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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
There’s an interesting challenge played out across adverts every time the football World Cup or the Olympics comes around. Those events’ official sponsors play a lot for their…
In 1982, Veronica Megler and Philip Mitchell (with help from Alfred Milgrom and Stuart Ritchie) made adventure game The Hobbit, and it wowed players with its cast of…
In 1983, when Smash Hits magazine was central to UK pop music media and the “showbiz zap” that Crash magazine set out to align with, the Smash Hits…
From the point in 1983 where the Spectrum got firmly established as the UK’s most popular computer (so… my second post), the games I’ve written about have had…
In 1902, cinema was still in its infancy, and people were still working out what they could do with it. One big breakthrough of the year was the…
After the massive success of The Hobbit, the wait was on for Melbourne House’s successor. Before they’d even finished it, Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler had decided on…
In 1984, it was still quite common for people to make games on their own, and sometimes even get them to the top of the charts. The Fall…
Twin Kingdom Valley is a graphic adventure game, set in a fantasy valley with two rival kingdoms, headed by a Forest King and a Desert King. It doesn’t…
Manic Miner wowed reviewers and players with its sheer scale. Its solo developer Matthew Smith aimed to create sixteen rooms for it, and successfully landed at twenty, four…
Ocean had reached the top of the charts with Kong, and they were proud of it. When they advertised a new game in Personal Computer News in December…
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