> > skip cheat.
>>>
>>> Wuss.
>>
>>For this dishonour, I challenge you to a duel. Meet me at the top of
>>Trenchard Street car park at noon on Saturday. Bring your own sword.
>
>
>Why did I just think of the sport of cockfighting?
It's the old Pokemon.
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>d...@retrospec.co.uk (Dan Condon-Jones), in message
><8rrq0h$c0l$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, wrote
>
>>
>>>
>>> Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
>>>
>>
>>Do tell...
>
>Torka lying naked across the control panel at the end of the game.
I'm sure I heard somewhere this only happens on the 128k version, though.
I once managed to do this, without destroying any clones at all. Highly
embarassing when you're round at your Grandad's house. In the front room.
Using the big telly.
Duncan Snowden
> In article <8rrq0h$c0l$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Dan Condon-Jones
> <d...@retrospec.co.uk> writes
>>
>>>
>>> Captain Blood (Mmm... nudity...)
>>>
>> Do tell...
>
> When you complete it you are awarded with an Ondoyante creature
> sprawled across your control panel with her (and I hesitate to use
> such course language here ;) ) boobies showing. That's right,
> boobies.
Hmm... It was French, wasn't it? One-track minds, that lot.
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SexyMF
<pfr...@spectrum20.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Yes you can complete it. Once you know what to do you can go from
>start to finish in about 4 and a half minutes. Excellent music though.
>
yeah but did you find out what to do all by yourself? :) as far the music is
concerned, yes, i forgot in the list i posted a while back but that music is
pretty much a defining memory of my childhood - kudos to whoever did it.
anyone got the lyrics?
<what> the stars was it?
and what you see will bee...ee-ee-ee-ee-eee-eee.....
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>On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 12:32:48 +0100, Paul French
><pfr...@spectrum20.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Yes you can complete it. Once you know what to do you can go from
>>start to finish in about 4 and a half minutes. Excellent music though.
>>
>
>yeah but did you find out what to do all by yourself? :) as far the music is
>concerned, yes, i forgot in the list i posted a while back but that music is
>pretty much a defining memory of my childhood - kudos to whoever did it.
>
>anyone got the lyrics?
only downloaded the song off of Napster a week ago!
>
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Equin0x
> > A bit similar to Rastan where the official version will give you
> > inincibility if you accidentally hit the wrong combination of keys
> > while playing and IIRC I always seemed to hit that combination
>
> Really? Never got that bug myself... :(
How about in Gauntlet where you could pass through walls by holding down
Symbol Shift? Was that a bug or a very obvious cheat?
(I called the Ctrl key 'Symbol Shift' the other day. Got a funny look.)
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> [Captain Blood]
> Hmm... It was French, wasn't it? One-track minds, that lot.
But it had music by Jean Michel Jarre. One-track minds and eight-track
studios?
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> look.)
I have a sudden urge to get some Letraset and turn my Alt keys into
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Paul French
(SexyMF) wrote:
>On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 12:32:48 +0100, Paul French
><pfr...@spectrum20.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Yes you can complete it. Once you know what to do you can go from
>>start to finish in about 4 and a half minutes. Excellent music though.
>>
>
>yeah but did you find out what to do all by yourself? :)
Yep. It was and still is the only adventure game I've completed
without help. It's also the only adventure game I ever beat my mate to
the end in.
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Alex Butcher
<rohitdGETRID...@flashmail.com> wrote:
>For me - none. Yes,that's right, absolutely NONE!
>
>you?
Timegate
Raid over Moscow (I think)
The Colour of Magic (I did use some hints)
Gauntlet (I think - it starts skipping lots of levels at a time and
loading seemingly random level blocks. Looks like a overflow-type bug to
me)
Monty on the Run (I think, though again, I had hints for a couple of
puzzles)
Some hacking game published by the budget label, Atlantis (which I
completed, by, er... hacking the BASIC it was written in; after all, isn't
that what hacking's about - thinking /outside/ the box?)
>rohit.
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AndyC wrote in message ...
>Treasure Island Dizzy was the only one with a *really* hard to find coin.
>YOu could only get it if you stood in exactly the right place so that you
>could pick up the top bit of a tree. All the others were pish easy. Even
>the illusion screens...
Spellbound had at least one where you only found it by hitting enter in a
certain place - it wasn't even hidden behind anything, it was just
invisible. Maybe it was a bug, but I got at least one like that - maybe even
two actually.
Llama-Wax Len
Graham Goring wrote in message
>In article <8rqrgp$b0l$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, Llama-Wax Len <alan@SPAMO
>FFauldgreytoon.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>>left me completely confused as to what was going on, but oh how I loved
it.
>
>FGTH?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood!
>>Were you any good at Tantalus? I didn't think it was as good myself.
>
>Tantulas? With 4096 screens? Sod off, mate!
Is that a lot then? Which one was first, Tantalus or Terminus?
Chris Bourne
<unsatis...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
These are the ones I remeber completing:
3 Weeks in Paradise (1st time I completed it was with the cheat, I
lost a life and smashed the keyboard with my left hand, all of a
sudden I had infy lives! Did do it properly after though)
Highway Encounter (one of the best games ever)
Wizball
Throne of Fire (easiest game ever)
Saboteur (almost as easy as above)
Raid Over Moscow
Jack the Nipper
Heavy on the Magick
Robin of the Wood (where was the archery tournament?)
Monty on the Run
Enigma Force (one of the 1st endings to be affected by outcomes of the
game, if a char died he didn't appear in the cockpit at the end!)
Eye of Bain
Ghostbusters
Automania
Invincible Island
Popeye
Impossible Mission
Bruce Lee (several times, not 46 in a row or whatever it was in Crash
(bullshit) Hall of Slime)
Sabre Wulf
Dan Dare
Trapdoor
Great Escape
Head over Heels
AW Monty
Killed Until Dead
Wizball
ID
Price of Magick
Beach Head 2
Did anyone ever complete: Gift from the Gosd, Cyberun, Psytron, Nodes
of Yesod, Firelord, Fat Worm, Amaurote
Sorry for the list, I kept a list of Speccy games that I owned at the
time (still got it obviously) and worked thru it!
Chris Young
wibbled on for an age:
>
> Graham Goring wrote in message
> <9Bnz9OAO...@duketastrophy.demon.co.uk>...
>
> >Tantulas? With 4096 screens? Sod off, mate!
>
>
> Is that a lot then?
Well, have you ever seen a spider wired up to 4096 TVs?
(reads it again)
Oh, sorry. I thought it said Tarantulas. I'll get my hairy coat with
eight arms.
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Llama-Wax Len wrote:
> Spellbound had at least one where you only found it by hitting enter in a
> certain place - it wasn't even hidden behind anything, it was just
> invisible. Maybe it was a bug, but I got at least one like that - maybe even
> two actually.
Must've been some sppoky bug then. There were definately no invisible
stars in Spellbound.
AndyC
Llama-Wax Len
Chris Bourne wrote in message <39ea2a27...@news.btinternet.com>...
>These are the ones I remeber completing:
>Throne of Fire (easiest game ever)
>Saboteur (almost as easy as above)
On easy level maybe... but even the later missions?
>Did anyone ever complete: Gift from the Gosd
Gift From The Gods was a bit crap, wasn't it? Was that the one which had the
soldier type guy flying about with winged boots, etc.? The whole game was
bloody pointless.[1]
Len
[1] As I believe a previous thread argued about.
Llama-Wax Len
AndyC wrote in message ...
>
>
At least one of them was underwater, but I can't remember where. Bet I can't
find it again if I tried.
Those coins were evil. Too easy without 'em, too hard with 'em.
Len
Stoney
> >Must've been some sppoky bug then. There were definately no invisible
> >stars in Spellbound.
>
> At least one of them was underwater, but I can't remember where. Bet I
> can't find it again if I tried.
There was one behind some red reeds (or whatever those green/red wobbly
thingys were) which you could only find by pressing enter in front of
the reeds (which weren't objects themselves) IIRC
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Stoney wrote in message <39ECA803...@stone-y.freeserve.co.uk>...
>Llama-Wax Len wrote:
>
>> >Must've been some sppoky bug then. There were definately no invisible
>> >stars in Spellbound.
>>
>> At least one of them was underwater, but I can't remember where. Bet I
>> can't find it again if I tried.
> There was one behind some red reeds (or whatever those green/red wobbly
>thingys were) which you could only find by pressing enter in front of
>the reeds (which weren't objects themselves) IIRC
That's one. I'm sure there was a similar one elsewhere too.
Hob
on about:
> The song was by Llamahl (I don't know how you spell it), and I literally
> only downloaded the song off of Napster a week ago!
Limahl, because it was an anagram of his surname, Hamill.
Duncan Snowden
> Many eons ago, in the dim, dark and distant past, The Starglider once
> waffled on about:
>
>> The song was by Llamahl (I don't know how you spell it), and I
>> literally only downloaded the song off of Napster a week ago!
>
> Limahl, because it was an anagram of his surname, Hamill.
BTW, I just discovered Napster (or rather, the "amusingly"-titled
Amster, an Amiga port) the other day. I think I've died and gone to
Heaven.
At least, I would if my CPU was up to decoding MP3s at a half-decent
quality, and my sound hardware wasn't f**ked so that it makes everything
sound like a badly-tuned radio anyway. Waaaah! 'Snot faaaiiir!
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The Starglider
1-149.cvx6.telinco.net>, Duncan Snowden <dun...@snowden.abelgratis.com>
writes
>On Wednesday, Hob wrote:
>
>> Many eons ago, in the dim, dark and distant past, The Starglider once
>> waffled on about:
>>
>>> The song was by Llamahl (I don't know how you spell it), and I
>>> literally only downloaded the song off of Napster a week ago!
>>
>> Limahl, because it was an anagram of his surname, Hamill.
>
>BTW, I just discovered Napster (or rather, the "amusingly"-titled
>Amster, an Amiga port) the other day. I think I've died and gone to
>Heaven.
>
the Lost Ark, Logan's Run, and about two CD's worth of new and old
classic tracks I never got around to buying.
It's just like piracy in the playground - not that I ever did that
<ahem>.
Llama-Wax Len
The Starglider wrote in message ...
>I know! I've now downloaded the entire soundtrack albums of Raiders of
>the Lost Ark, Logan's Run, and about two CD's worth of new and old
>classic tracks I never got around to buying.
I've got the Logan's Run soundtrack on vinyl! It's great! (And will be
getting replaced as it's just been re-released on CD again)
Saw Jerry Goldsmith in concert once, sadly he didn't play any Logan's Run...
AndyC
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Llama-Wax Len wrote:
> AndyC wrote in message ...
> >Must've been some sppoky bug then. There were definately no invisible
> >stars in Spellbound.
> At least one of them was underwater, but I can't remember where. Bet I can't
> find it again if I tried.
Ah, thinking about it there was one (or maybe two) hidden behind the
weeds. However Dizzy didn't actually pick up the weeds, unlike most of the
other things hiding objects. Perhaps that is what you're on about.
AndyC
Chris Young
wibbled on for an age:
> On Wednesday, Hob wrote:
>
> > Many eons ago, in the dim, dark and distant past, The Starglider once
> > waffled on about:
> >
> >> The song was by Llamahl (I don't know how you spell it), and I
> >> literally only downloaded the song off of Napster a week ago!
> >
> > Limahl, because it was an anagram of his surname, Hamill.
>
> BTW, I just discovered Napster (or rather, the "amusingly"-titled
> Amster, an Amiga port) the other day. I think I've died and gone to
> Heaven.
>
> At least, I would if my CPU was up to decoding MP3s at a half-decent
> quality,
Try "mpega -m". That improves the decoding speed greatly.
> and my sound hardware wasn't f**ked so that it makes everything
> sound like a badly-tuned radio anyway. Waaaah! 'Snot faaaiiir!
But it won't help with that.
Chris
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AndyC wrote in message ...
>weeds. However Dizzy didn't actually pick up the weeds, unlike most of the
>other things hiding objects. Perhaps that is what you're on about.
Yeah, but wasn't one of them off ground level too, so you actually had to be
swimming/sinking through the water to get it?
Duncan Snowden
>> At least, I would if my CPU was up to decoding MP3s at a half-decent
>> quality,
>
> Try "mpega -m". That improves the decoding speed greatly.
Well okay, it can do *half*-decent.
>> and my sound hardware wasn't f**ked so that it makes everything
>> sound like a badly-tuned radio anyway. Waaaah! 'Snot faaaiiir!
>
> But it won't help with that.
No. It's a bugger. The annoying thing is, you can alleviate the problem
a bit with samples by shifting them above the centre line (if you see
what I mean), but you can't do that with MP3s. And they're still pretty
crap anyway.
The 14-bit callibration tool doesn't help much either. In fact, it
doesn't work with my crappy machine. You know how you're supposed to
move the little bars so that there's no sound? I can't. There's always a
sound no matter where I put 'em. Bast.
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