RETRO GAMES
RETRO GAMES
An absolute classic from the varied library of Amstrad software, Myth took the player on an exciting journey through various time periods in history and unearthed the legends and myths (hence the title!) connected to them…
Wow what an excellent game Target Renegade was back in the day…
Having played this on the 464 with the legendary Green Screen Monitor,back in '91, it came as a bit of a shock that everything was blue when I booted
this up last month, in hindsight perhaps the clue was in the title…
At the age of 8 years old, I spent vast quantities of time bathed in the radioactive green glow of the Amstrad CPC464 that my dad had purchased…
I had a search through the Retro Gamer review archives and didn’t find at a single version of this game, but then is it really all that surprising? The original Street Fighter has practically been written out of gaming history…
The breakout style of game has been around almost as long as any other computer game…
In terms of gaming icons Donkey Kong is up there with Pac-Man & Space Invaders…
Your mission is to destroy the communcation satellites on each of the nine planets, these have sentries that need to be taken out before you can do this…
After a pilot error reduced half a planet to nothing…
Bandits are holding up a bank and have taken people hostage, and as a gunslinger, it's your job to shoot them…
You play a computer game programmer (Captain Blood) who finds himself trapped in one of his own computer games…
“Players present Killapede” exclaims the sampled speech…
To commemorate or commiserate the beginning of the football season it's time to review the CPC version of Jon Ritman's much revered sports title…
A Side-Ways scrolling shoot-em-up in the style of R-type for the Amstrad CPC…
Mutant Monty follows a similar routine as the honourable Manic Miner…
I guess it's not surprising after the popularity of their Ghosts'n'Goblins conversions, that Elite decided to commission another title in a similar vein…
What have Stormlord, a cat & the spectrum version of Space Harrier all have in common? Answer, they all begin with nine lives…
This is a game based around a 1986 book by Ade Edmondson of Bottom fame, amongst other things…
The Deathbringers have arived and are causing all sorts of mayhem…
The forces of MASK under your command have come under attack and your colleagues have been scattered through time…
This was what he had been waiting for…
If games sold on the artwork for it the first Game Over would have probably sold millions…
Your mission is simple enough…
Brok the Brave has decided to rid us of Dracula once and for all…
Fancy flying a jet through six levels of non-stop vertical scrolling action? If you do then Sonic Boom may be that game…