Biz was a game that was written by Alex Aris back in 1989, and was based on a modified version of a game called Street Bomber done by Tony Rushbrook in October 1984 (Commodore Horizons). The game was a Blitz … Continue reading →
A surprise finding for GTW from a bundle of disks were recently sent in 2007 to GTW from Wayne Billingham, and on these disks came this very game. A preview of a fairly complete looking title called “The Power of … Continue reading →
Disney have been in and out of the software business, either running a dedicated software label themselves or licensing out its famous characters to other companies to produce games based on them. Back in the mid 1980s there was a … Continue reading →
Black Hawk is an exciting looking helicopter simulator, where you have to pilot a high tech helicopter as part of a counter terrorist force, flying through a city – disarming bombs and saving people. The game itself surfaced via a … Continue reading →
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 →
In a recent 2020 feature on Black Tiger in Retro Gamer magazine, C64 developer Mark Hughes (who worked on the released Black Tiger conversion) revealed that they were offered the chance to do the conversion after US Gold received a … Continue reading →
A simple and early vertically scrolling game from an unknown period, and which has surfaced from an unknown source it seems. It’s a very early stage game and there doesn’t seem to be a trace of who was behind the … Continue reading →
Steve Dunn did a few fair titles on the C64, but also had a few interesting unfinished/unreleased titles under his Backroom Software label. Blast was one of these titles which was a sort of Warhawk clone in its early stages … Continue reading →
Yet another title which had graphic work being done by Haydn Dalton, but again another title we don’t know that much about at the moment, until we chat to Haydn about it. We have no idea who the game was … Continue reading →
Blockade Runner was a game released onto the Intellivision system in 1983. The game involved trying to get your fleet of ships home, but on the way back they are stopped by a fleet of enemy ships. You have to … Continue reading →
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