Media Summary: Well, this is a turn up for the books, isn't it? A *new* game! A proper honest-to-goodness new game. For the Did the world need a Russ Abbot game? Probably not, and yet Probe made it happen in 1986 for the Amstrad & Aaaand a quick search on wiki reveals the show I was wittering on about was "First Class". Which, due to the joys of analogue telly ...
Rob S Retro Rambles Basildon Bond C64 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
Well, this is a turn up for the books, isn't it? A *new* game! A proper honest-to-goodness new game. For the Did the world need a Russ Abbot game? Probably not, and yet Probe made it happen in 1986 for the Amstrad & Aaaand a quick search on wiki reveals the show I was wittering on about was "First Class". Which, due to the joys of analogue telly ... Another one of the early games I used to play. But one I only recently got, properly. And yeah, it might be nothing like the James ... Hey look, it lives! Just took a bit of perseverence/bloody-mindedness, that's all. Time to play Gribbly's Day Out, an early Hewson/Andrew Braybrook classic. Which I KNOW I've played before as I've had this ...
Okay, the main character's called Thor, not BC. Helps if I read the inlay really, doesn't it? Also helps if I pay attention to the camera ... Hmmm, odd one this. One of those not bad but not great games. Unfortunate when the loader game is more fun than the main title, ... Playing Commodore's Buffalo Roundup for the very first time. Loaded from original media and played on original hardware, in this ... Finally found something that will load. System 3 always had a pretty good rep, didn't they? And then they made a shoot em up. Inspired by Chinnyvision's very in-depth look at 180 on several formats, I had to see if the speech was in the Ranarama. Crazy title, maybe. Crazy fun? Yup. Well, I enjoyed it, anyway. Always felt it was a bit underrated, bit of an ignored gem ...
It's summertime so it's time for me to play Taskset's Seaside special, from Beau-Jolly's '10 Computer Hits" compilation, loaded from ... Well, after watching Chinnyvision's video on Mastertronic's Strike! ( ) I had to give ... Rapid Intercept: Seek & Kill, apparently. Which in no way sounds like the acronym came first and the words were then chosen to ... Time for another early classic, and a bit overlooked maybe? Underrated by Zzap at the time, I think, only giving it 61% seemed a ... Grrrr. Salamander just doesn't want to behave, does it? ***Spoiler*** It did work eventually but there's so little gameplay footage ... NOT EMULATED - C64C (PAL) 24bit PCM sound from 8580 SID and
Yes, yes, I know, I've done Bubble Bobble before, but it's Bubble Bobble. Rules do not apply. Not that I'm aware of any rules here, ...
