This time the Commercial Game of the Month goes to the original Rick Dangerous from Core Design from 1989 Rick Dangerous is a pretty decent platformer, which is kinda based on Indiana Jones, where you goto the Amazon Jungle to search for the lost Goolu Tribe TICK! TICK! TICK! TICK! BOOM! as the Bomb goes, […]

This is James Pond II: Codename Robocod Demo by Millenium from 1991, A Preview Version Featured on Amiga Action Issue 26 from November 1991 Here you star as Robocod, with the object of killing off all the Toys, by bopping them to oblivion (well ok, you jump on their heads -ed), This Preview Version (or […]

This months “Commercial Game of the Month” simply has to goto International Karate + (IK+) from 1988 by The Late Archer Maclean (1962-2022, 60) Today would have been Archer Maclean’s 63rd Birthday, Born 28th January 1962, so Happy Birthday in Heaven to Archer – Rest in Peace Sir! This brilliant gem by The Late Archer […]

Today’s Commercial Game of the Month is Lemmings – A Triple Pack of Lemming-ness – Includes Lemmings Christmas 1991, Lemmings Christmas 1992, and Holiday Lemmings 1994! Thought I would go all out this year, and give you 3 Lemmings Demos, all have unique levels and varying levels of difficulty, will you chose to save them […]

The Commercial Game of the Month is KGB by Virgin Games/Cryo from 1992(also known as Conspiracy on the PC CD Version) You play as Captain Maksim Mikhailovich Rukov who recently was trasferred from Department P from the GRU, who needs to investigate possible corruption inside the KGB itself after a private eye was found murdered […]

The Commercial Game of the Month has to be Manic Miner II by Software Projects in 1990 Well what can I say about this Game, Quite a lot actually, It is as you can tell this is a modern remake of the original Manic Miner from the Commodore 64, with larger graphics and a larger […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Commercial Game for this month is Buggy Boy by Elite in 1988 You drive your Buggy around collecting Flags, and driving through Gate Bonuses which range from 100, 250 and even 500 There are 5 Tracks to choose from, including Offroad, North, East, West and South Tracks, each with its own design, some what […]

The Game of the Month this time, goes to Bubba ‘N’ Stix, by Core Design in 1994 You star as Bubba, and you have a Stix, in this cartoony-style Game, your task is to hit and kill enemies with your stick, which you can also throw at enemies as well, pick up various items dotted […]

The Commercial Game of the Month goes to Another World, from 1991, by Eric Chahi(also known as Out of This World in America) Another World is quite possibly one of the best Commercial Games on the Amiga, from its cinematics, which were all created in vector form to reduce memory requirements, to the actual storyline […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is Qwak by Team 17 in 1993 In this platformer, Your task is to collect all the Keys to open the exit door on each level, as well as collecting fruit There are various enemies per level, which can be dispatched by a limited amount of Eggs which can be fired at them, some […]

This time the Commercial Game of the Month goes to The New Zealand Story from Choice/Ocean Software in 1989 You star as Tiki, and your task is to safely get Tiki through the stages, avoiding all the enemies and of course Spikes which will hurt Tiki You start out with a Basic endless supply of […]

This is Lunar-C a CD32-Exclusive* Commercial Game, by Mindscape in 1993 The Game was one of many CD32-Exclusive Titles, and it was released as part of a CD32 Compilation which also contained Overkill which was a Defender-Clone Lunar-C is a horizontal shooter, which scrolls along, enemies appear in waves, and come in set patterns, eg. […]