Best basic game ?

genesis8 · 13:55, 18 February 24

Hi,

what are the best basic games from your opinion (old or new) ?

As I just added at least CPCBasicTS unchained by Marco Vieth on my web site, it's time to let people play these games directly without an emulator.

Gryzor · 13:57, 18 February 24

What was the one that looked pretty impressive and spanned multiple issues in a magazine back in the day?

dodogildo · 14:33, 18 February 24

For me it's definitely that qbert clone from Your Computer. Because it blew my mind back in the day.
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/englebert.htm

Gryzor · 14:45, 18 February 24

Quote from: dodogildo on 14:33, 18 February 24For me it's definitely that qbert clone from Your Computer. Because it blew my mind back in the day.
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/englebert.htm

Ooh I remember that - I guess it was republished in Greece. A really great port.

Nich · 17:36, 18 February 24

Quote from: Gryzor on 14:45, 18 February 24
Quote from: dodogildo on 14:33, 18 February 24For me it's definitely that qbert clone from Your Computer. Because it blew my mind back in the day.
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/englebert.htm
Ooh I remember that - I guess it was republished in Greece. A really great port.

It's been republished in quite a few magazines according to CPC-POWER.

In fact, a plagiarised version called Jumpman was even published commercially in the UK by Blaby Computer Games!

Nich · 17:38, 18 February 24

Quote from: genesis8 on 13:55, 18 February 24what are the best basic games from your opinion (old or new) ?

I thought the recent release of Gold Maze was really impressive for a BASIC game.

Bryce · 19:10, 18 February 24

I think Steve Davis Snooker was written completely in BASIC. It didn't have really fancy graphics or anything, but the physics were quite convincing and it was definitely a game that I kept coming back to.

Bryce.

dodogildo · 19:37, 18 February 24

Now I remember! Football Manager is also in Basic, non? And it's one hell of a good game.

abalore · 19:49, 18 February 24

My two cents

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/locomotive-basic-game-p4-return-to-ganymede

Not polite to post an own game, but I really think it's good

dthrone · 20:13, 18 February 24

Quote from: genesis8 on 13:55, 18 February 24what are the best basic games from your opinion (old or new) ?

Depends if poked machine code is allowed!

genesis8 · 20:19, 18 February 24

As it's to be used on my web site with CPCBasicTS unchained which transform locomotive basic in javascript, poke isn't possible.

roudoudou · 21:22, 18 February 24

back in days i liked "san pablo", a manager like

VincentGR · 21:51, 18 February 24

Wasn't Coolbox written in Basic?
Love this games.

cwpab · 20:44, 19 February 24

Amsgolf is fun and was amazing if you were a kid. Those nature graphics with those little trees, rivers and bridges have a special charm to them:

skylas · 23:26, 19 February 24

Quote from: VincentGR on 21:51, 18 February 24Wasn't Coolbox written in Basic?
Love this games.

I really enjoyed it, Coolbox is really impressive!

XeNoMoRPH · 07:39, 20 February 24

Ace · 21:46, 20 February 24

Football Manager from Addictive Games, of course . 30 Kbytes of pure BASIC!

genesis8 · 20:07, 23 February 24

Ok gold maze wasn't working due to wordwrap when I did paste the basic program inside the javascript file !

But even after updating the file and a a CTRL + F5, my web navigator was still loading the bad listing. I had to make firefox forget the web site to load the new file...

Now I will with time add some more basic programs on the web site, directly in the database page of the programs.

CPCBasicTS is really nice.

genesis8 · 20:14, 23 February 24

Quote from: Ace on 21:46, 20 February 24Football Manager from Addictive Games, of course . 30 Kbytes of pure BASIC!

I prefer to use CPCBasicTS with non commercial programs, especially in this case as Kevin Toms (https://twitter.com/KevinToms) is selling his game on Android for example. And I dislike doing something without asking the person first.

Well I can try to ask him on twitter, omw.

asertus · 22:31, 23 February 24

Recently, my favourite game in Basic (mostly), is also a manager.., the remake of The Manager

dodogildo · 21:16, 11 March 24

Just discovered that The Wild Bunch from Firebird was also made in Basic. Not the best but not a bad game either considering it was a budget release from the very beginning.

BSC · 19:43, 18 April 24

Quote from: dodogildo on 14:33, 18 February 24For me it's definitely that qbert clone from Your Computer. Because it blew my mind back in the day.
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/englebert.htm

Holy crap! I knew the "Schneider CPC International" type-in version, a friend of mine was very studious and did a lot of type-ins, this one included. I was not aware that it was a rip-off! Makes you wonder how many of the seemingly genuine type-ins actually were stolen :-/

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