A short entry for what was an Italian graphic text adventure which is currently at large. The same developer has a number of other creations already in Gamebase, but this this title and one other has yet to be found. … Continue reading →
A quick entry to cover part of a series of games which DK’Tronics were looking to release in late 1984, early 1985. A news item in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer Games suggested that following on from a … Continue reading →
A very colourful single screen platform game. “Rainbow Bomb” certainly lives up to its name. Apart from the annoying colour scroll as you move, the game seems to be fairly playable at its current stage, though some jumps are hard … Continue reading →
An interesting entry for our next title. Activision have a history of different versions of their games existing – Wonderboy, Afterburner, Time Scanner, Enduro Racer, Karnov to name a few. Could Rampage have been yet another to add to the … Continue reading →
What we have here with our next GTW entry is Miles Barry’s first C64 game which was started while Jason Kelk and Nigel Smith were crashing over his place for a week. The majority of superb graphics were done by … Continue reading →
After flicking through some old C64 magazines, Commodore Computing International (January 1988) highlighted a rather strange preview shot of Rastan on the C64. Hold on… that main character looks a heck of a lot more like the arcade character – … Continue reading →
Microprose were the kings of simulation, and Airbourne Ranger was another fine example of their brilliance back in the day. So you won’t be surprised to learn that a sequel was in development… Well, Ratpack was just that, and was … Continue reading →
An early educational game aimed at young kids. Razzmatazz featured a sickly cute strawberry on legs and was surprisingly done by none-other than Rob Hubbard during his early C64 days, before music became his main source of income – where … Continue reading →
A very quick entry for a surprise title which we never knew about until reading a snippet in ACE magazine about “Costly Games That Never Made it”. In that list was a game called Reach For The Moon, which apparently … Continue reading →
A quick entry for a collection of educational titles that seem to be missing. The following were all advertised in the March 1984 issue of Family Computing magazine: Little People’s Puzzles – Things that go Little People’s Puzzles – Nursery … Continue reading →
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