I remember way back in 1985 when I first bought this game…
commodore 16/plus4
Saboteur! – Commodore Plus4 Version
The classic game which was immensely popular on the bigger systems eventually arrives on the Plus4…
Saboteur! – Commodore 16 Version
The classic game which was immensely popular on the bigger systems eventually arrives on the C16…
Mr Puniverse
This game is based on the BBC's old "Late, Late Breakfast Show"…
Moon Buggy
Based upon the classic 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol by Irem, it soon quickly arrived to our system a mere three years later near as soon after we tore off the festive wrapper off our good old grey breadbin on 1984 Christmas morning.
Tower Of Evil
I will try keep the introduction brief…
Ikari Warriors
Ikari Warriors is a 1986 arcade game by SNK. The player takes the role of commando-like warriors named Ralf and Clark, who must try to reach the village of Ikari and rescue Colonel Cook.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island was a computer game made in the mid-1980s, based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson…
Pacmania
One of the best Pac-Man clones you’re ever likely to play.
Auf Wiedersehen Monty
Poor, persecuted Monty Mole, who was incarcerated by the bastions of the law for borrowing coal to keep warm, has escaped and fled these pleasant isles…
More Adventures Of Big Mac The Mad Maintenence Man
You might be forgiven for assuming you're taking on the role of a popular 3-tier double cheeseburger, but the Big Mac we have here is the name of a quite insane maintenence man who's latest mission is to shut down all 15 power vaults of an enemy power station…
BMX Racers
BMX bicycles were all the rage back in the eighties – mag wheels, dice dust-caps,mushroom grips, trick pegs, pad sets: all these elements and many more filled me with desire and wanton lust as a boy; none of these elements existed on my own rusty blue Raleigh Burner…
Bridgehead
Bridgehead is a sort of Green Beret clone for the C16 (with a slightly improved dedicated Plus/4 version)…
Dork’s Dilemma?
There aren’t many C16 games that can claim to have a direct influence on a major Japanese franchise – and this isn’t one of them. But maybe, just maybe, if you squint a little, well maybe a lot, you can see a game here that could be seen as a precursor to Pikmin, with a little bit of Bomberman thrown in as well.
Terra Cognita
Here is an excellent little budget shooter by Codemasters which is every bit as fun and no less complete as it's C64 counterpart…
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
“Due to memory restrictions a full parser has not been implemented on this version”…
Skramble
The arcade classic 'Scramble', one of the first C16 games to emerge…
Blagger
Blagger is a platformer very much in the style of Manic Miner, with all that pixel perfect nonsense thrown in…
Timeslip
There's a time disturbance that's been traced to a distant planet with 3 time zones each with 12 time orbs…
Commando
Most people are familiar with the coin-op…
Grid Trap
There isn't that many arcade conversions for the C16/Plus4 and only a handful of them are of any high quality…
Paramaths
Now there may be a few of you out there of a certain age that may be familiar with Mathletics…
Green Beret
This arcade coin-op needs no introduction, so onto a very brief review…
Monkey Magic
Based on the classic japanese TV show I enjoyed watching over evening meal as a kid after school…
Tom Thumb
If there's ever a game that could make the humble C16 feel like a TARDIS, then this is it…
Bongo
Udo Gertz released five games on the C16, all of them head and shoulders above most of the competition…
Petals of Doom
Gremlin Graphics always seemed to place more love and attention into their C16 games than most other software houses did for Commodore’s lost offspring – Petals of Doom is a nice illustration of their efforts with the machine at the time, and my first introduction to the Sheffield based software house…
Reach For The Sky
Gremlin Graphics were at the forefront of C16 games development, with many exclusive releases on the system. And while their efforts were always solid, they very rarely hit pure gold on Commodore’s forgotten format. Reach for the Sky is a typical example of Gremlin’s nearly but not quite efforts.
Ghosts ‘n Goblins
It’s 1985, and a fun (if not a little hard) arcade platformer called Ghosts ‘n Goblins makes its debut.
Kikstart
Mastertronic again, and a simple enough premise for a game; time your dirt bikes’ jumps over a series of obstacles as you race against the clock to complete the course…
Rockman
Ricky Rockman is his name, collecting diamonds is his aim… Well, It’s great work if you can get it.
World Series Baseball
There are very few sports games worth playing on the Commodore 16.
Punchy
Punchy was included with the Commodore 16 Starter Pack, and so will have been one of the first games played by UK C16 owners…
Tutti Frutti
Another Shaun Southern game on the C16, and yet another Mastertronic 1…
Squirm
This game makes me ill…
Spectipede
What the auto-fire was made for…
Very similar to Minter’s ‘Matrix’, and like ‘Matrix’, heavily influenced by Atari’s ‘Centipede’, Spectipede is one of the finest C16 shooters out there…
Voidrunner
Voidrunner, one of only four Llamasoft games released on the C16, is certainly the coolest…
Harbour Attack
This came in one of those nice clam-shell packs from Commodore, and has three distinct sub games that link together to form the ‘Harbour Attack’ of the title…
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Ye Ar Kung-Fu was another big licensed game from the arcades to appear on the Commodore 16…