Empire! Firebird Software, 1986 Empire is a game of courage, high adventure, space travel - and terrible risks. You start in the Abatlu system equipped with the basic Cub Scoutship. Your objective: to build a great galactic Empire spanning many solar systems. To achieve this you'll have to trade with Starbases, destroy the invading aliens […]

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 […]

Firefly Beat the system! The story so far… Like a virus (a plague?), an evil army begins to expand. Uncaring, uncontrolled, unstopable? Mankind is all but extinct, the earth long since destroyed. A mechanical (manical?) empire spans the heavens. Huge chrome colonies clutter the solar system. Home?… not for the crew of the interstellar starship […]

SWIV Storm Software, 1991 Choose between a Helicopter Gunship or an armoured jeep and prepare to enter enemy territory as part of the elite assault team of SPECIAL WEAPONS INTERDICTION VEHICLES. Battle against enemy copters, tanks, submarines, hovercraft, snowmobiles, mechanised flying fish, giant weapons installations and much more in this vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. […]

Martianoids Ultimate Play The Game, 1987 After a long journey with only routine maintenance to do, Markon is suddenly attacked by vicious and barbaric Aliens...THE MARTIANOIDS. The MARTIANOIDS enter your ship, disrupting the passage of programs as they are transmitted through The Brain of Markon, draining your battery in desperate suicidal attacks to destroy you […]

3DC Hit-Pak, 1987 Stranded on the sea bed, you have to find and construct parts of a submarine which will take you to safety. Beware the dangers of the deep, and remember the old saying, "An eel is a friend for life". Only the most quick-witted and agile of mariners will avoid the grisly fate […]