Tag: Arcade
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Snapper retro game review for the BBC Micro
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…
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BAS Arcade Cabinet Restoration – Part 2
Arcade cabinet restoration – the fun stuff With the major repair work completed on the woodwork, monitor and control panel (covered in part 1) it was time to focus on the cosmetic aspects of the restoration of this BAS Arcade Cabinet. The cabinet itself was not in really bad shape, but the coin doors and…
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Arcade Cabinet Restoration
Bringing an 80’s JAMMA arcade cabinet back to life It was a long build up to my first arcade cabinet restoration, having been involved with arcade games since I was 10 years old, and rediscovering the hobby in my 20’s. After I built my arcade shed, I went on a bit of a buying spree,…
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Chase HQ Arcade Game by Taito
If Beverley Hills Cop was an arcade game… Chase HQ was an arcade racer that was very much of it’s era, so 80’s in its style that it could have been directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, starred Eddie Murphy, and had a soundtrack by Harold Faltermeyer. Playing like cross between Sega’s classic OutRun and the film Beverly…
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Space Panic Arcade Game by Universal
Was Space Panic The First Ever Platformer? Space Panic is an early arcade game from Universal, released in 1980 and believed to be the first ever platform game, predating Donkey Kong by a full year. This was also the first successful game by arcade developer Universal, who later created the classic . Universal Space Panic…
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Fruit Machine Simulator for the ZX Spectrum
I’ve always been partial to a bit of a flutter, and I was particularly drawn to the fruit machine and casino game simulations on the early home computers. Due to the relatively simple graphical requirements of these early games, they would often appear as listings in magazines – I can remember spending hours typing in…
