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A selection of hit video games in the UK, 1990 (click titles for blog entries) Damocles (Novagen, Amiga) Tetris (Nintendo, NES) North & South (Infogrames, Amiga) Prince of…

April 4, 2016

#32: Damocles (Novagen, Amiga, 1990) For a time as a young child, I was obsessed with space. I loved reading factual books about the Solar System and I…

December 20, 2015

#32: Damocles (Novagen, Amiga, 1990) Damocles isn’t only about exploring, though. The metaphorical dangling sword of the title is a comet called Damocles, headed towards the planet Eris….

December 19, 2015

#32: Damocles (Novagen, Amiga, 1990) I haven’t found as many direct references as in Elite to Douglas Adams’ comic sci-fi Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but Damocles feels…

December 18, 2015

#32: Damocles (Novagen, Amiga, 1990) There’s a lot to see and the sense of a vast setting, but it’s not always the busiest one. Producing such a vast…

December 18, 2015

#32: Damocles (Novagen, Amiga, 1990) You do your exploration from a first person view, a game approach which would later come to have some different associations but in…

December 17, 2015