Pinball and Cubits - UK games unearthed

[InfernalKeith]

Happy Thanksgiving to the US 99'er contingent, and happy Thursday to everyone else!

 

Here's another of the UK cassettes I picked up a while back, with two games I didn't see anywhere online: Pinball and Cubits, from Lizard Software.

 

I'll put up scans of the inner cassette sleeve and such when I update my website, but I wanted to get the files out there if anyone was interested.

 

Cubits is a fairly standard Memory type game for two players, but Pinball is a surprisingly interesting effort.  Despite being a 16K XB program, and having a weird tendency for the ball to sorta "fast forward" from one area of the table to the next, the physics are surprisingly good and I found myself enjoying this one.  It's no Pinball 99 or even a Micro Pinball, but it's compelling, and I'm pretty impressed with what they did here.

 

I'll be showing some play action from it in my Friday video tomorrow, if you're subscribed to my channel (or would like to be).

 

CUBITS UKPINBALL

[+eebuckeye]

I can't wait to see the most realistic pinball I'll ever see!

[ti99iuc]

Thanks for sharing! 
I missed this cassette in an auction a while ago and still, I was looking for it  

It is a nice addition at all!

I really love it when people do this kind of job, this is the real passion spirit for the preservation of the software and not only for personal collection as others do.

PS: It seems to be strange to me but I still never understand why the TI-99/4A becomes T1-99/4A on most of the UK cassette tape software and magazines :p 

[InfernalKeith]

5 hours ago, ti99iuc said:

PS: It seems to be strange to me but I still never understand why the TI-99/4A becomes T1-99/4A on most of the UK cassette tape software and magazines 😛

 

The good old Texas One-sterments...

[OX.]

4 more entries for lizard games (not in the Gamebase) in this list :- https://www.everygamegoing.com/landingMachineType/items/machine_folder/ti99_4a/paarent_type/games/

[InfernalKeith]

Here's this week's video, which covers a few other things from ZeroZap to Pinball 99 before getting into Lizard Pinball (man, there's a concept).  

 

 

[Gary from OPA]

21 hours ago, ti99iuc said:

PS: It seems to be strange to me but I still never understand why the TI-99/4A becomes T1-99/4A on most of the UK cassette tape software and magazines 😛

Yes, I have my eBay daily search setup to include T1 in the results as now and then you can find a good deal listed as Texas-One.

 

Also good to always browse the Timex listings as some sellers mistaken think the TI is made by Timex for some reason.

Edited November 30 by Gary from OPA

[unhuman]

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