A strategy game with a simple idea…

Who can forget this little belter for the old speccy? Well I can't – even if everyone else can…

Thorn EMI present here perhaps one of the most complex games produced for the VIC-20…

You know how you often hear jazz aficionados harp on about how ‘it’s all about the notes you don’t hear’? Well, excuse me a bit of my own pretentious goatee-stroking, but oddly enough, that’s how I feel about Aliens…

Ocean supported the GS with several releases on cartridge, but this one makes good use of the extra memory available…

Possibly the first true tank sim…

Released amid a frenzy of controversy, the original GTA was a sandox game like no other…

“If it aint broke, dont fix it” Never before have these words rung so true as with Pac Mania…

Somewhere in the mists of time, the Gollop brothers developed and coded the classic Rebelstar…

Back in the early 80’s, before Bomberman existed and when Mario Kart was not even a glint in Miyamoto’s eye, Atari released Warlords, arguably the originator of the multiplayer battle game…

In Bubbles you play as…

There have been many controversial and un-politically correct releases throughout the history of gaming, but MRM’s Nutter must rank high among the earliest and most un-PC games of all time…

Way back in 1982 (I was 12) pacman was a big hit in the arcades, that success resulted in quite a number of pacman versions on the various consoles that were out there at the time…

I imagine this game is fairly unknown to most, and I only found it by mistake…

Life in the world of rock and roll isnt all its cracked up to be in this dire game…

  I expended over an hour writing a perfectly crafted 349 word write-up of LoM last night and when I uploaded it, it failed and I lost it all…

Ahhh…

Set in World War I, this brilliant turn-based strategy game from German developer Blue Byte took the BATTLE ISLE formula further and enhanced it…

Sim City is one of the best games I've ever played…

This is a somewhat forgotten action strategy game from Crystal Dynamics…

What a game !

The Gollop brothers at possibly there finest produced a game that is as good to play and as addictive as the day it was released…

A truly timeless piece of software, Archon is rightly hailed as an action-strategy classic, effortlessly interweaving a Chess-like board-game dynamic with fantasy arcade-style action…

This is truly a classic and it was available for several different systems like Atari 8-BITs, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and even the NES in 1989!

Basically, ARCHON is a strategic game for one or two players where you make your moves on a kind of chess field…

For management fetishists everywhere, Sim City was the game to have…

You could argue that this was just a tarted up Dune 2, but Command & Conquer was much much more…

This little-known French game beat Tom Clancy to the punch with what is perhaps the earliest tactical military sim…

Possibly the greatest freeware game ever release on the Amiga…

Where to start of this strange topically nuclear war based strategy game…

This is one of the great Amiga classics but the game was also converted for DOS-PCs, MSX, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC…

Until GTA: San Andreas came along, this real-time strategy game by Bullfrog was my favourite game of all time…

Another brilliant game from legendary developer Bullfrog!

The game is set in a future where corporations rule and do everything to increase their power…

I played this game for most of the early 90s…

Probably the most successful export from the BBC after Elite, Thrust was ported to all of the other 8-bit computers of the time and has even had homebrew versions released on the Atari 2600 and Vectrex in recent years! The simple premise of the game – collect an orb with your spacecraft on each level and escape into the atmosphere – was matched by equally simple graphics and audio, leaving the finely-honed gameplay and increasing challenge of successive levels to keep the player enthralled…

When people talk about retro videogames, they tend to focus on 8-bit home computers, arcade games and consoles from Atari, Sega and Nintendo…