Did Alistair Pirrie let you sit on his knee?I went to see Razzamatazz with the school in about '81 or '82 and here I am at the front with the red top, clapping like a good'un, fame at last!
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Some obscure stuff in the second half. How many of them were Crash Smashes?
Needs Tir Na Nog, Dun Darach, Nodes of Yesod, Jet Set Willy, Alien 8, Gunfright, The Hobbit.
Travel with Trashman > Trashman and all
More of a Knight Lore fan than Alien 8, Ultimate had some great titles though:
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It is marra and I know
No but Christopher Biggins was very friendly with some of the lady members of our troop, as was Norman Collier who performed also on air that day
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Ultimate always made great games. Some superb 3D stuff and always highly playable.
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Top drawer.
Forgot about Atic Atac, that would be in the top ten Spectrum games easy. And Saberwulf.
Alien 8 was practically a reskin of Knightlore but a favourite of mine.
I never did play Mire Mare, despite it being my 'next game' when I beat Underworlde.
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Didn’t two of them come out at the same time? Knight Lore and Sabre Wolf?
Ultimate were the pioneers of piracy blocking loading tapes but you could get LERM software and hardware that circumvented it.
Ultimate - play the same
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Knight Lore and Underworlde came out at the same time. I got them the same Christmas. I think Knight Lore was actually a sequel to Underworlde, along with Pentagram and Mire Mare.
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Made in ashby de la zouch
I’ve still got every issue of Crash magazine in the original binders from the first to last issue somewhere in the loft. No posters removed.
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True, but would still take the 'similar game style' to some of the shite the others were pumping out that could be very hit and miss.
They were practically clones of each other, remember I bought Knight Lore, my pal bought Alien 8. They were packaged very coolly in oversize boxes. Great catalogue though, loved Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Jet Pac. Trans-Am, Cookie, PSSST all good fun too.
My 14 yo is currently shouting his head off at Call of Duty, I can’t believe he’s deriving any more pleasure than we got from the little BASIC gems that we grew up with.
Maybe but they certainly weren't as innovative as people remember. Mind, I had a dragon 32 for a year then got a c64(which obviously blew the speccy away
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Bairn is playing Fortnite with her mates, I can hear the squeaky lad from her class.
I still game (PS4) and agree we had just as much fun with those spectrum games.
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I remember Christmas morning with my spectrum 48k and it was mistakingly boxed with a 48k
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I think Zaxxon was my fav game for C64, either that or Int'l Soccer;
Nursery.
