Lord of the Rings Melbourne House, 1986 In the Lord of the Rings adventure game, you will be able to play the role of one of the four Hobbits: FRODO, SAM, MERRY and PIPPIN. FRODO bears a magic ring of power, a ring which, in the hands of the DARK LORD, could cause the destruction […]

Wanted: Monty Mole Gremlin Graphics Software, 1984 With a long cold winter and bone chilling Christmas ahead, Monty Mole makes a daring, coal snatching raid to his local South Yorkshire pit. Grabbing a miner's bucket he heads off into the darkness, soon to wish he'd caught a cold instead. Alas there's no turning back. Onward […]

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 […]

Back to Skool Having managed to steal your report during the last few skooldaze of term, you’ve spent the whole holiday forging teachers’ signatures and handwriting to make yourself look like the brightest, sweetest natured, most helpful little soul ever to carry a satchel. Now all you’ve got to do is get it back into […]

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 […]

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 […]