Games every NES and Famicom owner should play The Nintendo Entertainment System is, by almost any measure, the most important games console ever made. That’s not a controversial statement — it’s just history. When the NES arrived in North America in 1985, the video game industry was still recovering from the catastrophic crash of 1983….
Games every Amiga owner should play The Commodore Amiga was, quite simply, the greatest gaming computer of its generation. When the Amiga 500 landed in 1987 at a price that put it within reach of the average household, it didn’t just raise the bar for home gaming – it launched it into orbit. If you’d…
Games every BBC Micro owner should play The BBC Micro, affectionately known as “the Beeb”, holds a special place in British computing history. Launched in December 1981 by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project, it became the backbone of school IT rooms across the country, with over 80% of UK schools…
Discover the greatest Commodore 64 games ever made. Our top 10 includes Boulder Dash, Elite and The Great Giana Sisters, with trivia and platform comparisons
Or is it Attic Attack? The Early 1980s UK Gaming Scene The early 1980s were a transformative period for the video game industry, marked by rapid technological advancements and a burgeoning market for home computers. The ZX Spectrum, with its affordable price and cheap cassette-based games, became a popular platform for development. Whilst our American…
Acornsoft’s Classic PacMan Clone Snapper was one of the many quality arcade conversions that Acornsoft created for the BBC Micro, being a very faithful example of Pac Man. Anyone who remembers the early 80’s will have experience of Pac Man clones on every platform, many of them pitifully poor (yes Atari 2600 I’m talking about…
