When I played this game for first time, I remember that it was impossible for me to stop. My parents told to me to not continue and....impossible. In fact, before school I was playing ...and after. Never I finished this game. Those were "strangers" years; for me the golden age of that 8 bits "pc". Thanks for let me travel in time
I'm leafing through some copies of Personal Computer News, a weekly computer mag from the early 80's. This is reviewed in September '84, and the article notes that most of the five games reviewed are conversions from other micros. Electro Freddy was one of 3 games Soft-Spot released first on the BBC, which might help explain the Spectrum being used as a weapon. From the review: "Freedy, according to the cassette insert, is a kind of urban guerilla bent on preventing Uncle Claude Sincrum from upping the price of his products and causing redundancies at his factory. The chose method is to push everything on screen onto the conveyor belt before Claude can get his hands on you. You do this in a vaguely Pengo fashion, while avoiding Claude, the spectrims he throws at you and the oracs that are periodically dropped from the roof." So, 'spectrims', 'oracs', and Uncle Claude. I wonder what they meant... Also in the article were Harrier Attack, Codename Mat, Master Chess and Hunter Killer. To me, there are similarities to Atari's Food Fight.
Indeed, a humourous flashback to the 8 bit competition back in the day. Was quite a few games that straight out made fun parody of famous people from rockstars like Tina "Turnover" in Rockstar Ate My Hamster to politicians in Nuclear War (amiga), Split Personalities, Spitting Image etc. However the current USA elections with Trump has re-ignited the genre i guess. Oh and GTA5 sued by Lindsay of cause :)
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Back in the day!!! Amstrad 464, hours of my childhood spent tackling this game. Batty was my favourite though.
When I played this game for first time, I remember that it was impossible for me to stop.
My parents told to me to not continue and....impossible. In fact, before school I was playing ...and after.
Never I finished this game. Those were "strangers" years; for me the golden age of that 8 bits "pc".
Thanks for let me travel in time
Wow, an Amsoft title I actually missed. Don't remember this one, and buy the looks and it, I didn't miss a lot. Bless it.
Novabug legit one of my fav childhood games
Memories!!
Happy New Year 2014! Thank you for all the memories!!!!!
Thanks for watching & a Happy New Year :)
Like many, it was one of my first games played on that system... and I really enjoyed it :-)
Indeed, it may not look particular stunning in any way, but the playability is high.
The "Boss" looks suspiciously like Clive Sinclair....
Suspiciously on purpose i guess :D
Good one! Happy new year to you :)
Thanks! Happy New Year to you too :)
Boss have ZX Spectrum as weapon but in blue color for some reason.
Yes, ive never really understood why there is all those computers flying around in the game.
I'm leafing through some copies of Personal Computer News, a weekly computer mag from the early 80's. This is reviewed in September '84, and the article notes that most of the five games reviewed are conversions from other micros. Electro Freddy was one of 3 games Soft-Spot released first on the BBC, which might help explain the Spectrum being used as a weapon. From the review:
"Freedy, according to the cassette insert, is a kind of urban guerilla bent on preventing Uncle Claude Sincrum from upping the price of his products and causing redundancies at his factory. The chose method is to push everything on screen onto the conveyor belt before Claude can get his hands on you. You do this in a vaguely Pengo fashion, while avoiding Claude, the spectrims he throws at you and the oracs that are periodically dropped from the roof."
So, 'spectrims', 'oracs', and Uncle Claude. I wonder what they meant...
Also in the article were Harrier Attack, Codename Mat, Master Chess and Hunter Killer.
To me, there are similarities to Atari's Food Fight.
Indeed, a humourous flashback to the 8 bit competition back in the day. Was quite a few games that straight out made fun parody of famous people from rockstars like Tina "Turnover" in Rockstar Ate My Hamster to politicians in Nuclear War (amiga), Split Personalities, Spitting Image etc. However the current USA elections with Trump has re-ignited the genre i guess. Oh and GTA5 sued by Lindsay of cause :)