Gyron Arena On a cold grey morning in the middle of London thirty people gathered in a very ordinary office block. These people, in the age range 14 to 60, had one thing in common. They had completed one of the most difficult computer games ever devised, GYRON NECROPOLIS, and were brought together to compete […]

The Empire Strikes Back The player takes the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of familiar battle sequences in a first-person perspective. Specifically, the arcade features the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field. Publisher: Domark Year: 1988

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 […]

La Abadia del Crimen Opera Soft, 1988 "Do not follow false doctrines that spread pestilent seeds", wrote His Holiness Clement VI in the year 1346, to teachers and pupils of the university of Paris. The Pontiff was referring in that letter to the doctrines of a Franciscan monk of English origin called Guillermo of Occam, […]

Druid Firebird Software, 1986 Four skulls of immense evil power have been brought together by the Princes of Darkness and placed in a tower. The skulls are now spreading misery and decay throughout the land and you, as an aging Druid, must destroy the evil skulls and thwart the Princes.

Where Time Stood Still The plane is descending rapidly, Jarret struggling with the controls, searches anxiously for a possible landing site. Breaking through the clouds, the ground is suddenly upon him, and with one last heave on the joystick he prepares for impact. Out of the wreckage tumble Jarret, the guide and pilot, Clive, a […]