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There was definitely a point where a significant portion of new Electron releases were examples of programmers trying to push it to its limits. One page of reviews in Electron User vaguely rings a bell where all of the games had the “garbage” around the edge of the screen, which I’m not sure had hap...

Fortress (Pace)

Even after extensive play I was generally done within seconds!

What about that big red monster on the 5th screen of Jet Power Jack (ie. The Yugg monster)? I mean that is just a static level decoration which is made up from a bunch of individual blocks. Might as well consider this a contender :lol: How about the Cute To Kill bosses? Very blocky and flickery, an...

How about the Cute To Kill bosses? Very blocky and flickery, and not exactly man-on-the-street shapes, but massive regardless.

I always wondered what the bloody hell had happened there - kudos on doing it!

Mine came with: Desk diary Business games Snapper Arcadians Boxer Starship command Hopper This was quite a late purchase from Dixons probably sometime in 1985. I could be wrong about the date though and it could be as late as summer 1986. Similar with ours, but no Starship Command - we had Sphinx A...

Still no The Hobbit? Strange omission, it was quite iconic with its AI characters, pretty graphics and quirky bugs; and Veronika Megler is easy to contact. Good to see Level 9 in the mix anyhow. Have to say, that’s pretty harsh given the scale of the undertaking that’s been involved here. There wil...

Weirdly, this was of the first couple of games I ever completed on the Electron back in the day, and probably the first I finished without a solution to hand. Bit annoying at times but never struck me as all that difficult. Can’t remember the machine-gunner - does it feature in the Elk version (have...

Return Of R2

I have a lot of time for “bad” games, stuff like Auf Wiedersehen Pet, but they have to play fair, and this doesn’t.

My copy arrived today.

Proud to have played a small part - what a lovely thing it is. Brilliant work Mark and all those who had a hand in it. It’s been well, well worth the wait.

Stu

Best
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Impossible Mission
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Mikie
Boulderdash
Commando
Klax
Beach Head
Jet Set Willy II

Worst
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Star Wars
Tetris (plays fine but unpolished and feels lazy)

What about Licence to Kill?? Surely the worst. Just infinite corridors on multiple levels where all you could do was run around stabbing minions of Clive Sinclair. The instructions detailed a deeper game. It led to me & a friend to dissassemble the code & it appeared like there was more to ...

I seem to remember there were letters to Electron User coming up with various methods, but basically the programmers cocked it up. I think I somehow stumbled across hitting the ball on at least one occasion, but it was simply not a straightforwardly repeatable action. Compared to the BBC version, it...

Return Of R2 and Ian Botham’s Test Match (where it was impossible to hit the ball in the Elk version due to a coding oversight).

Fully echo the Skirmish shouts.

Also:
Indoor Sports (mainly for table tennis and air hockey)
Grand Prix Construction Kit (we used to design half a track each)
Graham Gooch’s Test Cricket

I never tried Spy vs Spy but heard good things about it.

There were some disks I didn't sent on that were labelled with people's names I didn't recognise. Not sure of the nature of those disks, presumably things like CVs etc, but on the other hand I know some of those in the YTS were pretty good at coding (and one or two were absolute demons at cracking p...

Some of that might be a mixture of my sister (Elaine) and Mum’s (she’s about to be 81) files - some of it should be related to a YTS group that my ex-brother-in-law used to look after.

I’m basically useless for copying and scanning purposes, as my tape deck and disk drive are buried in the left, and my scanner refuses to work with Windows 10.

Will send all these on, hopefully Fri or Sat this week.

Meanwhile, these caught my eye. There may be the odd PC disk in here (World Class Leaderboard probably proves that), but anything leaping out as being of specific interest? 1AD02175-9DAC-4719-B523-EAD29FC97D0F.jpeg BF507C3A-D70F-46C3-B736-F954145C34E7.jpeg 5A9107B8-F4C7-497F-8EFF-206C3CEF0C6E.jpeg

Quick peek at the Cornish Riviera booklet..,

Here’s Cup And Bowl, which is being sent Col-wards in the coming days...

Dunno who John is I’m afraid.

Supermarket is here:

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I’ll bung anything that’s missing Col’s way as promised.

Am getting tied in knots with the archive. Thought more Acornsoft/Ivan Berg titles were in there, but I’m struggling to find them (admittedly I’ve been in the loft for two hours and am slightly out of it). In front of me are: Revise GCE/CSE English Mathematics 1 Mathematics 2 Biology Crime & Det...

^ that will be a CSW only, as the loaders are rather mental, all of them dont work under BeebEm only bEm beta CSW /WAV tape ldr , Done two so far. They sometimes have a 'back door' ie OLD RUN hiding somewhere OR a do you want to finish question, which if you press Break at right time can see basic ...

Did this ever surface? It’s by Griffin Software - came in a bumper package complete with a book, which I must still have somewhere. For some reason the tape’s strayed in among a load of music cassettes I have ...

I could never be doing with any text adventures where I had to write things down. Which, to be fair, probably explains why I had such a troubled relationship with the genre. Incidentally, how come the Electron version was so pared down compared to the Beeb? The Electron User review says it has 100 f...

Was it Oxbridge where one of the puzzles meant you had to move as if you were a knight in chess, so as to check off every space on a chessboard?

I think I saw that in one of the reviews, and that may have been the youthful point I realised that one person's idea of fun isn't necessarily mine.

Meanwhile, Beeb Invaders arrived yesterday. Tape looks in very good condition.

Will endeavour to send it Col-wards this week.

well, well I never :shock: I was waiting for a PM reply from Stu /Ivor, to see if he Really needed them for his collection, & does not want them :lol: also got a reply from the seller of Beeb Invaders, & said he would pass my info onto buyer (Ivor), so that was nice :D Basically, I don’t co...

Well I have mixed news. The bad news is that I've just come here to find I've been inadvertently been bidding against my comrades. I was going to post that there was a lovely haul of MIA titles that unfortunately I've just missed out on. The big last few seconds' jump was down to me, I'm afraid. In ...