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I'm in again. The turnout for both the League and the main game seems to be shrinking every year. But there are those of us who will keep trying for as long as it's there! I doubt i'll ever hit the heights of winning either league again but i tink i've done a reasonable job of picking strong teams t...

Driller, Dark Side and Total Eclipse were all available in DVD box sized cardboard boxes. They all had very smart manuals and Driller came with a 3D map which you could create: http://www.deblauweschicht.nl/retrogaming/images/Driller_map.jpg The cardboard boxes for Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and N...

Easily. Other terrible games i've played at least have some variety, this has none: It's a 1 screen score chaser that's no fun whatsoever.

Is this something Retro Gamer could do an article about? Pressure and all that. I bought a DVD from CEX recently, and on closer inspection, the cover is poor quality so maybe they printed that themselves. That's rather scammy if so. CEX accept reprinted cover items, as long as the item inside is ge...

The big question... Are Mercedes sandbagging in Friday practice?! I think yes.

I think 2018 was the first year i've played where i didn't forget to do my predictions for one weekend, so i put it down to that! It's weird, i'm less excited for this season than i have been for previous years. None of my favourite drivers are in "top" cars this year and of course being in the UK m...

Oh alright, I shall attempt to defend my RetroGamer league title.

Games made specifically for the Amstrad were usually fairly decent, but most games weren't ; they were usually conversions (often from the Speccy) and suffered. Badly. Scrolling was awful (unless playing in a postage stamp window) graphics often blocky and overly colourful. This is what I was going...

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Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:11 am

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Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:53 am

I don't think i could have faith in the people who made that list's decision-making and advice-giving abilities.

Yeah, we're not big fans of democracy either. =P

That's okay, i'm used to being the only person in the room who can see clearly.

To be honest I don't get these arguments. Yeah we all had fun as kids, but we're adults now, right? I had a speccy. I loved it. My mate had an Amstrad. He loved it. I admired some of the games, I always remember him playing tau ceti and marvelling at the crunching sound effects. We had a lot of fun...

Indeed. But that in turn makes the list misleading as it becomes not "what was the best for gaming" but more "who here owned one". With regards to the Spectrum and Amstrad debate, i'm genuinely intrigued. Does Spectrum still have an active fanbase in 2018? Are people still writing games for the sys...

Continued from "The Greatest Games Systems of All Time" topic. Indeed. But that in turn makes the list misleading as it becomes not "what was the best for gaming" but more "who here owned one". With regards to the Spectrum and Amstrad debate, i'm genuinely intrigued. Does Spectrum still have an acti...

Over twice as many people owned Spectrums than Amstrads, so it really shouldn't be that much of a surprise! I think the Atari 8-bit is superior to both but that didn't make the top 30, so the abilities of a system mean very little here. People voted on nostalgia, much as I expected. Indeed. But tha...

The final list, for those of you that missed it: 1/ SNES 2/ Mega Drive 3/ PlayStation 4/ Dreamcast 5/ PlayStation 2 6/ Amiga 500 7/ N64 8/ Commodore 64 9/ Xbox 360 10/ NES 11/ ZX Spectrum 12/ Game Boy 13/ GameCube 14/ Saturn 15/ Game Boy Advance 16/ PC 17/ Atari 2600 18/ DS 19/ Master System 20/ Wi...

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Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:39 am

BarbaricAvatar wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:36 pm

I'm heavily biased towards the PS2. Where did that come?

Off the top of my head from memory...about #5 I think

Hooray! Thanks.