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 […]

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 […]

Game Over Dinamic Software, 1987 Far away in a different Galaxy, at a different time, control was exercised by an all-powerful woman - the Ruler, GREMLA. Her dictatorship was due in part to the devoted loyalty of her faithful lieutenant ARKOS - together they proved invinsible. But Gremla was flawed - as her power grew, […]

Slaine the King Martech Games, 1987 It was nearly dawn. Slaine and I were heading along the path into Tautega. "Ukko," said Slaine, "tell me the story you heard from the Druid, Cathbad." Said I, "I’ve told you twice already, you thick skulled barbarian", but a sharp prod to my rump persuaded me to retell […]

Garfield - Winter's Tail The Edge, 1990 It's been a hard day for Garfield; he spent the entire day, well since waking anyway (which come to think of it wasn't that long ago...) in the kitchen. The ice-box is now almost bare after some pretty hard work on his part helping Jon to reduce his […]

Earthlight Your mission is to collect the matter transmitters (small boxes) while avoiding all the sentry and industrial robots. Once all the transmitters have been collected, you must return to base (the hemisphere you started from) to complete the zone. If you return to base before collecting all the transmitters you will be given a […]