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The selection of Ultimate games included in the 2015 compilation Rare Replay almost completely lines up with their list of UK #1 hits. This is not surprising as…
In April 1983, UK magazines Home Computing Weekly and Personal Computer News each carried an advert for “the world’s greatest arcade games”. It was from the company Spectrum…
By the time Psion published Horace and the Spiders, they were a well-established success story. Sinclair had struck a deal with Psion to get first option on co-publishing…
In 1984, Home Computing Weekly and games chart compilers ASP would split their charts into two categories: ‘arcade’ and ‘non-arcade’. Not all of the games in the arcade…
When I was five years old, teachers would seek me out to resolve issues with the school’s BBC Micro. I didn’t have a BBC Micro at home, but…
1983 was a big year in video game history. In Japan, Nintendo released the Famicom console, later known elsewhere as the NES. Nintendo would go on to sell…
Travellers’ Tales/Warner Bros., 360/PS3/Wii, #1 from 23/06/12
On Tom Clancy games’ consistent legacy of success and unreality…
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