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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…
In 1938 in New York, Alfred Butts invented Scrabble. Well, he invented Criss-Cross Words, a board game based on an earlier game of his called Lexiko. It was…
There is a motorbike game for the Spectrum, programmed by Mervyn J. Estcourt and released by Micromega, which is beloved enough to have been the subject of remakes…
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…
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…
In 1984, it was still quite common for people to make games on their own, and sometimes even get them to the top of the charts. The Fall…
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…
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iain.mew
"Thanks! Good to know, and I passed that on to Games That Weren't ..."
Chris
"World Cup Football was published as World Cup Soccer by Macmillan. It ..."
Alex
"One of the Spectrum games I remember vividly. particularly the repeatedly kneeing someone ..."
kelvingreen
"Milk Race, BMX Simulator, and Paperboy as the top three in the week ..."
iain.mew
"Thanks very much! I think it is the most research-heavy post so far. ..."