Today's is not particularly brilliant; the graphics are quite basic and the gameplay straightforward. However, I must have played this for hours - it's just solid entertainment.

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2020-10-22

Today's celebrity programmer is a programmer and a musician - Tim Follin. He's written a couple of games back in the day, but is of course more famous for his chip music. So in no particular order, here's my top 4 chip tune games.

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2020-10-13

There are quite a few celebrity Spectrum games programmers who feature in my series. Tonight it's the turn of Jonathan Smith aka Joffa. Of the four I've chosen, my favourite is Hyper Sports, though Cobra is technically the most impressive.

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2020-10-11

I've not done a for a while... Here's four of my favourites from the Ultimate stable.

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2020-09-13

Today's is Donkey Kong by Ocean. This is an officially licensed conversion and works well with the Spectrum's limitations. Good arcade conversions were the holy grail of early home computers. I think Ocean did a good job with this.
https://t.co/fG91DbMeNW

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2020-07-16

The Zipstik is working out - feels really clicky and tight, pretty much like new. Autofire doesn't seem to work - think that's a Kempston Interface thing. Time to play a - Enduro Racer.
https://t.co/wDcmpPDJa5

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2020-07-02

Today's is Beach Head by US Gold. I remember this being in the first batch of games I played on my 48K Spectrum - I'd previously owned a 16K model that was returned to WHSmiths under warranty.
https://t.co/xKjHBpNcM5

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2020-05-10

The Gyron series has silky-smooth 3D graphics that manages to keep up a reasonable frame-rate, and IMHO plays as well as it looks. It also inspired me to work out how to quickly draw filled circles. A great
https://t.co/6yhfhXnKqz

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2020-03-17

Today's is a little different, I worked alongside as he developed this excellent conversion of Ghouls n Ghosts - refining the scroll technique he developed for LED Storm. Excellent loading screen by Peter Gough.
https://t.co/7vHcnz1ZMK

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2020-03-06

Today's is Green Beret - a solid arcade conversion from Imagine. I particularly liked the subtle use of colours, and effective side-scrolling games were still quite rare when this was released. As ever, link on WoS below.
https://t.co/bkRUrSN949

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2020-03-05

Today's is Booty - a budget game from Firebird. After some initially awful budget offerings from the like of Mastertronic, this was a breath of fresh air and £2.50 well spent. It's not perfect, but IMHO is pretty darned good.
https://t.co/xO7FLH5q3b

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2020-03-03