ThunderPeel2001

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  1. The recent mention of the Amiga classic Wizkid has led me to revisit this game write a new FAQ for it (seeing how there's not a walkthrough anywhere on the web for this superb game).

    Here it is for you all. Enjoy it. Or not. It's up to you!

    Wizkid.zip


  2. Forget that crappy guide, I've written the a whole new FAQ/Walkthrough (or the basis of one) for Wizkid (I can't believe there isn't one out there already!).

    I had the same problem as Benny... one missing bloody Kitty! I remember, I've always had that problem, not enough pussy :sad: In the game, I mean. Honest.

    I suspect that maybe it's some copy-protection that the crackers missed. Are you using a cracked version, Benny? Either that or I'm just crap, because I can't figure out how you get the Kitty for Level 5!!! I'd love to finish this game finally, want to put our heads together to see if we can figure this out? PM me.

    Anyhoo, here's the work-in-progress FAQ/Walkthough. The main stuff is done (although it's missing the fancy stuff) and I think it's the most complete guide for this game at the moment (which is pretty bad seeing at this one is incomplete!). I'd like to finish it though...


  3. just be grateful that I didnt go on about Wizkid as I usually do when someone mentions crazy games.

    WIZKID!

    Now THERE was a great game! Perhaps the most brilliantly unique, clever, surreal and FUN game!! I thought it was just me, the Amiga Power staff and somebody at Sensible who actually like this game! I'd LOVE to see that on my GBA!

    Anyway... I'm also a huge Bitmap Brothers fan. (There's a really cool Bitmap Bros site at www.gods-country.de if anyone is interested.) I've played all of their games and completed a fair chunk of them (including the forgotten Chaos Engine 2) but I've never played Z! (It never came out for the Amiga.)

    I think since Eric Matthews left the company went seriously downhill, clearly the guy was a genius: The AI in Gods and the Chaos Engine... and of course, Speedball 2! I never got into Cadaver, although the graphics were gorgeous. *sigh* Sorry, I could wittle on about the Bitmaps all day.... just don't mention the hideous remake Speedball 2100.........

    What about Rocket Ranger, anyone? I remember the graphics and sound were unbeleivable at the time on my Amiga (shame it looked shite on any other system)! You needed two disk drives, but it was worth it. Not necessarily a well rounded game, but it was still fun to play!


  4. Since my Amiga I've never used a joystick (my trusty Cruiser). I wouldn't mind a cool arcadey one for use with MAME, but otherwise my equally trusty PlayStation Analogue Controller DualShock® will do the trick!

    I have to say, I don't there's ever been an improvement on the Dualshock in terms of joypads, especially on the PC where most of them (especially Microsoft's attempts) are utterly awful.

    Edit: Just seen the above post... I have to say - I HATE the Sidewinder! I can't believe you like it... I tried to use it for so many games but I never got the hang of it. I upgraded to a something with at least an analogue stick on it, but it was still nothing compared to the mighty Dualshock.

    Now the Suncom Tac 2, I think brings back some memories from an old joystick round up in a Spectrum magazine? I recall seeing that it rocked, I wonder if I could hook it up to my PC? :D


  5. I think we've all been there. Wether it was through a fit of frustration, or just an incredibly demanding game, what were you doing when your second favourite thing you like to have in your hands* gave out a mighty --creak-- and was consigned to Joystick Heaven .

    For me it was Supertest on my Spectrum +3. Supertest was a "waggle-em-up" (as this forgotten genre was known back then) in the same vein as HyperSports or the home-computer classic Daley Thompson's Decathalon (remember that?)!

    I'm fairly sure it was the "Tug-Of-War" segment, which by the second time through the game, completely unfair and insanely difficult.

    --snap!--

    That didn't sound good... oh crap! My beloved Cheetah joystick!!!

    haw-1.jpg

    I upgraded to a Cruiser and never looked back (I still have it and I used it for years and years on my Amiga... ahhh, my Cruiser...)

    The first and only mouse I ever broke was playing Cannon Fodder on my Amiga 500. The last level, as anyone knows who ever got there, was pure evil. Not least because you had to explore the map in order to know what to do... and the second all your men were dead it was back 5 levels - argh! - to reload and try again. No easy "quick save" back then, folks, you had to work hard to complete a game!

    After the 10th attempt at working through the 5 levels to get to the evil 6th one... and then dying at the last possible second when I should have completed it... my mouse suffered the consequences what could only be described as "game rage".

    haw-2.jpg

    Still I managed to fix it and complete the bugger............. only to find an ending screen that subtley (but quite literally) told me to F-U-C-K O-F-F! Thanks, Sensible.

    Sorry if that was a bit long, but when did YOU break your first peripheral?

    * Your first favorite being the TV remote, of course.


  6. There's actually a fairly large wealth of evidence to say the website is quite fake: Take the PRWeb Press Release. That could only have been written by the person who made the site (that's what a press release is, it's not actually an article) and yet he claims there were "mistakes" in it.

    When I first saw the site I really got a cool feeling. I was like, "oh... my... god...". But then I started reading things that Andy was supposed to say like "what I did was necessary to secure my place as the ultimate performance artist". Who speaks of themselves like that?! Only a fan would describe someone as the "ultimate performance artist". (This isn't a direct quote.) It rang soooo false.

    Now after reading more posts from "Andy", none of which are even in the slightest bit funny, amusing or original, I've decided it was written by a fan with no talent.

    Still, it was worth it for that five minutes of "oh... my... god...". :)


  7. The first joystick I ever broke (I think) was on Supertest on the Spectrum (a clone of Hyper Sports).

    The first mouse I ever broke was playing the last mission of Cannon Fodder. I smashed it to pieces and then had to fix it so I could complete it only to get an ending sequence which very subtley (but yet quite literally) told me to F-U-C-K O-F-F. Thanks, Sensible. :)

    This is a good idea for a thread actually... where did you break your first peripheral? :)


  8. Was I the only testosterone-to-the-brim teenager out there who repeatedly slammed Lara Croft against the walls just to hear her sigh?

    Couldn't have been worse than those "nude" patches... (of course the fact that she didn't really look nude was the main problem *cough* - damn you, Core!!)

    But that's not really surprising, considering that statistically there doesn't seem to be a considerable number of women in the science and research fields

    ???

    Lol!

    "83.5% of all facts are made up on the spot" - Vic Reeves

    I think that sums that up! :)


  9. I appreciate that it was probably a major leap forward in narrative storytelling in a FPS, but i was still horribly disapointed. I remember all the magazines claiming how it had "incredible" interactivity, "you can interact with just about every object in the game!" claimed PC Format (possibly). I found that hardly to be the case: But! The way the game was hyped up I was expecting an adventure/action game. Really it's a very well done FPS.

    OT: Black Mesa -- The most sexist company in existence?! Not ONE female employee ANYWHERE!?! Very weird they overlooked that, I thought. Even in the "revamp".