Playing against the computer (Scrabbox) I was pretty rubbish, so I cheated a lot! With Scrabble on the ZX Spectrum, all you had to do was put any letters you had in any order and insist it was a ...
Quite simply the greatest football game ever made! Sensible World Of Soccer had the most simple graphics ever seen, but the sheer depth of the teams and leagues/Competitions was staggering even by today's standards. When I got rid of my ...
I can remember a game coming out, produced by Sega, called Shinobi. It was a scrolling platform game, where you had to jump barrels, bullets and various hazards, and beat up various enemies with your ninja sword and projectiles. Starting with ...
For the ZX Spectrum. You played Eric the schoolboy who was confined to an endless round of lessons, breaktimes, assemblies, etc. The fun to be had was to create trouble without getting caught by one of the teachers (Mr. Withit, ...
Skull was a computer game for the ZX Spectrum. I used to play it on my then boyfriends machine. Skull was a text-based game. In it you had to go through levels to find some treasure (that I never discovered) ...
In 1990, Sega, the Japanese gaming giant needed a character to challenge the global dominance of the Mario series. A flagship character who would we as synonymous with the console as Mario was for Nintendo. Enter Sonic the Hedgehog.Originally titled ...
Row upon row of nasty aliens marched across the screen firing their weapons at you in this arcade classic. The idea of Space Invaders was to shoot the aliens out of the sky whilst dodging their bullets and hiding behind ...
An early Psion classic game for the ZX Spectrum. The blurb on the cassette case describes it as follows: "Defend the earth with your gun base from attack of successive waves of 55 aliens - a full feature, high resolution, ...
Type LOAD "". Hit Enter. Press 'play' on your cassette recorder. Listen to screechy sound for 10 seconds while tv screen shows manic blue & red lines. Colours stop whilst screechy noise continues. Stop tape. Rewind to beginning. Adjust volume ...
The arcade game - wire drawn Tie fighters and Death Star. It was very repetitive - fight through the Tie fighters and get to the surface. There, shoot gun towers until you reach the trench. There, you shoot gun placements ...
In the golden age of the arcades before the fighting game revolution of the late 80's early 90's, there was this game called Street Fighter which let you play as one character Ryu, or if you were player two, as ...
Ahhh, Streets of Rage. Up there with “Double Dragon”, “Street Fighter” and “Tekken” in the classic “beat-em-up” genre of computer game. This was one of the first and best, and came out on the Sega Megadrive.The game was a lot ...
Geoff Crammonds Stunt Car Racer was released in 1989 and was a stunning game. Taking place on an elevated track (imagine Hard Drivin crossed with a rollercoaster) and you drove in a dragster type car against two other drivers. There ...
The original and best? Definitely! I still own a Nintendo NES along with a string of games and I never tire of playing Mario. Super Mario Brothers was the first platform game that really seemed to capture the heart of ...
The SuperTed Computer Game was originally made for the ZX Spectrum. In this game you played Superted, and had to catch Texas Pete, Bulk and Skeleton in a set of 9 mazes and put them in jail. You could only ...