Advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 85, Yacht Race was a simulation based game released by Hill MacGibbon on the ZX Spectrum, but also advertised for the Commodore 64. As you can expect by reading this review, the C64 version … Continue reading →
Yet another early version of a popular game goes into the GTW64 archives, this time with Yie Ar Kung Fu – which was a favourite of mine by David Collier. However, recently in the Ocean History book – we learn … Continue reading →
Yet another SEUCK title which has come from the Zzap article which was ran back in 1992 time to search for good Megatape games. Richard Thompson’s Zanaton was a neat little space shooter, which got Zzap excited because of the … Continue reading →
This may not be an actual planned release, but contributor Dimitris F got in touch to share a scan from Greek magazine Pixel, who reviewed Zany Golf and listed the likes of C64, Spectrum and Amstrad as the release platforms … Continue reading →
A rolling demo of what seems to be a Greek based game. This slideshow shows various screens of the game and credits, including a piece of the interluding screen from the game. It’s unknown how the game would play, but … Continue reading →
A strange name for possibly a strange game which was mentioned way back in Zzap issue 32 in their PCW show article. The game was described as being a forced 3D isometric perspective puzzle game, but thats all we currently … Continue reading →
Along with Cyber Cop, Pedersen Systems were due to release this game on the Commodore 64 and advertisements listed it as so. However, only the PC versions managed to see the light of day and the C64 conversions failed to … Continue reading →
During the development of Lemmings on the C64, E&E were to work on a conversion of the Gremlin classic ‘Zool’ At first it was all about trying to find a publisher to take on the game. Gremlin at first showed … Continue reading →
What is it with fantasy games from the 1980s and the letter Z? So many characters, particularly in American fantasy (so it seemed to me) start with the letter Z. The wizard from the American version of Heroquest was called … Continue reading →
A quick entry for a game which was flagged up by Peter Weighill whilst doing some research. Zyborian Terror was a game briefly advertised in the likes of Your 64 and Commodore Computing International in 1984, under the main advert … Continue reading →
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