“ZZAP! 64 MAGAZINE: COMPLETE COLLECTION ON 5 CD ROM DISC”
It’s fair to say the printed word loses virtually all of its magic when reduced down to five CD-ROMs with felt-tip pen descriptions.
Auction here, if you know someone who knows someone who inherited the rights to the ZZAP! brand name and back catalogue and think a complaint might be in order.
May 28th, 2010 on 5:13 pm
Not entirely sure why anyone would need this when there’s zzap64.co.uk anyway, but I can’t really talk as I’ve got them all taking up space on my bookshelf already.
And mine are special as they have friends names circled on the scorelords scoreboard.
AND bits cut out for competetions or the like too.
Ner.
May 28th, 2010 on 5:31 pm
I’m still amazed anyone actually liked the commodore. As soon as the NES and master system came out it just looked and played like an oblong piece of shit.
May 28th, 2010 on 6:25 pm
Hey, don’t knock the old breadbin, I loved (and still do in fact) that old 8-bit beauty.
That’s why it (and many many tapes, cartridges and disks) are safely packed away in my (neighbour’s) loft.
If it wasn’t for the c64 emu on my xbox and places like C64 endings it’d still be plugged in and being used.
God bless the old girl and her SID chip (woeful tolerance excepted, which meant I never heard the bassline to Bloodmoney until I played it on a friend’s machine).
May 28th, 2010 on 7:32 pm
Feel free to plug your C64 in…
I was more of a speccy person. Wonder what that looks like on a 42″ plasma, in glorious colour clash yellow & cyan.
May 28th, 2010 on 8:34 pm
Well, I’m guessing my 128k speccy might be up in your loft too Psybernoid; as I’m stumped as to where else I could’ve left it…Feel free to give it a bash if you find it when you’re up there next
May 29th, 2010 on 12:26 am
God that reminds me of my CDs of sound effects with felt tip penned titles. I used to play them on a CD player as I didn’t have a computer like my daddo did. I’m not sure why I still have those. I should really throw those out. It’s similar to keeping tired old porn. I don’t Really need that ok.
May 29th, 2010 on 3:04 am
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May 29th, 2010 on 7:50 pm
My cousin had a C64. I thought it was very strange, though I did enjoy some of the games. Everything on it had a strange atmosphere. He had Wonder Boy and Thunderblade on it. Plus some other games I cannot remember that still haunt my dreams.
I don’t suppose anyone knows the name of a C64 game that had a similar setting/look to Ghosts and Goblins, but played nothing like it, though it was a kind of action game?
May 29th, 2010 on 8:01 pm
Ghouls’n’Ghosts?
Kokotoni Wilf?
The Magic Knight series?(Spellbound/Finders Keepers/Furture Knight)
If not, you’ll have to give us more to go on than that…
May 29th, 2010 on 8:58 pm
No, none of them. As for more information . . . hmmm . . .
It was dark, black background. You ran along on brown ground. You had to kill things, but I can’t even remember what. It may have scrolled right to left, but that might be me remembering something I saw on Gamesmaster.
That is all that is in my head. Not enough to go on but I can’t do any better, damn it.
May 29th, 2010 on 9:23 pm
It’s not Hysteria, is it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCLGkf-C74
That game was a cunt. Never got off the first level…
May 29th, 2010 on 9:34 pm
No, not that. The game was hard, I remember there was me, and two other cousins and we couldn’t get that far. But that is my overriding memory of most C64 games.
It’s okay, I’ll die not knowing. It’s okay . . . *sob*
I checked a top 100 list, it doesn’t feature. I don’t think it was a classic, just some cheap cassette randomly picked off a shelf.
May 29th, 2010 on 11:48 pm
Hawkeye? From the Thalamus golden era.
May 30th, 2010 on 12:24 am
Going by brown ground, black background, like ghost and goblins but not, scrols right>left but also left>right (possibly introducing confusion) and ignoring the ‘not in the top 100 games list’ as it bloody well should have been), it wasn’t Myth, was it?
Can’t believe I didn’t think of that one first really.
You’re up late Zorgy – Sorry, been a bit slow on contributions for bitbroken, but no buggers ready any yet anyway, I’m going for a zero-commenter week. Yay me.
And Thalamus? I was just watching some Thalamus stuff on Youtube yesterday. They were bloody ace, even better than System 3. Hmmm..D’you think we could start a campaign for Shinobi Vs. Last Ninja to be a Dreamcast 2 launch title?
May 31st, 2010 on 12:35 am
Dick Socrates: Not thinking of Karnov are you? That game was rock hard and was one of the few C64 games to run in High Res mode instead of multi-colour mode.
I love my C64 and have just spent a whole week archiving all my dev disks onto my PC… brought back lots of great memories. Including, oddly enough, a demo called Amiga Memories that I did with Kernal back in the day.
May 31st, 2010 on 10:01 am
I was just looking through that list of C64 magazines and it looks like the first time I played any games or get a games magazine was in the 90’s! Literally a year and half before I got a Megadrive…
I always thought I was playing games since the 80’s – that I had a c64 for several years before a Megadrive but no. I’ve been lying to people for years about how long I’ve been into games. At least I actually had a childhood then I suppose.
As for NES being better than C64 – no way!
May 31st, 2010 on 6:57 pm
Had some Internet connection problems and forgot about this topic.
Thanks for the help in trying to identify the game, but unfortunately it isn’t any of those either. I did a check to make sure it was definitely a Commodore 64 he had and it was, so I am at least thinking of the right system and haven’t been wasting your time. Not that I am strictly against wasting people’s time, but would rather it be intentional.
I think the game was less actiony, more like a series of obstacles in the form of enemies that had a specific ways of being dealt with. Like you’d always know on a certain screen to duck a bat/bird then move on, then to jump over some projectile, with little room for being able to leap about and handle it differently. I was dangerously close to triggering a flashback there with additional information. The screen may not have scrolled, but changed to the next area when you got near the end, but that may not be true. I am a fountain of possibly misleading knowledge.
But don’t worry about it. Me saying that helps ease the pain of rejection when no one else replies.
May 31st, 2010 on 11:09 pm
You can also download the whole package via a Torrent site and pirate the pirate… touche!
May 31st, 2010 on 11:19 pm
Every little bit of extra informtaion/half-remembered half-truths/proustian flashbacks get us closer to finding out, all are good and I can currently think of no better waste of my time (excluding looking for batteries/trawling teclast/ebay for for Extralast/bitbroken, obviously). I have no life.
Ahem.
Was it maybe:
Athena?
Beyond the Ice Palace?
Brian Bloodaxe?
Camelot Warriors?
Chiller?
Deadly evil?
The Enforcer?
First Samurai?
Gods & Heroes?
The Human Race?
Hunchback?
MoonShadow?
Pitfall II?
Rastan?
(Sacred armour of) Antiriad?
Shaman?
Stormlord?
To Hell and back?
Vixen?
Warriors?
If it’s not one of those then I’ll really have to start racking my brains…
Is the main sprite large or small?
Were there lots of platforms on screen to jump around to or were the screens a more of a largly empty affair where you simply walked from one screen to the next?
Did you have any form of projectile weapon or simply hand to hand to hand combat(or jumping on them)?
Fast or slow?
Any further little nibbles of the madeleine there?
June 1st, 2010 on 4:02 am
It sounds like it could be Hobgoblin (apart from the colour being wrong). That’s rock hard, a bit like Ghosts ‘n Goblins and in no danger of being remembered by anyone. I only know about it because it was also released for the Acorn Electron.
June 1st, 2010 on 10:01 am
So that’d be this then?
Comments state:
Gajin – 2005-04-07 – Extremely annoying. Poor rip-off from Ghost ‘n’ Goblins.
God – 2003-12-26 – This game is extremely funny. Poor scrolling, silly sound effects. REALLY hard enemies. Fun fun. 10/10 just for making me laugh.
Tim Janssen – 2002-01-17 – This game has no music, sparse graphics and zero playability. Avoid.
So, a good possibility then?
June 1st, 2010 on 10:10 am
Hobgoblin looks quite close, but I am not sure it is it. Definitely the right kind of idea. I saw some screenshots of the C64 version but could only find footage of the BBC Micro version, but it did trigger a memory that there were arrows in it. I can’t remember if you were firing them or having them fired at you.
I’m half tempted to get a C64 emulator to check it out. Maybe I cold put it on the PSP, if it hasn’t died of neglect.
June 1st, 2010 on 10:39 am
I spent the weekend playing c64 games on my new (old) psp with PSPVICE. It’s great, I have a portable c64 now! Been through Armalyte, Turrican, Zamzara, Alleykat, Dynamite Dan, The Eidolon, Cybernoid, Paradroid and Zybex already.
Think I’ll have to try out Alter Ego again tonight.
And maybe Ranarama, I remember spending hours on that bugger.
June 1st, 2010 on 7:12 pm
It actually sounds like a Dizzy game to me for some reason but it’s probably not as everyone knows Dizzy.
Best thing to do it go to http://www.lemon64.com (as has been posted already) and go through all the games one by one. It’ll take ages but you’ll eventually find it since it has screenshots and box art for everything – I’ve found some forgotten titles that way.
June 2nd, 2010 on 9:27 pm
No, it wasn’t a Dizzy game. Thanks for the tip on lemon64 though. I am up to D, saw a few games that looked vaguely like it. It is no wonder no one could guess what I was thinking of as there are so many unknown and forgotten games. I will let the whole world know when I find which one it was.
October 21st, 2010 on 9:40 am
Dear Sir,
Hi and I was wondering if you can help me.
I am looking for Hi-Res Scans of all the Zzap64 Bob Wakelin Scans.
I was wondering if you would like to scan all the Bob Wakelin Ads for me ?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you for your time.
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October 21st, 2010 on 11:59 am
My, that’s just so tempting…