Tag: C64 Review
This game originally piqued my interest thanks to the cover of CRASH magazine #14 (March 1985). I mean, look at these guys… they kind of look like the grotesque marionettes Jeff Dunham uses for his ventriloquist act: Upon further investigation, ads for this game boast “1st ever multi-role arcade adventure” and there’s a song called “Everyone’s A Wally” included on…
Having achieved critical success with The Last Ninja and it’s subsequent sequel in 1987 and 1988 respectively, System 3 had developed a formidable reputation as one of the top software houses in 80’s Britain. No longer simply just the publisher of relatively obscure budget titles, the studio had soon become developer and producer to some of the biggest and best…
Released in 1985 by Datasoft, Zorro is an arcade platform game based on Johnston McCulley’s masked vigilante, released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad range of 8-bit computers. It’s another game that I remember playing as a child, but was never able to actually finish for one reason or another. All is not well in the pueblo…
To coincide with Halloween, this weekend (Oct 27, 2017) saw Netflix release its second season of Stranger Things — a sci-fi/horror TV series about a band of kids joining forces to battle supernatural forces in their small Indiana town — to a very enthusiastic North American audience. The first season is set during the early 80s and contains all of…
“It’s only rock n roll, but I like it!” Rolling in on the Commodore 64 from Rainbow arts was a clever little ditty by the name of Rock n Roll. The clue is in the name. The game is an action-oriented puzzler with 32 levels for the player to enjoy. Taking control of a metallic sphere with the joystick, the…
