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 […]

Kinetik Firebird Software, 1987 Kinetik is an arcade adventure which features gravity, inertia and other real physics heavily. You control a round spaceship, which must be guided through the 44+ screens. Collect the letters P,A and X in that order and reach the end to win. There are foes to avoid or shoot – some […]

Avenger Yaemon Grand Master of Flame has assassinated your foster father Naijshi and stolen the Scrolls of Ketsuin. You have sworn to the God Kwon that you will avenge Yaemon’s murderous act and recover the sacred scrolls. Your enemies are many, varied and all are deadly. All your skills, courage and nerve will be called […]

Archon Electronic Arts, 1989 The game is superficially similar to chess, in that it takes place on a board with alternating black and white squares; however, instead of fixed rules when landing on another player's piece, an arcade-style fight takes place to determine the victor, and each piece has different combat abilities. These abilities are […]

Batman The Caped Crusader is in the Batcaves beneath Gotham City. Robin has been captured by Batman’s adversaries, principally the Joker and with some cunning assistance from the Riddler. The only hope for escape is to assemble the trusty Batcraft whose parts lie scattered round the deadly catacombs beneath and then speed off to rescue […]

Nebulus Hewson Consultants, 1987 Down on the planet Nebulus all is not well. Someone or something has been building giant towers in the sea and they didn't even apply for planning permission. In the offices of Destructo Inc. you awake from your afternoon nap with the phone almost erupting on your desk. The boss is […]