A game created by the company “Ultimate”, a legendary software house that developed many seminal Spectrum games and went on to become “Rare” and to do the same for the rest of the gaming world.
they also made 90 percent of turds that were labeled “LJN/Akklaim/acclaim” on the 8/16 and some of the 32-bit consoles …
My favorite game of all time, so much so I bought one of the first cabinet/emulators back in the mid 2000s and I still play it. Not as well as in the games prime (25,000,000, walked away of boredom), but it’s still a blast.
ive always wanted one of those sooo badly … is it official or home made ?
Official. Bought it at Target. There’s a ROM cartridge which contains the games.
Holy shit, that second site has Stars!, a ‘spreadsheet’ game that was still fun as hell. Gonna try that out again.
I remember “trek” back in the day… then I remember Activision ripped off the unofficial trek game the plot of the real 2600 trek game and ataris star raiders to make whats considered the most technologialy sophisticated 2600 game ever made “starmaster”
here’s some info :
I played Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2, the Remastered Versions on Android.
Sonic 1 allows you to play as Tails after you beat the game once, and as Knuckles if you beat the game with the six Chaos Emeralds. I’ve done the former but not the latter yet. They allow you to use Tails’ flying and Knuckles’ gliding on both games.
They have time attack and boss attack levels, and if you fall into the “inescapable spike trap” in Sonic 2, it takes you to Hidden Palace Zone.
The boss of Hidden Palace Zone, Brass Eggman, is a real son of a bitch. His vulnerability window is tiny unless you take advantage of mercy invincibility.
does it have a virtual pad or do you use your fingers like the "runner"games?
Um, it’s got a D-pad on the left and a jump button on the right that pop up about half a second after the starting screen.
I’ve been playing Vampire Survivors on Steam Deck and PC, it’s a good game to chill out with. Very simple controls, just move around and your character automatically shoots. But there is still some strategy to the game.
Playing Outward co-op, it’s very unforgiving and I suck at the combat, but I’m still enjoying it.
I’ve also been playing and very much enjoying Sniper Elite 5 on PC Game Pass. It’s a WW2 sniper/shooter and you’re behind enemy lines in occupied France trying to take out German officers and pave the way for the Allied invasion. I try to be stealthy but it often turns out to be more of a shooter. The slow-mo x-ray kill animations are both gruesome and fascinating. The maps of the French countryside, farms, and small towns are beautiful. There was one with an extensive castle and grounds that was especially impressive. There is also a mechanic where another player can invade your game as an enemy sniper, and it’s kill or be killed as you try to complete your mission. That luckily is optional, you can turn invasions off.
As far as watching lately I enjoy watching Joov play games in funny ways like Can you beat Skyrim as a chicken? and OboeShoesGames plays a lot of forgotten games that are often forgotten for a good reason but still have some good parts to them.
It’s an awesome game. I play with the invasions off too, who wants to deal with that crap while you’re trying to complete the mission, but I can see how that might be fun as the invader. I have two games going; one where I play for real on normal difficulty, and another with all the easiest settings just so I can run around and basically have live target practice. It’s hilarious how oblivious they can be with the AI alertness reduced all the way. Sometimes I’ll shoot someone and another guy in the same room doesn’t notice. 
Elden Ring (and other Souls games), Watch Dogs, Deathloop, Sniper Elite, etc… this is my least favorite gimmick feature to come out lately. If I want to play a PvP game, I will. I rarely want a PvE game with just a splash of random PvP. But it seems to be becoming “the thing” to have these days. Ugh. At least it’s optional.
I loved Sniper Elite 3 and played through it multiple times, up to the Realistic setting. But for some reason Sniper Elite 4 just failed to resonate with me and I dropped off of it fairly early. I didn’t buy SE5, having learned my lesson from SE4, but I see it’s on Game Pass so I should give it a try and see if the love is back.
I played the first 2 maps/levels with invasions on, definitely a thrilling experience to be learning the game and map and then get informed a human player is hunting you. I managed to kill my hunter both times. The first time I kept moving from cover to cover, listening, and watching my back. The second time I did that through the whole level and found the hunter was waiting for me at the objective. I managed to out-snipe him. But BOTH times I got invaded something came up in my real-life house and I had to decide whether to be a bad sport and drop out or whether the matter could wait. I let the matters wait a bit. 
I do hear there are some problems with invasions, sometimes the invader spawns right next to the player. So I’ve turned them off for now so I can better enjoy the maps.
The success of which likely prompted Atari to port their Star Raiders game – originally released for their ST in '79 – over to the 2600 in September of '82.
SE4 was a major gameplay improvement on almost everything from SE3, but the maps were much, much more of an open world experience than any previous game in the series. SE2 & 3 were presented like an open world but were really quite linear. You had options but ultimately could really only go forward one way. SE5’s first level is sprawling and humongous like an SE4 level, and has way too many extra objectives IMHO, but the next two missions that I’ve completed are much more focused, if that’s what you didn’t like about SE4.
I don’t like that I’m now limited in the number and time duration of marked enemies, but I realize it’s more realistic this way. No more magic X-ray vision forever, you can keep track of just a handful of guys and that’s it. Also more difficult to explode vehicles now, but again, probably more realistic that way. Even with the changes I don’t like, I’m enjoying it. It’s probably my favorite modern game series tied with Hitman.
Also, like Hitman, I really like that there’s now a specific target to kill in each mission (so far; again, I’m only a few missions in, but I assume that continues throughout the game).
I am blown away by SE5’s maps. The second mission was a huge detailed castle (chateau) with many floors, courtyards, towers, etc and a lot of countryside around it with houses, farms, bridges, forest, streams, etc.
Now I’m on the third mission and not only is there another much larger castle, but a whole medieval town around it. I played all evening stealthing my way through the town and never even got into the main castle.
There is now another game I want to play on PC Game Pass, Chorus. It looks like a good space combat sim with some interesting mechanics.
The game I want and never going to get again is a modern open-world wing commander privateer/freelance game even better if online …
Also if I win the lottery I’m going to spend money and have take -two and sid Meier make the pirates! series an online multiplayer game
Just played and finished The Quarry, a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure with a bunch of camp counselors having a final night party out deep in the woods. I enjoyed the story and it was reasonably well paced. Characters are appropriately likeable or hateable with some obligatory secondary angles to soften their archetypes. Strong homages to your 80s horror flicks with a dose of modern trope subversion. All in all, a fun romp.
Graphics were 96% good and 4% wtf – mainly the really poor liquid particle physics and some spiderwebs that looked like they were bought from Party City. I’d like to think that was all the job of one guy who was out sick a lot during development. Everyone is voiced and modeled by professional actors and it’s well done. There’s a bit of uncanny valley sometimes but I thought it was an impressive effort. Pro-tip: Keep Vsync on unless you want the mouths to seriously de-synch from the dialogue. That annoyed me a little but this isn’t a game that needs 200 fps anyway.
Game took me about nine hours to complete and has some features to offer replayability (alternate endings, a death re-wind system, etc) but I was satisfied leaving it there for now. Game also features a couple styles of Co-Op: One where each player selects one or more campers to be theirs to control in the appropriate sections and another where everyone votes on choices. I just played a solo but a friend is doing the vote thing with his girlfriend and her family.
Game is by Supermassive who apparently had a very similar game, “Until Dawn” for the Playstation in 2015 though I gotta assume The Quarry is technically superior for obvious reasons.