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On the ZX81, you didn't get colour OR high resolution..... an option was a luxury. I think its great many of us started with the 8 bits or earlier. As i really do appreciate many more things in games nowadays, price of games, quality of graphics etc. Of course the classic 8 bit games had a ton of p...

Blade Alley?

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0000560

There's been a fair few, but the stand-out ones; Elite (Speccy) Wipeout 2097 (PSX) Battlefield 2 & 2142 (PC) Just reaching about 250 hrs between Fallout 3 & New Vegas in recent months Syndicate (Amiga) lost a LOT of hours to that too! All of these are games you keep getting better at, as opposed to ...

Andrew here. But only my Mum and Sister call me that, just Mac to everyone else!

Grizzly wrote:Does this really need to happen... this thread i mean.

Nope.

I generally spend no more than 2-3k, and I want 3-5 years out of it at that rate. Only went above that once, 4.5k on a Pug 406 estate - booooring car, and kept breaking, was only a handful of years old at that! Currently in my 5th year of owning a 'R' reg Toyota MR2 and apart from tyres, brake pads ...

the1980gamer wrote:I must admit even at my age (33) I'm still exited about gta5 and I can't wait to play it.

Reeeeealy? 40 years old here, and I am taking the day off work to play this ALL DAY, something I haven;t done since San Andreas came out.

Now get off my lawn, kids these days! *rolls eyes

Finally took the plunge on this last week after eyeing them up for months...



Korg touchpad loop synthesiser - for general jamming and creating basic electronic Choons!

Nitro Ball. It's sort of Outzone/Commando meets pinball/obstacle course kind of thing. And Libble Rabble. The surround-baddies-using-string-and-pegs-em-up. Works best if you configure controls for dual analogue sticks. LOVING Nitro Ball! Need to get the twin sticks sorted as this would be great pla...

felgekarp wrote:Maybe not less well known but certainly weren't converted, Dangun Feveron and Xexex.

Dangun was already on my MAME faves list - must have been in the mag at some point? Regardless, fired it up again and it IS awesome!
Couldn't get on with Xexex, felt a bit stiff and sluggish tbh?

Empire Strike Back - Atari 2600
Catacombs- ZX81
Manic Miner- Speccy
Elite- Speccy
Space Harrier - Arcade

So I really enjoy 'The Unconverted' section in the mag, and every month I fire up MAME to check out less popular arcade games, good or bad! So it got me to thinking-what MAME games are your favourites that don't get a lot of attention, weren't converted to every platform going, that you think others...

My current stereo set-up at home - either me or me dad bought them all new..... 1974 Rotel RX-152 amp 1986 Kenwood KX-440HX cassette deck 1987 3 Technics 1200 Mk2 turntables 1993 Technics SL-PG440A CD player Also, my car is 25 years old this year! HAH I also have the SL-PG440A Cd player in my curre...

Ok, so I went to see my financial adviser today as its mortgage renewal time (yay). Anyway, we borrowed at this time 5 years go so we could do some renovations to and extend our house. The financial advisor strongly urged us to get a tracker but as we were close to our "limit" my wife insisted that...

Fallout 3 set in a Frontier: Elite 2 universe of planets? With infinite character customisation? With the option of lots more planets being added as DLC (c'mon Publishers... Admit it. That got your interest! :P ) Set as first person or third person over-the-shoulder cover system combat? WHAT'S NOT ...