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One-on-one martial arts fighting game The Way of the Exploding Fist was the UK’s best selling game of 1985, and throughout my journey through 1986, its trendsetting status…
For the fourth time in fewer than 25 posts, I am writing about an Elite Systems conversion of an arcade game. Paperboy followed Commando, Bomb Jack and Ghosts’n…
When researching less well-known games, I can generally find something interesting and unexpected about their authors. Go for the Gold, though, stands out for just how wild the…
Yu Suzuki wanted to be a teacher. Then he got his first computers, a Zilog Z8 followed by an NEC PC-8000, and studied Electronic Science at Okayama University…
In 1983, Mervyn J. Estcourt made the cult classic Spectrum motorbike warfare game Deathchase (also released in America under the title Cyclepath). He followed that up with the…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…