Game Review: Spectipede (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
Presentation and Instructions When the game has loaded, you are presented with a menu to select on whether to use the Keyboard, Mikrogen Joystick or […]
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Game Review: GWNN (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Your mission in GWNN is to effectively head across the galaxy and to find the enemy bases, where you will need to rescue the scientists […]
Game Review: Silkworm (Atari ST, Virgin Mastertronic)
While the likes of US Gold, Elite, and other publishers rushed to secure the rights to covert some of the big name arcade titles to […]
Game Review: Stopball (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
First Impressions Once the game has loaded, you are presented with a monochrome black and white menu screen. You have the option to choose either […]
Game Review: Challenger (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
The game Blitz, originally based on Atari’s Canyon Raider, was released on the Vic-20 in 1981, and Mastertronic also released a Blitz clone for the […]
Game Review: Hektik (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
The original Commodore 64 version of Hektik was released in 1984, and some two years later, the original programmer Martin Ellis went back to the […]
Game Review: Castle Adventure (Dragon 32, Virgin Games)
Even though I’d been gaming since the 70s, thanks to getting a Pong clone when I was quite young, along with a number of LED […]
Game Review: Zub (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic / MAD)
Loading Screen and Presentation The loading screen is very well drawn with plenty of colour and detail. The only thing that slightly ruins it is […]
Game Review: Spellbound (Commodore 64, MAD)
Spellbound is the second of the Magic Knight series of games, created by David Jones. The Commodore 64 conversion work was handled by Richard Darling, […]
Game Review: Spellbound (ZX Spectrum 128K, MAD)
Background to The Magic Knight Series In case you aren’t aware of the Magic Knight series of four games, Spellbound is the sequel to Finders […]