Best Computer Game..

[CARROLLKRC]

Starbird was that like, erm Galaxian, or Firebird, a space shoot em up?

Starbird was a 3d line graphic game, like star wars in the arcade in 80s, but was a vast game , not so much a shot em up type though, some help me remember,

I do remember elite, like starbird, all line graphic, B/W. I had a cheat where you could stay in mid hyperspace killing pirates for rare goods and narcotics.
Elite if i remember, was a game where you were like a market trader in space with a ship you could do up and make into a super fighter.
You started off with low rating, **** weapons, and little credit and you had to fly to many planets( there were loads, i think there were 8 galaxys and each had 200 odd planets in each) and buy/ sell goods. it helped if you learnt to fly and defend yourself early on to boost your rating and profit. Also going to anarchic planets and selling drugs was a good way to move up in the world quicker.

god, i want to play it now, i bet if it was out now with the graphics on computers now it would be awesome. a definate divorce issue!!

[sadken]

Thanks SADKEN for reminding me about crash magazine, it was great to see Underworlde, i couldnt remember it, but do remember FAIRLIGHT .
It looks similar.

Knight Lore was the 1st game of the 3d perspective.
It paved the way for games like Fairlight.
A big fuss was made about Fairlight at the time but it was just too hard/fiddly compared to KL.
Knight Lore was far smoother and playabale, probably THE greatest of games that I have played to date.

[Oggy]

Starbird was that like, erm Galaxian, or Firebird, a space shoot em up?

[CARROLLKRC]

I used to bring in a multiple amount sound systems to get that tape that wouldnt play to work. Id be there till 4 in the morning finely tuning the graphic equalizers to load a game, then be tooo tired to play it when i found the right volume. Those were the days.
Elite was my favorite game, What was the name of the other game that was similar, made by the same production team?

Was it starbird????

[CARROLLKRC]

Thanks SADKEN for reminding me about crash magazine, it was great to see Underworlde, i couldnt remember it, but do remember FAIRLIGHT .
It looks similar.

[CARROLLKRC]

I used to bring in a multiple amount sound systems to get that tape that wouldnt play to work. Id be there till 4 in the morning finely tuning the graphic equalizers to load a game, then be tooo tired to play it when i found the right volume. Those were the days.
Elite was my favorite game, What was the name of the other game that was similar, made by the same production team?

[sadken]

the relief when a 'dodgy' tape of a game you REALLY want to play finally loaded on the 16th attempt
made it all worthwhile!

[Oggy]

And the joy of the speccy was the tapes, especially the freebie games too, and how many times you'd think you'd loaded a game when you hadn't, oh the pain, and the dreadful noise as you loaded a game too, kids today don't know what they've missed.

[Eighties Kid]

Ah, never had a joystick for my speccy, I just liked the total chaos of underwurlde, a certain quantity of luck was involved though you are right about that!

[sadken]

They're called Rare now and Micro$oft have tied them into a contract to produce games exclusively for the X-box

Underworlde was my fave of their back catalogue, KnightLore/Alien8 a bit fiddly, they were streets ahead in terms of speccy games

Underwurlde was by far the hardest and most fiddly of the Sabreman trilogy!
Alien 8 and Knight Lore were simple to control with a Kempston Joystick whilst using the 'directional control' option.

[Eighties Kid]

They're called Rare now and Micro$oft have tied them into a contract to produce games exclusively for the X-box

Underworlde was my fave of their back catalogue, KnightLore/Alien8 a bit fiddly, they were streets ahead in terms of speccy games

[sadken]

The best computer game of all time is a toss-up between Elite (BBC/C64 version) and Knight Lore(ZX Speccy).
Knight Lore was the 1st game to use proper three-dimensional graphics.
The company name was Ultimate and they brought out other classics like Sabre Wulf, Alien 8, Underwurlde, Lunar Jetman, Jetpac.
They then went on to make video games for the Japanese market and also wrote Goldeneye for the N64.
They also revealed, years later, that they held back Knight Lore because the market wasn't ready for it and it was completed BEFORE Sabre Wulf which had come out about 18 months before.
It was an amazing game when it came out but if they had brought it out before Sabre Wulf, it would have defied belief.
Ultimate WERE the ultimate!
Here is a link to the Crash (Great compy mag of its time) review:-
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/12/knghtlr.htm

[Oggy]

Jack the Nipper 2 on the Speccy, never did finish that, the Monty Moles, the Dizzy Egg games on the Speccy, or Pac Man on the ancient Atari.

[Rigsby]

It came from the desert on the Amiga-The one with giants ants & the hospital where you hid & got chased in a wheel chair.

[daubers]

i used to have dizzy on my commodore64 used to spend hours on it.also had manic miner another good game and i had a cartridge game for the commodore called flimbo's quest great game never seen since, anyone remember it or played it?