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Leader Board – “72 holes”

After the international success of war game Beach-Head, Bruce Carver was in a position to grow Access Software. He didn’t have too far to look for help. Just…

Silent Service – “Sonar reports distant explosions”

Back in the earlier days of the British microcomputer boom, when we were still figuring out what computer games could be, Psion’s Flight Simulation was a huge hit…

Thrust – “Reverse gravity”

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….

Bomb Jack – “Get all 💣by operating Jack!”

The inventive arcade game scene in Japan in 1984 had an impact over in the UK that went on well past the end of the year. Karate Champ…

V – “Circuits: on”

On Thursday 9 August 1984, 11.7 million people in the UK turned on BBC1 to watch Olympic Grandstand cover the Olympics in Los Angeles. Fully 20% of the…

Uridium – “Good zapping”

In 1988, Crash magazine interviewed Chris and Tim Stamper, previously of British home computer game titans Ultimate, and by then setting out as Rare. At one point, when…

HardBall – “Fastball ⬆️ Screwball ⬅️ Changeup ⬇️ Curveball ➡️”

In 1979 a group of four Atari programmers left and set up a new company. They felt that they weren’t getting their due for creating the games that…

Kung-Fu Master – “Martial arts experts and demons of every description”

In 1982, Takashi Nishiyama directed an arcade game called Moon Patrol, for Irem. It featured a moon buggy which moves constantly across a lunar landscape, where you have…

Rock’n Wrestle – “He knows all the moves”

The Way of the Exploding Fist was early enough and good enough to be ahead of the trend on martial arts and fighting games and to be a…

Yie Ar Kung-Fu – “Hot fighting history”

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…