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1983 was a good year for Ultimate. They released their first game Jetpac to much success earlier in the year. Then (after some other, less successful 16K games)…
When The Activision Decathlon was released in the UK in summer 1984, it got a popularity boost from coinciding with the Los Angeles Olympics. People often want to…
As we saw with Match Point, many game developers in 1984 had to go out of their way with hidden messages to get their names on record. In…
There’s an interesting challenge played out across adverts every time the football World Cup or the Olympics comes around. Those events’ official sponsors play a lot for their…
In 1982, Veronica Megler and Philip Mitchell (with help from Alfred Milgrom and Stuart Ritchie) made adventure game The Hobbit, and it wowed players with its cast of…
In 1983, when Smash Hits magazine was central to UK pop music media and the “showbiz zap” that Crash magazine set out to align with, the Smash Hits…
From the point in 1983 where the Spectrum got firmly established as the UK’s most popular computer (so… my second post), the games I’ve written about have had…
In 1902, cinema was still in its infancy, and people were still working out what they could do with it. One big breakthrough of the year was the…
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…
Twin Kingdom Valley is a graphic adventure game, set in a fantasy valley with two rival kingdoms, headed by a Forest King and a Desert King. It doesn’t…