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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…

Starglider 2 – “Stardrive Activated”

11 years before the release of Starwing/Star Fox, and 44 years before Argonaut Games signed up to an arms dealer’s retrogaming side project, Argonaut was formed in 1982…

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…

Target: Renegade – “The skin-heads, the Beastie Boys, the bouncers”

Yoshihisa Kishimoto and Technos set some key standards in early beat-’em-ups with 熱血硬派くにおくん, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun or, as it was known in the West, Renegade. Having launched Kunio-kun…

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…

Out Run – “A tank full of gas and an open road”

First, a recap of the last time I wrote about Yu Suzuki and Sega. After joining Sega from university in 1983, Suzuki was the lead designer for Hang-On,…

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…

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…