Reg Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep180 Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 One of the best spectrum releases ever! You could even change the teachers names to ones at your school, and I was of the school age people to do just so! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondplayer Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 Remember this one but never really got on with it. IIRC had a fast loading system from tape, x2 I think 1 Your box will be CASHPOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted April 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 @davep180 I too was guilty of this... @dondplayer It was a hard game - this one I was OK at in the video - the sequel Back to Skool, I was absolutely tragic at ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearecity Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Great game. I too used to change the teachers and pupils name to my own school, although it was quite time consuming doing it, so not every time. I remember not really having a clue how to play it (but it was fun anyway), then I saw a guide in a magazine, so followed it to complete it. Even with the guide, you still had a lot of work to do though to finish it. IIRC, the finish was typically poor for this day and ages, it played a piercing ditty, while flashing the screen, then just restarted. No message or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pook Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) This was a banger of a game, used to catapult the shit out of that swot. Microsphere loves to recycle their sounds, loads of crossover from Wheelie here. Edited April 23, 2023 by Pook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnparker007 Posted April 23, 2023 Report Share Posted April 23, 2023 Nice game this, they knew their target demographic I have been dabbling with an idea of doing a 'blocky' shoot'em up for the Speccy on and off for a few years. I'd made a 8x4 Atari 2600 background style system that avoided colorclash, but moved to this new technique provided by a coder Denis, allows avoiding color clash and plenty of sprites, game will prob be done in like 10 years lol, got to code in z80 assembler for maximum speed, so it's a bit of a ballache to write... 2 [ Arcade Simulator ] Pre-alpha installer: http://arcadesimulator.net | Known Issues: https://tinyurl.com/yz4uom2e | Donation info: https://tinyurl.com/yzvgl4xo [ Community Drive ] The drive: http://tinyurl.com/yckze665 [ Fruit Machine Database ] Initial google sheets (WIP): https://tinyurl.com/2c5znxzz [ Fruit Machine ROM Archive ] The archive: https://tinyurl.com/3jhzbueb [ MFME Launch ] Source code: https://github.com/johnparker007/MFMELaunch [ Oasis ] Source code: https://github.com/johnparker007/Oasis [ Sound ROM Editor ] Source code: https://github.com/johnparker007/SoundRomEditor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted April 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2023 14 hours ago, johnparker007 said: Nice game this, they knew their target demographic I have been dabbling with an idea of doing a 'blocky' shoot'em up for the Speccy on and off for a few years. I'd made a 8x4 Atari 2600 background style system that avoided colorclash, but moved to this new technique provided by a coder Denis, allows avoiding color clash and plenty of sprites, game will prob be done in like 10 years lol, got to code in z80 assembler for maximum speed, so it's a bit of a ballache to write... ...it would be a plreasure to play this on the channel shoiuld you ever finish it ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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