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This is Gorf by Kevin Gallagher from 1993 Earth is being attacked by the evil Gorfian Robot, your job as a trainee Space Cadet is to stop the Gorfian Empire in its tracks by blasting them to bits with your Space Ship There are 5 WAVES to overcome, and each time you destroy the flagship, […]
This is Dodge’Em by Kevin Gallagher in 1993 You start with 3 lives, and the aim of the game is to use your yellow car to collect as many dots as you can while avoiding the green cars, what will try to stop you You drive your car down tracks, and at each junction/opening you […]
Well this is the Atari ST, released in June 1985, 39 years ago, and I never actually ever owned one of these, although a friend of mine had one thanks to his wonderful parents (well maybe not heh) The Atari ST was not a favourite machine of mine, I did, and still do think it […]
This is Hotblox, by J P Hamilton in 1993 Yet another Tetris-clone which is quite decent, This one allows 2 Players to battle it out against each other as well Again, You have to get Lines to get Points, and try not to have empty spaces in lines, as these can hinder your gameplay if […]
This is Tettrix, by Niall Sommerville, Written in AMOS Let’s begin by saying this Tetris flavour is very much Horizontal in perspective, where the pieces begin at the left side of the screen, and move slowly to the right (unless you press the Right Mouse button, in which case they instantly SNAP! to the right) […]
This is the Amiga 500, code-named “Rock Lobster”, which is now 37 years old It was announced in January 1987, and was released in April 1987 in the Netherlands, and May 1987 in Europe, and cost 499 GBP, which was later reduced to 399 GBP in 1988 It used the standard 880KB Floppy Disks, and […]
This is Tetron, a Tetris-clone, Written in AMOS by Alchemy / Peter Fregon Yet another Tetris-Clone I hear you cry, Yes that is correct, this one is pretty well designed, on a Grey-coloured Background, with Red boxed areas, which show you your Current Score, Level, Next Peice, and some Statistics The Game can be fully […]
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 […]
This is Tetren, a Tetris-clone, Written in AMOS by Andy Whiteley in 1992 This Game is very well designed, and actually very nice to play, along with the normal Tetris rules, and peices (no obscure peices here I promise, just the standard Tetris peices), as well as some smashing background music, both on the Title […]
This gem is called 6-Tris, and was written in AMOS Professional by James Daniels – Apparently the one and only 6 player Tetris Game in the world (and its Freeware too!) The basic Gameplay of Tetris as a whole, is to move the various peices (all Standard in this version) into areas where they fit, […]
As it is BASIC’s (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Birthday, which first appeared all the way back on 1st May 1964, way before I was even thought of, since my Mum waited till 1977 to pop me out (Thanks Mum) I thought I would do a little tribute to the language, so BASICally here it […]
This is Giddy II by Phil Ruston in 1993, Released under F1 Licenceware Giddy II again puts you in control of Giddy, the cute white guy with a nice hat, and oversized hands, what almost look as if they are shooting you, and again you have plenty of puzzles to solve along the way Again, […]
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 one is called Wibble World Giddy by Phil Ruston in 1993 In Giddy you must solve tasks along the way to progress in each level, This version was given away on The One Amiga, Issue 59 in August 1993 Yes I know this is not F1 Licenceware, But it is a joint F1 Licenceware […]
This gem is called Operation Firestorm by Phil Ruston in 1993, Released under F1 Licenceware Operation Firestorm is a decent all round Shoot ‘Em Up with you as a Lone Soldier who has to tackle Tanks, Gun Turrets, Grenade Launchers and Enemy Soldiers and Snipers, and even Dogs which will jump at you You will […]
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 […]