creepy computer games

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:36 pm

hi all, when I was a younger programmer I had a book called "Creepy Computer Games" published by Usbourne. Unfortunately that book is long lost. I was just wondering if anyone in the forums has a copy of this book that I could get some scans of.

Love the vic-20 retro life.

Cheers all, Matt

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:13 pm

I've always loved games with a scary atmosphere. Ghost Manor is great. Someday I hope to make one. Brian K (Indiana) has a great "skull" graphic program. Has anyone seen it?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:28 am

I think I have the book about. If I ever get time, I'll type them in for GB20.

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:06 pm

finally got a copy off ebay - is anybody interested in the scans if i upload them

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:12 pm

i would be massively interested!

i have unformatted scans of the usborne adventure games book, and once i get them scaled down to a nice file size, i will upload those to my site.

chris

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:31 am

ravenxau wrote:finally got a copy off ebay - is anybody interested in the scans if i upload them

I would be VERY interested. I had this book until about 10 years ago when I stupidly threw away all my USBORNE books. Just goes to show you NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY!

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:35 am

I did the same. I'm slowly collecting them again though.

hawk · Post by **hawk** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:58 pm

I've still got some of my original books, but didn't realise how many there actually were. I've since started trying to build up my collection.

I don't know what it is about those Usborne books that makes them so attractive. The games are nothing special, but the artwork of the books seems to stimulate the imagination.

If you Google, you'll find that someone has already started to scan them and put them online. I don't remember the site, but I think is was a BBC related one.

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:49 pm

i have the scans - but no account with the bandwidth to host them. If anyone wants to i can e-mail them a winrar archive of the scans

MacbthPSW · Post by **MacbthPSW** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:16 am

Is there a definitive list of all the Usborne 8-bit computer books? I've got quite a few of them (including the one(s) mentioned in this thread), but I have no idea if I'm missing many. Some googling didn't turn up what I'm looking for.