Aliens did make the honourable mentions list, but I had Licence to Kill, Zombi and Neverending Story ahead of it also. We all have our favourites of course, but I'm surprised at no love for Cobra, which is a bit of a Spectrum classic. I should also say that these are lists of the Greatest games, not the best as that is completely subjective of course. I feel Greatness is much more measurable quantity after all these years. Agree about the actual movies though, loved Aliens, but was the perfect age to watch it though tbf.
@@RetroGamingElvin I always leaned more to the emerging "3D" style that Ultimate used in many of their releases than pure platform (expt Chucky Egg) and Aliens is close to being an early FPS squad game and ahead of so many of the "clones" that saturated the market and lurked on market stalls. No worries with your list as it's yours .. I was always more into the adventure strategy and still have Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's on my tablet. I would say also that despite the graphics 2 player Top Gun was a blast at the time, but not top ten. I enjoyed the upload much appreciated/
Aliens was pretty original at the time concept wise, I did play it recently and was just pretty confused if I'm honest, didn't have the map though to be fair. Funnily enough I was talking about Top Gun yesterday, as you say, really was a lot of fun 2 player.
@@RetroGamingElvin I think I still have the original box and map ,along with a non working 48k and + in a tea chest unlooked at for a couple of moves , I keep thinking I'll put a micro pc in the + case and just run an emulator for that era home computer.
You are correct, a few of these are the 128k versions for purely entertainment purposes, a bit naughty I know but I just felt the music and sound was a big part of these movie licenses.
No Aliens ,like the films the sequel was as good if not better ,definitely much better than Cobra or Fantastic Voyage.
Aliens did make the honourable mentions list, but I had Licence to Kill, Zombi and Neverending Story ahead of it also. We all have our favourites of course, but I'm surprised at no love for Cobra, which is a bit of a Spectrum classic. I should also say that these are lists of the Greatest games, not the best as that is completely subjective of course. I feel Greatness is much more measurable quantity after all these years. Agree about the actual movies though, loved Aliens, but was the perfect age to watch it though tbf.
@@RetroGamingElvin I always leaned more to the emerging "3D" style that Ultimate used in many of their releases than pure platform (expt Chucky Egg) and Aliens is close to being an early FPS squad game and ahead of so many of the "clones" that saturated the market and lurked on market stalls.
No worries with your list as it's yours .. I was always more into the adventure strategy and still have Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's on my tablet.
I would say also that despite the graphics 2 player Top Gun was a blast at the time, but not top ten.
I enjoyed the upload much appreciated/
Aliens was pretty original at the time concept wise, I did play it recently and was just pretty confused if I'm honest, didn't have the map though to be fair. Funnily enough I was talking about Top Gun yesterday, as you say, really was a lot of fun 2 player.
@@RetroGamingElvin I think I still have the original box and map ,along with a non working 48k and + in a tea chest unlooked at for a couple of moves , I keep thinking I'll put a micro pc in the + case and just run an emulator for that era home computer.
doesn't sound like speccy 48k music to me
Hi, could you tell me which game didn't sound like Spectrum music?
@@RetroGamingElvin they mostly sound like AY chip to me, not 48k beeper. i might be wrong, it's been a while since i played these games!!
You are correct, a few of these are the 128k versions for purely entertainment purposes, a bit naughty I know but I just felt the music and sound was a big part of these movie licenses.