Author: Amiga Boing

Chuck Rock [D]

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 […]

Alien Frenzy

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 […]

Alien Bash

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, […]

Pacmania

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 […]

Friends (Dynablaster-Clone)

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 […]

Ashido

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 […]

Pipeliner

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 […]

Chippy In Perils with Plumbers

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 […]

AnyDesk Scam

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 […]

Brat! [D]

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 […]

Commodore PET – 47 Years Old (1977-2024)

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 […]

Nibbler Super eXtra

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 […]

Trick or Treat

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 […]

Spheroid & Spheroid Christmas Edition

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 […]

Crypto Scam via Twitter/X Social Network

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 […]

Quick Money

This is Quickmoney by Ben Campbell in 1992 It is a 2 Player Game, which you need to kill your opponent, The screen is split into 2 play areas, the top half is Player 1, and the bottom half is Player 2 The play area scrolls along with your current position in an up/down method, […]

Worms and Worms Directors Cut [D]

This gem is called Worms, by Team 17, way back in 1995 Here you control some Worms, and your mission is to defeat your enemy Worm team by any way possible, you can control your Worms via Mouse and the Keyboard Arrow Keys (which if using the Games Collection) means you need to change the […]

Tapper

This is Tapper, by Scott Jensen, from 2020 Based off the Arcade Game, and indeed has the same title screen, including its original release date of MCMLXXXIII (1983) on it, this is a Game what truly resembles the Arcade version almost to a “T” The only exception to this Amiga version is, when you finish […]

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons

This is Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons, by Bitmap Soft in 2020 In this game, you star as Smarty, and your task is to kill those Nasty Gluttons, which start off Green, best going to a higher level in game to begin with, then shoot one to turn it motionless, then keep firing it off […]

Quadrix

This is Quadrix by Geoffrey Sparks from 1992 In this Game, you have tiles which appear at the edges of the Gameplay area, and your task is to match them up in a line with matching tiles inside the Gameplay area itself You can move the grid up/down/left/right using the joystick, and then press fire […]

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