Today, the 21st December 2021, is the fourth birthday of this website – thekingofgrabs.com. So happy birthday to us!
We hope that you continue to find this site useful and informative. And that it maybe inspires you to discover (or rediscover) great games from the past.
Thank you for your support,
The King of Grabs
The Acorn Archimedes is a family of home computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems are based on Acorn‘s ARM RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture with a 32-bit CPU (using 26-bit addressing) and were manufactured from 1987 until the mid-1990s.
LISTS: as decided by The King of Grabs, in order of greatness:
Taito‘s classic 1986 arcade hit, Bubble Bobble, has been converted to pretty much every format on the planet. We played through them all recently and have compiled a list of the best. Click a link to view each conversion individually. Do you agree with our choices? Let us know in the comments.
1. Sega Saturn (1996)
2. Nintendo DS (2005)
3. Game Boy Advance (2003)
4. X68000 (1990)
5. FM Towns (1990)
6. Sega Master System (1988)
7. NES/Famicom Disk System (1987)
8. PC MS-DOS (1989)
9. Atari ST (1989)
10. Amiga (1989)
See also:
MSX (1987)
Commodore 64 (1988)
ZX Spectrum (1987)
Amstrad CPC (1987)
Game Gear (1994)
Game Boy Color (1999)
Game Boy (1991)
BBC Micro (1989)
Apple II (1988)
See also: BB4CPC (2014) on the Amstrad CPC and Super Bubble Bobble MD (1995) on the Megadrive/Genesis.
Did we miss any official conversions of Bubble Bobble? Please let us know in the comments.
In memory of Fukio Mitsuji (1960-2008), the designer of the great Bubble Bobble.
More: Bubble Bobble on Wikipedia
The Atari Lynx is a handheld console that was developed by Epyx and manufactured by Atari Corporation from 1989 to 1995, and it features a wide variety of colourful and playable games available in cartridge format.
Known as the Megadrive in Japan and Europe, and the Genesis in North America, this was Sega‘s fourth generation home video games console and it was launched in 1988 in Japan (1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe).
The classic comedy horror film, Ghostbusters, was made into a video game by David Crane and published by Activision in 1984. The Commodore 64 version being the first – and arguably the best – version of this simple yet involving game. Many different conversions of Ghostbusters followed, and we’ve covered all of them on this website.
Here’s a list of all the different versions of Ghostbusters on thekingofgrabs.com. Listed in chronological order of release…
Ghostbusters, Apple II (1984)
Ghostbusters, Atari 8-bit (1984)
Ghostbusters, Commodore 64 (1984)
Ghostbusters, ZX Spectrum (1984)
Ghostbusters, Amstrad CPC (1985)
Ghostbusters, Atari 2600 (1985)
Ghostbusters, MSX (1985)
Ghostbusters, NES/Famicom (1986)
Ghostbusters, PC (1986)
Ghostbusters, Sega Master System (1987)
Enjoy,
The King of Grabs
More: Ghostbusters on Wikipedia
The video game arcades of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s were very special places. They were where the majority of innovation was taking place in the video games industry, and over those three decades countless classic video games were released into these dingy, constantly noisy places for friends to crowd around and play. Video game arcades were social places where all kinds of different people hung out.
The Neo Geo is a high-end Japanese video games system, designed for use in both arcades, and at home. It was developed by SNK and first launched in 1990.
The Nintendo Game Boy Advance is a 32-bit handheld video game console that was first launched in 2001 and went on to become a best-seller. Ultimately selling over 80 million physical units worldwide, until its discontinuation in 2010.
This week I’ve decided to focus on games for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) – the handheld video game console from Sony that really pushed the envelope in terms of graphical capabilities. It first came out in 2004 in Japan and 2005 everywhere else.
