If anyone can name this game I'll be amazed!

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...especially from the description I'm about to give :o

OK, a couple of decades or so ago when I had my trusty ZX Spectrum I had a game, which probably came on the cover of a magazine, on cassette.

The game was rather odd but strangely compelling and ever since I've been hoping to find a flash version or a conversion/emulation of it but this may be helped if I could actually remember the name!

The game basically had two people attached to a bungee cord at opposing sides of the screen with a sword type thing in one hand. This sword type thing was used to scoop up a ball which you then had to try and throw in the opponents goal.

Through the fog that is my memory that is about as much as I remember... so, any ideas?! :o
 
FlukeRogi said:
Bounces by Denton Designs.

<edit> A link: http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/050/bounces.htm
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That is it :)

I have it on tape, is a really original game I thought at the time.

REALLY hard too. Great fun in 2 players.

I have the re-release budget version, with the inlay below:

Bounces(FirebirdSoftwareLtd).jpg
 
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lordrobs said:
:eek:

I've been trying to find the name of this game for ages, to the point where I thought I imagined it. Ask on OCUK and *BAM* 4 minutes flat.

FlukeRogi I salute you, well played!
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:)

I remembered it mainly because it was by the same guys who wrote Shadowfire (and Enigma Force) which I was absolutely obsessed with when I had my Speccy.
 
Ahh good old Firebird. I remember screaming at the TV trying to control my ship with me Cheetah 125+ joystick and spinning all over the place.
 
Last Saturday I played some on line speccy emulation games while I waited for Barman: AA to download.

Played F1, Football manager, out of the shadows and others, all at the same time.

I was 2nd in the league in season 2 on FM when it crashed with a goto error, just like the original! Ahh the nostalgia :p
 
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Hours of fun for just under a couple of quid! Those were the days. ;)

The Spectrum's graphics and sound were easily the worst of the old mainstream 8bit machines... Sorry, I couldn't risk reigniting some of that skool computer rivalry! The range of games was superb though.

Kainz said:
Ahh good old Firebird. I remember screaming at the TV trying to control my ship with me Cheetah 125+ joystick and spinning all over the place.
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Good stick, the 125!

Weren't speccy's really fussy when it came to joysticks? My mate had one, (well actually he had several including a 128+3! but I digress...:D) and you used to have three of four different joystick options for every game.

Owning a CPC 464 at the time, I never had that problem. They were built properly. ;)
 
Firebird was British Telecom's software division. I remember getting 6 of them for christmas one year from my daad who worked for BT, I guess all the BT kids got them.
 
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