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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby deadpan666 on Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:22 pm

Grannie's Garden is about the only game I can remember playing a lot on BBC...It was a lot of educational school computer nonsense, but it still managed to stick in my memory enough to find out what it was called years later!

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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby kiwimike on Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:45 am

School mate had a BBC. Planetoid made me jealous. What a killer Defender!
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby joefish on Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:57 pm

The Beeb had some absolutely cracking clones of arcade games (Defender, Donkey Kong, Asteroids) with bright colour and great sound effects. But with so few home users it never got more than a handful more of great games over its lifetime.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Dave300 on Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:29 pm

Granny's Garden! I was the first in my class to complete it at primary school.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby RMLF on Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:29 am

deadpan666 wrote:Grannie's Garden is about the only game I can remember playing a lot on BBC...It was a lot of educational school computer nonsense, but it still managed to stick in my memory enough to find out what it was called years later!

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Granny's Garden, is certainly a winner.

But Candyfloss is where the money was. That game was like liquid crack, to the extent I still play the Lemonade Game online now.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Blumf on Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:02 am

Planetoids for me, arcade perfect clone of Defender. The sound was spot on. Fast and deadly, yet when mastered, or at least half decent, you got a real buzz from racking up a big score.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Kaptain_Von on Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:46 pm

Planetoid. Apart from being the best clone of Defender ever it was the source of many wasted hours when we were supposed to be doing 'sensible' programming in the school computer suite back in 1982.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby IronMaidenRule on Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:19 am

Harrier Attack - Addictive gameplay and the sound is fantastic, well thats what I thought at the time anyway. Really enjoyed bombing buildings as well as the enemy.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Stainy on Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:59 am

Well.. Apart from Planetoid and Starship Command..

I would have to throw in Stock Car and Dog fight, or was it bi plane? Both great multiplayer fun..

Was Felix in the factory on the beeb? Or was that only on the Electron..
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby TopBanana on Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:07 am

My favourite game back when I was a kid has to be Planetoid - for the time it was an amazing recreation of Defender and no other version came close until a few years later when Guardian was released on the C64, but Planetoid was still better 'cos you could bash the keys harder on a school Beeb ..... :oops:

These days I don't play Planetoid at all as I have an original Williams Defender machine in my office, but I play Elite quite a bit :D
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby webding on Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:59 pm

Note Invaders. The only thing that made Music theory lessons bearable.
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby learnedrobb on Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:51 am

Grannys Garden. Solely for the fact that playing this at school as a 5 year old introduced me to the idea of playing games on a home computer. Dammit, this game has cost me thousands of pounds!!!!!!
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Sparks43 on Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:24 am

Tempest

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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Room5 on Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:04 pm

I choose Repton 3 as my overall favourite. For me, Repton is to BBC Micro as Mario is to Nintendo.

Talking of programs generally, rather than games , I have fond memories of one that played a tune called 'Cold Tea'. It's engrained in my mind and hearing it time-warps me back 25 years. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X374F0dhIks
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Re: From the forum issue 101

Postby Panther Clipper on Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:16 am

A toss up between Spellbinder and Ravenskull , remarkably atmospheric for 8 bit games, any game for that matter. Elite goes without saying.
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