A quick entry, but this educational game was advertised early in 1984 in a few magazines as a list of games coming soon from Comm*Data / Channel Software. At the time we knew little about the game or what happened … Continue reading →
After what was an abysmal conversion, Electric Dreams were seemingly keen to make up for some reason. Instead of just forgetting about the conversion, a PCW show (Zzap issue 32) had reports from Electric Dreams about working on a new … Continue reading →
Brought to the attention of GTW by Commodore Zone magazine from their Star Wars special edition. “Empire Strikes Back” is (Surprise Surprise) based on the famous Star Wars film, but is not the official game, but a rather groovy looking … Continue reading →
As well as the dire Quicksilva version of the arcade classic, it seems that we were due to be given another version by American firm, Datasoft. Sam Poole, the president of Datasoft, spoke to Zzap 64 in issue 13 about … Continue reading →
More arcade conversion action from Elite in the form of Edward Randy, a interesting arcade game with a character inspired by Indiana Jones. The game featured levels such as part where Edward Randy is on a wing walking on a … Continue reading →
A new GTW which has plenty more to be added in the near future.This is a very promising platformer game with some very nice graphics. At the moment nothing is much playable, and you’ll only be able to see the … Continue reading →
Thanks to Richard Cosner, it has been found that the game was infact completed and released. SIR’86 did a loading picture which was done just to keep the publisher happy for the time being. It seems this was unused. Case … Continue reading →
Originally mentioned in CVG as a new game being produced on the Spectrum and C64, Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum was on its way. This is better known as Dynamite Dan II, and was eventually released on the … Continue reading →
A very famous game worldwide, featuring up to 4 players who go around and simply bomb each other. Even almost banned by some countries, including Ireland who condemned the idea after saying that kids could be encouraged to blow each … Continue reading →
A very quick and new entry thanks to a recent release by Onslaught with a Demo compilation pack. Dwarfs and Diamonds was one of those games on the pack, and is a pretty neat looking Bubble Bobble/Bombjack styled clone with … Continue reading →
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