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Geek Culture / TrapDoor DVD at last!!!

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Van B
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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 17:03
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My fave series as a kid was TrapDoor, and now they're releasing a DVD with all 40 episodes .

Damn Burt I've missed you!.


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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 17:08
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Gah!!!

Just looking for a pic to post to remind you guys and found this...



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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 17:17
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Good to know it's out

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I remember the game on the ZX81. Could never get past the bit which required you to unleash the jumpy thing to squish the somethings in the vat to make juice. Always took me too long and the dude upstairs got angry.


It's a vague memory because I was probably about 4 or 5 at the time.

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well i remember the game on c64! but it was a pity, all in english.... and i was 10.

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Never really played the game - did like the TV program though.

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berk, feed me.

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Van B
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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 20:43
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FEED ME NOW!

Hehe, I had no idea TrapDoor was so international .

I had the Spectrum game, don't think I managed to complete it though.


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Quote: "I remember the game on the ZX81"
Sure that wasn't the ZX spectrum? ZX81 barely got past ascii, let alone big colourful graphics.

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omg i remember this as the scary cartoon i never watched!!

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Dazzag I assumeed that "ZX spectrum" and the "ZX 81" were synonymous, if not... then hey - I was only 5.

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Haha, it was an awesome cartoon indeed!

I never knew there was a game for it however ( but that's probably cos it was before my time ).

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Yeah, I remember watching that show, it was very odd. Also had no idea there was a game, either.


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Fancy not knowing there was a game of the cartoon...

Deary me...

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 21:00
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It must have had the biggest player sprite on any speccy game - screenie:



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I think I remember seeing this on TV, only a vague memory though because it must have been a singular reshowing

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I remember wathcing and playing the game on the spectrum too . Though it was my second most favourite cartoon, The Best cartoon ever when I was growing up had to be:

http://www.dangermouse.org/what.html

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Oooh, I don't know if it was the biggest player sprite on the spectrum.

Red heat:


Street fighter:


Street fighter 2:


Oh, and Danger mouse was tops. Computer games were pretty good too.

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My god...I cant even make out most of the things in those pictures...lol I wipped out the old N64 yesterday to play some of my old games, I used to think the graphics were so realistic, but now, the controller are hard to use and the graphics suck, lol!

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what the hell !?!

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trapdoor is worth buying on DVD just for the theme music, come on!
I used to rock out to that when I were a lad!

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 11:49
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I cant seem to find the DVD, link anyone...

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 17:04
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It might be a little early to be able to get it online yet, I think it's only just been released in Britain.


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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 08:53
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Quote: "what the hell !?!"

Perhaps, Sage Tech, you're too young for this nostalgia.

Quote: "I think it's only just been released in Britain."

Did Trap Door ever get aired anywhere in the world other then Britain?

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Australia.


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Someone will probably do a CG remake of Trap Door, just like the Magic Roundabout. They're even doing Dangerous Mouse as a CG film, but I haven't heard anything about that in over 12 months.

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blip- blip-

yes the TrapDoor nostalgia. good on ya Van B, such a bizzare thing to post.

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