Archon Electronic Arts, 1989 The game is superficially similar to chess, in that it takes place on a board with alternating black and white squares; however, instead of fixed rules when landing on another player's piece, an arcade-style fight takes place to determine the victor, and each piece has different combat abilities. These abilities are […]

Heavy on the Magick Insulting a high-level wizard is not a good idea, as Axil the Able has just discovered. He’s been teleported from his favourite pub, the Golden Thurible, straight into the dank and dangerous dungeon of Collodon’s Pile. It would be a good idea to find a way out… Axil the Able stood […]

Sai Combat Mirrorsoft, 1986 Sai Karate is an ancient oriental martial art in which the Sai weapon is used to deliver blows and block an opposing fighter's moves, as well as the more familiar karate kicks and blows. It also exists as a form of Japanese aerobics called Sai Kata, involving increasingly intricate moves with […]

Moon Alert Emergency! Moon Alert… Space Fighter 7 is blasted by the alien attackers; your hope for survival rests in reaching the moon-base from the wreckage of your ship. Moon Rova appears undamaged and armed with bilateral photon cannon and perpendicular jet boosters, you set out across the rugged terrain; but the aliens have located […]

West Bank The player assumes the part of an Old West sheriff who must protect a bank and its customers from masked robbers. The layout of the bank is implicitly a circle with twelve numbered doors and the player in the center. The player can rotate to the left or right and view three doors […]

Back to Skool Having managed to steal your report during the last few skooldaze of term, you’ve spent the whole holiday forging teachers’ signatures and handwriting to make yourself look like the brightest, sweetest natured, most helpful little soul ever to carry a satchel. Now all you’ve got to do is get it back into […]