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In 1938 in New York, Alfred Butts invented Scrabble. Well, he invented Criss-Cross Words, a board game based on an earlier game of his called Lexiko. It was…
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…
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…
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…
In 1983, three men set up a new magazine focused on Spectrum games. Partners Roger Kean and Oli Frey had experience in publishing. They previously worked on the…
One popular repeating story in games history is that of technical advances powering improved experiences. Being able to do more technically allows you to make better games, the…
The selection of Ultimate games included in the 2015 compilation Rare Replay almost completely lines up with their list of UK #1 hits. This is not surprising as…
In April 1983, UK magazines Home Computing Weekly and Personal Computer News each carried an advert for “the world’s greatest arcade games”. It was from the company Spectrum…
By the time Psion published Horace and the Spiders, they were a well-established success story. Sinclair had struck a deal with Psion to get first option on co-publishing…
In 1984, Home Computing Weekly and games chart compilers ASP would split their charts into two categories: ‘arcade’ and ‘non-arcade’. Not all of the games in the arcade…