BMX Racers was probably the first game my sister took an interest in playing. She used to pester me to put it on my Spectrum. She made up some back story about the Granny-with-a-walking-stick too. She was very odd. Many years later, I got to play a Master System game (actually, a Sega Mark-III game – in Japan only) called Alex Kidd BMX Trial, and it reminded me very much of BMX Racers. In fact, I did wonder if one …
If there’s one game that defines my childhood gaming more than any other, it’s Chuckie Egg. From clocking it on my Spectrum, to beating my friend’s high score on his MSX, to the covert Chuckie Egg competitions on the BBC Micro in the school library, it was THE 8-bit game of choice. Of course, you’ve all played it, right? If not, DO IT NOW RIGHT HERE!
I don’t really like side scrolling shooters. There are a few in the genre that have interested me over the years – Side Arms, Zero Wing and Sol Feace. Of course, I loved Parodius and Ai Cho Aniki too, but they’re “comedy” shooters. I was never a fan of most of the “big name” shooters – Gradius, R-Type, Thunderforce, etc. I don’t know why. I played an unhealthy amount of Gynoug, but never really liked it. But one game I …
Just to finish everything off, here’s my other remake of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator – for the Game Boy Advance. I wrote it in 2004, and it was actually a lot easier than writing the Game Boy version. I even added a “SNES Mode 7” style rotate to the title screen, and included music (from the film The Lawnmower Man). Sadly, the only onlineable emulator I could find (Boycott Advance Online) runs too fast and without sound. Ah well.
In 1999, I entered the Bung (remember them?) Game Boy homebrew coding competition with a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. It was the first, and only, Game Boy game I’d ever written, and required me to pretty much learn C just to be able to code it. The other day, I found a Java based Game Boy emulator (JavaBoy), and so, combined with my GB version of ALS, I present to you an online playable version! Woo! Oh, and in …
Since I’m working on a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the Amstrad NC100 Notepad Computer (see this post), I thought “Lets Play! Friday” this week should be the original. If you’ve never played it before, prepare to be blown away.
I’m thinking of making Friday “Lets Play! Friday”. What do you think? One of the most visually impressive Speccy games, with huge sprites and colour-clash-be-damned graphics, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper was rated highly but then mostly forgotten. With just 90 seconds before the bombs in his body explode (they don’t make ’em like this any more!), Trantor must find the items to slow the detonation.
You know the advert I found the other day with Crazy Caverns on it? Well, I used the advert as my computer’s lock-screen wallpaper. On the advert, along with Crazy Caverns and the acemazing Best Game Evar Run Baby Run, was Booty! So, Lets Play it, yes? The emulator used is Qaop.
I stumbled across an advert for some old Firebird Spectrum games this week. One of them was Crazy Caverns, a game I used to love but completely forgot about. So now! I present it in Java Speccy Emulator form! The emulator used is Qaop.