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Double Dragon – “Hit P2 fire”

Renegade, the pioneering Yoshihisa Kishimoto-directed beat-’em-up, became a hit in the West, which was pleasing to its developers Technos. The problem was what they had done to achieve…

The Last Ninja 2 – “City streets”

“I hope they choke on an AI-generated fishbone.” Those were the recent words of developer Chris Sorrell about publisher System 3, in reference to their treatment of the…

Joe Blade 2 – “Yer dead meat mate!”

1988’s chart-topping games in the UK included an unprecedented number of sequels, accounting for more than half of the games I’m writing about, and six of them in…

Daley Thompson’s Olympic Challenge – “Select your Adidas trainers”

So far in 2026, out of sixteen games released this year which have reached #1 in UK sales charts, five have been some form of remake, remaster or…

Football Manager 2 – “Extra training”

In Kevin Toms’s Software Star, released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher. You name new games, decide how to promote them (including…

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….