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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
I’ve talked about many British developers who made their start by making home computer games based on arcade games, often Atari ones. This story will be a rare…
One-on-one martial arts fighting game The Way of the Exploding Fist was the UK’s best selling game of 1985, and throughout my journey through 1986, its trendsetting status…
For the fourth time in fewer than 25 posts, I am writing about an Elite Systems conversion of an arcade game. Paperboy followed Commando, Bomb Jack and Ghosts’n…
When researching less well-known games, I can generally find something interesting and unexpected about their authors. Go for the Gold, though, stands out for just how wild the…
Yu Suzuki wanted to be a teacher. Then he got his first computers, a Zilog Z8 followed by an NEC PC-8000, and studied Electronic Science at Okayama University…
In 1983, Mervyn J. Estcourt made the cult classic Spectrum motorbike warfare game Deathchase (also released in America under the title Cyclepath). He followed that up with the…
When Zzap! 64 interviewed Chris Butler about making Ghosts’n Goblins, the interviewer reacted strongly to the game Butler said he’d be working on next. “Space Harrier! You’re joking?!…
After the international success of war game Beach-Head, Bruce Carver was in a position to grow Access Software. He didn’t have too far to look for help. Just…
In June 1986, Japanese computer game magazine LOGiN launched a spin-off magazine, initially focused on Nintendo’s Famicom but soon taking in a wider range of platforms. It kept…
At Christmas 1985, the UK’s game charts saw a battle between two hit games along very similar lines. Elite Systems secured the rights to Capcom’s Commando arcade machine,…