Tag: Amstrad CPC
The August 1987 issue of Spectrum magazine Crash brought back an old feature “after almost three years in the cupboard”: the comparison test. The first one of these…
In December 1982, the London band Incantation had a UK #12 hit with “Cacharpaya (Andes Pumpsa Desi)”, an upbeat panpipe-based instrumental which the composer Michael Land may or…
At Christmas 1985, the UK’s game charts saw a battle between two hit games along very similar lines. Elite Systems secured the rights to Capcom’s Commando arcade machine,…
For Jon Ritman, playing Knight Lore for the first time was a revelatory experience. As he later told Retro Gamer, when he first saw Ultimate’s isometric 3D platform…
The dawn rays of the sun greet you as you begin your preparations for the time of trial. Today you will become the youngest ever to challenge for…
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…
The UK chart success of Computer Scrabble in 1984 showed the audience for direct computer versions of modern board games. The makers of predecessor Monty Plays Scrabble had…
