Beach-Head II The evil dictator from BEACH HEAD I, the Dragon, has rebuilt his army and is challenging the Allies’ power in the Pacific once again. Stryker, the Allies’ best commander, leads the attack on the dictator’s stronghold to kill him… Publisher: US Gold Year: 1985

Elite Command your Cobra space ship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons – corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may […]

Starglider 2 The goal of Starglider 2 is to destroy an enemy space station with a neutron bomb, and the majority of the gameplay consists of collecting parts for the bomb, or fulfilling other prerequisites (e.g. finding the nuclear professor capable of constructing the bomb, or trade goods for the bombs necessary to destroy the […]

Silkworm Virgin Games, 1989 Nuclear arms were outlawed by a series of international treaties after the fourth great war, and now civilisation has returned to low-explosive weapon systems whith high delivery rates. War has almost gone 'green'. Weight of numbers, together with very high firing rates, goes partway towards making up the shortfall in power […]

Macadam Bumper ERE Informatique, 1985 It is not only a superb simulation, but allows you to modify every element of the table design, and even create your own table layouts from scratch. It gives you all the features you would expect from a real pinball table right down to nudge and tilt (both of which […]

Xevious US Gold, 1987 Many eons ago, an advanced technologically-orientated civilisation was forced to evacuate Earth prior to the Ice Age. Now, these Xevious people are returning to reclaim their heritage through conquest. From the controls of your Solvalou super spacecraft, you must defend Earth from takeover by the Xevious invaders! Flying a search and […]