"beat" or "beaten"

[Mr C]

Is this something which only affects football related conversations, but whenever you hear manages talking about their games its:

"if we get beat in this game" or "when <insert-club-name> got beat that helped us"

Shouldn't it be "beaten"?

Sorry Wookie your thread reminded me of this

 

[Braders]

beat it

 

[Marc]

is that the almighty REPTON in your avatar......MARVELOUS

 

[Mr C]

beat it

I did. It fell off.

 

[Mr C]

is that the almighty REPTON in your avatar......MARVELOUS

Yep. Classic, as you obviously know
Apparently it's coming out for mobiles soon...or already has.

 

[Marc]

yeah seen it for mobiles but you have to pay
I used to LOVE that game in all its incarnations on the classic BBC Micro, making your own levels and EVERYTHING, it ruled!

 

[bhafc99]

Should be "beaten". But part of the problem is that the verb 'got' or 'get' is also redundant here. Correct usage is:

"If we are beaten in this game" and "When Palace were beaten that helped us"

School over for the day.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

It's called BrookingSpeak.

We got beat, the team done brilliant etc. The end of the word is cut off and it's a related condition to that of young children who when learning to speak often omit the first syllable of a word (e.g. mato, tato instead of tomato and potato). Research shows that it may be linked to damage caused by heading the ball. Or the fact that most footballers are very thick.

 

[Mr C]

yeah seen it for mobiles but you have to pay
I used to LOVE that game in all its incarnations on the classic BBC Micro, making your own levels and EVERYTHING, it ruled!

Excellent. That's where i cut my game-playing teeth too....any other greats on that machine that you remember?

 

[Braders]

spectrum , my first machine

 

[Marc]

Excellent. That's where i cut my game-playing teeth too....any other greats on that machine that you remember?

oh yes! lets see....<sneakily goes off to BCC Micro Website to remind himself!>

Planetoid, remember that

Of course, the original ELITE

Chuckie Egg was class

Cylon Attack was amazing!

 

[The Wookiee]

Is it not a case of past tense:
We got beaten on Saturday but we will beat them next week .

 

[Mr C]

Cylon Attack? Don't remember that...ELITE was cool though, as were all those others there.

How about these?

Exile:

Killer Gorilla:

Revs:

 

[Marc]

Exile....OH MY GOD that was AMAZING, never did complete it though, might see f its available for the PC

 

[Mr C]

Nah I never completed it either. It just got too difficult

Elite and Exile were probably the two best games for the BBC, and possibly ever You can get some Elite-style games for the PC now but they don't quite have the gameplay.

As for Planetoid, wasn't that also called Defender? Or am I thinking of something else

 

[Marc]

yeah defender was pretty much the same thing. Elite on the Amiga was class, had 'solid' stuff not all wireframe

 

[Mr C]

OK how about some more:

Frak - cavemen all over the place

Ravenskull - this game scared me.

And Superior Soccer...can't get an image for that one.

 

[Marc]

eeerrr.....yeah i remember Ravenskull well but dont remember her

 

[Mr C]

eeerrr.....yeah i remember Ravenskull well but dont remember her

Oops. Me thinks I should preview my posts first

She was one of the images on the page I found. God only knows who she is though!!

 

[Marc]

Castle Quest, amazing stuff with the Witch

Citadel was amazing, completed that after a few long hard years!

Commando rocked!

DeathStar was amazing

and my first ever foot game: Matchday!