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The name alone, J. K. Greye Software, takes me right back to my days of the ZX-81, and what finer example of the dawn of first person 3D games is 3D Monster Maze, developed by Malcolm Evans (who went on to develop the now legendary Trashman and launch New Generation Software), the game was released [...]
Welcome to the first in a new series of “Guess The Retro Show” articles where you can test your knowledge of classic shows. In each episode we will outline a show, give you an idea of the plot and characters, and offer some cryptic or lateral clues.
All you need to do is come up with [...]
Wriggler, by Devonshire House, and presented by Romantic Robot was released for the 48 KB ZX Spectrum in 1985 and it was one of the early games to include the music to accompany the game on the B side of the cassette tape – the track was called “The Moons Of Jupiter”, written and performed [...]
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 [...]
Zzz, released by Mastertronic in 1985, and developed by Les Hogarth and Clive Wilson for the Commodore 64 is a text and icon driven adventure which sets you in your imaginative dream world, unable to escape, until you cross the land of ‘Zzzzzz’ to find the border post, otherwise you will be doomed to a [...]
“In space no one can hear your tape drive squealing”.
We recently managed to dig out both retro versions of Argus Press “Mind Games” 1984 imagination of the ultra scary sci-fi movie “Alien”. The Commodore 64 version, developed by Paul Clansey (with Roy Gibson and Concept Software), consists of a large plastic case (around [...]
