Tag: sports

World Games – “Reflexes, agility, precision and control”

After the success of Epyx’s Winter Games, a UK #1 in 1985, there was a lot of interest here in what they would follow it up with. Following…

HardBall – “Fastball ⬆️ Screwball ⬅️ Changeup ⬇️ Curveball ➡️”

In 1979 a group of four Atari programmers left and set up a new company. They felt that they weren’t getting their due for creating the games that…

Winter Games – “Calgary, Ontario”

While the UK’s market for computer games grew rapidly from 1983, things were not going the same way with adjacent markets over in America. As former Action Graphics…

Full Throttle – “The best bike in the race”

There is a motorbike game for the Spectrum, programmed by Mervyn J. Estcourt and released by Micromega, which is beloved enough to have been the subject of remakes…

Daley Thompson’s Super Test

Ocean, Spectrum, 1985