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It's practical. No one needs huge animated GIFs and thousands of big files take up room on the server and slows things down. Simple ... I can't believe you have to ask.

With all the previous articles on Doom, and having read the Masters of Doom book ... can there really be anything left to be said about Doom?

RichPT wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:30 pm

Another issue is often the text in the homebrew review section just describes the gameplay and doesn't really say what makes the game good or bad in any detail.

Yeah, this one bugs me too.

That's a hard question - there are so many excellent Ocean games, but put on the spot I'd have to say Chase HQ.
Runners up would be Midnight Resistance, RoboCop and Where Time Stood Still.
There are more games that are technically better, but these are the ones that I enjoy the most.

No thanks. They could at least include more than 20 games, but mostly I'm not interested because of the terrible graphics. I love pixel art, but 1996 polygons don't look so good anymore. But news about this has been posted twice in this very subforum today, so perhaps if all future comments could be...

Hopefully they'll actually release it some day. I would be fun to try it out.

The episode of The IT Crowd with Roy in a wheelchair had me in stitches, but really - most things in that show is brilliant

I've made a new Spectrum game - a (much needed) remake of one of the worst Spectrum games ever: SQIJ I think that most Spectrum users will know that the official Spectrum version of SQIJ from 1987 is one of - if not the - worst game for the ZX Spectrum, so here is a remake of the original C64 versio...

We won't have Half Life 3 in 2018 either

Well, I backed the Kickstarter so I guess you can say I have bought one.
Hopefully it won't be too delayed - if at all - so I can have some fun with it in a month or so.
... but for now I'm coding for it using an emulator

Nintendo games.

Improvements are always possible and obtainable ... if you're ready to pay.

miqrojamie wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:13 pm

Just bought it from WHSmiths and now going to have a milkshake at Coffee Corner. First thing I've bought on my own as a matter of fact!

Good to see there's younger people on the board too and not just us old farts.

I still love my Spectrum and it's still fun to play today, although it's mostly being fed newer releases.
And when I say "it" I mean through emulation as I can't be bothered to take out any of my real Spectrums.
Most of my enjoyment these days comes from coding it though.

I've played multiplayer games since at least Warcraft: Orcs & Humans back in 1994, so I've been at it for a long time. My friends and I would meet up often, set our computers up in one room and play RTS or FPS entire weekends. One of the big hits were the original Doom, where 4 players could play ag...