My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1990.
After the dead space of 1989, anything had to be an improvement, and 1990 started out particularly brightly with a rush of new ideas across various formats. From there things took a less positive direction, but Shadow Warriors showed that even stale-seeming genres can still have something to offer.
All of 1990′s reviews in one place:
- Chase HQ (Ocean, Amiga)
- Rainbow Islands (Ocean, Atari ST)
- Fantasy World Dizzy (Code Masters, Spectrum)
- Operation Thunderbolt (Ocean, Commodore 64)
- Italy 1990 (US Gold, Amiga)
- Pro Boxing Simulator (Code Masters, Commodore 64)
- Shadow Warriors (Ocean, Spectrum)
- The Guardian Angel (Code Masters, Amstrad CPC)
- Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Image Works, Commodore 64)
I also started a new irregular series of posts on the biggest games not to come under the realm of the charts. There were two Uncharted entries in 1990:
Previously: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
Coming up next: sports (real and imagined), rodents (two different ones), and the Spectrum’s last hurrah…