Tag Archives: Retro Gaming

Super Monkey Ball 2, GameCube

Sega‘s brilliant Super Monkey Ball series reaches its pinnacle with this Nintendo GameCube sequel.

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Thrust, Commodore 64

The late Jeremy Smith‘s all-time classic gravity game Thrust made its first appearance on the BBC Micro in 1986, through Superior Software. Jeremy soon followed up with conversions to most home computer systems.

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Atari Jaguar

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a fighting game, based on the 1993 film by Rob Cohen and starring Jason Scott Lee, and released for the Atari Jaguar in 1994. Like the film, the game is a fictionalised dramatisation of the life of actor and martial artist, Bruce Lee, taking place in various time periods with Bruce fighting against different adversaries.

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Atic Atac, ZX Spectrum

Ultimate Play The Game‘s jolly horror adventure Atic Atac was released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983 and became an instant hit.

And it’s not hard to see why: within seconds of playing this overhead action game you will fall in love with its humorous presentation and characters. Everyone does.

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Gauntlet Title Screens, Arcade

These Gauntlet title screens are cool.

They are from the 1985 arcade original. They show the potions, power-ups and monsters. How many shots to kill each monster. Plus some other interesting information about the game.

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Boulder Dash, Commodore 64

The classic maze/puzzle game Boulder Dash on the Commodore 64 is a fantastic conversion of the Atari 8-bit original. It was created by Canadian developers Peter Liepa and Chris Gray and published by First Star in 1984.

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Zool 2, Atari Jaguar

Gremlin Graphics‘ lollipop-endorsing, ninja hero Zool was in our faces all throughout the early ’90s. He was supposed to be a kind of ‘anti-hero alien ninja’ to mirror the ‘coolness’ of Sega‘s Sonic the Hedgehog, but only made relatively minor inroads into gaming history with two games that originated on the Amiga then were later ported to a variety of different platforms. Zool 2 was converted to the Jaguar by Imagitech Design and was released in North America and Europe in 1994, and later in Japan, in 1995.

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Maziacs, ZX Spectrum

This very early 1983 ZX Spectrum game by Don Priestley is still a joy to play to this day.

The premise is simple: you have to find the missing gold and return it to its rightful place.

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