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Was it caled Lost and Found? ... Anyone have any ideas?
Does anybody else have any games, which they used to play, but cant for the life of them remember the title of?
I think there was a Beatles song (or tune on
> the speccy) as the theme for it!
Thats right... 'Hard Days Night' ...
Although, I think the C64 version had the original Arcade tune?
Would it be HERBERTS
> DUMMY RUN by Microgen???? or SKOOL DAZE?
May very well have been Herberts Dummy Run...
Mmm... I need to grab myself a recent C64 emulator...
Would it be HERBERTS DUMMY RUN by Microgen???? or SKOOL DAZE?
Just a couple of possibles i could think of.
> the title "Mikey"
> ring any bells?
Wasnt that an Acrcade game about a high school
> kid, Mikey, doing 80's high-school things, over several
> levels...
(Wasnt the first one where you were inclass, and you
> had to collect the hearts so you G/F would go out with you...
> However if the teacher caught you out of your seat he would chase
> you around the class room?
I think I had that for the ZX Speccy!
I think there was a Beatles song (or tune on the speccy) as the theme for it!
That got me thinking about some
> other "white elephant" stories, like all the hype
> surrounding Rise of the Robots, the collaspe of Mirrorsoft (along
> with its owner!), and the countless coin-op conversions the 8 bit
> market endured like Afterburner, OutRun and Hard Drivin`, all
> instantly forgettable!!!!
What was that 'Elephant Never Forgets' company called?
I seem to remeber I used to see their ads a lot in the early eighties...
And then they suddenly stopped...
And I discovered, years later, that they had sunk all their cash into advertising in the 'Wargames' movie, and failed to get their required returns? :)
Do wish that Tony would re-introduce
> the Rainbird label and sell his own or signed-up games on it via
> Special Reserve, because i always found that label to have good,
> high quality titles (Starglider, Carrier Command, Morpheus, The
> Guild of Thieves etc...) which also recieved good reviews and high
> praise in the press.
It true... they were the best text adventures on the market...
(although, for some reason Text Adventures are now called Interactive Fiction for some reason?)
That got me thinking about some other "white elephant" stories, like all the hype surrounding Rise of the Robots, the collaspe of Mirrorsoft (along with its owner!), and the countless coin-op conversions the 8 bit market endured like Afterburner, OutRun and Hard Drivin`, all instantly forgettable!!!!
Do wish that Tony would re-introduce the Rainbird label and sell his own or signed-up games on it via Special Reserve, because i always found that label to have good, high quality titles (Starglider, Carrier Command, Morpheus, The Guild of Thieves etc...) which also recieved good reviews and high praise in the press.
> Yeah, now you mention it, i think Mikey was by Imagine/Ocean and
> thats was also how i remembered the game as well, with the
> schoolroom bit.
But as to your game, i`m still coming up blank on
> that one... Sorry!
I've got a feeling the game was called Lost and Found? ...
I've got a cd-rom with a load of C64 snapshots on around somewhere, I'll take a look and see if its stuck on there? :)
Aye... didnt Imaginee used to run those comic strip ads about working for them as a games programmer... Which would then allow you to become increadably rich and own a ferrari?
Before prompty going bankrupt?
:)
But as to your game, i`m still coming up blank on that one... Sorry!
> Here`s a problem for you, Mr Shanks...
Too many people nowadays
> think games started with the N64 and the PSX, and only a few of us
> original gamers remember the likes of multi-load cassettes and
> rubber keyboards!!!
Aye, true... it had to happen though...
Problem is... If someone was born in the year of the Speccy 48K's release, then they would currently be 19...
I'm just too old for my own good :)
As for your game, thats even got me stumped!,
> What was the software house???
I have a vague feeling it sounds
> like a Software Projects or Microgen release, but then again it
> could have been something Ocean or Gremlin might of done.
I'm pretty sure it was a Microgen title...
Does
> the title "Mikey" ring any bells?
Wasnt that an Acrcade game about a high school kid, Mikey, doing 80's high-school things, over several levels...
(Wasnt the first one where you were inclass, and you had to collect the hearts so you G/F would go out with you... However if the teacher caught you out of your seat he would chase you around the class room?
Too many people nowadays think games started with the N64 and the PSX, and only a few of us original gamers remember the likes of multi-load cassettes and rubber keyboards!!!
As for your game, thats even got me stumped!, What was the software house???
I have a vague feeling it sounds like a Software Projects or Microgen release, but then again it could have been something Ocean or Gremlin might of done.
Does the title "Mikey" ring any bells?