My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1984. That didn’t take long, starting as it did at the mid-point of the year and taking in only five games. Charts I’ve found from before the Gallup ones start have Jet Set Willy at #1 for several months more before though, so maybe it isn’t so far off the whole picture.
My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1989. 1989 was dominated by the ridiculous months-long runs at #1 of Ocean’s Operation Wolf and Robocop, meaning it’s the shortest year in in terms of AAA entries…
My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1986. That year saw the 8-bit computers still dominant, with sports game fever extending to American sports, and a whole lot of arcade conversions. 1985′s fighting game…
My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1985. Kicking off with Knight Lore, the isometric 3D game trend joined the ever present sports games to make up more than half the year’s entries between…
