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Celebration, Lists

Games Beginning With ‘B’ Week

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It’s time for another random celebration of video gaming goodness! This time: of games beginning with the letter ‘B’… 🙂

Enjoy,
The King of Grabs

Here’s a full run-down of what was published:

Ballblazer, Atari 7800
Booty, ZX Spectrum
Bomb Jack, Arcade
Bonanza Bros., Megadrive
Booga-Boo, MSX
Brainstorm, Commodore 64
Bomberman ’94, PC Engine
Bubsy, Atari Jaguar
Bobby Bearing, ZX Spectrum
Battle Valley, Commodore 64
Breath of Fire, Super Nintendo
Breath of Fire II, Super Nintendo
BMX Kidz, Commodore 64
Battlecruiser 3000AD, PC
Bubble Ghost, Atari ST
Bubble Ghost, Amstrad CPC
Bubble Ghost, Game Boy
Braxx Bluff, ZX Spectrum
Bounder, Commodore 64

Bug-Byte, ZX Spectrum

Antics, ZX Spectrum

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This 1983 sequel to Bug-Byte‘s The Birds and the Bees is a simplistic maze game, but with excellent controls as you control a bee (with plenty of inertia), on the lookout for a kidnapped friend (kidnapped by ants, no less).

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Bug-Byte, ZX Spectrum

The Birds and the Bees, ZX Spectrum

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The Birds and the Bees is a simple, side-scrolling collect ’em up, with you playing a bee, out collecting pollen from nearby flowers. It was released by Bug-Byte Software on the ZX Spectrum in 1983.

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Enix, Quest, Super Nintendo

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, Super Nintendo

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Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen is a fantastic strategy action game, developed by Quest, and first published on the Super Nintendo in 1993.

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Compile, Hudson Soft, PC Engine

Gunhed, PC Engine

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Gunhed is a classic vertically-scrolling. progressive-weapons shooter released for the PC Engine in 1989. It is based on the Toho film of the same name. In North America the game goes by the name of Blazing Lasers.

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gog.com, GT Interactive, Monolith Soft, MS-DOS, PC, Steam

Blood, PC

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Monolith‘s 1997 shooter – Blood – is a first-person satire of every horror movie you ever saw, and also a few that you probably didn’t.

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Amiga, Codemasters

Robin Hood: Legend Quest, Amiga

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I’ve no idea why Codemasters changed the title, but this is Super Robin Hood on the Amiga – the classic 8-bit game by the Oliver Twins – except under a different name.

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Camerica, Codemasters, NES/Famicom

Super Robin Hood, NES

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This excellent Nintendo Entertainment System version of Codemasters‘ Super Robin Hood was developed in the late Eighties, before the 16-bit versions (which are somewhat different to the classic 8-bit originals).

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Codemasters, Commodore 64

Super Robin Hood, Commodore 64

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This Commodore 64 version of the Oliver Twins‘ classic platforms and ladders game, Super Robin Hood, first came out in 1987.

It was programmed by Delvin Sorrell, with graphics by James Wilson and music by David Whittaker.

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Bitterne Software, Commodore 64, Quicksilva

Ant Attack, Commodore 64

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The ZX Spectrum original of Ant Attack was so good that it spawned a decent 1984 Commodore 64 version, by Paul Fik and Bitterne Software.

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