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  What was that game... john.courouble@gmail.com - 2014-12-06 13:55 -0800
    Re: What was that game... Phil Reynolds <phil-news@tinsleyviaduct.com> - 2014-12-07 09:09 +0000
      Re: What was that game... john.courouble@gmail.com - 2014-12-07 03:44 -0800
        Re: What was that game... "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 12:31 +0000
          Re: What was that game... john.courouble@gmail.com - 2014-12-07 04:42 -0800
            Re: What was that game... "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2014-12-07 14:14 +0000
    Re: What was that game... "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 12:29 +0000
      Re: What was that game... "dottor Piergiorgio M. d' Errico" <chiedetelo@ask.me> - 2014-12-07 15:15 +0100
        Re: What was that game... "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 18:34 +0000
    Re: What was that game... Frank Bodenschatz <frank@bodenschatz.org> - 2014-12-08 13:41 +0100
      Re: What was that game... john.courouble@gmail.com - 2014-12-08 10:28 -0800
        Re: What was that game... john.courouble@gmail.com - 2014-12-14 13:33 -0800

#3302 — What was that game...

Alright, cast your minds back..

Released fairly early.
You played a delivery driver.
You could hire various vehicles.
You had to choose from delivery contracts.
You could get fined for speeding so had to be careful not to be too ambitious.
The most financially rewarding delivery was usually a pair of afghan hounds.

Ringing any bells?

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#3304

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 13:55:13 -0800 (PST)
john.courouble@gmail.com wrote:

> Alright, cast your minds back..
> 
> Released fairly early.
> You played a delivery driver.
> You could hire various vehicles.
> You had to choose from delivery contracts.
> You could get fined for speeding so had to be careful not to be too
> ambitious. The most financially rewarding delivery was usually a pair
> of afghan hounds.
> 
> Ringing any bells?

Well, it's definitely not Stonkers.

I can't recall one quite like this.

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#3306

On Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:09:43 UTC, Phil Reynolds  wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 13:55:13 -0800 (PST)
> john.courouble@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Alright, cast your minds back..
> > 
> > Released fairly early.
> > You played a delivery driver.
> > You could hire various vehicles.
> > You had to choose from delivery contracts.
> > You could get fined for speeding so had to be careful not to be too
> > ambitious. The most financially rewarding delivery was usually a pair
> > of afghan hounds.
> > 
> > Ringing any bells?
> 
> Well, it's definitely not Stonkers.
> 
> I can't recall one quite like this.

Also the driving part of the game didn't involve any driving simulation, you just moved across a map. I guess I could try and find the tape when I visit the family for Christmas!

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#3308

Hmm there was a yacht race simulation along the same lines.
 Brian

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<john.courouble@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:91857bb1-9e1a-4687-a08f-8106343153a0@googlegroups.com...
> On Sunday, 7 December 2014 09:09:43 UTC, Phil Reynolds  wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 13:55:13 -0800 (PST)
>> john.courouble@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Alright, cast your minds back..
>> >
>> > Released fairly early.
>> > You played a delivery driver.
>> > You could hire various vehicles.
>> > You had to choose from delivery contracts.
>> > You could get fined for speeding so had to be careful not to be too
>> > ambitious. The most financially rewarding delivery was usually a pair
>> > of afghan hounds.
>> >
>> > Ringing any bells?
>>
>> Well, it's definitely not Stonkers.
>>
>> I can't recall one quite like this.
>
> Also the driving part of the game didn't involve any driving simulation, 
> you just moved across a map. I guess I could try and find the tape when I 
> visit the family for Christmas!
> 

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#3309

It's gradually coming back to me. I think the map was just England, or maybe England and Wales, because I'm fairly sure Carlisle to somewhere in the South-West was the longest journey you could make. In my head the driving screen looks a lot like the stages screen of Milk Race. As I recall the key flaw in the game is that you couldn't win, you just kept playing for as long as you could accrue money - although it's possible you could win by accruing a certain amount and I just didn't have the attention span.

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#3311

On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 04:42:17 -0800 (PST) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC :

> It's gradually coming back to me. I think the map was just England, or maybe England and Wales, because I'm fairly sure Carlisle to somewhere in the South-West was the longest journey you could make. In my head the driving screen looks a lot like the stages screen of Milk Race. As I recall the key flaw in the game is that you couldn't win, you just kept playing for as long as you could accrue money - although it's possible you could win by accruing a certain amount and I just didn't have the attention span.

It's not what you're thinking of, but there was a treasure hunt(?)
type game that had the entire UK as a map.  The fatal flaw was it
didn't give much (or any) leeway to get to the destination, so you had
to move directly to the square for the location without deviation.

Hmm, I've been doing too much Spectrum emulator typing over the last
couple of days, and keep heading for Alt-7 for the apostrophe.

Chris


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#3307

There was a text game like that by.. erm was it DKtronics or was it Artic?
 Trouble is of course lots of management games, strangely mostly about 
Football or small third world countries abounded in those early days.
 Brian

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<john.courouble@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9373aea0-d7d8-4227-a23c-bf19298565b0@googlegroups.com...
> Alright, cast your minds back..
>
> Released fairly early.
> You played a delivery driver.
> You could hire various vehicles.
> You had to choose from delivery contracts.
> You could get fined for speeding so had to be careful not to be too 
> ambitious.
> The most financially rewarding delivery was usually a pair of afghan 
> hounds.
>
> Ringing any bells? 

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#3312

Il 07/12/2014 13:29, Brian Gaff ha scritto:
> There was a text game like that by.. erm was it DKtronics or was it Artic?
>   Trouble is of course lots of management games, strangely mostly about
> Football or small third world countries abounded in those early days.

out of curiosity, someone has at least attempted to catalogue all the 
implementations and developments of Hamurabi, as was done for the rogue 
games ?

(the "small third world countries management" games descended from 
Hamurabi....)

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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#3314

I particularly like Dictator.
 I found the football management games yawn  inducing, probably cos i have 
no real interest in the sport myself. I used to farm them out to young and 
keen folk to do the reviews then just sub edit them for the pages.

Brian

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"dottor Piergiorgio M. d' Errico" <chiedetelo@ask.me> wrote in message 
news:9iZgw.12426$pt.6866@tornado.fastwebnet.it...
> Il 07/12/2014 13:29, Brian Gaff ha scritto:
>> There was a text game like that by.. erm was it DKtronics or was it 
>> Artic?
>>   Trouble is of course lots of management games, strangely mostly about
>> Football or small third world countries abounded in those early days.
>
> out of curiosity, someone has at least attempted to catalogue all the 
> implementations and developments of Hamurabi, as was done for the rogue 
> games ?
>
> (the "small third world countries management" games descended from 
> Hamurabi....)
>
> Best regards from Italy,
> dott. Piergiorgio.
> 

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#3315

It's been a while and I can't remember more than one vehicle being
available, but could it be Juggernaut you're after?

Frank

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#3317

Getting close, but nope. There was no skill involved in the driving element apart from going as fast as possible without speeding. 

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#3322

Aha! Father has checked the loft.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000816

Car Journey. Filed under 'educational', fair I guess.

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