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Steve Davis Snooker – “Colour wanted”

In 1969, the controller of BBC Two, one David Attenborough, had a bit of an issue. He had a few colour cameras, and a desire to put something…

Platoon – “The first casualty of war”

Does this game-of-the-movie capture the coolest parts of the film? Was its development time (probably around three months) long enough to create a competent computer game? Are the…

Combat School – “Don’t be a chicken!”

Konami did very well from Hyper Olympic (also known in some places as Track and Field), the 1983 multi-sports game which became one of the arcade successes of…

Game, Set and Match – “Over 20 exciting events”

Out of all the UK number one games I’ve covered from 1983 to 1987, Game, Set and Match is the third to have been a compilation rather than…

Joe Blade – “Prime the explosives”

The increasing success of Code Masters in 1987 prompted rounds of coverage of the Darling brothers as young business whizz-kids. They were far from the first such story….

Grand Prix Simulator – “Cunningly devised circuits”

In its January 1984 issue, Computer & Video Games magazine printed code listings for nine different games, ready for readers to type into their computers and run. Each…

Renegade – “There is always time to die”

Yoshihisa Kishimoto was born in Tokyo in 1961. There isn’t a lot of information available online in English on his early life, but he talked several times about…

Milk Race – “Chelmsford – Milton Keynes”

In 1932, Britain’s national coalition government, headed by Labour Party co-founder Ramsey McDonald, decided to take action to stabilise the dairy industry. The following year, it set up…

World Class Leader Board – “Gauntlet Country Club”

“When I joined the company, I kind of had an idea of what I thought quality was and where the bar was to meet in terms of delivering…

The Last Ninja – “A vase is waiting”

Mark Cale had a vision, a plan to “do something a bit different, something that would really capture the imagination”. Like the creators of The Hobbit and Valhalla…