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Articles by Warren Pilkington

Game Review: Destructo (Commodore 64, Bulldog)

10 August 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Destructo (or to give it the full name as displayed on the loading and title screen, The Island of Dr Destructo) sees a mission in […]

Game Review: Spore (Commodore 64, Bulldog)

8 August 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Spore certainly caught the attention when you looked at the cover art – what looks like a series of atoms of colour fused together is […]

Game Review: Ball Crazy (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

4 August 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Ball Crazy might not promise that much from its basic loading screen. In fact, the title screen is even more basic than it seems, using […]

Game Review: Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge (Commodore 64, Ricochet)

29 July 2025 Warren Pilkington 3

For those of you who do not know who Brian Jacks is, he started his sporting career as a judoka, and represented Great Britain at […]

Game Review: Flash Gordon (aka Captain Zapp) (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

25 July 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Flash Gordon started life as a comic in the 1930s, with the main protagonist and his allies aiming to save the world against the might […]

Game Review: FA Cup Football (Commodore 64, Ricochet)

16 July 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

As a Manchester City fan of over fifty years, I have had a love affair with the FA Cup, from defeats to Shrewsbury Town, Halifax […]

Game Review: One Man and His Droid (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

9 July 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

After the original ZX Spectrum version of One Man and His Droid, and a conversion to the Commodore 64, it was inevitable that there would […]

Game Review: Kikstart II (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

4 July 2025 Warren Pilkington 1

After the huge success of the original Commodore 64 version of Kikstart, which sold over 100,000 copies on Mastertronic after an initial release on the […]

Game Review: Speed Zone (Commodore 64, Mastertronic / PAL Developments)

28 June 2025 Warren Pilkington 3

Speed Zone does its best with the plot on the cassette inlay to set the scene for a space shooter game, with mention of the […]

Game Review: Molecule Man (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

22 June 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

As per the Commodore 64 version, Molecule Man was converted from the ZX Spectrum original and released later – hence the different packaging.  Compromises had […]

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