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Did I miss something? What about Clarence's shot?

Antiriad2097 wrote:Think classic Christmas boardgames and movies for my last one. If you combine the former and latter you'll get the title...

Monopoly Miracle on 34th Street?

Scrabble: The Great Escape?

National Lampoon's Backgammon Vacation?

Antiriad2097 wrote:Too soon? I guess those Amstrad scars run deep

Fair enough. I was having a sense of humour bypass today. One of those days...

markopoloman wrote:How embarrassing!

For who?

Antiriad2097 got it right.

I'll ignore the comments as I left the playground 25 years ago and have no interest going back there.

Have I killed the thread?

Some clues:
The publisher was first mentioned by Plato.
Made poor to ok budget games across the 8-bits (although I always quite liked this one).
They even made a game about the C5, but it was so difficult and frustrating you have to wonder if they were taking the pee.

:shock: Space Invaders! Deffo looks more like a defender style game. It's multi-screen Space Invaders style, with defender radar. :D I suppose you could say it's a cross. Bit of both. Enemies patterns are not fixed, but your shooter is fixed to the bottom like an Invaders clone. The multiscreen wit...

Antiriad2097 wrote:Looks sufficiently fabulous to be an Amstrad game.

Yep

Antiriad2097 wrote:Not sure what it is, but a little interested in it despite that. Radar suggests some Defenderish action.

More Space Invaders than Defender.

The partial screenshot made it tough, but it's Reckless Rufus on the Speccy. Very different layout to the CPC version. Just as frustrating though I've no doubt.

markopoloman wrote:So, to round that up...............

It's a Spanish horriblelittleshooter for the Amstrad called Meganova.

Cool.

Spot on

Thought that might last a bit longer. Oh well, you're up Havantgottaclue.

Why do they do that?? I can only imagine they're under pressure by their management, but still, the whole thing is a farce. Why even bother making the effort to come to my house if you're going to keep the parcel in your bag and leave a card in my letterbox! This may be of interest - http://www.bbc...

I've just done a race. Barry Sheene crashed early, and Doohan ran out of fuel. Put it on 5x speed and it still took about 6 mins to finish the race!

Motorcycle 500

Had a quick play online, reminds me of the all the football manager games I played on my CPC. Might fire up Soccer Boss tonight.

500cc Motomanager?