Cascade Cassette 50: All 49 games (Amstrad CPC)

Summary

Highlights

• Delving into 'Cascade Cassette 50', actually 49 games for the Amstrad CPC! 🎮
• Nostalgic stroll through 1980s gaming, complete with critiques and humor.
• From arcade hits to text adventures, each game offers a unique retro experience.
• Humorous commentary on the gameplay quirks and design of these vintage titles.
• Exploring the joys and struggles of gaming on the Amstrad CPC, with a missing game mystery!

Key Takeaways

• Blast from the past! 🎮 Relive the golden era of gaming with this quirky collection.
• Not quite 50! 🤔 The '49 out of 50' games showcase leaves us one game short.
• Old school challenges! 🕹️ Experience the simplicity and complexity of 1980s games.
• Lost in translation! 🌐 Some games seem to be inspired by classic arcade hits, sparking nostalgia.
• Technical hiccups abound! ⚙️ Enjoy the candid take on bugs and glitches of vintage gaming.

Overview

Cascade Cassette 50: All 49 games (Amstrad CPC) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 let's see how it works okay this is the dis 50 right okay the dis 50 I didn't think that was actually a thing but because I assumed oh someone's just collected the cassette 50 and shoved it on the disc that's probably exactly what they did actually but at least we can see what they are so we'll start with uh maze eater okay loading maze eater in this version of the famous arcade game maze eater
• 00:30 - 01:00 you must control a mouth with an insociable appetite have I got my keyboard have I got my joystick f um use keys or joystick how many ghosts now the real Pacman never asked you that did it how many ghosts we we're professionals will be full wow that that's also very quiet and I'm already dead that's that's pretty slow let's
• 01:00 - 01:30 um see if it was struggling because of the whoa you it was it was cuz I pressed four several times trying to make it do something and that's got stuck in the keyboard buffer now so it's going to keep restarting four four ghosts every time is it going to do it four or do I get to start one I'm assuming that we might yeah we get better performance with one ghost I can see now why the uh programmer did it that that
• 01:30 - 02:00 way now there is sound but it's really really quiet Hello Kirby with the snacks I am being hopeless at this game let me switch me richual watch don't if I can make this any louder is that s better well at least you can hear it I don't want to we absolutely definitely raid raid raid
• 02:00 - 02:30 welcome kby with the snacks and it is uh we're doing it cassette 50 it's been going wrong so far every step of the way but it's been uh uh amstrad disc 50 apparently is what we've got here we are now doing the amre CPC and so far it's looking very much up to standard whoa and it's being very temperamental with the keyboard as well
• 02:30 - 03:00 so let's try again with one ghost it actually kept my high school that's quite nice you can barely hear it I can see it's barely registering the sound let's give you a bit more sound you go these these games are so so so so basic they are I mean written basic as well but it is a very very simplistic
• 03:00 - 03:30 experience but I will say this unlike the Comm 64 one the Sprites are the right size they're not sort of overlapping the walls and it is just about playable and I'm sure with practice I could actually complete a level but I have got 49 more games to go through yet and we've spent what seems like well near 20 minutes
• 03:30 - 04:00 trying to get this far with this one CU I could just start it as it we know it's called number we know it's called B okay it's Cyclones is the next one so B 1985 nice use of color we'll see what the instructions say oh dear the object of roller ball is simply to keep the ball M uh R I can't even read moving along the track without falling into the
• 04:00 - 04:30 hole or running into the edge before wraparound has come fully into operation side colons this is done by sliding a panel with a part of track over the hole so the track May divert the path of the ball onto another part of the track and so when the roller ball moves over a track that track is removed from the frame did anybody understand that I think I oh we're not done use the curs keys or the joystick to slide the panels and form a track when you build a
• 04:30 - 05:00 large piece of track you may speed up the roller ball by pressing the fire button or the space bar hit any key to start game or I repeats instructions now I think they're being sponsored by the word track because they used it so often let's see has this is this even going to start cuz I I should say I mean I'm I think this was released originally for the 464 I'm running this on the 6128 so it's it's just possible this might fall
• 05:00 - 05:30 over in a oh no no no here we go here we go any key normal this actually looks quite well presented I'm I'm starting to be a bit surprised by the quality of this but I haven't tried playing it yet I invisible at any key normal well we want to have a go at normal so all I have to [Music] do oh it's like pipeline [Music]
• 05:30 - 06:00 or super bik line as it um sometimes [Music] was so occasionally there'll be holes on the track bet you're regretting me making that sound um [Music] Shacks before rapper wrapped so
• 06:00 - 06:30 basically when when the ball moves over a shack it swallows it [Music] up is this ASMR is this is that buzzing noise ASMR if so good on you that's quite remarkable achievement let's keep going um what happens if I roll right over this oh no the ball goes with it
• 06:30 - 07:00 [Music] oh we're going to we're going to hit over the go over the edge right 13 points that felt very sluggish there's the germ of an interesting game there because you kind of push it's basically a tile pushing game and you've got to push the tiles uh to where the ball is going to roll they didn't explain it in the best
• 07:00 - 07:30 possible way but it's um it's not bad my only concern is that it does feel very very spongy on the controls but that's just cuz it's written in basic you could turn that into quite a good mini game um but it is well presented they've taken a little bit of effort to make it look nice another game no even animated screen if you don't want to complain anymore why they called it Cyclones and not rollable I don't
• 07:30 - 08:00 know then it's to restart um okay this this is um a very NY thing I keep wanting to do shift bre like I'm on the BBC M why is the amstrad make me think of the BBC I don't know I don't need to I don't need to open a directory on this let's
• 08:00 - 08:30 look at game number three what have we got handicap golf right okay let's see what this one's like whoa there was a tune there with a very suddenly loud note uh do you want the instructions yeah why not let's see if you use the word track a lot I've pressed Y is anything going to happen I'm wondering if it's accessing the disc
• 08:30 - 09:00 it just seems to be stuck here is it going to do anything let's try that again we'll try proper restart
• 09:00 - 09:30 uh I'll see what we'll we'll run it directly no no instructions this time let's just start with the game oh it has to be you have to press shift you have to press shift so um let's just go with it whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa oh I'm well zero no no there are no
• 09:30 - 10:00 second players cuz uh I have no friends um let's see um nice little attempt at a bit of Screen Graphics um certainly above what I've seen in a lot of golf games for this era select club um this is where I should have read the instructions let's just go for five
• 10:00 - 10:30 there's no such thing okay what if I just go for driver I presume it's D driver more ASMR obviously um I know now I know what I'm doing I'm going to Let's reread those instructions it's probably quick way of getting back to the thing but it doesn't do what I expect it
• 10:30 - 11:00 to do half the time there you go uh do you want the instructions yes please this time um there is no driver okay I probably should have gone yeah I should have gone with W1 then okay fair enough please take a note of the clubs now use directions by using compass bearings as shown on the right may use numbers between 1 and
• 11:00 - 11:30 360 there is no zero please take a note of these bearings when both players are on the green you will be using Putters and may choose both direction and distance to putt your handicap affects how well you play each shot and will be deducted from the final score hand cups may be 0 to 28 not if you go off course you may have to tee off again in which case um I've got to be honest here there's this there's be
• 11:30 - 12:00 28 I want as much score taken off as possible it doesn't like it when I do lower K Zs I found so let's let's move on from that um is this the same ter or is it randomized we will find out very shortly like least the same okay that's fair enough well we now know it's going to be the um i1 which we want it to be
• 12:00 - 12:30 90° they did not go anywhere they didn't do anything I all right oh you know what it was I went with an irland didn't I it's all right all right all right 9 I'm on The Fairway please wait please
• 12:30 - 13:00 wait select club [Music] um select Direction but it's going to be 90 [Music] again oh it's playing both of us each time okay [Music]
• 13:00 - 13:30 why does it make that annoying [Music] noise I'm so so Keen to go sort of skip this game move on to the next one but I feel I've at least got to try to get it to the hole at least got to try um I think we're still on
• 13:30 - 14:00 still W1 aren't we so let's go [Music] for oh we have a shot um now I didn't take a note of what the clubs were so let's go with um
• 14:00 - 14:30 wow that was more like 135 um okay and that will be 360 North pretty close that's also going to be ir and that will be 27 no no no no no that be
• 14:30 - 15:00 no want it be 215 I would do North this is uh so that's going to be 200 no actually it won it
• 15:00 - 15:30 be I think we should go 3:30 on the green we're getting there don't worry we're getting there uh 200 like 20 in the trees
• 15:30 - 16:00 oh man um only four that's going to be [Music] 160 is this B sort of antimagnetic and it's just being repelled by the the green still a whole one imagine if the golf games these days had a soundtrack we bits I no I know it would be very very sfic and everybody
• 16:00 - 16:30 would fall asleep immediately let's try on the green magically I it' be great if that went in choose Direction so we need to go it's not 90s it we'll say 95 I don't know how far far is that in feet what possible clue do I have as to
• 16:30 - 17:00 how far that is in feet um going by the size of the hole I suppose but I don't know let's say 5et that was holding any distance at all so okay okay okay okay let's try 50 ft
• 17:00 - 17:30 that was more like it right that's going to be 190 20 ft too much so we're looking at 10 ft now more less uh three um 350 that's going to be what 18215 [Music]
• 17:30 - 18:00 um we're getting there oh dear with all the confidence that British F used to say that we um select distance in feet okay that's going to be
• 18:00 - 18:30 [Music] 215 in the hole 360 per in the hole that was disgraceful we can at least see what the second hole looks like but don't worry we we'll we'll continue on to the next game after I
• 18:30 - 19:00 just want to see what this H looks like it's got a water hazard oh well I think in some I mean for its age I suppose it's all right certainly It's On a par with the magazine listing I mean so far I've got to say these games are pretty pretty good compared to what the uh standard was on the other systems so number four we are on Rush Hour
• 19:00 - 19:30 attack during the rush hour over Space Station Zebra you are armed with a space cannon which can be tilted at any angle and fired to destroy the space pods above you have ammunition okay for three phases ammunition but with only one m and you use b n and space but no suggestion of it being keyboard oh this looks more like the usual
• 19:30 - 20:00 standard I was saying that actually no nice color no sound at all bit flickery but again magazine listing standard so far and in fact this actually plays pretty well this this feels pretty smooth if only it had sound this I think this is actually not a bad little um not a bad little mini
• 20:00 - 20:30 game feels very responsive that's not at all weird phase two multiple levels not bad not bad at all very very nice
• 20:30 - 21:00 okay well we'll go with that one that's that's nice they they've so far though they've put effort into all of these so far so far so that was Rush our attack which was a good one are at number five which is royal rescue let's see what happens this time
• 21:00 - 21:30 rescue the Royal space family every country has a royal space family and then take them home controls left and right Joy C keys or joystick enter thrust press space bar to continue oh yeah we're back into definitely a game written in basic it's all nice nice and relaxed 1980s where nobody had anything to do we could just
• 21:30 - 22:00 sit back and watching go very slowly drawing it screen display oh it's Luna Lander I see really was that it I just fell straight down and I even hit rocks and it was all right [Music]
• 22:00 - 22:30 I think that the space r family could have done this themselves I don't think they needed me to run to to run the ship I know that took no damage at all we were hit Square run by an asteroid I don't know about thrust I'm trying to do thrust but it moving on its own oh we took a little bit of damage there there seems it only matters if you get hit from one
• 22:30 - 23:00 side wow I I think um this is certainly an easy one and also the little family member farts along the bottom of the screen just waiting to be to be picked up yeah that's not bad not bad um no difficulty whatsoever I think you'd actually have to put effort in to lose at this game it's easier just to let the thing
• 23:00 - 23:30 drop in a straight line out of the ship like this okay yeah I mean we are taking a bit of damage but ultimately it doesn't tell us how many people we're supposed to oh little hexagonal explosion but I still got 600 points by basically doing very little I would say that's are we still in
• 23:30 - 24:00 magazine quality yeah I suppose we are but let's move on uh let's see what we've got uh as game number he is updating the number number six and the ah Star Trek now is going to be the classic Trek game we've had one of these on every one of the cassette 50 games in
• 24:00 - 24:30 this implementation of the classic game you are James T Kirk with a mission to destroy the total Klingon Fleet in this galaxy and make it a large profit from the sale of the spice was that was the Star Trek thing spice I think you're confusing June in there somewhere the view shows the control panels on the Enterprise showing fuel phaser spice the price of spice Etc thing is I've played this this is weird
• 24:30 - 25:00 because I've played these Star Trek games before these text based Star Trek games I don't remember they were talking about buying spice I mean we're buying stuff certainly but I I don't know if that's bit of color Cascade added in um so there's 10 Klingons here so should we F hang on on sector sector one on sector to all right we we'll move oh actually
• 25:00 - 25:30 you know we'll buy some spice buy a maximum of 16 how many bags what is the spice price we'll buy 10 right so now let's move to which sector normally you get a sector map you actually get to see what the sectors look like where is it
• 25:30 - 26:00 okay now we're in sector three the price oh the price here is much lower all right we'll buy buy more spice here we'll buy 20 spice and we'll move to sector 7even the price there is higher cuz we bought 60 right let's sell spice and we'll buy we'll sell 10 bags of spot
• 26:00 - 26:30 so we're making money that's not bad um only a little bit of cash but we have made a profit now I say that I thought I had more than 10 bags of spice at one point did I we bought 16 I bought 10 and I bought another did someone Nick some spice at some point and also right okay forget all that let's try taking on some Klingons let's go to number
• 26:30 - 27:00 two this is Klingon sector uh fire we just fired and nothing happened oh c on Shields are now seven they're closing in on us cling on hit let's keep going the range went up slightly I don't know if they're flowing away from us oh
• 27:00 - 27:30 that was another hit I must say this is electric I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am pressing two repeatedly on hit on cing on I'm hit okay my Shields are down
• 27:30 - 28:00 222 have you played this yourself uh Kirby with the snacks cuz I mean this is the thing I'm I'm new to this particular edition of cassette 50 so I don't their Shields are zero so your next hit Must Destroy them I'm hit I'm hit come on two if they destroy me that would be very disappointing
• 28:00 - 28:30 those Shields oh CL on destroyed yipp we need to get more Shields so let's B Factor five move normally as I say normally with these Star Trek games you get a map and it tell it shows you where Klingons are and where planets
• 28:30 - 29:00 are and you will then go from planet to planet and you may be way L on the way this is not the way that I've seen Star Trek normally done it's a very very stripped down version and I presume we can refuel here oh we're not in the Starbase sector our base start is 27 so how many sectors are it never told
• 29:00 - 29:30 us okay well let's then go to sex 27 and ref oh we should have sold our spice there so let's refuel and our cash is now minuscule we can't afford any spice no I tell a
• 29:30 - 30:00 lie we can afford one spice but not at that price not at that PR we can't let's go to clling on sector 11 oh they've got very cheap spice let's buy that 15 now what happened there
• 30:00 - 30:30 by spice I entered 15 cuz it told me that was the maximum and it now is showing me that I've got no spice my cat is untouched is it because it's Kling on is it because it's hostile it it doesn't seem to say that that's a problem did we see something that scrolled past there very quickly I couldn't read let's try let's try fly
• 30:30 - 31:00 packs no I I don't get that crazy two two bags no no oh we can try destroying this click one anyway my base star has changed hasn't
• 31:00 - 31:30 it or is that where the star base of this particular sector is that's weird it was 27 now it's nine I've got their Shields down to two two two two again keep pressing two whoa want
• 31:30 - 32:00 hit I've pressed to so many times I'm not pressing anything cling on destroyed I I did I was sitting there just holding two down and now the keyboard go is full of twos I'm not touching the keyboard at all and it's still just shooting it's Noto far um my Shields are a bit on the low side though but you don't get any any loot
• 32:00 - 32:30 you don't to get any awards for it that's the other thing in All Star Trek you get some rewards for taking on play on and stuff it doesn't seem to be any of that element um it's time to move on it's time to move on restart game which is whirly
• 32:30 - 33:00 G whle wh bird the helicopter piloted by Major Blackthorn is desperately low on fuel he is slowly descending on the city of New York and must oh dear must bomb the sky Scrappers to clear a landing patch to Landing this is classic bomber game classic um City bomber game unfortunately now that's interesting deploy Ms and
• 33:00 - 33:30 brings the helicopter down to land interesting cuz normally you just press space and and nicely colored as well where is he dropping those from from exactly behind where I think he is
• 33:30 - 34:00 yeah no sound on this one very strange they didn't do sound for these uh I'm for guessing this is a machine C it's just a little bit more oh dear we'll another one another quick go on that one because that's you have to
• 34:00 - 34:30 press enter to start way so I presume that you can just get the easiest thing to do is just try and get that that tiny building there if we shaved a little bit off the side of it oh okay I see right so press shift and you drop a little bit of altitude I had quite C on to the fact that you
• 34:30 - 35:00 weren't so you do have to clear all the buildings I thought the whole point of a helicopter was that you could I part of the advantages of it rather was that you could do um Von with it but apparently not apparently you need to um fly in at an angle with your helicopter Al I assume there for that a proper helicopter pilot will be watching and immediately telling me that that's no no no no you don't space to land
• 35:00 - 35:30 helicopter and when I've seen them land in the car park that's absolutely uh there's nothing there that's rubbish uh okay so I'm rubbish at that game it's a classic game not much to it what can you do run menu this is now game eight I should have done these by letter I suppose but then disc 2 of course is going to have its own Sy letters right so the next one is called attacker
• 35:30 - 36:00 H you're an assassin guiding a poison dart by remote control through a defense system to the man in the bottom right hand corner of the screen who is your target avoid the walls and the guardians or your mission will fail watch your time um let's say never one so I'm going to be rubbish at this this looks more like your um cassette 50 games that I'm used to although those would usually just be
• 36:00 - 36:30 as whoa did we have a little bit of music start there how quick I DED as well that was pretty fast wasn't [Music] it well that was level two so okay so the level affects what you can see right they didn't tell you that did they oh maybe they now I get the
• 36:30 - 37:00 what run now if I run that yeah now it redraws the screen right okay that is a genuine bug if you die it doesn't redraw the screen it thinks it's still there I bet they ped this from I I see what happened now I've to okay QA op right no because I've got to re we look at this the first time we can
• 37:00 - 37:30 see the quality of this game and the screen is all data statements now you haven't seen me do these before but if there's if they're in basic I usually like to have a quick look because it gives you an idea of sometimes you'll see like a little message that we had with I think it was the Spectrum ones at the start where it said a completely different company name but the start and you thought ah there's a story there about where they got these
• 37:30 - 38:00 games from and sometimes you get a little bit of a clue there's no real clue here it doesn't seem to be anything particularly unusual in this this one on the BBC ones I I also changed them a bit make them a bit more fun but um we won't do that here um Lely because my know an Str basic isn't that that hot I did years ago right again on ARR for a friend but I basic whoa whoa wo
• 38:00 - 38:30 yes another go he's so weird that it doesn't rraw the screen though I want to hear what this little tune sounds like um
• 38:30 - 39:00 that's where it sets up the symbols the tune is the bit right the end
• 39:00 - 39:30 25 82
• 39:30 - 40:00 on [Music] for will it let me do this depends on the
• 40:00 - 40:30 basic okay that was a little blurst of the tune um let's make it a bit longer um [Music]
• 40:30 - 41:00 that's a classical piece of music is it um I can't place what it is I can't place what it is but anyway we heard what the tune was let's carry on uh restart so we'll go to number nine and that's going to be
• 41:00 - 41:30 run and we got past attacker this is now fighter command game I space for instructions you SC for ship so there's joystick control for this one copy key
• 41:30 - 42:00 for a head or joystick and fire I think we'll just use joystick and fire to be simpler initiate attack fire missile or laser detonate missile return to scanner okay afds ni don't if this will even make sense
• 42:00 - 42:30 I'm trying to do things and nothing seem to be happening except that I did get a condition red for a second oh I'm I'm I'm I'm able to steer but it's very very slow whoa any
• 42:30 - 43:00 missile did that did it work did did I do it I think I did it I think I destroyed one of the enemy missiles okay Kirby than thanks uh thanks for the luck the the music for this game was
• 43:00 - 43:30 written by birds yeah so for it's not like the usual stuff is it this is uh Al together more different not like when I'm doing music and and uh this is this is weird wow that was annoying you have been hit by an enemy missile and are severely damaged you've been until 50 to print the emergency code
• 43:30 - 44:00 you fail to escape in time and therefore you are eliminated do you want another mission no have a quick look at it actually prob um right uh let's move on to game
• 44:00 - 44:30 10 uh one menu and we are on uh drafts now okay I can play drafts but the computer can't a proper argument in
• 44:30 - 45:00 2850 um let's try doing a proper restart on that just to see if it's um that was it I've pressed K there like this is the Spectrum come on too many retr computers in my head right drafts Jay I couldn't remember which letter it was that we were doing okay it was PR the previous G had messed something up okay do you want the
• 45:00 - 45:30 instructions yeah why not only legal moves will be accepted moves are input as coordinates in quotes because that's not a real word that is from G6 to H5 so stop playing anytime press s when ask for your next move please note you must capture if able um isn't there a standard rules for drafts I thought it was uh right let's go for easy what col do I want to play um
• 45:30 - 46:00 black okay so I'm going to move from let's say [Music] B3 it now did it accept that oh no I'm black and I though don't even remember what I into myself six A6
• 46:00 - 46:30 [Music] to not like there was much choice I thinking stroking the beard there what what what of those two possibilities am I going to choose from the one where I lose immediately or the one where I lose a bit later uh um let's move um
• 46:30 - 47:00 B7 to A6 another great [Music] tune it's trying to provoke me isn't it trying to provoke me May trying to make me lose my temper e62 f I apologize to anybody's actually good
• 47:00 - 47:30 at troughs I haven't played this since I was kid I think no I must have play I must have played it when I was playing zillions of games sure and that was a thing by the way it was not just me saying I played zillions of games there was a board game package called zilli of games uh that was out good few years ago now and it had an AI engine where you specify the rules of any game any any board game and it would produce a computer player for it it was really good I'm amazed that
• 47:30 - 48:00 nobody's done anything like that since I there's tabletop simulator but that won't produce an AI simulator an AI gler for you now I'm not saying Z games was brilliant but it well I am saying it was brilliant I'm not saying that it played at the top level but it but certainly it was it was good for developing games it was good for trying things out and uh it gave you a reasonably good good opponent at most games as well um
• 48:00 - 48:30 F5 no no no not F5 I can't use back I can4 oh bum am I stuck with doing F5 now maybe if I do F5 to F5 right um let's do G 62
• 48:30 - 49:00 [Music] H he's going to try get there is so F7 to [Music] [Music] G6 of course I'm assuming that the computer is male but then amst stradal stands for Alan M sugar trading so its first name is always
• 49:00 - 49:30 Allan so let's go with that I'm curious how far I can put this how far I can keep going with this until I lose um I used to play my grandparents with this or rather I correct myself I played my grandmother at this my grandfather wasn't really one the ball games [Music]
• 49:30 - 50:00 so let's say e 7 there's no such thing E8 to [Music] D7 let's go g eight to
• 50:00 - 50:30 F7 yeah yeah you yeah you you think you you better on me and I tell you for what now I'm also going to have we'll see we can provoke some action let's go E7 to D so E6 to D5 so it's got to to take
• 50:30 - 51:00 right I screwed that up because I didn't real I forgot that I didn't look at that the next move ahead that was really stupid of me but at least we're seeing how things work I'm deliberately just seeing how the computer behaves with with these stupid moves that I'm playing that aren't very good A8 a B7 [Music]
• 51:00 - 51:30 let's have D7 to E6 [Music]
• 51:30 - 52:00 yeah you do that for okay um me being bad loser it's time for another game from anything else this is going to go on and on and on um so restart but as a version of draft that seems fair seems a good version and so far you know we I've got to say we
• 52:00 - 52:30 haven't had any of the real Clunkers that we had for from all of the other versions The CPC version seems to be generally pretty good um certainly for you know 50 games on one tape this one's called please wait I didn't actually pay attention to what the name was I know it was K what was the game name evasive action proper high schore
• 52:30 - 53:00 table guard your snake through seven screams eat the tea in the body eat the flour but miss the whatever that is move around the maze eating all the flour move along the twisty path to the tea eat the flower but miss the falling whatever it is up its Boulders eat the numbers in ascending order take more than 500 moves then eat the tea you can eat the square segments I follow any of that but I'm presuming we're talking about something like a Mr do type game if not
• 53:00 - 53:30 snake or possibly hybrid of the two the high scores let's have a look at the game start at screen one um medium speed right so snake a little bit of stereo
• 53:30 - 54:00 [Music] there that's interesting little development that you can actually it does Place those things in the body of the snake so that it doesn't immediately kill you although I'm still useless at to go through
• 54:00 - 54:30 I've played a lot of versions of snake over the years um they very good version on the Omega and and of course yeah people have play you know light so of Tron is the same I've never seen I don't ever remember seeing that before where there was something in the middle of the snake's body that you could actually travel through [Music]
• 54:30 - 55:00 [Music] oh so T gets you up to the next level right with you oh I see these are all different level they were different levels I thought those instructions seemed weird
• 55:00 - 55:30 [Music] you know that's a very good version of snake bit more practice and there you go I'm moving on the high score table 1,168 points not brilliant but I would say that's not a bad game evasive AC why not just call it snake and have done with
• 55:30 - 56:00 it and it's evasive action from what yourself anyway we'll move on Game 12 um actually no we'll do a proper restart very WR what I had up last time he and it's nson crosses the demanding game of
• 56:00 - 56:30 Genius when asked enter row column both must be between one and three easy go on how do you even do easy and hard levels of this I mean yes of course i' like first go I want to go in the middle row column two two two
• 56:30 - 57:00 two one okay two three which 3 two oh actually no no CU we can still
• 57:00 - 57:30 still um try do that 1 three 1 3 two stalemate so I mean what that was on easy level what's the difference and if I if I put on hard level
• 57:30 - 58:00 why if I beat it on if it beats if I beat it on hard then I've got this all
• 58:00 - 58:30 um so [Music] three in which case we then go for two three
• 58:30 - 59:00 only three3 state what's the point of the difficulty levels in that game what was the point of the difficulty levels in that game I ask you right we're going to move on to game number 13 which is now on in the second column this is the King's
• 59:00 - 59:30 orb the king's orb loading the king's orb you are a walk with two exes you have materialized into a building you decide to explore there are several rooms and you must discover how to get to The Next Rad sorry mouthful of drink there the first two rooms are complex but once you get
• 59:30 - 60:00 past these you can discover the weird defenses of the W Lords and find the W Princess and the King's or it's not the W King though is it doesn't explain what a wa is other than I am one okay so left right up down and then scroll left
• 60:00 - 60:30 right oh we got some nice uh low R but color oh they obviously originally called this walko it says at the top walk so still no exploration of what that
• 60:30 - 61:00 means oh very neat little animation there into depl now what I'm not sure about is what I mean it's supposed to just look for all of these it's a little bit spongy on the controls
• 61:00 - 61:30 I thinking at first oh I need to be careful I need to move on to the the s's but apparently not I can move on to everything thing so do I just have to avoid the green guy is that it do I have
• 61:30 - 62:00 to just clear all these out suppose if I pay more attention to the instructions that I actually read out get I get power for doing that do I
• 62:00 - 62:30 okay so it's not that that I need to do anything I'm now even more confused than I was to start with apparently eating this stuff which is like a you know a slugs Trail
• 62:30 - 63:00 what was the point of that now This Time It's Different oh I can't walk over my my own trail now I'm leave my own slug Trail plus there was a cute bunny instead of a skull um curious I don't know what was going on there but um the the world of walks certainly does have weird defenses I can't F them on that description M 14 coming up this is going
• 63:00 - 63:30 to be high low another classic that is always in these cassette 50 Collections and of course it's the card game with very presentable graphics for the time very presentable um now I was thinking go high there cuz it's a three so I hit the L for low let's try again very respons Ive aces are low right okay so we go for
• 63:30 - 64:00 low high hi hi oh so nearly got it I thought I thought the the RNG goes on my side hi oh oh no I don't I I should have gone high with seven shouldn't I low um low um low high congratulations I
• 64:00 - 64:30 won what did I win this screen but I will say you know very very minimalistic but it does the job I would say in terms of I mean this is another one where it's a very simple game very simple but it's implemented very
• 64:30 - 65:00 cleanly it does exactly what it should do it's totally clear the only criticism the only criticism I would make is if I'm being really picky it's that apostrophy you don't need that but other than that this game does what it sets out to do absolutely fine well done casade on that one we moving on to the next one which is game
• 65:00 - 65:30 15 which involves me making a mess of the screen size um P low now it's exchange game o exchange you are a very well-known scientist who has just made a microfilm for a highly developed radar system while on holiday some thieves stole this information anded it is your task to get it back and put it in a safe place in
• 65:30 - 66:00 your house you must work at night so you must find a lamp to go your way uh information Works work at night so you find a lamp to guide your way what is all this about the microphone that sounds like there's absolutely nothing to do with it it's to do with finding a lamp is it oh it's a text Adventure now I think we did have one didn't we in a previous version of
• 66:00 - 66:30 this an indistinct dark object um get object I don't know what you mean get the indistinct the object oh the the number one annoyance of passes the they would they don't understand words that the game actually uses in its own
• 66:30 - 67:00 description let's have a look North I'm in the garden shed oh it's not even a proper text Adventure is it it's just you've got to feel around until you find the right thing get lamp okay I got the lamp it was in the shed [Laughter] talk about shortcut um turn on lamp light
• 67:00 - 67:30 lamp Okay how hard was that I seem to be able to know where I am what direction I'm going in in the dark without a compass get whistle it what's going on there I think that's is this is something to do with
• 67:30 - 68:00 um that's um oh I probably have to go through the settings I think it's getting confused with some of these Keys the wood or to the east open
• 68:00 - 68:30 door again I mean you wouldn't get that these days but it's a bit clumsy isn't it you're on a path in a busy street a busy street there is a market today you can see nothing at all what sort of busy street with the market in it is it where you can see nothing at all
• 68:30 - 69:00 I know of course I know it means objects and I know that my own caves Adventure game does a similar thing but nonetheless it's um it's a surprising amount of time I think for interactive fiction got out of that habit of saying things like that you don't look behind and a large Lori bows you over killing you you are dead because a lorri killed you on the busy road you score 10 out of 100 well I certainly found the lamp without any
• 69:00 - 69:30 trouble I'm tempted I I would be very tempted to actually try if I got the settings right so that the W key wasn't screwing around I would um I'd be tempted go solving this but um I'm suppose you just list and it gives it away
• 69:30 - 70:00 this it's very it's kind of a hard W it's not one where there's a big database of of object locations and rooms and stuff I think it's just because even back in the 80s you'd usually write an adventure with creating an AR of rooms of
• 70:00 - 70:30 uh objects different again you seem to have some but you certainly be tracking what um a will wear and it would be a bit more abstract than this suppos those those reasons that you died police don't control traffic these days little bit of politics there Road
• 70:30 - 71:00 cleaner should work at the side someone's got an issue about Road cleaners you hadn't got your lollipop stick that's the reason that you died you had got your lollipop stick um anyway that was um whatever that was that was game 15 just take our chances and run the
• 71:00 - 71:30 menu um that was called exchange that game weird there was no to a micr film or anything like that was it um so we moved to hangman I go for two players player one enter a word 1 to 32 characters you must use capitals only um
• 71:30 - 72:00 let's say it's going to be oh I can't think of a of a word um hey here's the name of a great album someone like you play two end a letter and oh uh well I've given the clue that it's got an e in it and an IT and and ends one
• 72:00 - 72:30 end and I okay Y and a u I'm rewarded with a digital fart isn't that amazing right so let's go back to uh so yeah we want to see though what the what the man looks like don't we so let's go
• 72:30 - 73:00 from right so now I can't remember what it was at all so we could only I know I had a D in it it said I use capital letters but it seemed quite happy for me to use lowercase there didn't it and T seem wet DN written in the
• 73:00 - 73:30 corner oh right okay so we start I'm when do we start adding bits to the the hanged man now apparently we've got a little bit of rope M and a little head h [Music] body [Music]
• 73:30 - 74:00 um is is that not it it's someone can carry on entering letters he's completely hanged Charming but I still get a digital fart I'm told I'm useless you know it would be nice if it had at least some little games in some some little games some little words that are built into it so you you didn't have to have
• 74:00 - 74:30 somebody enter the thing at the beginning even it was only a choice of like five just to get the game started so someone could try it you don't need a dictionary of thousands okay moving on to game 17 we uh uh it's pontoon isn't it the next one yeah that's it okay
• 74:30 - 75:00 right P bet cascad can you break the bank of £100,000 H it was high was low you know it's not a million miles away from high low is it it's not quite the same but so um let's bet 50 let's be higher or lower um 50 lower you loose you
• 75:00 - 75:30 loose no I'm tight you bet 50 [Music] again well that's a bit of a a simple game um
• 75:30 - 76:00 number eight so we mov on to number 18 didn't mean to do that restart so ponon was a bit underwhelming um now we're sorted out this keyboard thing I
• 76:00 - 76:30 suppose we could try um exchange again but I don't want to get out Ste so let's do fireman rescue game on you control two firemen in quotes they're not real firemen there you'll be call them firemen who carry a stretcher between them with a nice little diagram use Cur keys or joystick to move left or right press space to continue right there are three skill
• 76:30 - 77:00 [Music] levels people don't fall like that this is also a very questionable taste I don't think I could even achieve that but I don't think it was even possible to get [Music]
• 77:00 - 77:30 [Music] F Well it's all right it's a game I mean given I'm being a bit spoiled to be honest cuz if this had been in one of the normal cassette 50 games um from one of the other platforms I would have been singing its
• 77:30 - 78:00 [Music] Praises might as well just let this go cuz I think it's it looks like it's I didn't move at all when I it to uh 10 10 men on each floor and we nearly at the [Music] bottom oh maybe not well I think we've seen it anyway um
• 78:00 - 78:30 let's move on restart and just moving my counter up to 19 um s 3D maze well this is I suspect going to be one of those old this program designs 3D mazes for you to explore the point I was going to make is
• 78:30 - 79:00 that it was a kind of a bit of a a cliched game that magazines used to like to publish because it's quite easy to draw 3D mazes from an orthogonal point of view that is if you just looking up down left or right and it looks very impressive and so there were lots and lots of games like this you're at Point X1 y1 the top left of the maze you are to find the way to the
• 79:00 - 79:30 exit but remember there is only one solution you can divide a maze up to 816 or any other factors of 1,325 that's a really weird spec you can use any factors of 136 1,325 that you choose but no other numbers those don't those aren't allowed the arrow shows your direction relative to 1
• 79:30 - 80:00 one okay the joystick stroke cursor Keys sorry use I am being thrown a bit here by the rather vibrant color combination use joystick stroke cursor keys to rotate left and right up to move forwards in the direction you're facing um press V to view amazing 2D IE to
• 80:00 - 80:30 cheat press R to return having finished pressing s during action replay will speed it up then press space to run width remember we're only allowed factors of 1,325 was it we go with a very simple game five by five go wait for the
• 80:30 - 81:00 countdown now they've done this in a slightly different way than usual um exit at 52 so we can cheat and have a look at the ma in two Dimensions so we need to turn can't get out of this
• 81:00 - 81:30 now V again no what the hell that was what oh all right I Dre to think one all the other keys that I pressed did so exit at 52 right so let's go signways
• 81:30 - 82:00 [Music] I don't like the fact that it doesn't oh that that's exit pit
• 82:00 - 82:30 space I like the little replay I like the replay well very simple um it's not as good as like the Aon soft 3D maze game where you actually had objects to find and there were other things things in the Maze with you but at the same time not bad and I do like the little replay
• 82:30 - 83:00 feature that's neat but uh we will move on from from The Maze Game and we'll look at whatever comes next it will be Colony 9 uh we Haven haven't played Colony one to8 col 9 move springy around Colony 9 collect all apples use oh don't bother
• 83:00 - 83:30 waiting to for me to read the instructions it looks like Crystal CMS controls are very
• 83:30 - 84:00 spongy whoa it's a bit like Crystal Castles crossed with cubert oh come on it's fiddly beyond belief um yeah we we'll move on from this one
• 84:00 - 84:30 it's given it's written basic it's just not fast enough to do this Justice to this type of game but we'll um we'll we'll we'll look we'll look past it um it had a lot of promise for that kind of game has been done so much better by so many other people um sudden moving up Market with back Gam oh that same little thing that we heard
• 84:30 - 85:00 earlier do I want instructions oh remember it's got to be capital letters these instructions are not to teach you the game because everybody knows how to play B gam obviously but to show you how to move as it happens I have played back gam I was gifted a set by uh uncle and aunt and of course I didn't learn to use it um I have played it against computer though on occasion um remember I said that amstrad was male uh look at the that when I was for players type one for amstrad to play
• 85:00 - 85:30 himself see see his name's Alan I told you type two for amstrad to play you type three to play another person to move the amount shown on the dice dice equals two the move will be as 1 three for the white move three to one for the black [Music] um I think given it's got a selfplay mode if you find it difficult to understand
• 85:30 - 86:00 these instructions type one for AMR to play himself just you know at that point just give up give up the computer the computer's better off without you at that point but I am going to let the AMR play itself because uh it's probably going to do a better job than me next move is 13
• 86:00 - 86:30 to8 this is like watch your movie isn't it
• 86:30 - 87:00 okay don't worry we we'll move on I just wanted to see what it looked like but um as soon as you say back gam it wasn't going to be one that was going to go to lot of depth I can't tell you how well it plays I would imagine that it's going to play a fairly basic level what it could be probably me um so we are in Game 22 solit or Sol lit this game is Sol lit as they used to say
• 87:00 - 87:30 um it's going to be Solitaire of some sort isn't it the rules for playing solit are the same as those for that old puzzle solitaire but we have removed the air make one ball jump over another to take it away if you end up with just one ball in Center hole then you've cracked the puzzle solid however will remember your moves and may correct any Mistake by replaying your moves in reverse back to any stage and forward again if required if you make any mistakes it will taunt you with your poor moves at
• 87:30 - 88:00 Night by Whispering them in youra using numeric keypad type in a Ball's coordinates and enter each one then choose the direction it must travel in by pressing one of the arrow keys and enter it [Music] um from 24 oh numeric keypad two four two
• 88:00 - 88:30 four two four oh well I'm going to say it's a slightly weird way of entering the the the moves but at the same time it's a it's a kind of what's that um something just dropped onto my keyboard three four
• 88:30 - 89:00 oh what am I doing 32 is what I meant to do now yes I'm not going to do the whole thing but I just wanted to see how it looked but it's um yeah not a badl looking solitary game so we shall restart and move ahead I know I'm giving some of these short shrift but be we're not even halfway yet so i' I've done this before you can't
• 89:00 - 89:30 get caught up in these games move on to the ones that might beesting yamy getting [Music] Yi the rules are section two possible scores what I think they're talking about like the layout on the yachy [ __ ] of paper aren't
• 89:30 - 90:00 they if you find the instructions difficult to understand please sit back and watch amstrad play himself by taking amstrad when ask for a players name number of players one I think we'll watch amrad play his game of course with it being Alan sugar it should put you watch a play it
• 90:00 - 90:30 [Music] [Music] me oh this is exciting I mean if you haven't played YY the point is that you've got to basically each time the dice roll you have to choose a property
• 90:30 - 91:00 that you're going to score on but once you've scored on that property you can't score that on that again and once you've scored all of them then uh your total score is the score for that round and you just have to get the highest score you can there are rather similar games around these days um it's been much imitated I don't think it was that original to start with to be Hest Let's uh let's move on to game 24
• 91:00 - 91:30 so we had yam Z this is the last one on dis side one and this one is crabs hopefully this is the dice game and not a toilet game this is the American game of dice with the idea being to to throw two dice to make seven or 11 if you score a two three or 12 you you lose if you throw 1 4 5 6 or eight then you keep throwing until the original or seven appears if the seven is first then you
• 91:30 - 92:00 lose what's your starting capital a million there is a limit of £1,000 on bets please enter name oh it's doing that again oh it's cuz I need to press scroll lock in it in it how much would to bet ,000 first row uh first throw oh sorry
• 92:00 - 92:30 it's dollars isn't it of course yes cuz it's American you because it's an American game you can only use dollars that's the law you just make a six before a seven um dra for six4 S I just going to do this forever now isn't it I hope it gets a six or a seven no we got a seven first you lose uh
• 92:30 - 93:00 ,000 of your Earth pounds that's an eight let make eight before seven go for it four no no
• 93:00 - 93:30 no definitely not no seven you [Music] lose nothing actually can I put negative numbers oh it must bit more than that some games will let you put in a negative number to bet
• 93:30 - 94:00 and I don't want to think about what that even means but it it it's a good way of making money um how about if I put in need B 100th of a cent seven I win yeah of course I win when I put in aund of a cent I win of course I do anyway that was disc
• 94:00 - 94:30 one we're now going to move on to dis two and I've got to actually update the thingy because we should now on game 25 now hang on I'm just adding into my head we went on to X didn't
• 94:30 - 95:00 we that was going 24 that's right yeah because yes so X is 24th yeah okay I just thought for a minute did I actually get out of step with myself no I didn't right uh three card brag is next I've got three cards that's my three card grade uh this I don't think I know how
• 95:00 - 95:30 to play amrad and yourself are given three cards each you're not allowed to bet lower than your previous bet nor twice more than your last bet you made if your bet equals the last bet made then amstrad shows his cards see he is a guy the best hand wins you and amstrad each have $5,000 dollar if you want to Stack your cards then you have to enter zero as your bet press space to continue these are the hands in high
• 95:30 - 96:00 highest order okay The Establishment limits to $1,000 bet plus s to stop when asked for bet please type your name do you want automatic dealing here go on
• 96:00 - 96:30 that's not bad not a bad little sound for for card mulation I suppose what is your bet um as ever th000 amre sees you amre wins I put a th000 on last time it's now putting 23 it's not very interesting is
• 96:30 - 97:00 it um mind you with the crappy cards I've got there I'm not really sure um I'm going to put in 24 oh AMR bet is 31 I'm going to say 32 and I still got
• 97:00 - 97:30 beat um one three four this could go for some time eight oh hello I'm going to bet close square bracket no cuz I hit the wrong WR either
• 97:30 - 98:00 18 no you beat me again well three card brag as a game seems a bit boring but it's um I suppose it does what it sets out to do and does it fairly clearly um yeah let's move
• 98:00 - 98:30 on B Trucking Trucking and the uh the motto of the game is copyright Cascade 1985 features four types of goods sabotages Filthy Rich oil Merchants five locations hijacks and agricultural speculators self said difficulty level and a rival company that almost sounds sarcastic I don't
• 98:30 - 99:00 know oh it's business management right when all your business in one place is done you must move first input M for a boo and then the first letter of destination during our journey you will often get a journey report either against or in your favor before arriving or destination to make any profit whatsoever you must first buy the goods at a reasonably cheap price first enter B for buying then the first letter of the goods name I.E PF
• 99:00 - 99:30 mvt what are those going to be uh peanuts PR mice violets and televisions next to the screen will display the total amount of goods you can purchase and at what price blah blah blah right let's I want it goes on the order of the game is to make x
• 99:30 - 100:00 million doll after playing the game a number of times the player will begin to recognize the journey report as soon as they appear on the screen uh every 12 move [Music]
• 100:00 - 100:30 oh [Applause] [Music] prop a little theme tune I think it's the first time we've actually had one I mean we had that little short tune
• 100:30 - 101:00 earlier that I played through basic but proper multi-art harmonies there nice nice please enter your name now enter a friend's name it did it just skip past where I enter your Skool level z i my name oh is that how it works out y how it works out that your target million dollars it's the skill level oh it's Provisions Furniture
• 101:00 - 101:30 machinery and valuables what did I say peanuts what was F fries I need said ferrets cuz that would have been stupid um machinary uh instead of what did I say I know it was violets for V uh mice mice and um there's uh there's no televisions might might actually be
• 101:30 - 102:00 televisions um I've got $87 not much for truing company days is it let's buy um capital letters let's buy some oh trucks is to so I can load up my trucks with trucks okay well go with Machinery they spelled it correctly in the second time um I have
• 102:00 - 102:30 cash 14 hope this works better than in starre right so I have that I am now going to move to I'm in Kentucky let's go to Texas they they're big on furniture they're big on everything there oh look at little CPC on the truck that's nice due to bad navigation the Convoy became hopelessly lost and $50 worth of fuel
• 102:30 - 103:00 was used disgraceful I do like the picture it's a truck with a little question mark um what am I supposed to do about that I've got minus 23 but I can sell I mean look at the local prices F I was right I was right about the furniture I'm going to make a
• 103:00 - 103:30 packet I POS is 10 units well that works well I've I've made a already made a massive uh profit so we we'll we'll start with Provisions we'll buy Provisions uh p we won't buy loads we'll buy 50 I have one truck with 50
• 103:30 - 104:00 units so we'll now move that to we have no clue as to where these things are going to be do we where they're going to be worth a lot of money let's go to New York jior report good I like it Provisions are cheaper in New York wouldn't that be just the case um tempates to say you know I could buy
• 104:00 - 104:30 more cuz I'm I'm using fuel AR I all the time so let's I presume that works we want to find one of these places where I can sell Provisions right Arizona the um Convoy has been caught a long delay and any food is deteriorated D so I've got nothing
• 104:30 - 105:00 now why don't we just load up with oh no no no I didn't mean to do that oh uh is there a continue in this version of basic thankfully there is um well we're in Arizona Let's stay in Arizona navigation going from Arizona to Arizona the corvo became hopelessly lost
• 105:00 - 105:30 50 $50 worth of fuel 50% of the fuel was used um Furniture's going up provision is very cheap um let's buy Provisions I have enough cash for 404 let's buy 200 oh well 50
• 105:30 - 106:00 then and we'll move to Texas things are always expensive in Texas actually Provisions are cheaper in Texas I tell you what though no actually no everything's expensive there except for Provisions the one thing that I've already got enough of um let's move to
• 106:00 - 106:30 Florida any good Provisions are even cheaper in Florida they do have cheap furniture though we'll buy some furniture can we do that okay so I can fit 100 units in a truck that makes some sense so let's go back
• 106:30 - 107:00 to Texas $50 worth of fuel was used I have to wonder actually I bet it costs more than $50 worth of fuel to get from um where were we Florida Texas uh we can now oh we can sell
• 107:00 - 107:30 provisions and we can sell the furniture the furniture yeah we can it's not as big a price increase as we had before but it's still still is a price of increase for all that and we're we're we're getting better all the time this this game I think I could do all right at I like this little game um it's similar to the old business fam thing that aoft did um the tont game and um I could quite comfortably be
• 107:30 - 108:00 sitting here doing this all the way up to a million but I we've got other games to see so let's move on the only thing is those little spelling mistakes but other than that nicely done little little mini management game with a little bit of graphical stuff as well for those uh hazards along the way so so now we're on game 27 uh rally
• 108:00 - 108:30 3000 drive your racing car around the maze to get to the door the door uh if you can then you go faster Keys use the cursor Keys only no joysticks I guess
• 108:30 - 109:00 very simple little game again definitely in magazine listing territory on this one oh another they go I don't think so um let's move on that that one is basically we're getting back to the old standard of uh cassette 50 games let's
• 109:00 - 109:30 um I don't know just have a quick List look at the the listing I keep I mean I'm kind of hoping as well we see one of those REM statements that just tells us that it came from somewhere else but um or you could make a new um you can make a new map very simple little game though anyway off we go to the
• 109:30 - 110:00 menu and we are at sitting Target you must do something about that leaky roof assigned with the bucket you must catch the drop clicks as they fall controls Z left M right this is classic cassette 50 material
• 110:00 - 110:30 here therey we got one some of these is is it's you can you can't go far you can't go fast enough to catch them I will say I mean they've they've used the graphics and color to a better level than I've seen you used on the other platforms even for these basic um in this case I'm using basic to mean simplistic
• 110:30 - 111:00 games um the the other platforms tended to just rely on asot and be done with it no color or anything or if they did use color it was the whole screen but um yeah on we go well what's going on um we are on to game 29 this one is Nemesis
• 111:00 - 111:30 4 possibly Nemesis if oh okay this is a theow Stoke reversing how on Earth did they get up to four other three games like if this is already ripping off an existing board game um play computer they done a nice little job with the look of
• 111:30 - 112:00 it let's sign little click in the background just for the the timer it's a little bit hard to control I must admit and what am I
• 112:00 - 112:30 um I want to go any valid squ you don't go there cuz that but what am I supposed to do I don't know what key to use to actually oh there we go
• 112:30 - 113:00 x x is the magic [Music] key is this oh I wonder if it's because of game Focus yes it is now I'm confused cuz now I've got no idea at all what I'm supposed to be doing at least with this one but no idea what tool I'm supposed to do
• 113:00 - 113:30 I me which key to press but um I've played a lot of uh this particular game in the past and um the art of it well the mobility strategy is the classic strategy to play and I haven't really been concentrating here so far um but ultimately you want to trick the um your opponent into a very basic level you're trying to get them to actually get as much of the board as possible and then the last few moves you conquer it all back in a very quick go and it's a devastating strategy
• 113:30 - 114:00 anyway let's move on um it's totally counterintuitive as well a lot of people try to play the game greedily and um by which they try to get as much of the board early on as possible and if they do that you'll win against a lot of players but people that kind of know what they're doing they will lose spectacularly and they'll end up with like two pieces on the board at the end they won't
• 114:00 - 114:30 understand why um spaceship game 30 steal your way through the caves trying to avoid the stationary rockets and asteroids a tough fast game um let's go for a middle setting q& a space a carryon I'm already
• 114:30 - 115:00 dead one of the problems with some games of this this this ilk is that they don't give you any lead in you just immediately start and uh there's no time for you to get your bearings and sort of say oh what where am I what am I doing so sector one
• 115:00 - 115:30 past yay well it's all right it's um Cascade standard no I'm going to say slightly above the Cascade standard we've been led to uh to expect from the previous compilations because it's got some decent Graphics very simple but I mean we're talking relative to cascade's usual
• 115:30 - 116:00 performance um and it was quite sorry thing is getting caught on my chck um it was very fluid to play not perfect um but um you know could have been worse it's certainly been worse let's move on to the next
• 116:00 - 116:30 game right um we've done spaceship now Jet flight g a flight simulator uh I was just thinking is that going to really be an adequate description of this game flight simulator really how much simulation is there in this so Z is slow
• 116:30 - 117:00 down spaces increase enter is your undercarriage you are hopelessly lost in this compilation of games uh your only hope to survive is to find the few strandage refueling points you'll be given orders on the screen when the runway is in view but apart from that you have no idea where you are stalling speed is 40 knots press space bar to fly oh
• 117:00 - 117:30 hello that's weird the ultimator is appear showing my my angle not of reduce speed
• 117:30 - 118:00 I think they mean attitude not altitude I can lose altitude I can go straight down yeah this um wasn't good was time that if there was something to aim for like a Runway or something I might have G through I I have no idea where what it
• 118:00 - 118:30 was uh expecting me to do so this next one is drona Maids Dragon a maze or Dragon a maze the aim thank you is to steal the amulet hidden in the Maze you must kill the dragon to escape you start with limited abilities which improve with it experience in the Maze are dangers go away Mouse pointer uh and adversaries your weapons improve as your skills and abilities improve you increase your
• 118:30 - 119:00 score in quotes finding and collecting items hidden in the Maze this sounds like another adventure game but it isn't it's a halfast RPG I'm sorry to ever wrote this but you know seriously this is a halfast RPG um controls are a s attack spell run away okay enter your
• 119:00 - 119:30 name please wait while the maze is planned oh another 3D maze um well let's go [Music]
• 119:30 - 120:00 forward I started by saying this was going to be a half fast RPG and it certainly seems to be every time I turn or move it looks like my view is exactly the same but it's uh oh hello get the gold yes yes get gold so far we found gold and I've I don't know where I am in the Maze it says that
• 120:00 - 120:30 there's a to kill the dragon and find the way out but I'm what happens if I spell I don't know what either of those do the trou is it hasn't given me enough information to choose what I want so I don't know what happened
• 120:30 - 121:00 there I think we're going to move on because this one uh is getting very repetitive so we will go back and into the menu and we're going to move up to game number 33 in the counter that was Dragona maze we're now on Intruder you are the Harry the the Harry the caveman you are Harry the cave man
• 121:00 - 121:30 and your territory has been intruded upon by a giant man eating pterodactyl your only protection from this creature are your Spears but you must hit the body dead center or it will get you control Zed left M right space fire so no joystick on this one so you spent your time filling out an the application form was it one of those forms that I I guess it was one of those forms that went on forever so let's see what this one does
• 121:30 - 122:00 very flickery Graphics oh yeah definitely sort of uh you know this is basically what you'd expect from one of the other Cascade compilations except that they would just use asot as I say they they get a little bit of credit for for using minimal udgs but um oh we actually got
• 122:00 - 122:30 it now I didn't hit him dead center did I some I definitely didn't I go back into my house no I keep hoping there'll be one of those little r stat at the top that was
• 122:30 - 123:00 Intruder now think it's another odd title given this a pterodactyle right Inferno is this going to be that one with the buckets that was Frizzle the venusian robot before it absorbs all of your powers control curser keys for copy key they were up all night writing that story so what's this
• 123:00 - 123:30 [Music] one where's that copy key well it looks like I farted to death sorry about that violent flashing of the screen by the well you never know what these games are going to do it's doing a little bit of scroll
• 123:30 - 124:00 animation there just to uh I scored minus [Laughter] one we give this another go through because I I'm pretty sure I got the uh yeah that's the fire button oh okay I lose power right I'm with you I lose power every time I fire I
• 124:00 - 124:30 see scored minus one again let's try one more time in terms of raw gameplay this one is very disappointing and um yes definitely definitely cas level well at least I got it this time I got it once and then immediately
• 124:30 - 125:00 crashed okay well I scored 15 so that's it's not negative still let's move on let's move on uh so we turn that off and we turn that on and we go to menu and this is going to be game 35 and I should have said have a hot key
• 125:00 - 125:30 to do that uh so that was Inferno and I'm just thinking why do they call it Inferno that had nothing to do with fire did it yeah the game definitely was negative the thing is with these cassette 50 compilations they one of the earliest examples of shovel Weare it was a that produced cassette tapes this case it's a disc but they produced cassette tapes containing 50 games that were available at a budget price and the
• 125:30 - 126:00 games were almost universally terrible and I've played through all 50 games on a number of different uh versions of this for different computers um this the quality of this one is so far A little bit better than most of them they they're prettier if nothing else um but there's very little that you go oh this is a brilliant although I will say there's one or two there's always one or
• 126:00 - 126:30 two where you go this is slightly too good to be on this particular compilation but right now so ghosts game 35 ghost like K games they've completely given up on joysticks now haven't they at this point a up down and the right left and right are the arrow be I can eat cherries bananas grapes and apples but I cannot eat ghost poison or spines don't eat those
• 126:30 - 127:00 spines so what am I oh I'm there I'm the thing that is not Pacman but looks like Pac-Man very spongy controls as usual
• 127:00 - 127:30 [Music] yeah okay moving M on if there's scope in a game I'll give it a little bit of extra time but we we've seen everything that Nam to
• 127:30 - 128:00 water because somebody obviously put a little bit of time into it but um only put a little bit time I saw an interview with one of the uh uh kids cuz I guessed that they what I guessed when I was doing the Spectrum version of this that probably the origin of a lot of these games was that they' put an adver somewhere saying you know uh we'll buy a game from you for five quid and they'd basically got a load of kids uh you know en kids Enthusiast who
• 128:00 - 128:30 maybe written one or two good games decent games but then they basically said five quid and you've got to get it done by tomorrow and when I found this interview with one of and it was basically along those lines um in fact they B it was one of the the the better games I think and and they bought it from him um but it it was kind of like that and
• 128:30 - 129:00 um yeah they they're um very very cheap very very cheap Fantasy Land L did I update this it's I think name's 37 so eny Center fantasy Center fantasy sin game oh it's one of these where it ad advertises itself game includes four setups three scenes moving obstacles avoid blue crystal they are deadly if touched too many times gold no if
• 129:00 - 129:30 touched too many they're deadly if touched too many times gold Lads and platforms three different moving obstacles we've already had moving obstacles time limit time bonus pressing enter and it's funny they put these black lines through the text it's like they suddenly hey that makes it look futuristic if we just draw black line through every line of text it makes it look like it's from the future free Blade Runner um pressing tab firmly pauses the game I
• 129:30 - 130:00 like that because that means they they knew the controls were rubbish on this they knew the controls are really spongy and unresponsive so they said press tab to pause but you've really got to hold it down you've really got to hold it down for a long time sprad it firmly if it's not p you're not pressing it firmly enough did I ever play Moonstone no I didn't is it good cuz this um that doesn't actually
• 130:00 - 130:30 make any difference as to whether I've played it or not I'm just curious is it GL on um is saying just bottom on the screen fantasy sends a Gade
• 130:30 - 131:00 a shame it was it was actually moving quite nicely and I thought oh R in game it's all right and then you immediately die and it takes forever to fill the screen and now I don't know what we're doing oh we've got to do it all again I'm assuming that those those horizontal
• 131:00 - 131:30 lines are actually deliberate and it's not just a mistake caused by some some issue with the emulator
• 131:30 - 132:00 that's weird um Moonstone so now you've got me wondering um let me have a quick look Moonstone what was that on moonstone is a sodium pottassium aluminium silicate of the felspar group that displays a pearly and opalescent Shiller an alternative name for moonstone is Hiatal from godess hiy I don't think that's the one you were talking
• 132:00 - 132:30 about let's see oh I see no I never played that I I have to give that a go I'm surprised I haven't heard
• 132:30 - 133:00 of it actually cuz I had an Amiga for years You' think I would have done but then again hit the right thing so we're now on game 38 and this is going to be space
• 133:00 - 133:30 base yes let's have instructions because you never know space Bas 64 remember your main task is to get the computer tapes which are in a vault in the center of the station you will need a decoder card to open the vault remember a very high score is also needed with your score I will be able to give you battle Soldier grade this means
• 133:30 - 134:00 you'll have to kill any enemy people type dick to see commands yeah it says that also remember if you turn down a fight you will lose a th000 points oh it's another text Adventure right okay remember type dick to see commands right it didn't understand
• 134:00 - 134:30 dick I knew the following words take dick get dick grab dick go dick walk dick run dick climb dick up dick enter dick through dick open dick eat dick digest dick look dick dictionary dick dick dick in dick inventory dick drop dick leave dick put dick what now what now I'm in a filthy massive cramp Corridor I can see an electronic
• 134:30 - 135:00 Shield get electronic Shield I have the electronic shield now I can see an electronic pistol get pistol or oh don't start doing this electronic [Music] pistol [Music]
• 135:00 - 135:30 oh a lron is attacking you do you want to fight yeah with my pistol electronic [Music] pistol this like [Music] tennis do we get any
• 135:30 - 136:00 [Music] Tres I'm in a ship shaped massive decorative toilet I didn't notice that I just I just killed a latron in a decorative toilet after entering dick I I think we um I got another there's another electronic Shield [Music] here I don't think I need two electronic
• 136:00 - 136:30 Shields I'm now in a filthy tiny old toilet and I can see a vault get vault enter [Music] Vault open vault well what the bloody point is that and don't fart at me when I'm asking you question questions into dick again what can we do with the
• 136:30 - 137:00 Vault [Music] um I tried opening it didn't I let's look Vault no nor do I let's move [Music] on I'm now in a Dusty small cramped store room I can see nothing a sensatron is attacking me do I want to fight yeah I choose to use a electronic
• 137:00 - 137:30 pistol there we go tennis [Music] again no he told me I got money but I don't see how I can I mean same about how much money I've got oh w r yes obviously we'll fight the lerron
• 137:30 - 138:00 electronic pistol I don't know how much health I've got either it says you know if it hits me I don't know how many hits I can take [Music]
• 138:00 - 138:30 um anyway back to the game let's get the one oh it's doing [Music] that we'll give me a chance a batron is attacking me what on Earth is that are you choose to use an electronic [Music]
• 138:30 - 139:00 pistol let's get that [Music] one I'm mean an Immaculate quite big old tunnel yes for the fight the vron didn't I just like shoot them all with electronic pistol and that's it was I incredibly lucky to find electronic pistol in my second
• 139:00 - 139:30 [Music] move so you can eat the food but you can't get the food well let's move on because you know again this is going to get repetitive I'm curious what eventually happens and what battle Soldier rank I I would get but we'll move on to game
• 139:30 - 140:00 39 Oh we can see what ranks there are so this is this is just I have this thing I like to to if they're in basic I I often like to have a look at what they uh what the code was elate Shields Sonic Club wi
• 140:00 - 140:30 rope oh I think it was around lines
• 140:30 - 141:00 no oh you going be like Elite fighter come on so you can be a sabur a fighter a civil Soldier a Cadet or Elite or a disgrace if you're really
• 141:00 - 141:30 rubbish this is the sort of thing where I would then go into the game and start changing the um the things that you could be one of them would probably be you are Richard Wilson now would that mean that you were really bad at it or really good at it oh I don't know so right game
• 141:30 - 142:00 [Music] 39 okay it's that old problem again sometimes you have to completely restart the machine right so that was space base this next one is planets Royal spacecraft safely through
• 142:00 - 142:30 the space asteroids use this sounds like one that has been on so many of these cassette 50 compilations it is as well lose I am in DED anation dog after it heads off
• 142:30 - 143:00 operation did you know I was TR see how long I could get without having to go up or down anyway that's all there is to that game not waste time going on that one uh let's uh restart and we'll go on to game
• 143:00 - 143:30 40 oh popping perit that sounds like it might just be a cubert CL our hero Herbert must jump his way to the top of the screen through moving holes it isn't cubert Beware of the holes however for Herbert will be stunned if he falls through one once he reaches the top the game gets very much harder move left move right or jump okay let's give this a
• 143:30 - 144:00 go so jump I think I've seen A variation it's another one they've done made a little bit of effort with the graphics um trouble is I keep W to press space to to move him on from having a t whereare of holes I don't think the code has seen any holes I certainly I mean look at this where's the next hole you
• 144:00 - 144:30 going what it's just an this the game would be I think all right if it didn't make you wait so long between each each time you died that that just ruins the flow meantime there's no holes to be found again Cod is sex life come
• 144:30 - 145:00 on I like the way he moves just for a little bit on thin air done it again wow that's um it's this this could almost be a good idea but I tried to think of how you would improve it and I just think you probably couldn't sometimes I think oh this game could be a good idea if he
• 145:00 - 145:30 just did this or that in this case I think no I I don't think it could so let's move on to a41 which is dynamite is it going to be Dynamite [Music] and C SCS of the Third Kind attack the dam and flood the valley controls up down faster and drop bom oh
• 145:30 - 146:00 it's another one of these it's a bomber game isn't it this this yeah this has been in every cassette 50 [Music] game um and in fact I think it's one where they've kept the graphics in most versions as well although it's the colors are quite nice on the M version I must admit [Music] I will say there seems to be a lot more
• 146:00 - 146:30 variety in this version as well than the others I mean I am surprised it's almost as if I wouldn't I I'd have to check you know the history of the cazette 50 collections but it's almost as if this was the original collection that they set out to do and then when they came to do all the other ones they realized that they really had to shovel it in because they just didn't have as many good games or they couldn't get them together as quickly or cost effectively enough as they done with this
• 146:30 - 147:00 one although I can't quite remember what year some of the others were I got feel because the this is 80 this one was saying 86 and I think um the original cassette version of this came out in ' 85 for the CPC I've Got a Feeling though that the some of the other platforms were a little bit earlier so H that's right I'm obviously wrong about
• 147:00 - 147:30 my ideas would move the the first time so game 42 is Time Bomb oh yeah you have to disarm the time bombs by answering the questions in a set amental guesses if you don't press space bar to start game that's what happens the space bar will get pressed um question is oh it's a math game 39
• 147:30 - 148:00 nine 64 76 I mean this is like if you took away most of um trivia Murder Party just one of the the the the Matt Mini game but this is what it would be why is he saying correct answer 30
• 148:00 - 148:30 that's clearly not the oh this is um already boring let's move on uh game 43 is going to be a DAT the races I think this is the horse racing horse racing it's the uh horse race betting one again he's an all
• 148:30 - 149:00 sorry scabby bum really scabby bum the names of these horses scabby bum greasy spoon Painted Lady c a horse nag Mommy's boy silly twit kamikazi and Ace of Spades dear me which gos to
• 149:00 - 149:30 back I've just broken into that because oh where was that one1 smelly bomb cuz this is for project DS just when he watches the V and
• 149:30 - 150:00 um uh also greasy dits but there we go right now we've improved this game now we can choose um so I supposed to be just going on Ki I suppos is going to be the best one if we're putting anything on hang on that was previous wins C because he's 20 to
• 150:00 - 150:30 one well let's see now on this version they haven't colored the horses separately on the other other versions they usually have in separate colors if I remember correctly Sil Twitter is in the lead ki's in the lead yeah I
• 150:30 - 151:00 won right I've now got 500 I made 400 profit on that last one so I think that's a good time to to to quit this while we're ahead but um yeah if we not looking at the screen and you know project DS just bear in mind that I've named a horse greasy DS bum after him that is definitely in his honor right now 44 game
• 151:00 - 151:30 44 uh Luna Landing this is just L Lander clone I bet because they yeah retro Rockets fired by using keys one to nine um novice might as well be
• 151:30 - 152:00 slightly different from us because you're not controlling the um left and right
• 152:00 - 152:30 this is
• 152:30 - 153:00 exciting C there's certain amount of tension here come on nice and gentle oh bloody hell te next missing at 11 here we are
• 153:00 - 153:30 cascade quality right here the the game doesn't even run [Music] properly now unless it could be a just a bad copy of this game but even so that's that's embarrassing in isn't it right next one rats loading rats game 45 okay for two players it's the anram game player one in as a word this is
• 153:30 - 154:00 then given to player two as an anagram if it's sold then a word is scored a point is scored I'm not mistaken then player two makes a word for player one enter end to finish game press the space bar to start game enter a word end that was a quick game now let's see what it looks like when you actually play it um test um player two your word is testy
• 154:00 - 154:30 player two enter a word um word and it just goes on like that okay very simple and I suppose you know it does what it sets out to do but we'll move on to game number
• 154:30 - 155:00 46 which is Motorway I think I've lost track somewhere cuz I think we're going to end up with 51 games here the motorway is um 6 7 8 n 10 no no no we're right I just can't count we've established that I think in other versions of this okay loading mway come on job specification please type your last
• 155:00 - 155:30 name you have to collect and deliver six loads your maximum Laden weight is 1,000 kilos your day's wage is calculated on the time taken total weight transported and the mileage tone on your tachograph you lose money for crashing driving on the wrong side of the road and killing innocent pedestrians but only innocent ones the guilty ones you can hit you cannot drive down the middle of the road cross the solid white lines or go through roadblocks which are marked X time is an hours and minutes limit 8 hours bonus can be earned for Speedy
• 155:30 - 156:00 Delivery steering use joystick reverse collect deliver right collect [Music]
• 156:00 - 156:30 crushed all right I'm on the wrong side of the road what am I supposed to do go on the right side I know it's another one of those great soundtracks can probably do a dance mix of
• 156:30 - 157:00 this crushed your truck just catches fire and then you uh immediately go back to normal I'm not I can't get into the collection but [Music] let's move on this this um is fiddly it's any game where the controls are like trying to
• 157:00 - 157:30 thread a needle it just immediately drives me nuts and trying to get into that I spas and also if it says you were on the wrong side of the road it would just and then you couldn't move until it had stop beeping Dungeon adventure we seem to have a really this game is not available please try another
• 157:30 - 158:00 one well I wonder what happened there then was it not this compatible I I'm was this sold this way in which case it was only 49 games I've wondered though if the menu was by a
• 158:00 - 158:30 um was by a fan you know it's like a an unofficial disc version no I no it says copyright C games limited so I know it's pretty official so well how did they get away with that then space board rescue XY Z so sorry we're on game
• 158:30 - 159:00 48 a party of vlarian Spacemen are trapped on the planet of zacron which is in danger from an asteroid storm the object of the game is to guide a space pod from an orbiting mother ship to the white pad below to rescue Spacemen one at a time be careful to land the Pod correctly and not too fast then thrust up from the white pad and dock the Pod with the Mother Ship
• 159:00 - 159:30 Above This sounds exactly the same as the rescue the Royal space family game from earlier it really does so space and shift and R and who came up with these oh B in
• 159:30 - 160:00 okay it's not quite the same but it's um similar enough I think you should get half a point for crashing on them then you press X to start
• 160:00 - 160:30 again you know what I said about threading needles it's oh man I was hoping I could at least get one I will say I mean for a mini game idea it's okay but it's
• 160:30 - 161:00 very it's frustrating um and it's a little bit too simple it you know like if if there were maybe it's hard enough with one asteroid but I was thinking it just needs a bit more variety in it somehow well there we go we we got one of them oh now you get two asteroids I stand corrected so okay I still crushed even though I
• 161:00 - 161:30 was able to avoid both of them now I put it to you there that I didn't actually hit one of them at all whoa I did that time well that's all right I mean it's very bog standard but again like another one of these ones where it seems to be this particular look of gate uh no sound I don't know why they did it like that anyway I'm 49 we're getting there
• 161:30 - 162:00 well strictly it's going 48 isn't it but um let's restart this thing okay highrise again this is an exact duplicate of the one we had before with the whirly bird game from from dis one
• 162:00 - 162:30 the idea of this game is to land your helicopter and it's a helicopter again on a disused Runway but since you were last there houses have been built but since you took off they've built houses on your Runway but helicopters Runway again helicopters don't need runways do they have landing pads uh you have to you have to bomb the houses as you lose height due to loss of fuel I'm sure that everybody will understand use the Dell key to follow you up that's strangely appropriate
• 162:30 - 163:00 you've got to delete the houses you could only have one bomb in the air at one in one moment oh yeah that's cuz they uh the game was too slow um so d we might as well
• 163:00 - 163:30 TR but yeah this is exactly the same concept as that earlier game with slightly worse graphics and much better sound I mean the sound don't me wrong it's still kind of rubbish but at the same time
• 163:30 - 164:00 it's well it sounds like you're scrubbing a floor and occasionally hitting a broken guitar string
• 164:00 - 164:30 yeah well enough of that oh I'm making my ears tingle so game 50 of 50 oh I don't know why I did that I should have just hit run um creepy
• 164:30 - 165:00 crawly crawly is indeed a creepy place the creepy crawly around the patch avoiding the toes tools and eating the fruit and vegetables Z left M right that's all there is to it oh okay little fart at the end very very very very simplistic [Music] game there was an acorn to collect which
• 165:00 - 165:30 looked like the acorn [Music] logo there is something about that the it just makes me laugh every time [Music]
• 165:30 - 166:00 [Music] what going we get well there we have it um as you say 49 out of 49 games and um as you rightly say but um
• 166:00 - 166:30 yeah better on average than any of the other ones we've seen so far but that doesn't equate to good I think you probably find there's maybe five games there that you would come back to which again is still better than the other ones but and the other thing we can't we have to say as well that whether this is because it's the dis version or what it is 49 games it is not
• 166:30 - 167:00 50 so surely that must have been trading standards at some some I mean either that or this is just a bad version for whatever reason and somebody as as you know was transfer disc and couldn't fit it on or something or couldn't make it work with disc but I don't know very very strange but there there we have it um