From the forum issue 101

[djcarlos]

Twin Kingdom Valley, without a doubt. I had only played Acornsoft's "tributes" to the arcade classics of the time, but TKV took me someplace else.

[RetroMartin]

None, because I've never played on one *runs*

[SirClive]

Got to be boring and say Elite.

[Eric]

The school computer dept. had one floppy disc with a few games on it. Anytime the teacher left the class good'ole Chuckie Egg was loaded up. Quite a sight & sound of 15 BBC Micro's all running Chuckie - from 1 floppy.

[pantal00ns]

None, because I've never played on one *runs*

That makes two of us, except I actually own one which makes it even worse.

I played a lot on the Electron though. If I can have a substitute answer it would be Brian Cloughs Football Fortunes.

[Mayhem]

This really is utter hogwash.

As someone familiar with both, Boulder Dash is most definitely inferior to Repton. The Repton series is far more puzzle-based, with cleverer maze layouts.

Let the baiting begin... and that's why I prefer Boulder Dash. Repton's mazes at times felt like they were too much up their own ass to be worth solving...

[samhain81]

I only played a couple of games, but Imogen stood out for me. A little limited on the colour side, but the character designs were more advanced than other BBC Micro games and the sheer size of the game was enough to keep me hooked. It was a big game, and I mean BIG.

[r0jaws]

.....Let the baiting begin... and that's why I prefer Boulder Dash. Repton's mazes at times felt like they were too much up their own ass to be worth solving...

Apart from being minor flame bait, how can a maze be up it's own @rse?

It's the equivalent of saying that Mayhem in Monsterland is a poor man's Sonic.

I like both games TBH, but Boulder Dash is a quick arcade blast, versus Repton as a much more involved puzzler. Which I play, depends on how I feel at the time. But I do play Repton more.

[Imhotep]

Where do I begin? impossible to pick a favourite, so i'll pick a few, Firetrack and Nevryon - two excellent shoot-em-ups, Perplexity a cross between Repton and Pacmania, Vindaloo - in which you've eaten too many of your curries and have to get to the toilet, and E Type - an excellent coversion of the Archimedes racing game, and finally Caveman Capers in which you have to guide a caveman on a skateboard (which is a tortoise) avoiding various hazards and things to get to the end and take a call from his wife on the phone.

[yethboth]

For me, it would have to be the educational game Pod. I remember back in primary school, me and and my friends used to spend all our playtimes being fascinated with the character Pod by typing in many different types of commands for this character to do. We used to get annoyed however, when sometimes the computer refused a particular command for Pod to do.

[Sel Feena]

^ Not a game, but I remember being fascinated with those turtle things you could command to draw with what seemed like some version of BASIC? Would actually love to read more about them in RG, perhaps as an aside in an 'edutainment' feature.

[joefish]

Repton 3 - as well as having some brilliant puzzles, the ability to redesign the graphics and levels was a lot of fun. I remember spending ages designing sprites of the Bubble Bobble characters for my own custom levels.

I thought I'd played Citadel before, but it turns out it was actually Castle Quest.

There was one other game that I don't recall the name of. It was a side-on (possibly horizontally scrolling) quest platformer with a character looking something like the Knight from Atic Atac. Anyone any ideas?

[badda]

There was one other game that I don't recall the name of. It was a side-on (possibly horizontally scrolling) quest platformer with a character looking something like the Knight from Atic Atac. Anyone any ideas?

Camelot? Baron?

[quantum]

Tea shop!

It was the first computer game I ever played in school. Many lunchtimes spent trying to make big ££££!

[joefish]

There was one other game that I don't recall the name of. It was a side-on (possibly horizontally scrolling) quest platformer with a character looking something like the Knight from Atic Atac. Anyone any ideas?

Camelot? Baron?

Not Camelot, didn't have that look of those Superior Software games. Definitely looked more like something from Ultimate. Can't find a screenshot of Baron to compare. Beeb game resources on the internet seem pretty dire compared to other 8-bits.