Tag: arcade

Ghosts’n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”

In June 1986, Japanese computer game magazine LOGiN launched a spin-off magazine, initially focused on Nintendo’s Famicom but soon taking in a wider range of platforms. It kept…

Commando – “Now rush the 2nd area”

1985 was quite a year for Tokuro Fujiwara. He had earlier started his career at Konami, joining from Osaka Designers’ College to do visual design work, initially without…

Gauntlet

US Gold, Spectrum, 1987

#10: Out Run (U.S. Gold, Commodore 64, 1988) One of the big appeals of the original Out Run, you see, was its graphics. The rolling hills, the luscious…