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Friday, January 07, 2022

Game Covers - Out Run (Commodore 64)

You're cool, the engine's hot, the girl's gorgeous, a tank full of gas and an open road... the rest is up to you..!!

The ultimate experience in motorsports simulation, the absolute challenge to nerves and reflexes. Feel the wind in your hair and the pull of the G-force as you power your way along the highways and byways, a girl by your side and open country before you. Experience the exhilaration and excitement of driving a high-performance sports car in this teasing time trial where your coordination and nerve will be tested to unbelievable limits. Out Run the coin op starred as an arcade sensation. Out Run the computer simulation mirrors this exciting all action spectacle.

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Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Game Covers - Thing Bounces Back (Commodore 64)

Gremlin's springiest star is set to bounce straight back into a new adventure. Following his world-saving exploits against the evil toy goblin and his monstrous toys, Things enjoyed his much-needed recuperation, oiled his spring, and is now raring to go. What next?... he must finish the job properly and halt the factory auto-producing these hideous toys.

But superfit as he is and fast as he can move there's danger around every bend... goblins lurking to drain his oil, water rushing to bowl him over, iron chickens fielding dastardly deadly eggs.

A quick hand and dogged determination are needed if you're to get anywhere with Thing in his latest escapade.

Fast and furious action is the order of the day and a good sense of direction would be helpful to guide Thing round such a complex location.

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Monday, January 03, 2022

Game Covers - Labyrinth (Commodore 64)

We know all about you. We even know your weaknesses. Weaknesses that have made you our thrall. To regain your freedom you must find the castle at the heart of the Labyrinth. If you are unable to break the spell within 13 hours, you will be lost forever. Which, for your information, is a very long time...

A key. Popcorn. A Movie ticket. Everyday objects have a way of taking on a whole new meaning once you enter the Labyrinth. Be prepared for anything. A wall of hands, talking door-knockers, or a friend in need. Only one thing's for certain: we cannot be held responsible if you get lost.

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Game Covers - Bride of Frankenstein (Commodore 64)

It's the middle of the night, outside an electrical storm is raging and you're all alone in Castle Frankenstein. Your task is to revive Frankie, the monster who wants you at the top of the tower while you hunt around for the vital organs that will make his life complete. You will need to find a pair of lungs, a pair of kidneys, a liver, a heart, and of course a brain if you want to make a man of him. But make sure you use only quality spare parts as some of the older items may cause a breakdown.

It won't be easy. The castle has many rooms, dungeons, dark corridors, crypts, graveyards, and laboratories to explore (sixty screens in all). And who knows what may lurk behind those locked doors.

Special Features

60 rooms to search
7 different keys to find
Horrorshow graphics
Special 'cardiac arrest' feature
Hideous ghoulies and zombies

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Games Covers - Better Dead Than Alien (Commodore 64)

Prepare to do battle as you and galactic hero Brad Zoom face the most revolting life forms ever to pollute the universe.

Watch with horror as sickening waves of malformed mutants threaten to obliterate freedom and democracy.

Risk your lunch as you and Brad choose between decency and annihilation.

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Saturday, January 01, 2022

Game Covers - Mini Golf (Commodore 64)

Watch your ball roll, bounce, and spin across a perilous course filled with obstructions and hazards including sandhills and metal borders. As in real life, you must play from one hole to the next using skill and dexterity to pot those balls. You determine the direction and strength of your stroke - you have the chance to improve your game with every shot.

Mini Golf from Magic Bytes gives you the opportunity to play this well-known and much-loved sport in the home for the first time!

- Courses for beginners and experts.
- Birds and profile view of the courses.
- 2, 3 or 4 player-options

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Friday, December 31, 2021

Game Covers - Flintstones (Commodore 64)

BOWL OR BUST!

Fred and Barney want to go bowling but Wilma has other ideas and guess who's left holding the baby?

Join the Flintstones in this officially licensed arcade adventure based on the famous Hanna Barbera cartoon characters.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Game Covers - Frankenstein (Commodore 64)

Imagine...

Just imagine................................ That you could be God.

I am Doctor Victor Frankenstein. I believed... Oh foolish man!... I believed I could equal the wonders of God. For I, in my researches had discovered the secret of life! For two wearisome years I experimented with my secrets of life force. Long hours spent in the laboratory tolling over bloody tissue. Re-animating dead animal muscle: Notes, experiments, more notes, adjustments to my apparatus.

My experiments became an obsession! I forgot about food. My body became wasted. My eyes stared wildly from sunken sockets.

Friends had deserted me, considering me eccentric, I did not care! For I was destined to stand among the Gods! Their equal, a creator... A giver of life itself!

"Extracts from the memoirs of Dr. Victor Frankenstein."

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

Game Covers - Miami Vice (Commodore 64)

Crockett and Tubbs have heard; the word on the street - a one million dollar contraband shipment is due in town on Thursday morning for collection by Mr 'J' - an old-fashioned gangster with a respectable new image and some influential friends.

These big deals usually go down under the cover of a waterfront warehouse and as of Midnight Sunday, that's as much as you know.

Just get out there and squeeze the network of dealers, starting with the real low-life, the $10 wrap men who frequent the local bars. If you handle them right, you just might get to their suppliers, the next link in the chain, and eventually, the slick businessmen who operate in the casinos - they should have lots of information if you don't have to shoot them first!

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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Game Covers - Knight Rider (Commodore 64)

Michael Knight and his amazing computer-controlled vehicle K.I.T.T. are in Atlanta on yet another dangerous mission. Michael's co-ordinator, Deven, has discovered that a group of international terrorists are planning to alter the precarious status quo between the East and West. It is even possible that for some reason known only to themselves they are trying to trigger a Third World War. Deven has instructed the KNIGHT RIDER to uncover the insidious plot and put a stop to it - but no-one knows exactly what the plot is!

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Friday, December 24, 2021

Game Covers - The Sentinel (Commodore 64)

Beyond your wildest dreams, in a world where the only force is pure energy, stands the Sentinel. Battle against him through 10,000 lands, in the most original, compelling and addictive computer game ever devised.

Firebird issue the challenge, and the Sentinel awaits.

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Game Covers - Xybots (Commodore 64)

A year ago, the experts said it couldn't be done.

It was too big, too complicated. But our programming team just smiled at each other, and now here it is...

It's here and it's sensational - Domark's latest blockbusting coin-op conversion from Tengen.

Join Major Rock Hardy and Captain Ace Gunn in their battle for supremacy against an army of invading Xybots!

With a split-screen for one or two platers and a unique viewing area, you'll find Xybots a challenging strategic blast'em up.

It's non-stop action all the way and working together in two-player mode is the ultimate fun. Each player controls one character and the split-screen gives each his own playing area.

A map shows the section you're battling through and the positions of the patrolling Xybots. And to keep one step ahead, pick up energy pods, super weapons, keys and coins.

Xybots made a challenging arcade game ... as a computer game, it can't be matched. So grab hold of the controls and help the intrepid duo, Rock and Ace, rid the labyrinth of these metallic monsters!

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Game Covers - Dominator (Commodore 64)

Warnings, S.O.S.'s and stories of total planet absorbtion had been banded around a terrified solar system for some time now but had been conveniently overlooked by spineless, so-called 'leaders'.

And now it was too late. This was incomprehensible. This was immense. It's vast appetite was closing in on Earth and the putrid smell of partly digested nations hung ominously in space above a society that had refused to believe that its very existence would ever again be in question.

Who could fight?

Who would dare go inside this mutant horror and battle against its bodily defence mechanisms, to obliterate its sustaining organs, to stop its crazed hunger stampede across the universe?

Mankind needs you, the 'Dominator' ... You need to fight ... IT NEEDS TO FEED ...

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