Black Shadow was to be a vertical scrolling shoot em up in the vein of Xevious and Xenon. It was released on the Amiga and ST with mixed reviews, and was mentioned in TGM as being imminent. You can see … Continue reading →
Bloo’s Magic Trip was a neat “Jack Attack” clone developed by Gareth Taft back in 1991, with his “Magic Trip” probably due to the magic mushrooms he has to consume no doubt! Gareth completed the game and then set about … Continue reading →
A very short entry for the GTW64 archives, and to carry out a search for a Bombuzal editor which was sent out to various developers such as Jeff Minter, Andrew Braybrook, who were invited to create levels for Imageworks’ Bombuzal. … Continue reading →
Minesweeper games are not exactly few and far between, and Bombzone is more evidence of this on the C64. A small Minesweeper clone which is what it is, and seems to have been prepared by the developer to be given … Continue reading →
Andreas Mettler was a fairly prolific developer in Germany in the mid 80’s, doing a large number of PD games, as well as a few commercial ones too. With the amount of games produced, you’d understand how it might be … Continue reading →
Boost is a neat little title which has different segments, kicking off with a very simple sideways scroller and then going onto further screens where you control a space man. Although it is very simple and basic to look at, … Continue reading →
A trip to my local computer shop (Level Up Games) in Canterbury usually unearths a few C64 gems from time to time, but this time in the bargain bin – I noticed a few C64 disks sitting loose. Most were … Continue reading →
Bronnoyquest was a jokey adventure game which was written by Ruben Spaans (aka Scroll/Megastyle). Ruben explains more about the game and how it came about: "It started out as a very silly adventure game made by me and a friend … Continue reading →
To milk the success of the then popular super hero, who saved the planet from pollution with his friends (All of which had special powers based on the 5 main elements of the planet), Mindscape cashed in by gaining the … Continue reading →
Famous for the fantastic Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse, it was a honour to finally meet Simon Nicol at 2003’s BIT5 Brighton event. As well as talking about Mad Planets to Simon, Simon started conversation about a Car game which … Continue reading →
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