Olli and Lissa Firebird Software, 1986 Amongst the barren heights and rugged rocks of the Scottish Highlands, there is situated Shilmore Castle. The Castle is under threat of being purchased and shipped stone by stone to America by Eugene Portcullis the third (Jnr) a mega-millionaire. Alarmed by this, Olli and Lissa rush to help their […]

Prohibition Infogrames, 1987 Swamped by gangland crime, the New York Police Department have hired a mercenary - you - to wipe out the city's gangsters. You've been sent to the city's toughest district with a sniper rifle - but there are many guns aimed at you...

Lords of Chaos In the days when the Arch Mages ruled the Old World there were no wars, plagues, floods or natural disasters of any kind. This society, peaceful as it may seem, suffered from the gradual build up of unreleased magical energy. Mana, which is the name for raw magical energy, could no longer […]

Tetris Mirrorsoft, 1987 For the very few people who don't know how to play Tetris: Blocks of different shapes drop from the top of the screen into a box. Each block is made up of four small squares arranged to make a larger square, an L-shape or a column. As the blocks fall they can […]

Battlezone Quicksilva, 1984 The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and missiles. Gameplay is on a flat plane with a mountainous horizon and various geometric solids like pyramids and blocks. The player can hide behind the solids or once fired upon, maneuver rapidly to buy time in which he can fire. […]

Contact Sam Cruise Just another day at the Sam Cruise Detective Agency. I hear the staccato rattle of Daisy at the old typewriter in the outer office: the band in my head starts to tune up. I reach for a strong coffee. Pulling up the blind I look out of the grimy window into the […]