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Got a feeling the snooker one might be called Steve Davis snooker or something similar - I've just got this vague recollection that there was a licenced snooker game that got really lousy reviews. Another thing's occurred to me as well... there hardly ever seemed to any poor reviews! Almost everythi...

Been a lot of threads lately about favourite games, so here's something a bit different... What's the very worst BBC game you ever played? Only really talking about commerical games, rather than the type-in listings you used to get in magazines etc... I'd personally go for Circus (because I couldn't...

It's got to be Sim City. I remember reading an interview with the guy who converted it from the Amiga (can't remember his name, but I'm sure someone here will know) and it used something like 20 times the amount of memory on the Amiga than it did on the BBC. I've still got the magazine in question s...

Um, yep, you could be right. For all these years, I'd assumed that there was speech somewhere in R2 and that 'our new program' referred to R2 itself...

but then I never got anywhere near finishing R2 so wondered if there was a speech message at the end saying 'con-grat-u-lations'...

Well... I didn't do too badly, given that I haven't replayed ATW for about 10 years... :) Think I'll have a crack at R2 next with the help of the maps... Oh, and one more thing! Remember the voice saying 'watch out for speech' while R2's loading? Where does this speech actually happen...? I'd guess ...

It sounds a bit like Beached, but as far as I know that was only ever out on PC...

Was it just a game, or more of an educational program? It doesn't ring any bells...

Hi AJH/ all, the problem screen in Around the World is Screen C of the Orient levels - I'll try to describe it... Looking at the (roughly) central area of the map, there's a U-shaped section of wall with a 'rock' on the left prong and an 'egg' on the right prong. The bottom right block of this shape...

Ah... just spotted this. Funnily enough I was in Tasmania last November and did indeed visit Launceston (and stayed above an Irish bar in the town centre).

I should be off to NZ at the end of May/ beginning of June so maybe I'll stop off and collect... what have you got exactly?

I had a Windows version of R3 and the fungus grew way too fast, making most of the later screens impossible. That's when I downloaded BeebEm and starting using that instead... I also remember sending back my copy of Around the World as one of the oriental screens was impossible due to an extra block...

I still haven't managed to play Repton 1 all the way through (i.e. without using passwords) - although it's one of the easiest BBC games ever.

I'd love to finish R2 one day. I didn't finish all the R3s either - didn't get very far with the themed versions...

Did anyone ever actually finish this without cheating/ using a hint sheet?

I gave it a whirl a few weeks ago, which reminded me why I eventually gave up - there were a few screens I just couldn't get past...

...would have been a game I'd have perservered with if you hadn't had to start from the beginning every time. Of those that could be completed, I hardly ever finished BBC games, whereas I finish pretty much every PC game I play.

...definitely had a BBC version. And here it is on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Missile-Control-B ... dZViewItem

Think you're right about the dome thing though.

Sounds a bit like Predator as well... can't remember if that had much in the way of power-ups though.

I'm pretty sure it's the 'Africa' screens of Around the World in 40 Screens. From memory, the red apples represented the diamonds from the original game, the fire was the equivalent of the fungus and most of the scenery was trees. Then again, the trees wouldn't have burned down exactly and they woul...