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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Now That's What I Call Stuart's Favourite Music 15 - Action Biker (Rob Hubbard)

My favourite songs are not just limited to popular music which was available and eligible for the charts.

One song in particular which always conjures up fond memories from when I was little is from a classic computer game called Action Biker. 

I was first introduced to this game back in late 1985.  My friend, Steve Ready had it on his Atari 800XL, and the theme song got stuck in my head ever since. 

At the time, our family only had a Commodore Plus 4 and I was extremely jealous because Action Biker was not available for that machine.  A few years later I managed to get it when I was lucky enough to receive a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1987.

Rob Hubbard wrote some of the most memorable songs on the Commodore 64, but this one will always stand out for me. 

   

I even wrote a remix of it a few years ago, along with a short video of me playing, and finishing the game (see the video below), although the original will always be the best!

A great game, a great song, and some fantastic memories - not bad for £1.99!

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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Broadway at Christmas

Every year, around Christmas time, I pop over to Broadway to take some photographs of the stunning lights that stretch along the High Street.

In case you don't know, Broadway is a gorgeous village located in the Cotswolds about 30 miles south of Birmingham in the UK.  It's a short 10-minute drive from where I live, so I try to visit it as often as I can.

Last night, I took my daughter Sophie over there and used the opportunity to take some pictures which I thought I would share with you here.

Game Covers - Chase H.Q. (Commodore 64)

THE FASTEST, MOST THRILLING, 3D DRIVING GAME YET!

Take the wheel of your turbo-charged Porsche as you and your partner go in pursuit of dangerous criminals all driving an evil array of souped-up-roadsters.

TURBO BOOST!

Need to catch up in a hurry?  Well, just one press of your Turbo Button will leave your eyes in the back of your head!

BARRELLING THROUGH THE CITY STREETS.

along the roughest of dirt tracks ad through busy tunnels - if you can hold the line!  The low life can run, but they can't hide...

CHASE H.Q.

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Game Covers - Back To The Future Part 3 (Commodore 64)

1885 WAS NEVER LIKE THIS!  The time-traveling adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown step up the pace for this, the final and most exciting installment in the Back To The Future trilogy.

Stranded in Hill Valley back in the Wild West days of 1885, you play both Marty AND Doc in a frantic race against time to return to 1985 - not easy with Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen and his gang of gunslingers standing in your way!

Re-live the excitement of the movie with four thrill packed action sequences taken directly from the film, complete with digitized scenes from the movie and the original music score!

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