Date : Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:34:19 +-100
From : Paul Glover <paul_glover@...>
Subject: I know Quest ... and some others!!
Hello all,
Quest was indeed made by Superior Software and it was heralded at the
time for being displayed in Mode 1. I bought the game and I seem to remember
it having the usual £200 competition for the first person to complete
it. It was an arcade adventure in the mould of Citadel and I think it
was by the same bloke. In fact, the enemy in Quest was called Caldeti
(anagram of Citadel) but I may have got it confused with another game there.
Two other revolutionary games which I liked were Crazee Rider which was
the first (and only?) Electron driving game to have corners; and Synchron.
Talking of corners, someone once told me that if you played Superior's
Overdrive for long enough, corners appeared and like a mug I believed
them and played it so much to try and get there - but they never appeared!!
Also like a mug, I thought with the Plus 3 attached the Electron didn't
need mains power and ran by itself because the Plus 3 covered the power
socket. I was impressionable in those days!!
Synchron was just too fast, even on my Electron ... and with the Slogger
Master Turbo board engaged it was unplayable.
I'm reminiscing about my youth now, but I remember you could never get
out of DareDevil Denis unless you turned the power off, and there was
an alien race in Positron from MicroPower called Bumfluff. XOR had super
smooth scrolling and the theme tune in Rubble Trouble (from MicroPower
also) was the best music I ever heard on the Electron. In Football Manager
you could never score more than five goals and was probably the most addictive
game ever written in Mode 6! The most boring game I had was Air Traffic
Control from Hewson Consultants which was a simulation of a radar screen.
I gave up with that one (and wrote off eight quid) and went back to the
arcade games.
Aah great days in the innocent 80's. I mean, a company couldn't release
a game called Magic Mushrooms now a days like Acornsoft did back then!!
One last thing, did anyone out there have Weetabix verse the Titchies?
A game for all the popular 8 bit formats which was available if you ate
two and a half ton of Weetabix to get the tokens. It was my first game
and must have been '83 or something.
See ya
Paul.