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Back in the earlier days of the British microcomputer boom, when we were still figuring out what computer games could be, Psion’s Flight Simulation was a huge hit…
In 1984, Artic released a football computer game called World Cup Football. The Spectrum version scored 71% in Crash magazine, with one of its reviewers concluding “This is…
For Jon Ritman, playing Knight Lore for the first time was a revelatory experience. As he later told Retro Gamer, when he first saw Ultimate’s isometric 3D platform…
The inventive arcade game scene in Japan in 1984 had an impact over in the UK that went on well past the end of the year. Karate Champ…
In 1988, Crash magazine interviewed Chris and Tim Stamper, previously of British home computer game titans Ultimate, and by then setting out as Rare. At one point, when…
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…
In 1982, Takashi Nishiyama directed an arcade game called Moon Patrol, for Irem. It featured a moon buggy which moves constantly across a lunar landscape, where you have…
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…
He squinted to clear his vision, looking down the mound where Treasle lay flat in the brush. Christ, he had hit him. God, he had not wanted that,…
1985 was quite a year for Tokuro Fujiwara. He had earlier started his career at Konami, joining from Osaka Designers’ College to do visual design work, initially without…