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Retro Game Lookback: Airwolf for BBC Micro

Retro Game Lookback: Airwolf for BBC Micro

Airwolf, released by Elite on their budget encore label in 1988, was developed for a number of formats – the one we’ll be looking at today is the BBC Cassette version. Based on the popular 80s television show Airwolf features you as Stringfellow Hawke who flies a high powered helicopter, the Airwolf, (well it was [...]

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Doctor Who collections in the BBC archive

Tucked away on the BBC website is an online archive containing collections of information about a range of the broadcaster’s programming, including the perennial favourite, Doctor Who. There are two collections devoted to the nation’s most popular time-traveller both of which offer a fascinating insight into the development and progression of one of the longest [...]

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Review: History Cold Case

Forensic investigation and history are two of the most popular television genres, and the BBC have combined them in it’s new series, History Cold Case. The idea is a team of forensic scientists use their skills to investigate long-dead skeletons in an attempt to find out more about how they lived and died, while a [...]

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Doctor Who Season 5 Explodes Onto The Screen

The long anticipated regeneration of The Doctor into Matt Smith has exploded onto our screens on Easter Saturday together with his new feisty assistant Amy Pond. From the off the action is electric with a drenched Doctor climbing out of the TARDIS library (which now apparently has a swimming pool – or is it the [...]

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Doctor Who Game For Wii To Materialise?

The rumour mill has it that a Nintendo Wii game based around the current re-imagination of popular BBC science fiction show Doctor Who will be appear at the end of Autumn 2010. This game looks set to tie-in with, soon to be, Matt Smith version of The Doctor and looks set to feature a number [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: Space Adventure For BBC Micro

Retro Game Lookback: Space Adventure For BBC Micro

Space Adventure, by Pro Software, is a rare Classic for the BBC Micro released in 1983 and one that I have been looking forward to revisiting for some time. Although the game is called “Space Adventure” it’s not so much an adventure as a collecting shooter style game and is one of those games that [...]