Curly's World

Probably way, waaaay off with this but is it Desert Strike??

Just the first thing that popped into my dead when I saw it.

Correct eMTe...!! It's actually the first screen of the game. The pirate pushes Dizzy into the sea and thence the game starts. I'm surprised so many of you fell for my sly trap here

Wrong again! You're all thinking far too literally - remember that Dizzy was a bit like Mario for a while, appearing in all sorts of games.

Wrong again! I'm loving this

Aha!!!!!!! You fell into my TRAP!! Ahahahahahahahaha!

You see the front of Treasure Island Dizzy had this Pirate threatening Dizzy on it, but to my knowledge - this never occurs in the game. Oh no - this is another Dizzy adventure.

Icarus - that's wrong too! I'll repeat, the clue is in the castle, now who would have a castle like that?

It's not that obscure eMTe... I remember reading about this game in Crash! magazine when it came out. It's called Spooked. I have the feeling that the ZX Spectrum was bigger in Britain than it was in Europe, America or Australia and so some of these games are better known about here. Anyway here's a...

No Usul - the clue is more to do with who's castle it is.

Which one? The clue is in the pic. Accepting first answers only.

Thanks Mr. Green but they are also old. I'm home from work now (to watch the AWESOME Argentina versus Serbia in the World Cup) so I can post some more as I have access to my harddisk. This one is from a sonnet sequence I wrote when I went to Iran for a month around Xmas 2002. I wrote my girlfriend a...

I actually had to miss work yesterday through lack of sleep! I have had chronic insomnia all my life but never as bad as this week. I finally got to sleep at 4am on Monday night, then 3.30am on Tuesday night and 5.30am on Wednesday night - each time getting up at 8am the next day!! I was, to put it ...

I've written loads and loads of poems in my time, I did put some of them on my website a while back but they are currently offline. I'll just offer a couple here, one from around 2002 when I split up with my girlfriend for about 6 months :( and another one from around 2001 which was a rather interes...

You're right Scythe, your turn. Apologies for posting SUCH an obscure game, I just wanted to nail eMTe

Ok folks - this one should be easy.

Look again icarus!

My gut reaction was Shinobi and then Ninja Gaiden... but that little energy bar on the side and the rain effect suggests something else.... is it... Shadow of the Ninja?

Ok - here's a shot from ever so slighly more well known Atari version...

(I've edited out the title)

I'll just drag myself away from Italy-Ghana for a second to say...

eMTe - is this either Oregan Trail or Discovering America?

In that case, I think it has to be Dragon Warrior 3 on NES... can't think of another DW that had two such different versions.

That's not right either eMTe...