Game Review: Starforce Nova (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Starforce Nova (or Star Force Nova as on the title screen) has a thinly veiled plot about being in the year 5112, and forced to […]
Game Reviews
Game Review: The Election Game (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
As the UK is heading towards a General Election in the next month or so, at the time of writing this review, politics is once […]
Game Review: Sidewinder (Amiga, Mastertronic)
Back in the 80s and 90s we were often envious of the great shoot-em-ups found in the arcades. While many were converted to home systems, […]
Game Review: 3D Pinball (Commodore 64, Mastertronic Plus)
3D Pinball (or as the game itself prefers to call it, Pinball Power) harks back to when pinball machines were more about the mechanics and […]
Game Review: Powerball (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Powerball (or Power Ball as it says on the title screen) will give you, claims the blurb, no chance. From the moment the game loads […]
Game Review: 3D Maze (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Considering the limitations of the hardware, developers often managed to push the Vic 20 to deliver some fantastic software. There’s no denying the quality of […]
Game Review: Street Olympics (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Joystick waggling games in the vein of the arcade game Track and Field have always been a popular theme, with athletics being a much bigger […]
Game Review: Transformers – Battle To Save The Earth (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
With the size of the franchise today, you’d expect to see Transformers video games released for every major platform on a regular basis. But that […]
Game Review: Jet Pac (ZX Spectrum, Ricochet)
Unlike many I didn’t start with consoles or computers – instead it was one of the old Pong clones in the 70s. Moving on from […]
Game Review: Mr Puniverse (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
The sequel to Big Mac – The Mad Maintenance Man only appeared on the Commodore 16 and Plus/4, and in the blurb Mastertronic seemed to […]