Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:38 pm
Fate or faith? All very Freudian!iain wrote:I really should have had more fate in phpBB though.
The Zzap Rrap
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap-rrap/
Fate or faith? All very Freudian!iain wrote:I really should have had more fate in phpBB though.
I think Lloyd was perhaps talking bollocks at the time...Mayhem wrote:I recall Lloyd saying back in 1987 in one letter page that the technology required to put Defender of the Crown onto cartridge would cost the same as a disc drive.
I'd like to continue Zzap!back, although I'd rather it took off where the last one finished, which would mean covering issue 25. This'd mean going overSLF wrote:Maybe you're all right about re-re-re-reviews and stuff, but I would really fancy another couple of pages of Zzap!Back, possibly done by ex-Zzapers like in 107 (what about a late issue like 81: Creatures 2, First Samurai, Winter Camp etc.?)
Not a bad selection at all -- and I'd be up for one of the Zzap!Back opinions, if Paul or Robin dropped out. I didn't like Into the Eagle's Nest much at the time (or Shockway Rider OR Ranarama, for that matter), but Impossible Mission deserves all the praise it still gets.CraigGrannell wrote:I'd like to continue Zzap!back, although I'd rather it took off where the last one finished, which would mean covering issue 25. This'd mean going over
Hollywood Hijinx (90%), Impossible Mission (95% - if we include Past Blasters), Into The Eagle's Nest (90%), and maybe Nemesis (80%), POD (84%), Ranarama (87%) or Shockway Rider (86%).
POD, on the other hand, is still one I play now and again, but then I'm a big Grid Runner fan. IM is good, too, although unlike most people, I preferred the sequel.gordon wrote:I didn't like Into the Eagle's Nest much at the time (or Shockway Rider OR Ranarama, for that matter), but Impossible Mission deserves all the praise it still gets.
Opinions are indeed often strikingly different, and those on c64 games do not make an exception.gordon wrote:Isn't it great that we all have these different opinions? I thought everyone would at least have agreed about IM, then Craig says he likes the second one better...
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Now Dropzone, *there's* a great game. I slightly prefer the Atari800 version, but I don't think the C64 Dropzone's gameplay has dated one bit...SLF wrote:Mind you, there are only a couple of the old classics I really enjoy (namely Dropzone and Archon), for most of the rest I can see their clever design and all but I by far prefer games from 1987-1988...
Well, I'm one of the few people who likes both of them. Most people seem to like only one or the other. I do think that the original is the (slightly) better game, but the second one was great too. IMHO a textbook example of how to do a sequel.gordon wrote:Isn't it great that we all have these different opinions? I thought everyone would at least have agreed about IM, then Craig says he likes the second one better...
Now *there's* a game I could *never* get into... and yes, I have tried (Defender variants in general have always left me cold).gordon wrote:Now Dropzone, *there's* a great game.