Outrage Review
It’s not exactly “standard practice” for an 8-bit video / computer game to take 30 (Thirty?!) years from conception to release, but Outrage is one...
Art For The Machines: Part VII – Burn Out Or Fade Away?
Eye Of Horus (Logotron) – To avoid some chronological confusion – Eye Of Horus actually came out...
Art For The Machines: Part VI – Unpublished Video Games Are Games Too
Gargantuan (N/A) – We naturally have to address this “parallel” chapter during a gradually more and more shaky era for the 8-bit machines. Gargantuan was...
Art For The Machines: Part V – Gifts For The Bits
1988-
ECO (Ocean) – Another shift in the ongoing and never-ending evolution of video games as Denton...
Art For The Machines: Part IV – What Next?
Infodroid (Beyond) – What is an Infodroid? The simplest explanation is that it’s a Droid that deals...
MW Ultra Review
I have an extraordinarily hard time naming even three franchises that consist of four consecutive games of such ultra high quality as the Metal Warrior...
Art For The Machines: Part III – Everything Changes (Everything)
1986-1987
Enigma Force (Beyond) – Shadowfire 2… Phew… Just imagine the pressure – How the devil do...
Art For The Machines: Part II – Denton Goes To The Top
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Ocean) – While this is the video game that single-handedly and properly welded...
Denton Designs – Art For The Machines: Part I
Reading old reviews for Batman-related video games is one sharp, double-edged sword. But in this case, it’s not just about any random Batman-game,...
Commodore 64 – Launch titles & Must-plays: Part II
13. Kickman
Commodore
Swiftly and briefly moving over to the slightly darker side of Coin-Op conversions…
About those earliest Commodore...
Commodore 64 – Launch titles & Must-plays: Part I
Quick. Name three video game platforms that had an array of innovative and system-selling software at launch. The PS3? Xbox 360? The SEGA Mega Drive?...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Great Games: 2020 (January-June)
That’s half the year gone, already… The world have and might take a turn for the worse at every given point of no return, but...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2019
While others may wonder if they need another Madden-game or if the latest Call Of Duty is any good, you can be sure that the...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2018
And for the sake of consistency when we are “comparing” stuff year by year, there are 217 C64 games from 2018 listed in the Gamebase64....
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2017
The tide doesn’t turn, but instead it grows stronger… We got some really heavy and high value C64 productions this year – Some even better...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2016
Yeah, I know… Still in shock? I’d be too if I had been away from the C64 since the late 80s. The shock of course...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2015
If you search the Gamebase64 and look up how many games were released each year for the C64, we could probably all agree that the...
Worse Things Happen At Sea Review
Ain’t that the truth
if there ever was one…? But certain maritime-based and work-related
scenarios happen to pave way for quite entertaining (Or at least
original and interesting.)...
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra Review
Ain’t that about
time, then…?! Some classic Jules Verne as a video game…! (And I
hope you have that Spanish dictionary ready… Unless you speak
Spanish, obviously.)
STORY
“Journey...
Sophistry Review
Because there aren’t enough sophisticatedly devilish and devilishly sophisticated puzzle games on the Spectrum either…
STORY
A bouncing sphere
that can alter tiles. Single-screen levels built from...