Computer games

Action Biker, or KP Clumsy Colin as it was known, was available on the Spectrum 128k and Commodore 64 back in the 80s. It was a tie in with KP crisps, as Clumsy Colin was their mascot then.Clumsy Colin had ...

This game came as standard with the Sega Master System 2. Unlike other games, where you had to use your powers to unsurp the Boss at the end of each level; in this game, you had outsmart them in a ...

Arkanoid was a posh version of Breakout. You just hit a ball up at a wall, and every brick that the ball hit disappeared. You just kept going until every brick in that wall had gone. And then you ...

Anyone remember the hype surrounding the Imagine game 'Bandersnatch'? Every month CRASH magazine had an otherwise blank ad with another letter of the word filled in. Sadly Imagine went belly up before the game could be finished and Bandersnatch never ...

A bizarre but frighteningly addictive platform game from Taito in which you (and a friend if you had another arcade geek buddy) controlled two dinosaurs, called Bub and Bob, in their quest to rescue another dinosaur. The quest took you ...

A game for the ZX Spectrum +. This was the most bizarre game as I recall...you spent ages trying to steer a guy...Clive presumably..around in a Sinclair C5 'car'. Can't actually remember the point of the game now...there must have ...

Caesar's Travels was one of many games made by Microrsoft for Amstrad computers such as the Spectrum +2. Caesar was a black and white cat thrown out of his home by a cruel owner for failing to be a good ...

Back when everyone else had a computer we had an Atari. The one game that could keep you trapped for hours in front of this console was Centipede.You are in the mushroom patch (I don't know why it was mushrooms) ...

I remember this game. I used to love it but wasn't any good at it. This was a platform game where you was a farmer who had to collect eggs on different platforms whilst avoiding the angry chickens. ...

Circus Charlie was one of the best arcade games when i was young. You play a clown called Charlie, who actually looks a bit like Andy Pandy, and you have to complete various stages. The first stage you are on ...

Clayfighter was a 90s fighting video game, produced by 'Interplay', released for the SNES. There were two games of the franchise - the first SNES game featured Bad Mr. Frosty - a snowman with, hence the name, a 'bad attitude', ...

This was a table-top pub video game. The idea was you had two joysticks which controlled the hands of a little man, and the object of the game was to climb up the side of four skyscrapers, avoiding the various ...

I used to play Crystal on a PC when i was in year 5/6, around 14 years ago. It was a point 'n' click game, where you had to figure out the clues in the room in order to move ...

This game is where you try to save the king because he got stabbed. Thanks to saying "don't cut the trees down".  ...

This was on both Spectrum and Commodore. It featured the decathlete Daley Thompson (obviously) taking part on all his decathlon events. To play you had to almost always hit certain keys or a joystick continuously as fast as you possibly ...

Demon Driver. An early table top arcade game that you have to basically steer your car successfully from a slower ane to a quicker one avoiding other cars. Really early though as your car was actually plastic and the other ...

Dig Dug was a killer arcade game release by Namco in 1982. In it you had to drop rocks on the underground monsters or they would breathe fire and kill you. Dig Dug was also released for several home computers ...

My older sister, Robin (she will get a kick out of this) had an orange fold-out two screen Donkey Kong game that she used as currency in order to get me to do her jobs around the house. I wish ...

This is first Laserdisc game.It is very of it's day, obviously, but was a massive hit when it was released in 1983. The animation looks very disney - in fact it was animated by former disney animator Don Bluth.As you can ...

Duck Hunt was a lightgun game from Nintendo where you had a dog that jumped in the bushes to scare the ducks so you could shoot them. Then the dog would pop up with your kill, but if you missed ...

Dynamite Ducks was a game for the Sega Master System. A princess was kidnapped and a red and blue duck had to find and rescue her. They traveled through various cities meeting level baddies along the way! ...

Engineer Humpty was a Commodore 64 game. In Engineer Humpty there were several different screens showing a maze that you had to navigate Humpty's spanner through. The screen showed the entire layout including conveyor belts and different bits of machinery ...

Fantasy World Dizzy is an adventure arcade video game released in October 1989 by Codemasters and designed by the Oliver Twins.  The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was developed under the name Dizzy III. The third Dizzy game to be ...

Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet was a virtual pet created by Fujitsu in the mid 90s, and centered around an alien dolphin/penguin hybrid creature called Fin Fin. Fin Fin lived on a planet called Teo, and you could ...

I had First Division Manager on the Amstrad CPC 464 (the tape one) and this must have been the first real football manager game ever! It was brill, you could buy players like Gazza, Butcher and Shilton. You could also ...

Frogger was probably the first video game I fell in love with. Fast, cute and addictive it was one of those where it was impossible to only play it once; there was always the temptation to try and beat your ...

There were a number of different Fun School titles for the Commodore 64 computer and there was always a picture of a green frog on the box. The program had different mini games in it that taught children different concepts ...

This was one of the first computer games I owned on my Atari.The game is a little similar to space invaders but this one is in colour and the aliens dive towards you. Galaxian added an element of drama by ...

I spent YEARS playing the Spectrum version of Ghostbusters! I used to pick the slowest car, get 4 traps, the PK detector, the Image intensifier, the bait and the ghost vacuum, and have about ?400 left. If you went over the ...

This was an arcade conversion of the great Konami arcade game, released by imagine. The Spectrum version was made my Joffa Smiff and did an amazing version. It was on Commodore 64 also and featured Martin Galways music. ...

Brilliant 2-in-1 game for the ZX Spectrum. The idea was to steer Horace down a downhill skiing course through the marker flags without crashing into them. But then when you get to the bottom of the hill the game then ...

You'd have to tell Hugo what to do by typing it in, and he would sometimes comply. Usually he wouldn't understand what you were trying to tell him.I had Hugo's House of Horrors and I could never get anywhere in ...

Play as Quasimodo in this left to right scroller through screen after screen of trundling cannon balls, arrows, pits full of fire in order to reach Esmerelda in the castle keep. At the end of each screen you'd jump onto ...

JSW, by Matt Smith, is possibly the most addictive game I've ever had the pleasure to own. It was basically a mansion that Willy bought after finding all the treasure in his previous game, Manic Miner. The point to JSW was to ...

Jetpack was a computer game for the ZX Spectrum by Ultimate Software (which later became famous as RARE) where you had to guide a spaceman round an alien planet picking up pieces of his spaceship and assembling them. Sounds pretty simple ...

King's Quest was made by Sierra Entertainment and is a classic adventure game from its time. The storyline to King's Quest was that a very young and "pixelated" King Graham must find his queen who has been kidnapped by evil ...

when i was a kid, I think the year would have been around 1979 somebody bought me this game for Christmas and I played it constantly!!!It was a blue handheld unit, like a calculator but bigger, with a red digital ...

Manic Miner was arguably the best game ever produced. It originally ran on the ZX Spectrum and was a game where you guided miner Willy going through various increasingly difficult levels. Manic Miner was highly addictive and well before its ...

Ah the very first Mortal kombat game. The one that had the controversy, raised a lot of eyebrows a lot of ire and garnered a lot of blame for violent crime. It spawned the ESRB rating system for extreme violence ...

Made by Mastertronic in 1985 for the C15 plus4. Mr Puniverse was very similar to Jet Set Willy with the exception that you could run out of air if you stayed in certain rooms too long. Also you could jump ...

Oh Mummy was an arcade game produced by Gem Software for Amstrad computers such as my Spectrum +2. If you can envisage Tomb Raider as a grid of twelve squares, you're there. Your task as an archaeologist or explorer was ...

Oregon Trail was a computer game for the old Apple computers. Many of you may remember playing it in school, as the teachers thought it was educational. Most kids enjoyed it for the awful things you could do to your ...

Who could ever forget the first time they played "Pac-Man?" That yellow sphere trapped in a blue and black maze eating yellow dots and running away from four brightly colored ghosts? That introductory music and the "wacka-wacka-wacka" noise when ...

Paperboy was a computer game for the Amiga A500. I still have this console in my gra'ns loft! You can now download Paperboy the original version on the XBox 360. Its grand! ...

Popular arcade game from the early 80's. This game was designed in Phoenix, Arizona in the U.S. and Taito in Japan and was sold by Atari in 1982 for the Atari console.The game was like many of the games ...

I used to play Pippo with my mum, who was a big fan on my ZX Spectrum. It was like a little space hopper that you made jump around a board of squares, which you coloured by jumping onto while ...

I remember this on my friends commodore 64. I only ever got to play it when his mother was working nights and his sister was out with her boyfriend, which was very rare. But nethertheless, I loved the game. It ...

The very basic game of tennis! Me and my sister used to battle against each other at this. ...

Punch and Judy was a game on the Spectrum about a little man like the puppet Punch who collected sausages. ...

I had this game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, it took about 3 hours to load but it was well worth it. A little man sleep-walking around a house. I had hours of fun playing this game with my little ...