Elite / Frontier Elite memories

[Sir.Tj]

Marsport! I had forgotten that one, a great game. My memory of the Hobbit was "you are in a tunnel..." and incredibly long loading times.
Amusingly, my son in law just got Bejing Olympics on PSP3 and it was a prettier version of Daley Thompson's frantic joystick wiggling all those years ago!

Ahh Daley Thompson on the spectrum's rubber keys....

And the hobbit, great fun the old interactive fiction games, personal favourite

"you wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.

It is pitch black. "

Describes most mornings for me!

 

[turwhitt]

Marsport! I had forgotten that one, a great game. My memory of the Hobbit was "you are in a tunnel..." and incredibly long loading times.

Aww but the supreme loading screen more than made up for the wait!

That is one damn scary dragon!

 

[Steve]

Aww but the supreme loading screen more than made up for the wait!

That is one damn scary dragon!

A dragon?? It looks like one of our cats!

 

[Spacegamer]

ah yes the Hobbit.

Green door and that ****ing s.o.b dwarf singing about gold.

 

[DrBaggy]

Can't believe there were so many of us! That loading screen is great Turwhitt.
While we're reminiscing, did anyone manage to get into the bedroom in Jet Set Willy? I never did, but don't think I was missing much!

 

[turwhitt]

did anyone manage to get into the bedroom in Jet Set Willy? I never did, but don't think I was missing much!

You obviously never got hold of the JSW nude patch! erm...



As i remember it it wasn't hard to get into the bedroom - it was just a couple of rooms left of the starting location ( http://mdfs.net/Software/JSW/JGH/Screens/BigMap.htm ). But without all the items you'd be killed by the housekeeper before you could reach your bed. And it was impossible (actually impossible, due to bugs!) to get them all.

 

[Mario Petrinovic]

Can't believe there were so many of us! That loading screen is great Turwhitt.
While we're reminiscing, did anyone manage to get into the bedroom in Jet Set Willy? I never did, but don't think I was missing much!

Well, I was good in Manic Miner, but I never did anything in Jet Set Willy. The reason? Precisely, the loading screen. I am music lover, and I simply couldn't stop playing the loading screen for half an hour each time I started JSW. And by the time I finally had enough of it, I didn't have enough time left to play the game, . Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAL-5T4Ohg

 

[Sir.Tj]

You obviously never got hold of the JSW nude patch! erm...



As i remember it it wasn't hard to get into the bedroom - it was just a couple of rooms left of the starting location ( http://mdfs.net/Software/JSW/JGH/Screens/BigMap.htm ). But without all the items you'd be killed by the housekeeper before you could reach your bed. And it was impossible (actually impossible, due to bugs!) to get them all.

Your right, didn't find that one out for years!

 

[DrBaggy]

Thanks I never realized that! Though I seem to remember she was large, pixellated and had a rolling pin, so not much incentive to get in...
Nude patch LOL

 

[Sterlino]

http://mdfs.net/Software/JSW/JGH/Screens/BigMap.htm ).

OK... what in the damned hell is that thing ??

asdasda

 

[DrBaggy]

OK... what in the damned hell is that thing ??

asdasda

Memories!! The snapping penknives, the Monty Python foot, the chefs, the dancing rabbits....aah. It was the swinging ropes that used to get me every time!
Who needs more than 16 colours?

 

[turwhitt]

OK... what in the damned hell is that thing ??

asdasda

Which thing in particular?

 

[Spacegamer]

jet set willy,now that was one tough game.

Never did finish it even with the infinite lives poke.

anyone play Cauldron iirc it was another tough game.

 

[Sir.Tj]

I was a big fan of the Ultimate games...Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, Jet Pac, Knight Lore...the list goes on.

Ahh, happy days...

 

[Stefan Mars]

anyone play Cauldron iirc it was another tough game.

As in the game where you flew around as a witch collection parts for whatever it was you were brewing?

Yeah, I played that. Never completed it.

 

[DrBaggy]

I was a big fan of the Ultimate games...Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, Jet Pac, Knight Lore...the list goes on.

Ahh, happy days...

Yes, great games, and Knight Lore was 3D. This link gives details:

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/12/knghtlr.htm

the program was 48k!!!! With hindsight, I rememember thinking how cool it was that wolf was spelt with a "u" so maybe I was a little easily pleased....

(Another incentive to get Elite4 out soon as the bar just keeps going up and up....)

 

[Sir.Tj]

the program was 48k!!!! With hindsight, I rememember thinking how cool it was that wolf was spelt with a "u" so maybe I was a little easily pleased...

And I thought it was only me I liked the way they created the logo.

The old games were so addictive, quality over quantity.

 

[Sir.Tj]

Drbaggy..

Just found a remake of Sabre Wulf, if you google sabre wulf remake the second hit takes you there. Right thats me not doing any work for a few weeks!!!