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Retro Game Lookback: The Human Race for Commodore 64

      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 [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: Horace Goes Skiing For ZX Spectrum

    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 [...]

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Trade Wars: A Legend in Gaming

Trade Wars: A Legend in Gaming

One of the first and long time favorite multiplayer games was Trade Wars. This was one of the earliest computer games and has been known by different names over the years and also had different variations of it since. The game dates back to the earliest days of computer gaming and has major influences from [...]

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Multiplayer Retro Gaming: Secret of Mana

One of Squaresoft’s best action / RPG’s ever has to be Secret of Mana. Not only is the core story amazing but it’s one of the only multiplayer RPG console games you can find. At the time of its making, it was revolutionary with its graphics and sounds. We all know that great graphics and [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: Adventure C (Ship of Doom) For ZX Spectrum

Retro Game Lookback: Adventure C (Ship of Doom) For ZX Spectrum

Adventure C, or just Ship of Doom, as it’s often known was released by Artic Computing in 1982 for the 48K ZX Spectrum. A text adventure, of its day, the idea was simple “You must find the control button and free your ship, Good Luck”. It seems our ship has been caught up in a [...]

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Game: Protect The Planet With Mission Mars

With a “Bomb the City” and a space theme, almost like an upside down space invaders, Mission Mars has a very simple storyline, destroy humanity! Mission Mars is played through several different missions, each mission requires you to flatten the city skyscapers, in order to land your UFO, and the amount of buildings and their [...]