Name the Game

[AnasAbdin]

Nice game Captain

here's something to think about a little..

[Amayirot Akago]

It's the old master guy from Budokan, is it not?

[AnasAbdin]

well well.. I cropped and flipped the image and yet Amayirot got it 
Quickest couple of rounds ever.

[Amayirot Akago]

I played a fair bit of Budokan in my youth Though I was never especially good at it.

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[CaptainD]

Mercenary?

[Amayirot Akago]

Holy cabbages, that was fast! Yes, you're absolutely correct. Your turn, brainiac

[CaptainD]

Holy cabbages, that was fast! Yes, you're absolutely correct. Your turn, brainiac

Ha well I feel a bit better now after all my wrong guesses and mis-remembers!

Okay, so keeping on a theme...

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[CaptainD]

Okay how about another one?  There's actually something in this that may well give it away instantly to those who've played the game...

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Tbf I didn't actually realise this one had come out on the dear old Speccy until I looked it up, thought it was purely a 16-bit release.

HINT:

Spoiler

This is the sequel to a game that was very well known on the Spectrum

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[Danvzare]

Elite 2?
Although I don't think that was ever released for the Spectrum.

[Atavismus]

I also thought to Elite, but the HUD is different.
I guess it's Starglider 2.

[CaptainD]

Yup it's Starglider 2.   I had it on the Atari ST, actually pretty stunned that they ever made a Speccy version of it.  (The thing that I thought might give it away was the planet name "Apogee" - weirdly that's something I remember from all those years ago, that and the novella which game packaged with the game, and the fact that I was utterly useless and navigating those tunnels under the planet surface!)

Elite 2: Frontier pushed the 16-bits pretty hard, I don't think they could have done it on the 8-bits without scaling it down so much that it made it pointless.

[Amayirot Akago]

Ah, darn. I had a suspicion it was Starglider but didn't bother to look it up or anything.

Still, the first game did have a pretty sweet opening theme on the Atari ST

[embed=601,315]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVqOBCHxkM[/embed]

[Atavismus]

What about this?

[Danvzare]

Is it Star Control?
Or perhaps Starflight?

[Atavismus]

Not bad but no, nothing with "star".

[CaptainD]

I don't think it is, but just because it's a space game that never got an ST version so I never got to play it, I'm going to say Deutros.

(Man Millenium 2.2 was a pretty awesome game...)

[Atavismus]

It's not Deuteros and it's not a strategy game.
As you guessed, it's an Amiga game (there is a PC version too).
Hope it will help.

[Danvzare]

Huh, I never would have guessed that this was an Amiga game (I love that machine). I personally thought it was a Mega Drive game.

Hmm, is it Whale's Voyage?

[Atavismus]

Yes Danvzare, it's Whale's Voyage (and yes, I'm a huge Amiga fan ).
It's a Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawler with a space exploration theme.

Well done, your turn!

[Danvzare]

Because I couldn't guess any of the Spectrum games and also because there's a Spectrum game I wanted to put up here at the time everyone was posting Spectrum games, I'm going to continue with the Spectrum theme.


I've cropped a bit from the top, and a fair amount from the bottom, because they give the title away.
In my next screenshot, I'll probably just blur those parts that give the title away.