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“Welcome to Mother Russia comrade!” At a time when tensions between super powers were at an all time high, at a time when the chill of ‘cold war’ penetrated the hearts of nations, there can be only one ending and no victories. The threat of global nuclear warfare was rife in the mid 80’s as the west and east entered…
“We came, we saw, we kicked it’s ass!” ‘Ghostbusters’. We all remember the classic movie, we all remember the logo and we most certainly remember the merchandise, however it’s the video game tie in under the microscope here and one of Activision’s finest. Released on all platforms, the Commodore 64 was able to put all its hardware to full use…
Here we have a fantastic conversion of one of the most original arcade videogames that history had to offer. Appearing on most home systems, ‘Bomb Jack’ was able to utilize the full potential of the Commodore 64’s software, thus making the task that much easier for ‘Elite Systems’, the company behind the conversion from arcade to home computer. The wonders of…
“Battle stations! This is not a drill!” Lets go back, way back. The year is 1983 and an infamous games company going by the name ‘US Gold’, releasing an abundant collection of classics for all home micros, unleashed hell with the smash hit ‘BEACH HEAD” and the Commodore 64 version was quite possibly the best. The overall mission was assault…
“Now hear this.. Now hear this!” Walker, a game by DMA for the commodore Amiga. There, that’s the business end sorted, Lets get to it!! Unlike any mainstream shooter back in the day, Walker offered an original dynamic, a dynamic changing the way adrenaline packed mayhem offered itself to players wishing to engage in the sheer savagery and brutality of…
“It is the future. Wars no longer serve a purpose and all international disputes are solved within the arena.” In a corporate world with corporations fighting for global domination the need for conflict has vanished leaving privately owned teams to battle each other in the most violent sport the human race has ever devised. ‘Speedball 2’, released originally on the…
“Floor it!” ‘Nitro’, a game released for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST by Psygnosis. As with any Amiga game, the software was put to full use in a rubber burning sensation! With a similar dynamic as the classic Super Sprint, the onus is on racing. Now when we say say racing we actually mean a relentless campaign, sprawling across urban…
“The way of the Ninja is the way of stealth.” Not so in the case of ‘Ninja Warriors. A game from Taito in the late 80’s was an arcade rarity in the form of a huge cab with wide screen play. Released to several home systems, notably the Commodore Amiga, the premise of the game took place in the near…
My rules … I must have played the game a lot.This is really a favourites list, these aren’t the necessarily the “best” games. OK. Having started this, I’m now going to change it. It will now be several Vic 20 Top 5’s. Why? Two reasons:It isn’t quite fair to compare a 19.5kb game to a 3.5kb game and ten games…
There are very valid reasons why I no longer take my breaks in the nurse’s rest area any more. Firstly it gets too much when you’re the only male nurse on break and your surrounded by incessant droning and bitching. And secondly because some random guy wouldn’t stop harping on about how he loved Paperboy in the arcades as a child. All…
