Worst game I've ever played.

[xzanfr]

I see your ghostbusters, and raise you Jumping Jack.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0gWR1mnoo


God awful game.

Cost a fiver too

Different platform but I propose Gisburnes castle for the acorn electron.

Hard to control and about 1fps making it nigh on impossible. Nearly snapped my elk in half after playing.

Have a go yourself, the BBC version is significantly faster:

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=172

 

[orange_apecs]

Different platform but I propose Gisburnes castle for the acorn electron.

Hard to control and about 1fps making it nigh on impossible. Nearly snapped my elk in half after playing.

Have a go yourself, the BBC version is significantly faster:

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=172

Frontier took that approach with some of Elite....
"You have landed on a planet"
"You can see nothing"

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

"Worst game I've ever played."​

Ahh the pleasures of my older age then at a guess, try playing some video games from the 70's onwards and i promise you that you will never knock a modern title ever again no matter it be a good one or an awful one

8bit tape loading games that loaded after 5mins of the tape loading/modem squealing noise...then instantly crashed...only to work fine 15mins later after 3 attempts
Ahhh them were the days

 

[Dreyski]

I see your ghostbusters, and raise you Jumping Jack.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0gWR1mnoo


God awful game.

Cost a fiver too

Re-raise!

 

[MickyG1982]

you must be new here. wait 6 months and try again

Or just load up Vanilla, be placed in space then swap back & land again...

 

[orange_apecs]

8bit tape loading games that loaded after 5mins of the tape loading/modem squealing noise...then instantly crashed...only to work fine 15mins later after 3 attempts
Ahhh them were the days

I used to think 5 minutes was an age. Now with modern titles taking a whole day to download sometimes it seems a lot quicker.
And then there's still no guarantee they'll work.

 

[Crank Larson]

Was this not playtested?

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

I used to think 5 minutes was an age. Now with modern titles taking a whole day to download sometimes it seems a lot quicker.
And then there's still no guarantee they'll work.

Download time is very diff from 5-15mins just to load the game
I'm on a 300Mbit interweb connection, so my downloads don't take more than 30mins...even for Gb and Gb of data.
I can see how having a slower connection can be frustrating though.

 

[orange_apecs]

Re-raise!

Re- Re-Raise (NOTE - TURN VOLUME DOWN)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkZTH78P44

 

[Just]

8bit tape loading games that loaded after 5mins of the tape loading/modem squealing noise...then instantly crashed...only to work fine 15mins later after 3 attempts
Ahhh them were the days

TURBO mode for TAPE RECORDER was the first QOL upgrade.
And then I got 5+ inch FLOPPY DRIVE...
Yeah, this subject definitely makes me feel nostalgic.

 

[TheRagingBeard]

Re-raise!

Good god what the hell is going on there!

 

[Dinbar]

I liked Ghostbusters on the ZX Spectrum.
The speech synthesis was epic!

I admit I was amazed too. I'm suprised it did not catch fire it pushed the sound chip to the max for an 8-bit.

Ok Airwolf was worse and years later "Horace goes skiing" still haunts me.

 

[Winterdyne]

I was part of Team 4.5.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXFbl7IZ98

I wasn't involved in the ALS project other than doing the team logo.

We also did (but never released) Alone in the Dark Simulator which had no graphics whatsoever, just a 'hello?' sample and (eventually) the text 'Game Over - You have been eaten by a grue.' Which was written to be an even WORSE game than ALS.

 

[DarthLuca]

I too have been using the SRV a lot since launch with no problems (apart from the b%*&dy throttle (please can we have a 5% increment!!!!!!)). Do you know what you did/ were doing, before you had the problem?