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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.


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Weird though - googling it gives

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

Which is another forum pointing to this forum :-)


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It's not in the tosec zip that I have. Sorry.


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Thanks chaps. I know it exists, just doesn't look like anyone has made a disk image of it. I guess it's lost in the sands of time...

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I Ball 2, which many rated highly but I hated:



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Bubble Dizzy crashed on level 3. Pah.

It's probably for the best though as I'm sure I'd seen all the game had to offer up until that point.


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Just for the title music. The 1 bit beeper sings!


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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.


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zaphod79 wrote:
Weird though - googling it gives

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

Which is another forum pointing to this forum :-)

Cor, what a lovely bunch of chaps.

I assume J T posts/lurks here?

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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.


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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.


Original release

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Budget Re-release on Encore

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I think I preferred the cover for II

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I used to play Saboteur on my commodore +4. Awesome game, that


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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.


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So I was looking at this pic to see those I remember from Encore but does anyone recall Aliens on the C64? Sheeeet, I don't, but this video pricked up my interest. I can't remember this at all. Also, it looks awesome but also dreadful in equal measures.

Maybe it was US-only release.



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mrak wrote:
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.


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What exactly were all the budget labels again? From memory...

Ocean = Hit Squad
US Gold = Klassix, later Kixx
Mirrorsoft / Image Works = Mirror Image
Domark = Respray
Virgin Games = Mastertronic 16-Blitz (later renamed Tronix)
Elite = Encore


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Hit Squad also did Imagine games.


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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.


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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.


Hit Squad were just an Ocean label. In fact they pre-existed the budget range as the They Sold A Million Range was put out as Hit Squad.

Mastertronic had a number of labels of their own including:

MAD (Mastertronic Added Dimension) - For £2.99 games
Ricochet - For re-releases
Bulldog (Best Of British) - They put out Feud and Colony on this short lived label intended for export.
Rack-It - Hewson Games
Americana - US Gold games prior to them launching Kixx


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Saturnalian wrote:
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.

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Saturnalian wrote:
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.


I'm pretty sure there were 2 versions , a US one with crappy graphics and on disk only + a UK release which was basically the same as the Speccy / Amstrad ones and that you could get on disk or tape

This one Image is the one I remember and here is a nice page on all the versions from Peoww

http://www.peoww.co.uk/bughunting-part-one/


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Yeah, me too. I never understood how the how to play it, though.

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There was of course also the earlier Alien:

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Which was a strategy game and caused much confusion about which version people had.


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That looks a lot like FTL.

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Budget Re-release on Encore

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Just spotted the re-release is on a Durell blue cassette presumably with their custom leader tape as well. Perhaps when Elite bought the rights to the games they also bought up all of Durell's tape stock?


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Activision's Transformers game is funny from an '80s Transformers' fan perspective, as it treats Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime as entirely separate characters, and featuring blue Huffer clone Pipes in the latter's only appearance of note ever. I recall some terrible screen in the game where a dinosaur stomps on a space shuttle launcher, or something. Whatever happened, it was dire. Like all other licensed Transformers games ever.

Just remembered another old budget label, incidentally: Gremlin had GBH (GBH presumably an acronym for Gremlin Budget Hits. I hope).


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Been loading in tape games via a car cassette adaptor to my 464.

It's amazing how much longer you will stick with a game even if its annoying you when loading the next one will be a minimum 5 minutes and some faff (haven't perfected my loading system yet).

Also noted tape games still load quicker than EVERY BLOODY XBOX UPDATE EVER which I have to sit through every time I turn the bloody thing on these days.


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First budget game and in fact the first tape game I ever bought was this:



Which was just an awful rip off of Sorcery which I already had:



It's just a total rip off, even down to some of the background graphics.


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This thread is ace!


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mrak wrote:
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!



Is there no CDT file?

CPC looks great on an LCD. Totally different to emulation. If you get up close, you can see that the picture is aliasing in a way you never get under emulation even with filters. On the startup screen you can see a very faint black line around the yellow text just like a proper CPC monitor. The effect makes the graphics look much better than anything I've seen under emulation. It's RGB sharp but slightly softer than what I see from my Amiga or Megadrive etc. Must be to do with the machines output. But I'm not complaining, it really helps sell the image to me!

Bombjack 2 has loaded! That's me done for the next half hour then!


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Been playing Feud:

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It didn't go well:

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But it is a bloody good game. Yes there's lots of walking around and learning where the ingredients are. But it has that "just one more go factor" that keeps you going back.


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I never knew the tape version was cut down.

That explains a lot


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Had LCP for the Amiga, and I just remembered that it was a budget release. Found a scan of the box art online, and it was Mastertronic's Ricochet budget label – more evidence that budget releases for the Amiga stretched back further in time than I had initially thought.


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mrak wrote:
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.


Just played it on my 464. I'd already played it under emulation.

A lovely game with a really fast speed loader. Loaded in a couple of minutes. Some sprite flickering and slowdown but nothing major. All rather lovely and well done.

Frankly I wish programmers had put that level of care and attention to detail into their games back in the day!


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Intersecting with budget games, some of my favourite games ever came on cover tapes. Chaos and Quazatron being two in particular.


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E-motion was a quite a pleasant game IIRC.

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


How can 'loading' be 'guaranteed' ?

Or is it like the post offices 'guaranteed by 1:00' for special delivery (i.e. they can deliver it 4 days later and thats still okay)


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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 :-)


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I bought Bobs Bad Day on the Amiga and that didn't work so I sent it off and got a replacement. It seems crazy that I just sent it off without warning them or getting a returns number but it all worked out.


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mrak wrote:
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 :-)


My one of my Premier Manager disks went bad so I sent it to Gremlin who sent me a replacement.


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I remember I sent in my Tornado disks along with some money to upgrade it to the AGA version. I had first checked that they could be copied, of course, and made myself a "backup".

It was a good thing I did too, because when the new disks showed up a relatively short while later, it turned out, as was often the case with AGA versions of games, it was actually an "A1200" version and didn't work on my A4000/030.


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