Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future Dan Dare the original Super Hero was being featured on the Earth Broadcasting Corporation “This is Your Life” programme. The invited guests who spoke glowingly of Dan’s achievements, his bravery and compassion, included his faithful friend Digby who had shared so many of Dan’s adventures, Professor Peabody, Fleet Commander […]

Space Crusade Gremlin Graphics Software, 1992 More than 25 millennia ago mankind took the first tentative steps to the stars. With the discovery of the Warp drive came the Great Expansion. What was once a journey of several centuries became a journey of several days. Warp space is the parallel universe through which starships may […]

Nodes of Yesod Odin Computer Graphics, 1985 Somewhere on the surface of the moon... The Rt Hon Charlemagne 'Charlie' Fotheringham — Grunes well known explorer and adventurer, apprentice saviour of the universe, finds himself in a 'proper pickle' as his nanny used to say! On leaving the ancestral domicile at Salmons Leap, Middle Thumping, one […]

Gyroscope Melbourne House, 1985 You control a gyroscope trying to keep it on the surfaces on screen. If you navigate off a surface you fall off and lose a life. You have to successfully navigate numerous levels in the game in this way. It uses a slightly odd-looking 3d view. Things get more complicated in […]

Vampire's Empire Gremlin Graphics, 1988 Vampire's Empire casts you as Doctor Van Helsing, making another attempt to rid the world of Dracula. The world consists of 160 side-view screens, with others accessed via push-scrolling, but must be freed of vampires within a time limit. Van Helsing's method of killing is to use mirrors to reflect […]

Witch's Cauldron Mikro-Gen, 1985 Forsooth, thou art a bumpkin. Thou heedest not my warnings, and thus didst incur the wrath of the Wicked Witch Hazel. And verily didst she caste a spell, and now thou hast the like unto a TOAD. Shouldst thou desire to regain thy human form, thou must seek out spells and […]