I know this isn't exactly budget talk, but I've been looking for an adf of a PD game released by 17-bit called Go Getter for years. I used to play it with my Mum when I was small (fnar). You basically played as a sphere and you had to traverse a board guessing Higher or Lower for each move you made. I would love it if I could find it again. I've searched everywhere I can think of.

Weird though - googling it gives

http://forum.classicamiga.com/forum/arc ... -2831.html

Which is another forum pointing to this forum :-)

I remembering liking Saboteur a lot on my spaccy. And playing it on my friend's Amstrad as well. Was that budget? Even if it wasn't then, I bet it is now, so the point stands.

Budget re-release, almost certainly on Encore.

I'll second the recommendation of Invade-a-Load. Probably the best 8-bit rendition of Space Invaders I've played.

The Ricochet release of Activision's Ghostbusters I had opened with it soundtracked by Rob Hubbard's music lifted from One Man And His Droid which is certainly one of mankind's greatest achievements.

I wish I understood what I need to do in One Man And His Droid.

Hit Squad also did Imagine games.

Indeed, although those were the games published by Imagine when Imagine was an imprint of Ocean used solely for arcade conversions. The original Imagine 8-bit games were reissued by Mastertronic.

I'm not sure if Ocean owned Hit Squad or Hit Squad just licensed Ocean's games, as later on HS reissued games by Virgin, Activision, Electronics Arts and quite a few others.

So I was looking at this pic to see those I remember from Encore but does anyone recall Aliens on the C64?

I had the CPC version, which was similar.

Budget Re-release on Encore

I managed to get César Nicolás González's fantastic CPC remake of Bubble Bobble running on my CPC by using a Windows app to dump the executable from the disk image, convert to WAV before burning this to a CD and dubbing down to tape. A bit more hassle than the tape adapter option I've used for C64 gubbins in the past but I don't have the space in the lounge for another monitor so worth the effort!

Duh, CDT is tape isn't it? Yes, it's bundled with a CDT and DSK image. Should really have spotted that but it was a while ago.

Some great games were given away with Zzap! successor Commodore Force. They even came on amazing looking translucent sparkly tapes.

No idea! I didn't have a problem with any of the tapes (apart from that half the games were in the Beau Jolly compilation) but I'd assume it just mean they'd exchange tapes if they didn't work.

Possibly , I only remember having one duff disk from a covermount and i complained and mailed it off and never got a replacement one - however i cant even remember what it was so meh :-)