Be Excellent To Each Other

What was the magazine that run a massive feature on Team 17 written by, er Team 17.

Anyone remember this from the ancient times (1990)?

Jeez, you forget that Molyneux has been spouting that same old guff for over 20 years now.

Gah! Look at all those lovely papery things! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Video-Game-Co ... 1e77790445

Job opportunity at a soon to launch magazine!

Latest Retro Gamer has a brain-meltingly awful 'Collector's Guide' feature about the Amiga 500.

The collectors guide to the A500 should read "buy an A1200 and stick a Compact Flash card in it as a hard disk instead".

Yeah, I got excited at seeing an Amiga on the cover, but the article was cack.

Good job I forgot to buy it yesterday then.

Specially when they wrote that a good goal for an Amiga 500 collector is to collect every Team 17 game. I'm with Amiga Power with this one, T17 isn't that good.

Alien Breed and Worms were their best games, I think.

Worms was bettered on the Amiga by the original to Tanks and Scorched Tanks. Granted they ported it every device known to man to the present day, and it had character to it, but it'll still just be a clone in my eyes. I loved Assassin. A more adventury Strider? Yes please!

The article says a must-have is Jim Power. It was awful. Truly awful.

Feh, Scorched tanks was just a clone of the much better scorched earth.


I remember enjoying the demo, but never completing it thetefore not buying the full game. Fortuituos, it seems as the full game appeared to be really samey and tedious.

Gah! That's what I done meant. Typing in Tanks beforehand broke my thing that pulses.

Worms got nothing on scorched earth. I remember editing the text files on scorched earth so that the tanks would insult my friends that were playing with me while we were playing.

EDIT: I'm always mixing scorched tanks with scorched earth. I shouldn't, scorched earth was after all "the mother of all games".

I liked Alien Breed and Super Frog, but they're nowhere near the top of my favorite Amiga games.

Even though it's cool that the article mentioned Traps and Treasures. Such an underrated gem.

orched tanks was reasonable, if you didn't own a pc, but the weapon selection was significantly more boring and the tanks considerably less insulting.

I remember enjoying the demo, but never completing it thetefore not buying the full game. Fortuituos, it seems as the full game appeared to be really samey and tedious.[/quote]

Awesome soundtrack though!

Was Scorched Tanks/Earth Team 17?

No. Both were Public domain. Probably by different people, but no idea who.

Sorry, I got confused.

yes, I enjoyed Scorched Earth, too.

If it is, I'm deducting 50% from the final mark.

I'm rather surprised that so many people actually knew what I was going on about when I mentioned scorched earth, thought it was a rather too obscure PC game before PC ownership was that common.

Pleased though. Memories of being wiped out by ones own Funky Bomb still cause me to chuckle.

We played it loads at school. With the bouncy shields and things.

Ahh, makes sense. For most of my time at school, games were forbidden. In my last couple of years, they were allowed during quiet periods of the year. Choice was somewhat limited though-Doom, Heretic, Quake, Duke3d (for a limited group of people). All child frindly.

And a few games I had made too. Which were awesome. And nominally more child friendly.

Sorry':

"When I was schoolage played it a lot with my chums. And Doom over a dial up modem, diallig into my friend's compter.

No need to apologise, chum.

Having a bit of a reminister.

The funky bomb noise is in my head now. It was the best bomb. Where best = most entertaining.

Pillar/Nash enigma spills over to the pages of AA:

AHA! Confoimed at last!

It was just he liked using Pillar's picture as it was easier..

(The fact that he's pictured in the chaos playoff as Nash is irrelevant)

And indeed, every YS photoshoot.

Meanwhile, over at Your Sinclair, Amiga Power, er what mag is this again, er AA, in the previous issue to the one above:



All rather odd as none of them are credited at all in the flannel panel at the back of the mag. I can only assume there was a gap between Adam Peters leaving and Simon Forrester starting that meant the YS team (who shared the same office) had to cover the games reviews duties. Meanwhile in the same issue, future editor Dave Golder also reviews an educational title. It's like a YS takeover!

Back to Team 17 games, I really liked Project X. I finished it, and everything.

I liked Project X but really really liked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apidya

Is that the bee one? I never really got into that.

I've never found a scrolling shmup I liked. I reckon it's because I'm awful at them

Not even Gradius V!? Come on, man!!!

If you don'y like Gradius on the PC Engine you have no soul. It is, perfection.



If you want something easier and cuter, try Parodius.



NB: Why are we talking about games in a thread about gaming magazines?

Blood Money!

Hellish game. Looks and sounds lovely but I find it difficult beyond reason.

Just looks tedious and frustrating to me.

It's not a gaming magazine, but the BBC F1 season preview magazine had a feature on F1 games in it.

I don't suggest dropping £4.50 on a copy of F1 mag just to read it, but I'll scan it if anyone is interested.

Yeah, I'll have a looksee at that if'n you don't mind.

Probably the first racing game I ever played. IIRC sold by the fuckton as well.

[edit] 568,013 copies sold making it Mastertronic's biggest selling title.

Ah, I know the one! It's a horizontal-scroller where you control an orange helicopter that shoots things to acquire money to purchase in-game weapon upgrades.



(Subs - please check image.)

Tar!

My scan-fu seems weak.

Or is that dark bit a problem with my scanner? Bugger

Probably a page ruffle, but they're still perfectly legible.

Is it moron day on Ebay? First nude pencil drawings of Pat Butchers tits, now this.