Tag: 1988
So far in 2026, out of sixteen games released this year which have reached #1 in UK sales charts, five have been some form of remake, remaster or…
11 years before the release of Starwing/Star Fox, and 44 years before Argonaut Games signed up to an arms dealer’s retrogaming side project, Argonaut was formed in 1982…
In Kevin Toms’s Software Star, released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher. You name new games, decide how to promote them (including…
Yoshihisa Kishimoto and Technos set some key standards in early beat-’em-ups with 熱血硬派くにおくん, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun or, as it was known in the West, Renegade. Having launched Kunio-kun…
In 1969, the controller of BBC Two, one David Attenborough, had a bit of an issue. He had a few colour cameras, and a desire to put something…
Does this game-of-the-movie capture the coolest parts of the film? Was its development time (probably around three months) long enough to create a competent computer game? Are the…
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ShaggyMoose
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