One of many unreleased games by Channel 8 Software, Shear Panic differs in that its premise doesn’t seem to be educational. Although we have no information on the game we can guess from the tongue in cheek name that it … Continue reading →
A very quick entry thanks to Peter Weighill for a game that was advertised by American Eagle in 1984 on the disk cover for Kukulcan on the Apple. Sherwood Forest was released on the Apple 2, but the Commodore 64 … Continue reading →
Crystal Software and Electronics were an ambitious software house trying to save the C64 gaming market back in 1997 with a large range of planned releases. Sadly it wasn’t to be, and as with other companies – it was found … Continue reading →
Crystal Software and Electronics were an ambitious software house trying to save the C64 gaming market back in 1997 with a large range of planned releases. Sadly it wasn’t to be, and as with other companies – it was found … Continue reading →
Shockwave was first mentioned in The Games Machine with the following bit of blurb… “While Xecutor does it for dual destruction on the Spectrum, Shockwave is a two player shoot ’em up on for the Commodore 64 complete with a … Continue reading →
Shogoth was to be the first big title from a garage studio in Milano, Italy operated by soon-to-be game journalists Fabio Rossi (editor of the Italian editions of Zzap!, The Games Machine and CVG, among others) and Stefano Giorgi (reviewer … Continue reading →
“Shoot” is best described as a neat Uridium/Sanxion clone, with some fast action blasting over blue bas-relief graphics (Very 80’s style, and unlike a 1994 game). Most of the titles and game seems to be present in this preview, and … Continue reading →
Shove involves the player guiding a ball through various levels of mazes to the exit, while avoiding other enemies and obstacles. Quite a simple concept which works well, and offers a few hours of fun. Not the best game around, … Continue reading →
Another obscure one, this time by a company called SSoft (Never heard of them!). This one was reviewed in Home Computer Weekly, and was an adventure put on sale to raise money for cat leukemia. We originally thought that the … Continue reading →
An interesting title for our next entry, which was part of what seemed to be a popular time for horse themed games that appeared in the early to mid 1980’s. Show Jumping was advertised by Alligata Software in 1986, but … Continue reading →
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