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

Now That's What I Call Stuart's Favourite Music 16 - Taurus II (Mike Oldfield)

The album "Five Miles Out" introduced me to the music of Mike Oldfield long before I first listened to his famous Tubular Bells for the first time, and the one track which stands out for me is the very first one from the album, "Taurus II".  As with most of Mike's earlier work (Tubular Bells, Incantations, Ommadawn etc.), this track is one long, continuous track (24 minutes) made up of several different melodies and styles.

I remember my sister copying it onto an old C90 for me in the mid 1980's...  I still have the tape!  (Shhh.... although I've bought several CD releases since, so that kind of makes up for having a naughty copy when I was a child!)

If you've never heard it before, give it a go...  Modern chart musicians can only dream of producing music of this quality.  As a big fan of Mike Oldfield, I still find this one of his best albums ever.


The copy my sister dd for me in the 80s.  Shhhh, don't tell anyone!

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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