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Old 09 February 2019, 02:50   #161
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Kick Off II
It might be a good game, but it is in no way impressive that they managed to put it on one disk.
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Old 09 February 2019, 11:46   #162
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It might be a good game, but it is in no way impressive that they managed to put it on one disk.
I'm not sure that's the point of the thread tbh?
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Old 17 February 2019, 10:36   #163
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I always thought Battle Chess was impressive to fit on one disk with all the amazing animation.
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Old 17 February 2019, 20:33   #164
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Old 23 November 2019, 23:02   #165
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Old 23 November 2019, 23:17   #166
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You seriously think Captive is better then Dungeon Master? Really?
You really think it isn't? Seriously?
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Old 24 November 2019, 09:51   #167
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Old 24 November 2019, 11:00   #168
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Old 25 November 2019, 22:31   #169
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For me:

Magic Pockets, Turrican II, Prince of Persia, Parasol Stars, Hudson Hawk, Pang, James Pond 1 and 2, Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (And Archer McLeans Pool, to a lesser extent), Arkanoid II.

I'm sure there are more.

Do games that came on 2 disks count? If one of them is just the intro...
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Old 25 November 2019, 22:40   #170
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lol @Mikerochip - but then which is the "best ever" from all of these wonderful games! That is the challenge!
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Old 25 November 2019, 22:52   #171
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For me:

Magic Pockets, Turrican II, Prince of Persia, Parasol Stars, Hudson Hawk, Pang, James Pond 1 and 2, Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (And Archer McLeans Pool, to a lesser extent), Arkanoid II.

I'm sure there are more.

Do games that came on 2 disks count? If one of them is just the intro...
The best ever is subjective to each individual!
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Old 25 November 2019, 22:58   #172
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lol @Mikerochip - but then which is the "best ever" from all of these wonderful games! That is the challenge!

Yeah, but, While I loved Magic Pockets. Adored it. Played it with a passion, some days after playing to death, maybe my friend calls, and I can't play that with him, and I don't feel like it anyhow.


So we play Jimmy White!


The best game, really, is what's the best in what situation.


Speedball II / Jimmy White for us, was super 2 player, when together.


But my myself, I often got bored quickly with Speedball II. Less so with Snooker.


But I never got bored with some of the other games.


Sometimes I just wanted to marvel at the sprites in Prince of Persia.


Sometimes just watch the intro to Turrican II.




Best depended on my mood, what I'd played recently, what else had been released, and who I was with





I think life is like that too
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Magic Pockets hasn't been mentionned a lot of levels & surprises.
James Pond has 12 missions & somehow similar to Magic Pockets: a lot of completely different items & mechanics.

Regarding the "Turrican IÏI amazing that they could fit on a 880kb disk" don't forget that original disk has a custom format which increases data size to 1MB Cracks were 2-disked unless they removed the intro.

It's the same for a lot of MFM games which have $1800 bytes per track instead of $1600 (James Pond uses ST format for $1400 bytes per track lol)

Also Ruff n Tumble has 2 disks. It doesn't qualify.

I loved 1-disked games back in the day (specially the ones that loaded quickly, unlike Titus the fox...): insert the disk and don't do anything but play.

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Old 19 August 2020, 11:24   #179
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I loved 1-disked games back in the day (specially the ones that loaded quickly, unlike Titus the fox...): insert the disk and don't do anything but play.
Same here. It just gives you a lot more of that "Console"-feeling.
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Hunter, Midwinter, Elite. One-disk worlds.
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