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Uridium – “Good zapping”

In 1988, Crash magazine interviewed Chris and Tim Stamper, previously of British home computer game titans Ultimate, and by then setting out as Rare. At one point, when…

Kung-Fu Master – “Martial arts experts and demons of every description”

In 1982, Takashi Nishiyama directed an arcade game called Moon Patrol, for Irem. It featured a moon buggy which moves constantly across a lunar landscape, where you have…

Rock’n Wrestle – “He knows all the moves”

The Way of the Exploding Fist was early enough and good enough to be ahead of the trend on martial arts and fighting games and to be a…

Yie Ar Kung-Fu – “Hot fighting history”

Ocean’s contract with Konami to port their arcade games under the Imagine label had quickly worked well with Hyper Sports. Even if it did end up competing with…

あああ – Japan’s #1 games, 1986

As if just playing every #1 game in the UK wasn’t a big enough task to take on, I decided to play every #1 game in Japan, too….

The Sun Always Shines on TV – AAA in review, 1986

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…

Paperboy

Elite, Spectrum, 1986

Dragon’s Lair

Software Projects, Spectrum, 1986

ACE

Cascade, Spectrum, 1986

Speed King

Mastertronic, Commodore 64, 1986