The Man with the Golden Joystick - featuring RetroHitch
A downloadable game
The Man with the Golden Joystick, starring RetroHitch is a ZX Spectrum game, in the style of the classic platformers from back in the day.
New for 2023 - a couple of bugfixes & a new loading screen. Enjoy!
Planeta Sinclair called this "one of the best platformers of recent times", stating "what we liked most about The Man with the Golden Joystick is its immense gameplay, bordering on perfection." Read the full review here: http://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-man-with-golden-joystick.html
You can watch & follow RetroHitch here: www.twitch.tv/retrohitch
Download
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Development log
- RetroHitch - Final VersionFeb 18, 2023
- Version 1.2Feb 19, 2022
- Version 1.1Feb 17, 2022
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Ciao,
Un platform davvero divertente,
Difficile ma senza mai essere frustrante,molto bello come belli tutti i titoli che hai sviluppato che porterò con piacere nel mio piccolo canale.
Ciao
https://youtu.be/HSNJo5enHTk?si=cIUc4jsv85ioQSHy
È stato divertente da guardare!
Grazie per aver giocato e per le tue gentili parole.
You did really well, you just missed out on the rooms above the Space Invaders room... https://maps.speccy.cz/maps/ManwiththeGoldenJoystick.png
Fantastic! It's great to see it running how it was intended to be played. 😃
Thanks so much for playing.
That room is one of the ones my son Nate designed. ☺️
Thanks for your reply. Here is my play through of the game. I think there are 136 items so I avoided collecting 8 of the more difficult ones.
Awesome stuff! That's a great run.
Great job. Love the references and music. Such a pleasure to play. I wanted to order this on spectrum tape can I get a copy direct please? With forward to the past on reverse side?
You're in luck, we literally have one copy left of the final batch of the Sloanysoft Collection. If you can find me on Mastodon or Facebook or Twitch or Discord or Instagram, drop me a DM & I'll give you the details.
Most welcome and that's good news. I've just sent the paypal payment and sent you my address on facebook. Thanks again
Also thank you for the kind words about the game. 😃
Wow!! Great job. I'ts very funnny and addictive!!! The jump control is more accurate than manic miner. Congrats!
Nice one, thank you very much. I'm really glad you enjoyed it. 😃👍
Room 237, twins, Here's Johnny! ;-)
That room is dedicated to my best mate Hicks. He owns a B&B now and loves King so... Perfect :) Thanks for playing!
hehe 😆
Will be buying the physical for this, here's my little video of it...
Awesome!! Thank you very much for this. 😃👍
Thanks!
Thank you! 😃👍
Thank you for playing :)
Nice game!
Thanks dude :) And ty for the youtube.
Cheers! 😃👍
Quite possibly the greatest Spectrum game ever made. We waited 40 years for this! OK, joking but it is brilliant, ty so much to all who download the game, thank you for the donations to Safe in our World! Already breached 100 UK pounds!
Love the game too, really well done Dave and Nate, ty so much for bringing this project alive!
Cheers mate! So glad you enjoyed it. 😃👍