A GTW title that could be vapourware, but we can confirm there was planning to have a sequel to the fairly well recieved Mothership game that was originally released in 1983 by Softsync and then republished by Artic later. The … Continue reading →
An interesting new GTW entry this time from Silverbird, who advertised this game within inlays of other games and also on a magazine advert (where the screenshot comes from). It’s thanks to Richard Hewison from The Bird Sanctuary that this … Continue reading →
You may remember another entry called Beauty and The Beast, which was an unofficial licence of the Disney film, and rather oddly done within the Last Ninja engine. Well, not long after finishing with Beauty and The Beast, the same … Continue reading →
Also known as: Dracula, Techno Police, Space Firebird
A combined entry for now for a competition ran in BigK magazine which was to lead hopefully to publishing of a game based on animations Techno Police, Space Firebird or Dracula. Mountain Video Games was running the competition with BigK … Continue reading →
Yet another puzzler to add to the archives, this time something a little different where you must replicate the pattern on the right most box. It’s pretty simple stuff, with some snazzy presentation at the bottom – it isn’t anything … Continue reading →
Move Out is another tile based puzzler, though I couldn’t quite work out what you were meant to do. Anyone have any ideas? Well, contributor Ken Knight found the following via the comments: “The only thing I figured out as … Continue reading →
A quick entry for a slightly different looking Movie Monster game that was in various magazines at the time. Happy Computer in particular were presented with a preview of “The Movie Monster” in the Spring of 1986 which had a … Continue reading →
This was to be the original NightShift game, as it started out.. with a victorian toy-making machine. Lucasfilm later stepped in and had all the toys changed and the game changed to what was eventually released as “Nightshift”. It is … Continue reading →
Our next title is a conversion of an obscure 1984 Spectrum game by John Prince called Mr Wong’s Loopy Laundry. Not an official conversion, and one done some 24 years later by Peter Vass. The game seems pretty complete, but … Continue reading →
A short entry for an earlier edition of Ms. Pac Man that was being written for Atarisoft by Joe Alter. Thanks to Graeme Mason for the heads up. Joe was converting the game for ICOM Simulations, under contract with Atarisoft … Continue reading →
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