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Be the first to identify our mysterious retro object and earn much kudos!
Do you have a good memory? Copy arrangements to complete the game.
Welcome to this weeks instalment in our series of mystery retro challenges – and again there is much kudos on offer to anyone who can identify the retro object and leave a note in comments. By the way, did you guess last weeks challenge correctly? If so, well done – it was a tricky one. [...]
Millions of people around the world know the word Warcraft but associate it only with the MMO sensation World of Warcraft. Many of these gamers don’t realize that before there was a full world of Warcraft there were just a few Orcs and Humans. The original game was actually titled Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. The [...]
What can we say about “The Human Race”, developed by John D. Ferrari and released by Mastertronic, in 1985, for the Commodore 64? Well, the inlay card says it all, “Play the game that took 35 million years to create!!!” – if three exclamation marks isn’t enough then I just don’t know what is [...]
Something a bit different this week, rather than reviewing a book, I’m looking back at a whole genre – the annual – and highlighting my favourites. In the 1970s, one of the must-have stocking filler presents for most children was an annual – no, not a bedding plant, a yearly book published (usually) by one [...]
The Acorn Electron, like a cross between the Acorn Atom and the BBC Micro. One of my earliest memories of Acorn was the mono Acorn Atom which always reminds me a little of this machine that came later. In the image above you can see the Plus 1 expansion system which allowed up to two [...]
Horace Goes Skiing, from William Tang for Beam Software, was released in 1982 on the Sinclair label (at least the Sinclair ZX Spectrum version was), which also conveyed the “Software by Psion with Melbourne House” collaboration for distribution. Horace was one of the earliest popular character brands on home computer games – appearing from [...]
