It is time for some Super Skoda Challenge from 1991, by Mike Dodd, Written in AMOS This top-down racer has you racing around the track, and can be played by between 2 to 4 players, which are coloured Red, Green, Blue and Yellow respectively The Aim of the Game is to Shoot your opponents, while […]
This is Racing Maniacs by Paul Gaze in 1993 Here is another Car Racing Game, which shows you a front bumper view from your Car, you are racing alongside a Computer Player, or there is a 2-Player option as well There are tokens (if enabled via the Game Options) dotted around the track, and you […]
Please note if you are with O2 they are ringing from an 020 number (London, UK) which when I checked it against an online database does *NOT* come up as anything related to O2 I checked the Official O2 Number and it said “O2 Customer Services” on the number checking website, so please always check […]
Here we have, Moose Drive, by Graham Dean in 1993 Now this is a decent well made Racing Game, from the top-down perspective with some really decent Graphics and Music throughout The Graphics are quite detailed, from the advertisement signs, to the stands of people watching, and even some trees dotted around At the top […]
Today it is time for some High Octane by Paul Overy from 1993 This Car-racing Game can be played by 1 or 2 players, in a rather tiny split-screen mode, Your Car is also equipped with missiles what you can fire against your opponent Visually the Games Graphics are pretty decent, and the screen has […]
This is Tetris Duel by Nigel Hughes in Blitz Basic 2 Another flavour of Tetris comes in, as with all Tetris Games, you need to build lines to progress as far as you can As with all Tetris Games, random pieces drop from the top, to which you can rotate them, push them down faster, […]
The Commercial Game-of-the-month this time is Midnight Resistance by Ocean/Special FX in 1990 Your mission is to rescue your family, You get initially armed with a pea shooter style weapon, which you can use to shoot enemies, they are in Blue Skins and Yellow Skins The Yellow Skinned Enemies will drop an Item upon being […]
This is Solid 2 AGA, by S.A.Z. Huybrechts (Bash) Another Bat ‘N’ Ball Game enters the arena, This one is a left to right affair, and you can play against the Computer as well, and is like Pong from the Arcades You play on the Left, and your opponent or computer plays on the Right, […]
This is Slider, a Puzzle Game, Written by Joseph Carlson in 1995 In this Game, you are presented with a Grid of Numbers, once you shuffle the Grid, You can then start clicking them to re-arrange them back into Numerical Order You use your mouse to click on the tiles in order to move them […]
This is a Boulderdash-Clone called Bulder by Steve Yrjana As most of us know by now, In Boulderdash and in Bulder, Your object is to collect enough Diamonds to open the exit, while avoiding the Fireflys and Bugs which will kill on contact There are the various objects, like Stones which can fall on you […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well this beauty is the Commodore 64, Released in August 1982, Making it 40 years old It has a MOS 6510 CPU at 1MHz, a wonderful adorable, SID 6581 Chip, which produces the most wonderful sounds in like ever, 64K of RAM, and a 25 X 40 Text or 320 X 200 Graphics Mode with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Todays commercial Game of the Month is Base Jumpers, by Shadow Software, in 1995 The object of this Game is to Climb the Tower from inside, defeating enemies along the way, flicking switches and bouncing upto the top You can also pick up letters along the way, when you form a certain combination of letters, […]
Now this is Computer Conflict by Dr.Grafix in 1996 This is another SEUCK-Based Game, where you shoot aliens with your space ship You have various enemies, such as ones what look like Space Invader Monsters, and the Space Invader Spaceship what usually flies across the top in Space Invaders, and various pickups, such as the […]
This little Gem is called Bop ‘N’ Plop by Andrew Fereday Now this is one game I do like to revisit and play, Plenty of action from the outset and onwards, makes this possibly my favourite SEUCK Game of them all You are above the clouds, and you have plenty of varied enemies to shoot […]