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Fairlight

The Edge, Spectrum, 1985

Hyper Sports

Imagine, Spectrum, 1985

Make It Big – AAA in review 1984

My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1984. That didn’t take long,…

Alter Ego

You are, for the purposes of your games blog, about to play 1986 life simulator Alter Ego, which takes you slowly through an entire life via a series of short text scenarios with multiple choices.

#57: Another World (Delphine, Amiga, 1991) Another World‘s visuals are a singular product of the vision of one Éric Chahi, and are impressive even now. Reading that their…

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge

One of my favourite games ever and how it maximises the narrative strengths of the point and click adventure for a delightful package of stories within stories

#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…

#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…

#31: Batman (Ocean, Amiga, 1989)

#31: Batman (Ocean, Amiga, 1989)