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Cheese and Onion

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wAx sells pretty well on cartridge, so I occasionally need to restock on PCBs and cases from TFW8B. When I do this, I usually pick up an extra something for fun. This time around, I got the Cheese and Onion cartridge.

Yeah, I know I'm several years late on the draw, but the game is awesome. "2D platformer" is one of my favorite genres, and C&O has plenty of gradually-revealed mechanics to keep things interesting. The survivable fall height strangely varies widely from screen to screen, but the game doesn't seem to keep track of lives or time, so you can eventually learn screens without having to start over.

If you haven't tried it yet, it's worth playing. I'm not yet sure why I'm collecting onions, but I'm sure they're vitally-important for something.
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Re: Cheese and Onion

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You have to "Know your onions" .....an English / American phrase

"He knows his onions"

Maybe all will be revealed when you have collected enough to know.


p.s. I got hold of a copy last week and Spaceship 1 which is a fun Flappy Bird crossed with Scramble variant
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Re: Cheese and Onion

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Ha! I've never heard that expression in the American Midwest. Rather, we usually say that one "knows their shit." But a game where you go around collecting shit might not be welcome.

I'm getting interested now in contributing something to the platformer VIC-20 literature, so I'm checking out what's out there. I've got a copy of Astro Nell coming on cassette. I have mixed feelings about that one, in terms of playability and level design; but there's plenty to admire about it. IMO, the gold standard in VIC-20 platformers is still Lode Runner.

Anybody have a favorite platform game for the VIC-20, expanded or not?
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Re: Cheese and Onion

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Poop-themed platformer trilogy (from the 2013 Speccy Crap Games Compo):

https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... underturds
https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... um/R-Swype
https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ent ... ung_Darach
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Re: Cheese and Onion

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Kweepa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:46 pm Poop-themed platformer trilogy (from the 2013 Speccy Crap Games Compo)
I guess I can’t be too surprised.
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Poop-themed games for ZX Spectrum... 🤔
Similia similibus curantur
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