ACORN ELECTRON - FIVE GAMES FIVE MINUTES #05

A compilation of one minute video reviews by the ubiquitous Dave E of Acorn Electron World. This fifth show includes:

BUG EYES (Icon)
OMEGA ORB (Audiogenic)
HOBGOBLIN (Atlantis)
PIPEMANIA (Empire)
CRYSTAL CASTLES (US Gold)

Some music has been digitally added to this video to create ambiance.

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First broadcast 27th December 2010.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• acorn electron
• retro games
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• bug eyes
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• omega orb
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• bbc micro
• hobgoblin
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• pipemania
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• crystal castles
• crystal castles game

[PURES3X]

@inukami23 If you read Lady Gaga's Auto Biography(All Seven Pages of it) ,It say's it was one of her favorite ditties on her Electron and Influence the said song!

[inukami23]

Has anyone noticed that the hobgoblin music is surprisingly similar to Lady Gaga's just dance?

[graysonscolumn]

@LeShark75 Bug Eyes was. I half have it in the back of my mind they shared the same author(s). Fiendish propositions, both!

[TheLoonwolf]

I agree about Hobgoblin; it's not as easy as you make it seem! It's good to know it doesn't get any more difficult throughout the game.

[LeShark75]

Love Bug Eyes, very much like Vindaloo. Which was out first?

[blaizevincent]

Still going Backwards ...

I love how Hobgoblin has a 3rd of the screen reserved for the Title of the game , Shameless Self promotion is sometimes amicable.

Oh god i love Pipemania , use to play a flash version of it quite frequently a few years back. I might totally goto amazon and buy the DS version right now.

Crystal Castles looked impressive but if you can achieve completion without a loss of 1 life then its seems passable.

[zedeighty]

To be fair to Crystal Castles, I find it to be quite a challenge. And judging by the way you make Hobgoblin look easy when it's actually brutally, savagely difficult, I suspect you're better at games than most of us!

[Monstoday]

Another nice review there! The only game I've played is Pipe Mania (on the Beeb), but I can relate to 2 others. Your Crystal Castle is rather like 3D Dotty and Omega Orb is like Ricochet. In Ricochet, there was a control where you squeeze the ball, then when you let go of the key, it would bounce.