Contact Sam Cruise Just another day at the Sam Cruise Detective Agency. I hear the staccato rattle of Daisy at the old typewriter in the outer office: the band in my head starts to tune up. I reach for a strong coffee. Pulling up the blind I look out of the grimy window into the […]
Chase H.Q. The heat is on! The steaming roads beckon your turbo-charged Porsche 928 as the screeching tyres in the distance heralds another crime being committed. “This is Nancy at Chase HQ” – we gotta few perps to catch, Algernon, looks like you ain’t gonna get much sleep tonight” “Gotcha, Nancy baby! We’re on our […]
Turbo Esprit You are a special agent equipped with a Lotus Turbo Esprit. An international ring of drug smugglers is about to make the huge delivery of heroin – and must be stopped at all costs. Publisher: Durell Software Year: 1986
Popeye You need to demonstrate your love for Olive Oyl by collecting 25 hearts and taking them back to her at home. While on your Quest, Olive’s love, shown by the lovemeter, slowly fades, so you must keep returning to renew her love with hearts. When she has all 25 you will be rewarded! Collect […]
Nosferatu the Vampire Nightfall. The deadly enchantment begins. Will you live to see the dawn? Fight a desperate battle to save your soul from the vampyre’s bloodlust. Your enemy’s power is subtle and mysterious, his strength never-ending. There is only one way to bring Nosferatu’s reign to an end. Publisher: Piranha Year: 1986
Robin of the Wood From a time outside history – before the language of the English was ever written down – there come to us stories and legends of heroes and valiant folk. Amid battles and adventures, deeds of courage and of treachery, striving against tyranny, fighting for the weak against the strong – stealing […]
Commando You are Super Joe the crack combat soldier of the eighties battling against all odds to defeat the advancing rebel forces. Equipped with only an M60 machine gun and six hand grenades you carry out your lone crusade, forcing your way into hostile territory. Mortars, grenades and dynamite rain from the skies and explode […]
Heartland One rainy day, having nothing better to do, you find yourself rummaging through the relics in your Grandmother’s attic and come across an old battered book. The tale it contains is one of ancient magic, telling of days when Wizards ruled and monsters roamed, it is the history of the Heartland. As you read, […]
Thanatos In this magical game you take control of a dragon, “Thanatos the destroyer”, whose eternal destiny lies in conflict with the forces of the underworld. The dragon which is very large and superbly animated, flies, walks, swims and burns its way through the landscape. It must collect a beautiful young enchantress, “Eros”, who then […]
Piromania Put out the fires, save the panicking people and outwit the pyromaniac. (Originally Infernal Combustion by Strange Loop). Publisher: Automata UK Year: 1984
Enduro Racer The player rides the dirt bike through five stages and must avoid other riders as well rocks and trees. They can also jump over them with assist from the logs. The game’s most definitive feature was the ‘wheelie’ feature that allowed players to pull up the handlebars on the cabinet to perform the […]
Marsport The Year: is 2494. For seventy Year:s, the Earth has been under siege by the Sept, a hive-culture race from the Galactic centre. Since the siege began, the Sept have been kept at bay by a huge sphere of force, which surrounds both the Earth and the Moon. Following the loss of Calcutta, it […]
Bruce Lee An opulent, mysterious, and perilous fortress is the setting as Bruce Lee seeks to claim infinite wealth and the secret of immortality from the wizard who dwells within. You begin your search for the wizard at the entrance to his fortress. This chamber, and each chamber here, is sealed off from the other […]
Rampage It seemed like any other day at the Greaseburger Fast Food Emporium – but three unlucky customers were to get something even nastier than usual in their Big Mucks. If only the company’s Research Division hadn’t accidentally shipped some of the experimental food additives… A wave of nausea, a foul aftertaste, chronic indigestion: everything […]
Sir Fred The Princess is imprisoned in any of seven rooms and whilst you can see her, you will have to solve the whole adventure to rescue her. Each time you start the game, the Computer selects one of 58 game patterns. You have to discover the right way to solve the adventure according to […]
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 […]
Tai-Pan The Year: is 1841… The traders of Britain, Europe and America are sailing the waters of east in search of their fortunes. Twenty Year:s earlier the Emperor of China had decreed that the purchase of China’s goods could only be paid with silver bullion. The demand for Tea, Silk and Jade was causing a […]
Yie Ar Kung-Fu Yie Ar Kung-Fu is a text of skill development in the traditional Martial Arts. It features Oolong in his attempt to become a Grandmaster in the ancient skills in honour of his father, a kung-fu master before him. Your ultimate goal is to become a grand-master but to achieve this you must […]