| From: | Oovis |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2000 at 00:26:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Old computers crashing |
Hello James
On 07-Sep-00, you wrote:
>> And if the games didn't crash, they'd have something like the famous attic
>> bug which made them impossible to finish. Bring back the 80s, they were,
>> erm, about the same as things are now probably ;)
>
> Dunno about attic bug (what was that exactly?) but I could never complete my
> copies of Turrican and Ghosts n Goblins.
Did anyone complete Terrormolinos on the Speccy? I could never get Snargsby
out of the catacombs. I suspect that was as far as the programmers got with
the game data, and couldn't be bothered to finish coding it... Hmmm.
Snargsby has become a by-word in our family for something that's a pig to
finish.
> TTFN,
> James.
>
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