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[Flight of the Amazon Queen]

Ah now this one I do know!  It's the first playable room in Flight of the Amazon Queen.  Quite a fun game (although terrible GUI! )

Why does the main character in that game, look like the Guybrush Threepwood sprite from Monkey Island 2?

From the MobyGames page:

"Amateur made, shareware imitation of Monkey Island 2 / Simon the Sorceror."

"The hero looks suspiciously like Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island 2 - and the game even begins with him hanging from a rope."

Though it does also say "But don't let that put you off - this is a quality game in its own right." so might be worth a look.  I've never heard of it tbh!

Ark? 
New screenshot??
Pretty please???

Are you trying to trick us here?  At first I was looking and thinking this was an Intellivision game or something from an ancient system, but looking closer there are actually a lot of different shades of undithered grey here (not 50 but a good number), which would actually suggest a more modern system.  The apparent low pixel count may also be a misnomer...

(I don't know what it is, just thinking out loud!)

Which Doctor is it supposed to be?  Looks a bit like Sylvester McCoy to me.

Hmm... interesting.  I feel that I should know this but can't quite place it.  As a guess purely because I think the graphical style was similar I'm going to say Treasure Island - but I don't think that's what it is.

I don't think it is, but just because it's a space game that never got an ST version so I never got to play it, I'm going to say Deutros.

(Man Millenium 2.2 was a pretty awesome game...)

[Starglider 2]

Yup it's Starglider 2.   I had it on the Atari ST, actually pretty stunned that they ever made a Speccy version of it.  (The thing that I thought might give it away was the planet name "Apogee" - weirdly that's something I remember from all those years ago, that and the novella which game packaged with the game, and the fact that I was utterly useless and navigating those tunnels under the planet surface!)

Elite 2: Frontier pushed the 16-bits pretty hard, I don't think they could have done it on the 8-bits without scaling it down so much that it made it pointless.

Okay how about another one?  There's actually something in this that may well give it away instantly to those who've played the game...

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Tbf I didn't actually realise this one had come out on the dear old Speccy until I looked it up, thought it was purely a 16-bit release.

HINT:

Spoiler

This is the sequel to a game that was very well known on the Spectrum

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Holy cabbages, that was fast! Yes, you're absolutely correct. Your turn, brainiac

Ha well I feel a bit better now after all my wrong guesses and mis-remembers!

Okay, so keeping on a theme...

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Mercenary?

@Danzvare - hehe, wondered if that would fool some people.
@Anas - Yup!  Awesome game, really loved it, one of the few true 128K Speccy games.  Took a full 5 minutes to load!

Ah man my memory's seriously going

Okay, what about this one?

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Captain Blood?

Honestly that one had crossed my mind too, but I wasn't aware it had ever made it to the Speccy.  (Off to look it up now! )

Echelon?

this is a different Ant Attack from the classic C64/Spectrum game; this one's a shareware title for DOS.

Ah, well that figures

Uhm... that was actually easy to find, not that I ever played it... but searching for "+game +puzzle +buldozer +ant" gave me:

Ant attack.

Hmm... I seem to remember Ant Attack having an isometric view, though maybe not all ports were the same.

Well, maybe you can give us the machine? Atari ST maybe?

With those colours, I certainly hope not... I'd guess at Amstrad CPC personally.  Though I don't think knowing the screen is going to help me guess the game anyway!

I don't recognise it.  The main character sprite made me think of Teen Agent but the graphics weren't as good, and I think that had a Polish developer not Finnish.  So I'm drawing another blank I'm afraid!

Just not ringing any bells with me, sorry...