mikejamoran

I feel like it's somewhere in between The Simpsons and King of the Hill.

I've only seen about 10 episodes, though.

@winsord said:

@MikeJAMoran: Was there any combat to the game or was it purely maze solving; can you elaborate at all scoring mechanics? Also, I realize it's pretty far back now, but any idea what year you played it? Since the CPC 464 came out in '84 and you describe it having such simple graphics, it sounds like it's probably an 84/85/86 game, but it's tough to tell. It kind of sounds like Aquad (pictured below) but there are a lot of games that have maze-like level design on the CPC. Aquad has scoring mechanics more like Pacman, where you're eating dots, whereas usually they're more along the lines of shooting enemies for points. I think getting the scoring mechanics down could help a lot, as there are a ton of CPC games.

I'll also throw Bio Spheres and Buster Block out there.

Hi, winsord. I'm pretty sure it isn't those three. I played it in about 93-94 (and I was 4-5 - I realise the Amstrad CPC was ancient by then). I also played it on an CPC 464 with a green screen, so that makes it harder to remember! I don't believe there was combat, but there wasn't Pac-Man pellets either. The maze wasn't on a a single screen either, and it wasn't a maze in a lines sense, like the screen, but in different connected areas, a lot of which you could see but had to figure out how to get to them.

This has been doing my head in for ages.

It's a game on the Amstrad CPC. I had it on the CPC 464 and it came on a 3" floppy. As the 464 had a green screen, the graphics are hard to define, but it was a very simple maze game, top-down, and required either special keys or different character states in order to proceed into different sections.

All the enemies were simple shapes - I seem to remember one looking like the craft in Geometry Wars but that could be wrong.

I think the whole letting people take control aspect is dumb and gimmicky, but as a utility for taking video and screenshots, I'm in.

Call of Duty 2 was probably the best game available at the Xbox 360's launch, although that didn't come to PS2/Xbox. It didn't really feel "next gen" but it was a great launch title.

I love Goblet of Fire. It was the first really big one and the structure was quite different due to the Triwizard Tournament.

@boozak: It was an official Microsoft picture but I don't think it was ever supposed to be a real design. I think it was more of a cool concept image.

The Guns of Navarro is great, but I would love more Alex-y video content. I know it must be difficult as you're separated from the rest of the gang (especially the video producers), but the Encyclopaedia Bombastica stuff was great - more of this!

I think they should call it the NeXTbox just to piss off Apple.

Yes. I've regularly had a beard since I was about 14! Even back then it was pretty decent.