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The dawn rays of the sun greet you as you begin your preparations for the time of trial. Today you will become the youngest ever to challenge for…
Ocean’s contract with Konami to port their arcade games under the Imagine label had quickly worked well with Hyper Sports. Even if it did end up competing with…
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…
Manic Miner did not have very much to say about mining. Its name and ostensible theme came from Miner 2049er, but anything mine-related was incidental to all the…
“The games industry was in the ascendancy, but was still in the shadow of the music business in those days” said Rod Cousens, when reflecting on the events…
The UK chart success of Computer Scrabble in 1984 showed the audience for direct computer versions of modern board games. The makers of predecessor Monty Plays Scrabble had…
Right after Ultimate released Underwurlde and introduced the ability-unlocked-gateway mechanic to 2D platformer maze games, they also put out the much more significant game they had been holding…
Games based on movies go back a long way, including in the UK’s games charts. Earlier in 1984, the charts played host to Richard Wilcox Software’s Blue Thunder,…
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)…
In 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders won Super Bowl XVIII. I had to look that one up. Despite that lack of American Football knowledge, though, I know something…