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Post by Discoalucard on Apr 7, 2015 21:52:41 GMT -5
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Post by Snarboo on Apr 7, 2015 22:27:16 GMT -5
Holy crap, Guru Larry wrote this article?!
Edit: Having read the article, I'm always amazed when a new progenitor in a popular genre is found. I always figured it would was some obscure European game that started the survival horror trend, and now we have proof! :p
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Post by elektrolurch on Apr 8, 2015 4:03:48 GMT -5
lol, and here i was, thinking well,this kind of reads like a guru larry review.....o,o
interesting read,but which version should i try out...im unsure now,usually with hg101 articles you have an idea on which emulator to fire up.
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Post by Elvin Atombender on Apr 8, 2015 4:11:48 GMT -5
Never played it,but I heard a lot of good things about it from pretty much every Speccy fan I talked to. Good to see that its reputation is well deserved, and I didn't know it was programmed by the same persons who made The Great Escape (another Spectrum classic). Oh,and due to Larry mentioning Roland's Rat Race I've spent the last thirty minutes listening to its main theme,which is not the best piece of C64 music by a wide margin but it's still pretty catchy.
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Post by 320x240 on Apr 8, 2015 8:12:11 GMT -5
Nice to see an article on a British (home) computer game for a change.
I never played this game but remember looking at images in magazines and thinking it looked interesting. I did play The Great Escape on the C64 back in the day though, but found it too slow and repetitive albeit with great atmosphere for it's time. Of course, at the start of the game it was supposed to be repetitive, as you had to follow the daily routine without arousing the guards suspicion.
British games back then often had better ideas (and style) than execution. There is a lot of interesting ideas in old ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad games that indie developers could tap into.
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Post by gurularry on Apr 8, 2015 17:23:50 GMT -5
Holy crap, Guru Larry wrote this article?! Edit:Having read the article, I'm always amazed when a new progenitor in a popular genre is found. I always figured it would was some obscure European game that started the survival horror trend, and now we have proof! Well I did originally write some of this as a Halloween special of GYCW, but I caught a really nasty flu bug that took weeks to shake off (and also returned in January) so I long missed the deadline. So I re-wrote a lot of it as a HG101 article. (been speaking to Kurt for years about doing one) But I'll try and recompile it for this Halloween! lol, and here i was, thinking well,this kind of reads like a guru larry review.....o,o interesting read,but which version should i try out...im unsure now,usually with hg101 articles you have an idea on which emulator to fire up. Cheers, is my style really that recognizable even in word form? But I'd say go for the Amiga version personally, I know it's not an authentic original version, but they've tried to recreate what an Amiga port "would" have looked like and the remixed music is amazing. But other than that, the Atari ST one is good, then the Speccy one. the DOS one can be a bit finnicky.
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Post by derboo on Apr 8, 2015 19:01:20 GMT -5
Awesome to have some more British micro game coverage, as it's still one of the site's largets blind spots.
Plus, I've learned something and got a new fruit to hang on my big family tree of survival horror games.
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Post by gurularry on Apr 9, 2015 6:06:55 GMT -5
Awesome to have some more British micro game coverage, as it's still one of the site's largets blind spots. Plus, I've learned something and got a new fruit to hang on my big family tree of survival horror games. I feel it's a blind spot on about 99% of sites that deal with retro games. HG101 is definitely one of the better ones, but if You look at the majority of "Top Ten" lists online and they never include home computer titles on their lists and places like RWTV have never mentioned it once in the video game years. There's an infection of most retro stuff online being nothing but NES, NES and more NES & forgetting about everything else.
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Post by drpepperfan on Apr 9, 2015 7:07:05 GMT -5
Awesome to have some more British micro game coverage, as it's still one of the site's largets blind spots. Plus, I've learned something and got a new fruit to hang on my big family tree of survival horror games. I feel it's a blind spot on about 99% of sites that deal with retro games. HG101 is definitely one of the better ones, but if You look at the majority of "Top Ten" lists online and they never include home computer titles on their lists and places like RWTV have never mentioned it once in the video game years. There's an infection of most retro stuff online being nothing but NES, NES and more NES & forgetting about everything else. Rather than forgetting everything else, it's more they never knew it existed in the first place. After all, it's safe to say that the vast majority of video game sites online are american, and american's sure as heck didn't grow up with the ZX Spectrum games and all that. Can't really write retro articles about something you have no memories of. So it's nice to see some coverage of such stuff here, and nice to see it being contributed by Guru Larry of all people too.
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Post by elektrolurch on Apr 9, 2015 8:00:23 GMT -5
Cheers, is my style really that recognizable even in word form? But I'd say go for the Amiga version personally, I know it's not an authentic original version, but they've tried to recreate what an Amiga port "would" have looked like and the remixed music is amazing. But other than that, the Atari ST one is good, then the Speccy one. the DOS one can be a bit finnicky. I had a hunch before, but when I came to the part where you mention the reviews of the time, I thought-who else does it that way? I could not get the DOS version to run ,but the AMIGA "port" works perfectly. Thanks for introduction and advice, though not really fun to play for me now, it is fascinating from a historical standpoint, making it worthwile for me.
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Post by cambertian on Apr 9, 2015 10:36:32 GMT -5
Oh my, Guru Larry's here! I love your speaking voice! It sounds so "official" and fatherly - like a nice, toasty fireplace. Your Pac-Man video for DidYouKnowGaming was the best of the bunch.
Anyway, outside of my fanboy ramblings, I enjoyed the article as well. Despite growing up in the USA, I really like hearing about the microcomputing era, and this article was no exception. You did an excellent job.
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Post by gurularry on Apr 9, 2015 13:32:16 GMT -5
Rather than forgetting everything else, it's more they never knew it existed in the first place. After all, it's safe to say that the vast majority of video game sites online are american, and american's sure as heck didn't grow up with the ZX Spectrum games and all that. Can't really write retro articles about something you have no memories of. So it's nice to see some coverage of such stuff here, and nice to see it being contributed by Guru Larry of all people too. Cheers matey! Well if they're accepted, I'd like to do more for the site in future! I agree it's all down to not knowing they existed, It really what keeps me spurred on, discovering all these little stories that have remained buried for years, like those ThunderCats sequels and the rush "Doki Doki Panic" job on the original. Even Kotaku featured that video. Oh my, Guru Larry's here! I love your speaking voice! It sounds so "official" and fatherly - like a nice, toasty fireplace. Your Pac-Man video for DidYouKnowGaming was the best of the bunch. Anyway, outside of my fanboy ramblings, I enjoyed the article as well. Despite growing up in the USA, I really like hearing about the microcomputing era, and this article was no exception. You did an excellent job. Thanks dude, I really do need to make more episodes, I've written a ton of them, but not gotten around to voicing/filming them sadly, but I really need to get back into it. I'm always worried people think I'm doing a crap Jeremy Clarkson impression
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Post by meteordropkick on Apr 9, 2015 16:19:21 GMT -5
Does Armored Armadillo from Megaman X not count?
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Post by Weasel on Apr 9, 2015 16:50:35 GMT -5
I'm always worried people think I'm doing a crap Jeremy Clarkson impression Yours is a very unique voice in terms of Youtube game videos, simultaneously more interesting and more cultured than certain other British Youtubers that I don't feel like naming. If I might fanboy out a little, though, my favorite of your videos is actually the Pac-Man board game video you did with Ashen. =P
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Post by sotenga on Apr 9, 2015 19:07:29 GMT -5
Also a fan here, Larry! Glad to see you're contributing to the site, especially since there isn't nearly enough ZX Spectrum coverage on this site... or the Amstrad CPC, on that note. I usually come across those computers whenever arcade ports would be released on them, but I usually have to scrounge for unmarked screenshots elsewhere since I have no idea how to properly emulate them.
But aye, interesting game. Reminds me of the NES Mission: Impossible, mostly on the basis that having just one of your trio bring out of service cripples your game to the point that you may as well restart. Neat concept, if not looking pretty darn tough to play today.
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