Tag: Melbourne House

Fist II: The Legend Continues – “Meditation may strengthen mind and body”

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…

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…

Mugsy – “Da boys in the mob”

After the massive success of The Hobbit, the wait was on for Melbourne House’s successor. Before they’d even finished it, Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler had decided on…

Horace and the Spiders – “From thread to thread”

In 1984, Home Computing Weekly and games chart compilers ASP would split their charts into two categories: ‘arcade’ and ‘non-arcade’. Not all of the games in the arcade…