Tag: 1987

The Last Ninja – “A vase is waiting”

Mark Cale had a vision, a plan to “do something a bit different, something that would really capture the imagination”. Like the creators of The Hobbit and Valhalla…

BMX Simulator – “Pedals ready”

Brothers have been a recurring theme in the story of the popular games of the 1980s. As games slowly moved from being a thing mostly made by individual…

Feud – “For ‘erbs an’ stuff”

In 1983, Virgin Games paid £500 for a ZX Spectrum game called Ghost Town, a text adventure with some limited graphics and a gold rush setting. It was…

あああ – Japan’s #1 games, 1987

[A recurring feature each time I complete a year in the UK, in which I catch up with the games to have been #1 in the archived Japanese…

Renegade

Imagine, Spectrum, 1987

Feud

Bulldog, Spectrum, 1987

Trivial Pursuit

Domark, Spectrum, 1986