Competition: Name the game - Page 3

Tuberski · May 5, 2003, 19:44

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Originally posted by CapTVK

That's easy, SUNDOG!

About time somebody knew what I was talking about!!!!

You are correct ,sir.

ACK!

Tuberski · May 5, 2003, 19:46

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Ok for my game an all-time classic game, which I played on the Spectrum.

A clumsy wizard once misplaced a powerful tome, and now the land has plunged into everlasting gloom. You must enter a castle where it is suspected to have ended up, and seek it out to end the plight of the land.

More later after a few guesses.

You call the Atari ST obscure?

What the hell is the Spectrum?

ACK!

DrSpike · May 5, 2003, 20:48

I suspect the amount of Spectrum owners vastly outweighs the amount of Atari ST owners.

Tuberski · May 5, 2003, 21:19

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Originally posted by DrSpike
I suspect the amount of Spectrum owners vastly outweighs the amount of Atari ST owners.

What is a Spectrum?

ACK!

Jamski · May 6, 2003, 03:22

It something to do with refracting light into different colours, I think?

-Jam

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 06:58

If no one here owned a Spectrum I'll do a new game.

FrustratedPoet · May 6, 2003, 07:03

I owned a Speccy.

I'm not sure I know the game, though. A Dizzy game, maybe?

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 07:14

No much older.........it was THE game around 1985. It cost £9.95, which was a princely sum to a 7 year old, but the gameplay was head and shoulders above 95% of games at the time.

More clues: You are armed with a sword. Guards patrol the castle in which the powerful tome is located, and although they can be killed their helmet remains on the ground and they come back to life when you reenter the room!

Also guarding the castle are ogres (very tough) and the nigh indestructible ghosts, which you must locate items hidden around the castle in order to deal with.

FrustratedPoet · May 6, 2003, 07:30

Sorry, I don't think I ever played this game. '85 was a few years before my time.

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 07:38

Are you calling me old?

FrustratedPoet · May 6, 2003, 08:12

I'm calling myself young.

child of Thor · May 6, 2003, 08:53

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Ok for my game an all-time classic game, which I played on the Spectrum.

A clumsy wizard once misplaced a powerful tome, and now the land has plunged into everlasting gloom. You must enter a castle where it is suspected to have ended up, and seek it out to end the plight of the land.

More later after a few guesses.

I'm guessing 'Sabre Wulf' by ocean i think(or Imagine).

I had an american 8bit at the time and really wanted to play this game.

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 08:57

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Originally posted by child of Thor

I'm guessing 'Sabre Wulf' by ocean i think(or Imagine).

I had an american 8bit at the time and really wanted to play this game.

No, right era though.........but the game I am thinking of was much more advanced in terms of gameplay.

child of Thor · May 6, 2003, 09:23

I guess 'Attic Attack'?

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 09:49

Again right era but no. Come on, these are just shots in the dark!

Anyone who owned a speccy in their heyday would get it immediately from that description.........I'll give it a few hours to see if anyone pops in, then I'll post a screenshot.

child of Thor · May 6, 2003, 10:03

'Knight Lore'?
In my defence i'll say they are more like shots into murky twilight rather than true darkness(thanks for bearing with a non-speccy owner!)

I'll make this my last guess as i've run out of ideas.....unless it was a 'Horrace goes....' game.

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 10:38

No, and please stop it............you are ruining potential future choices of games!!

CapTVK · May 6, 2003, 12:14

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Originally posted by DrSpike
No much older.........it was THE game around 1985. It cost £9.95, which was a princely sum to a 7 year old, but the gameplay was head and shoulders above 95% of games at the time.

More clues: You are armed with a sword. Guards patrol the castle in which the powerful tome is located, and although they can be killed their helmet remains on the ground and they come back to life when you reenter the room!

Also guarding the castle are ogres (very tough) and the nigh indestructible ghosts, which you must locate items hidden around the castle in order to deal with.

Ding Ding Ding! That would be FAIRLIGHT.

There's even a remake floating around somewhere. But the original owner Edge didn't approve so it was scrapped.

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 13:06

Cap is correct!

New game please Cap.

CapTVK · May 6, 2003, 14:01

Well including Tuberski that would actually make two games to guess. Here's the first:

This game by any other name should be 'hide and seek'
Because every time the observer takes a peek
His mighty gaze will be looking over your shoulder
And he might even turn you into a boulder....

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 15:43

Sentinel.

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 15:49

Us old bastards are hogging the game now, so for my next game I'll do a more recent one.

Platform: Amiga, although it appeared on other platforms as well I think.

What happens if you 'borrow' plots from The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, Total Recall, They Live and Blade Runner and mix them together? You create the plot of this game. You take the role of a young scientist who, by inventing a pair of glasses which can read molecular density, discovers that aliens have infiltrated society. Once the aliens realise this, they kidnap you and drop you on their planet with a blank mind. This is the definitive platform adventure.

One of my all-time favourite games.

CapTVK · May 6, 2003, 16:10

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Sentinel.

Correct! I shall try a more obscure game for my 2nd attempt.

I already know what game Drspike's referring to now but I'll be modest and let the others have a go first.

CapTVK · May 6, 2003, 16:14

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Sentinel.

P.S Extra gaming trivia bonus points if you know what Geoff Crammond's "Ultimate challenge" in the Sentinel is.

child of Thor · May 6, 2003, 16:48

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
Us old bastards are hogging the game now, so for my next game I'll do a more recent one.

Platform: Amiga, although it appeared on other platforms as well I think.

What happens if you 'borrow' plots from The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, Total Recall, They Live and Blade Runner and mix them together? You create the plot of this game. You take the role of a young scientist who, by inventing a pair of glasses which can read molecular density, discovers that aliens have infiltrated society. Once the aliens realise this, they kidnap you and drop you on their planet with a blank mind. This is the definitive platform adventure.

One of my all-time favourite games.

Flashback!
I really hope i got it right this time!

CapTVK · May 6, 2003, 16:49

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Originally posted by child of Thor

Flashback!
I really hope i got it right this time!

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!

FrustratedPoet · May 6, 2003, 16:50

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Platform: Amiga, although it appeared on other platforms as well I think.

What happens if you 'borrow' plots from The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, Total Recall, They Live and Blade Runner and mix them together? You create the plot of this game. You take the role of a young scientist who, by inventing a pair of glasses which can read molecular density, discovers that aliens have infiltrated society. Once the aliens realise this, they kidnap you and drop you on their planet with a blank mind. This is the definitive platform adventure.

Flashback.

FrustratedPoet · May 6, 2003, 16:50

Godammit!!!!!!

I got the right answer but was beaten by the cross-post!

child of Thor · May 6, 2003, 17:06

FrustratedPoet(in ref to the post that isn't here anymore!) i think you were thinking of Anotherworld, another good game on the amiga(very hard i seem to remember).

Ok i'll give it a go. I have a dilema though, i could choose a modern game and the clue would most likely include 'was rushed out unfinished for Xmas...' or i could choose an older game and maybe no-one will get it for a while.......

here you are then

EDIT: sorry that was too hard i think!

ok again...

You were an insect and had to shoot other insects, beatles,bugs etc

DrSpike · May 6, 2003, 18:07

Well done to all who got my last one.......maybe it was too easy....back to the harder games next time.

Is the new one Centipede?