Month: August 2024

Attack Of The Petscii Robots

This time it is Attack of the PETSCII Robots by David Murray (The 8-Bit Guy) from 2021 Personally this Game takes quite a while to learn, ideally you should watch The Tutorial Video to get the basics of what you need to do in this Game, Going in Blind is not recommended, But once you […]

XII

This is XII by Alastair Murray, Written in AMOS You can have upto 4 players on this Game, or even computer players Your task is quite simple, eliminate the other players to win, there are plenty of pickups dotted around the map as well as special tiles, which will move you in one direction There […]

Manic Miner

The Commercial Game of the Month has to be Manic Miner by Stephen McMaster in 1990 The object of Manic Miner is to collect enough keys to open up that Golden Exit (well its not Golden as such, But it sounded better -ed) which will only open up once all keys have been collected, then […]

Countdown To Extinction

Here is Countdown to Extinction by Alistair Murray This is the Third of 3 Games in this Series: Traitor, Hanger 18, and Countdown To Extinction This Game is a Prequal to Traitor which in turn is prequal to Hanger 18, so mostly the Gameplay is more or less the same, although the Mission Screens will […]

Traitor

Here we have, Traitor, by Alastair Murray from 1994 This is the First of 3 Games in this Series: Traitor, Hanger 18, and Countdown To Extinction This is a 2D action game, where you are on Planet Earth in the year 2025 A.D. (that is only next year -ed) Ahem, anyway the story goes (this […]

Hanger 18

This is Hanger 18, Written in AMOS, by Alastair Murray in 1995 This is the Second of 3 Games in this Series: Traitor, Hanger 18, and Countdown To Extinction You are a prisoner who has been framed, and were sentenced to life in prison on Mars, your task is to rescue other prisoners and make […]