Top 10 Commodore 64 Games
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
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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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Astro Wars by Grandstand Handheld Review
The best 80’s handheld game? On the last day of term at my primary school we would all bring in toys, which back in the early 80’s would include games like Operation and Buckaroo, which still exist relatively unchanged 20+ years later. There would also be the kid who had the really cool toy of…
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Tranz Am Review for the ZX Spectrum
Uncover the retro racing excitement of Tranz Am for ZX Spectrum! Delve into post-apocalyptic challenges and explore open-world racing
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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…
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Galaga by Namco – Retro Arcade Review
Namco’s classic vertical space shooter At the time of writing, summer is here, and I am reminded of hot days spent in the arcades in Southen-on-Sea playing games like space shooter Galaga. In the early 80’s my holidays would be spent camping with my family, and many of the campsites we visited would have a…
