One of the few puzzle games I enjoyed in my early gaming years, The Lost Vikings took all that was great about a SNES platforming game and spliced it with a puzzler.
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Bumpy
The Spectrum wasn’t exactly renowned for puzzle games…
RETRO GAMES
Popils
Not to go all hipster on you, but you've probably never heard of Popils…
Circus Atari
Breakout has received many a clone and many an update which can range from the incredibly dull 'Thru the Wall' on the ZX Spectrum Horizons user tape…
3D3D
It's like 3D Monster Maze, but in proper 3D! That's to say, it's a maze inside a cube and you have to find your way out…
Azzurro 8-Bit Jam
The latest MSX/ZX release from Spanish coders Relevo Videogames has already received it’s fair share of press coverage.
Qix
You may never heard of this odd GameBoy Puzzle/ strategy game where you have to cover a certain bercentage of the board without being hit by the Qix, a collection of vector lines that expand and collapse swaying across the screen, and the Fuses which will follow the lines & try to kill you…
Devil Dice
What takes your personal prize for best puzzle game ever? I used to like Columns on Megadrive, Tetris and Dr…
Jigsaw Madness
A decent puzzle game which shares some similiarities with the SNES game 'Pieces'…
Elemental Pinball
Elemental Pinball is an collection of three different pinball tables with the basic pinball gameplay…
Animated Strip Poker
Phwoar! If there’s one thing that really got me going in the 1980’s it was pixelated women, and what made it even sexier was that the girl was drawn in 256×192 pixels…
Marble Madness
What do you get when you cross the childhood fun of marbles with the mind-melting art style of M…
Donkey Kong Jr. Math
It is fair to say that when it comes to Nintendo they usually treat their franchises right. With each new Mario, Zelda, Metroid or Donkey Kong game, they are often followed by a mass of critical and financial success.
Pacmania
One of the best Pac-Man clones you’re ever likely to play.
Solstice
Solstice is an isometric puzzler that is graphically very pleasing on the eye but as punishing and unrelenting to play as Mega Man, Contra and Ghosts 'n Goblins combined…
Batty Builders
Another English Software title…
Hatris
Hatris? Sounds like a Tetris rip-off but with hats instead of bricks dont you think?
Well if that's what you think then you're wrong…
Super Bomberman 4
You ever played Bomberman? Not yet you haven’t. This little Japan-only sucker is not only the best in the SB batch – it’s the best damn Bomberman game ever released.
Columns
Any retro gamer worth their salt will know that Tetris was originally released on a range of primitive computers before Nintendo nabbed the rights and decided to bundle it with the GameBoy…
Ishido
I chanced upon this about eight years ago when Game and Telegames got together in a deal to distribute retro stock in regular Game stores…
Factory Panic
The original Japanese version of Factory Panic is known as Ganbare Gorby! (Good Lucky Gorby!) and features former Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev…
Zoop
Poor old Zoop…
Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble
Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble (which I shall henceforth refer to as KTT) is not a bad game.
RETRO GAMES
Dig Dug II
When the original Dig Dug was released in 1982, it was a fairly big hit for Namco…
The Next Tetris
Tetris has been around for over 20 years and has been ported many times to many different systems…
Pokémon Puzzle League
To be honest I have never been a huge Pokemon fan…
Mario's Super Picross
Mario's Super Picross was the final game in the Mario Picross series…
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream
THE GAME
Destin to make their way to the Moon Festival so as to get down and do what rabbit's do, Cookie and Cream embark on their road less travelled…
Mikie
You know, there’s something about 8bit games that I just love, and that’s the innocence of them…
Mario and Yoshi
Mario and Yoshi are arguably gaming's greatest double act…
Starsweep
This is a puzzle game that is apparently similar to Puzzle League, but
I find it to be a comination of Tetris, Puzzle Bobble and
Puyo Pop…
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
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Ms. Pac Man
In the early eighties we as home computer/console users were desperate for arcade action.
Baku Baku
With its sleek black casing, colour screen and a certain blue mascot, it’s fair to say that the Game Gear had a cooler image than the Game Boy did
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.
Landmaker
Taito have made some absolute gems of arcade puzzle games over the years
Bubbles
Bubbles is one of the most bizarre arcade games ever created and one of the most fun…