Hot Topic for Issue 63

[markopoloman]

That is a really hard choice to make. I love all of the games in the list! (I know its a Speccy - but even me, a C64 fanboy fell in love with these games!)

So I have gone for Manic Miner.

Dynamite Dan was almost my choice though!

[hydr0x]

and I don't even know what they look like, but Manic Miner has a cool name!

You sure you're actually reading this mag? These games are basically covered every 2nd page, with screenshots and all.

[Seadog74]

What, no Sir Lancelot? Chuckie Egg then, on a cpc.

[ipmarks]

Jet Set Willy for me... whilst Manic Miner is superb, and led the way, the sense of exploration and finding new rooms in JSW, edges it for me.
I still to this day remember the joy of finding obscure and hard to get to rooms.

[felgekarp]

That is a really hard choice to make. I love all of the games in the list! (I know its a Speccy - but even me, a C64 fanboy fell in love with these games!)

So I have gone for Manic Miner.

Dynamite Dan was almost my choice though!

Doesn't Dynamite Dan bring back a few bad memories for you or at least leave a bad taste in your mouth?

[nesmaster]

I haven't played many Speccy games, but Chuckie Egg is the best Speccy game i have played

[sirclive1]

What a cruel opinion poll , i went for chuckie egg after debating for longer than i've ever debated before.

[Bub&Bob]

so I voted for AIDS....er...I mean Chuckie Egg too!

So if 3 of us have voted for Chuckie Egg then why does it say there's only 2 that's voted?

Because this stupid f**king new forum STILL doesn't really work properly for me

[CraigGrannell]

More likely your browser is caching like crazy—I see 8 votes for CE.

[the_hawk]

If you'd asked me the question mid 80's I couldn't have chosen between them, 4 great little platformers.

Playing all four back now I'd have to say that Chuckie Egg is the only one I've really enjoyed playing 25 years later - the controls are just superb.

The best Speccy platformer of all time involves a certain talpidae and his European adventures.

[jdanddiet]

Chuckie Egg gets the nod here....just.

[NonShinyGoose]

Easily Manic Miner - it proved that if tickled in the right places, the ZX could handle both in-game music and animated loading screens.

[SirClive]

All 4 are fantastic games, but the one I go back to the most is Chuckie Egg. Far more forgiving than Manic Miner, less likely to make you throw the TV than Dynamite Dan and cuter than JSW.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

The only platformer I ever played on the Spectrum was Captain Dynamo. I was more into Gauntlet II, Shadow of the Beast, Rolling Thunder and 720* myself.

[Team Alfie]

My head says Manic Miner, my heart says I wish I'd known about "6031769" a lot earlier.