The first steps of a big adventure are always exciting, particularly when you’re a child, and Wonder Boy In Monster Land was the first game I played that had the qualities we typically associate with RPGs. While it was fundamentally similar to the platform games I’d previously played, it offered something that they didn’t, with […]
The Apple II was an incredibly powerful computer in its teeth with a range of fantastic titles available for it. Many of today’s prominent developers, including Jordan Mechner and John Romero cut their teeth on the machine, making it an incredibly important computer. Here’s our ten personal favourites. How many have you played? The Bard’s […]
Whenever I’d visit my cousin’s house, I’d play his SNES. This might sound like a dull statement, but in the early Nineties it was a bit of a transgressive act – the console war was raging and the infinite marketing power of Sonic the Hedgehog had secured my loyalty to Sega. But those visits to […]
Sometimes you have to see something for yourself. I’d fallen in love with Sega’s Panzer Dragoon series after first experiencing it on my friend’s Saturn, and eventually bought all three games. I’d love to tell you the story about how I purchased Panzer Dragoon Saga for just three British pounds, and how our current staff […]
The sequel to Maniac Mansion is still considered to be one of the best LucasArts adventure games and it’s not hard to see why. Achingly funny and with incredibly clever puzzle design, it’s a superb sequel that takes everything that was great about the original and substantially improves upon it. Co-creator, Dave Grossman explains how […]
Although System 3 will always be remembered for The Last Ninja and Putty Squad, Myth: History In The Making should also be considered. It’s a fantastic (if hard) platformer cum adventure that features insane visuals and a (for the time) unique theme. We discover how this fantastic 8-bit game came to be. By 1988, System […]
We’ve all seen the surge of clone consoles that have flooded the markets over the last few years, but do any of them really come close to the real thing? From audio differences to incompatibility issues, most of the time you’re better off finding the original machines to get the best experience – or are […]
As much as we love our older games and feel that our imaginations can bring on-screen pixels to life, we’ve often wondered how to make our favourites feel more realistic. While companies such as Aura attempted to bridge the gap decades ago with their body-worm Interactor rumble pack, such efforts left a lot to be […]
Nigel Alderton’s classic platformer started off life on the Spectrum but I’ve always associated it with the BBC Micro. Back at school we’d regularly use the computer for technology classes, getting to grips with graphs or Granny’s Garden if our teacher was in a really good mood. We also had a computer club that was […]
