Brainstorm Brainstorm is an arcade strategy game. At the beginning of the game you will see one or two balls bouncing around a coloured grid. The object of the game is to trap the ball(s) on a red area of the grid, since your score will depend on the time the ball spends travelling over […]

Gangsters! The Objective of the game is to take over the City from the other gang leaders… by hook or by crook! You will find that income from illegal activities is necessary to pay gangsters’ wages, bribes, fines… etc, and that you assets and gang will be taken over if you run out of money. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Daley Thompson's Supertest Ocean Software, 1985 Daley Thompson's Supertest is an eight event game divided into two days of competition. You have three lives and must pit your skills and agility against the computer and the clock. Failure to "qualify" in any of the events will forfeit a life.

Nether Earth Was it really only five eons ago that the Insignians first burst through the Earth’s mantle? What terror, pain and suffering they have inflicted since. No-one even suspected that there was a race of beings under the rock crust developing weapon systems that could in a few short years completely dominate the Earth […]