One of the first strategy and economic games, where you shouldn't jump or shoot someone/something to win…

The breakout style of game has been around almost as long as any other computer game…

Being a kid in the 80’s was great, but when I look back now I think I was a bit different to other kids the same age…

World War II is raging…

A voodoo doll has turned King Angoulafre mad…

There isn't that many arcade conversions for the C16/Plus4 and only a handful of them are of any high quality…

As Amity Island's Police Chief Brodie, it is your responsibility to stop the lethal shark Jaws from killing the residents and tourists…

In this Casino simulator, you have decided to be a high roller…

The game is set in a hospital, and requires the player to build an environment which will attract patients with comical complaints, illnesses, emergencies, and diseases…

Hill Street Blues is a top-down action / strategy mix…

I dont know if many of you remember the first episode of the pokemon cartoon series, when the intro to Blue/Red lept into colour 3D cartoon style action…

Millennia is one of those games you’ve only ever heard of if you happened to come across when it was released…

In the same style as the board game Monopoloy comes the Lynx game Lynxopoly…

Nominally, Brood War was an expansion set rather than a fully-fledged new game…

Starcraft is regarded as a very fast-paced game – we all marvel at manic Koreans whose fingers flurry with a dizzying click-per-minute ratio that would outpace hummingbirds – but it's a slow-paced experience which has settled into my memory…

So there I was, driving home from work on the A27 through Hampshire one night when I passed a sign for a town called Hilsea…

Chess…

In an ironic twist, the card game spawned by a videogame got its own videogame…

One of the most hardcore, unforgiving games ever…

A fantastic strategy RPG from the creator of Laser Squad and X-Com…

‘I’ve got a great big Convoy… a convoy coming your way!’

Lorries were great in the 80’s…

Although by no means breaking new ground, Radar Mission was a solid military 'twofer' on the Game Boy in 1990…

Mega Drive…

The sequel to Thrust has you against the Galactic Empire again…

Worms Armageddon is a brilliant sequel to Worms…

Who says the C64 can't do strategy games? Possibly one of the greatest games to ever grace a humble 8 bit machine, Supremacy combined great graphics and an even better soundtrack by Jeron Tel to amazing effect…

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Soccer Boss was originally released as The Boss by Peaksoft before this version by Alternative…

One of the first games to enthral me for hours on end, Roller Coaster Tycoon was wonderful…

Civilisation has fallen into the hands of syndicates, who each control several countries of the world…

I'm not sure how many people reading this will remember the advert for the MB Computer Battle Ships Electronic Board Game…

Flight simulators are boring… everyone knows that! We don’t want to be bothered by knowing whether our gear is hanging out… and we certainly don’t want to spend our time fiddling with our flaps… No we just want to get in a plane and fly under bridges and then shoot some things……

This nice, but limited Strategy / Adventure was billed as a comic strip game…

These days you can walk into pretty much any games shop, head over to the PC section and find roughly five million “Tycoon” games available for purchase…

I’ve always been a fan of the film Alien, so when I saw this game in the cheapie bin years ago I decided to give it a shot…

They don’t make games like this anymore… thank goodness…

MAX or to give its full name Mechanized Assault & Exploration is an excellent example of turn based strategy…