http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/spectrum/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> This Month's Most Popular Games Tagged 'spectrum' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/spectrum/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> en-us Control the two characters Head and Heels in this isometric arcade adventure/puzzle game.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 07:02:02 This is a PC/Mac remake of the old ZX Spectrum game by Raffaele Cecco and Hugh Binns, written for Hewson Consultants Ltd and released in 1987.

Remake by Graham Goring, John Blythe & Infamous.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 02:22:32 This a remake of Raffaele Cecco's 1988 sequel to the 1987 original.

Remake by Graham Goring, John Blythe, Will Morton and Russell Hoy.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 03:09:44 Counterclockwise is a remake of 1983 Spectrum game "Knot in 3D". Your goal is to navigate a mass-trail propulsion craft through zero-G space and survive as long as you can. There are other crafts (chasers) around, trying to cut you off with their trails. Avoid crashing into trails and showoff some fancy flying and shooting skills for extra score.

]]> 02 Feb 2007 12:37:48 Anarchy has broken out on the planet Sentinel 4 and rebels have taken over.

You have been chosen for a mission: break into the rebels' ammunition depot and destroy the entire supply, thus dealing a crushing blow to the rebellion. You have been given an ACE Mk.2 Interceptor tank with which to carry out your mission.

Playing the Game

Shoot the "red boxes of ammo" and the "red pyramid warheads" for points.

You can only fire in the direction you are facing, and if there isn't a space between you and the ammo or warhead, there is no space to turn. Find a way of positioning yourself so that you can face them - they are all possible, but some may be puzzling.

Destroy them all and a beacon will appear showing where to place your tank to be beamed to the next ammo-dump in the complex.

The rebels are trying to destroy you before you accomplish your mission, with their orbital laser, but your jamming device can keep them from getting a lock for a while.

Keep an eye on the timer, when it runs out the jammer will fail, and the laser will be able to destroy you.

There are security droids and enemy tanks in the complex, which will try and tag you with and electronic marker - if you are touched and marked, the laser will be able to lock on despite your jamming-device!

Extra lives are awarded every 50,000 points.

This version (like the original game) has 16 levels. The original crashed after level 16, and didn't have an end sequence, the remake will take you back to level 1 to rack up a higher score.

The top five scores are saved to disk, along with the level reached.

Controls

Cursor Keys or joy-pad to move the tank.
Control-Key or Fire Button 1 to shoot

"P" to pause the game

The game is full screen by default, but if you wish to play it in a window then use the switch "/window" on the command line.

]]> 02 Feb 2007 07:59:39 This is a remake of Monty On The run released on several 8 bit systems.

You must guide Monty Mole to freedom as he has just escaped from the slammer after being wrongly imprisoned.

The game features the same rooms and game play as the original but with MASSIVELY updated graphics by the very talented mister Smila Storey.

It also features a rocking rendition of the C64 theme tune from a real band, Press Play On Tape.
Cheers Guys, it really makes the game !!!

]]> 03 Feb 2007 07:47:00 GAME INFO:
(copied from back of Sega Master System cover)
Agent 4125... Half the threat of world annihilation posed by Elvin Atombender from his underground laboratory. Penetrate his stronghold an dodge or deactivate the guard robots whilst unscrambling the secret code that will allow entry to the control center. The world awaits in FEAR. Your mission is stamped 'IMPOSSIBLE'

THE GAMEPLAY:
It's a very difficult game. Each of it's thirty-two rooms are unique(only two rooms are the same), and each one has many pieces of furniture which need to be searched to get pieces of code, in which must be put together to divine the password and open the control centre doors.
The robots, of which there are many in each room, all act differently, some attacking on sight, and some are speeding back and forth, waiting for you to mistime your jump over them and kill you.
Other things include lifts which are essential to getting all the items in a room, and computer terminals which allow you to reset the lifts or freeze the robots(this is temporary) in a room.

INTERESTING TRIVIA:
The main player sprite for the C=64 version is an unused sprite for Summer Games.
It is being remade for the Nintendo DS, and is rumoured to be coming to the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console in the near future.

]]> 03 Feb 2007 10:13:36 Highway Encounter was originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Costa Panayi in 1985. At the time is was a smash hit, and I remember saving up to buy this game. 21 years later I had a good excuse to remake this game... The Retro Remakes Competition 2006. All entrants were given three months to remake an old classic (and some less well know classics). This was my entry.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 01:07:33 Chip is willing to do anything for Melinda the Mental Marvel, more than anything, because he wants to join melinda's exlusive computer club, the Bit Busters. Finally Melinda has offered him membership, but on one condition! Chip must find his way from one end of Melinda's magical clubhouse to the other, picking up cosmic computer chips along the way.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 07:49:36 This game is a new and improved remake of the classic Spectrum ZX and Commodore 64 game "Skool Daze." In it, a boy named Eric must avoid being expelled for an entire week of school while trying to change the grades on his report card.

]]> 19 Feb 2007 04:14:57 This is a brand new version of Atic Atac. Gameplay wise, it's very close to the original, but with a few extra bells, whistles and that sort of thing. Graphics, sound and music have been enhanced in true remakes fashion.

]]> 03 Mar 2007 05:03:42