Tag: BBC Micro
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…
I have not had cause to mention the BBC Micro for a while. I think Football Manager was the most recent occasion, back at the start of 1985….
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…
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which, for the sake of a quiet life, most people tend to ignore. […]…
Twin Kingdom Valley is a graphic adventure game, set in a fantasy valley with two rival kingdoms, headed by a Forest King and a Desert King. It doesn’t…
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