This is Aquanaut by Phil Ruston in 1995, Released under F1 Licenceware Aquanaut is a Shoot ‘Em Up, viewed from the side-perspective, and is a pretty well made Game Atlantic HQ have lost contact with their top secret underwater base, Aquasphere 1. The last transmissions from the base were unclear but it is being officially […]
This is Alien Bounce, by an Unknown Author, Programmed in AMOS You play as a small ship at the bottom of the screen, and your job is to kill the aliens which spawn from the mother ship at the top of the screen which is partitioned off by a huge bar The Aliens appear to […]
This is Android Arena by Riccardo Goghero In this rather strange Game, 5 androids come out of a ship, and line up, now you maybe thinking you have control of all these 5 or it gives you 5 lives, how wrong I truly was Your task is to reach the exit door on each level, […]
This is Alien Pong Trilogy by Gareth Griffiths from 1997, Written in AMOS Professional In this Bat ‘N’ Ball Game you have to keep the Ball in play as long as possible to rack up those points You control 2 of the outer bats (one far left, one far right) the Computer controls 2 in […]
This is the Amiga 600 Computer, Released in March 1992, 32 Years ago this month (Could not find an exact date of release, if anyone can help with this, please let me know) The Amiga 600 was the last model to feature the Motorola 68000 and the ECS (Enhanced Chip Set) and it was a […]
This excellent Commercial Game is called Chuck Rock by Core Design way back in 1992 In this delightful Game, you star as Chuck Rock, and your girl has been kidnapped, so you must run after her to rescue her! Being Chuck he has drunk a lot, and consequently has a “Beer Belly” this useful Belly […]
This is Alien Frenzy by Paul Nordovics In this 2-Player Frenzy, You start on a randomly generated grid, and your task is to eliminate your opponent To help you with this task red pods will spawn, giving you such things as invisible, homing, splitter, standard and others, once you either kill your opponent You can […]
This is Alien Bash, from 1993, by Stuart Law and Glen Cumming In this Game, you are a human who has to kill hoards of Alien Slime Balls using the basic gun as provided, you need to run around, shooting these balls of slime before they kill you The aim is to rescue the Prisoners, […]
The Commercial Game of the Month has to goto Pacmania from 1988 by Grandslam/Namco Now what can I say about Pacmania, This game has certainly stood the test of time, and is still pretty popular among many, including myself, who still plays it to this day Pacmania is sort of a continuation of Pacman, alas […]
This is Friends (a Dynablaster-clone) by Allan Lund Jensen Friends is a Dynablaster-clone, which can be played by upto 2 or even 3 players You start off in a tiled grid like structure, with fixed blocks and some you can Blow up with your Bombs, when you place a Bomb, make sure you are not […]
This is Ashido by Andre Wichman in 1990 Ashido is based off the Game Ishido, and you aim is to place 62 random tiles with 6 different patterns and colours onto the Game Board, sounds easy but in practise it is not Only Tiles with the same colour or the same pattern can touch each […]
This is Pipeliner by Micheal Weber in 1992, Written in GFA-Basic The object of this Game is to make the longest pipe possible, however, this version has 2 different sets of pipes you can use, rather than pressing Fire to place a Pipe, You will need to press Fire then either Left (to select the […]
This is Chippy The Cat in Perils with Plumbers by Andrew Lee In this simple Game, your task is to collect the Plungers dotted around the level, while avoiding the enemies on screen, because when you touch them, they will kill you and take 2 Plungers from you You also have a time limit to […]
This Scam surrounds Crypto Currency (Yep that old chestnut), where they ask you if you have a computer, so I said NO, Because I know it is another Scam They then proceeded to say I have £8000 in a dormant Crypto Currency Account – I have never used Crypto so I know immediately this was […]
The Commercial Game of the month this time is BRAT, by Foursfield/Imageworks in 1991 While I added the Demo of this Game to the Games Collection way back in August 2023, I did not for some weird reason post this review in the same month, so here it is below: You star as BRAT, and […]
Well since it is the Commodore PET’s 47th Birthday (January 1977), and because it was created in the year I was born, I thought I would do a little Tribute to the old machine The PET had a MOS 6502 CPU at 1MHz, originally shipped with 4K RAM (later models had 8K), a text display […]
This is Nibbler Super eXtra (v1.89 Shareware) by The Backyard Brothers in 1997 As you can tell this is another Snake Game, where you need to go around collecting those Shiny Gems, and each time you collect one, your Snake grows a little bigger The object is to collect all the Gems, while avoiding your […]
This is Trick or Treat by Duncan Stuart in 1994 Well this Game is a 2 Player kill fest, where there are 2 players on this rather small map, which you must constantly shoot to kill, then a tally screen appears at the end, and that is basically the Game There are a few doors […]
This is Spheroid by Andy Vaisey in 2022 In this Game, You control a sphere or a ball, and your task is to reach the “Exit” square, however, there are only certain tiles which you can land on, which are thankfully shown on the right side of the screen, along with a timer, which will […]
Please be aware that a SCAM involving Crypto is going around at the moment, I will explain how it works below, and always make sure you NEVER give over ANY of your MONEY or PERSONAL DETAILS, such as Bank Account Numbers, Your Address, or anything else which can be used to identify you Stay Safe […]