Yoshihisa Kishimoto and Technos set some key standards in early beat-’em-ups with 熱血硬派くにおくん, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun or, as it was known in the West, Renegade. Having launched Kunio-kun as the main…

#OnThisDay 1984: Arthur Scargill found himself cast as the antagonist to a monocle-sporting mole, in Wanted: Monty Mole.

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Does this game-of-the-movie capture the coolest parts of the film? Was its development time (probably around three months) long enough to create a competent computer game? Are the graphics and soun…

A Pirates fan looks at 40.

Once again, Jeremy is joined by perennial guest Chris Arnsby to look back on the best and worst that the last year had to offer in the world of film. Along the way, they take in such matters as the de...

He did the music and sound programming in everything from Test Drive II to Stunts. Now he's working on his own indie games.

Konami did very well from Hyper Olympic (also known in some places as Track and Field), the 1983 multi-sports game which became one of the arcade successes of the following year. It helped kick off…

Out of all the UK number one games I’ve covered from 1983 to 1987, Game, Set and Match is the third to have been a compilation rather than a single game. Those three compilations rather tell a stor…

Did the Boy Emperor in fact fiddle while Rome burned? Natalie's joined by star of BBC TV's I, Claudius, Christopher Biggins and Llewelyn Morgan to find out if he was all bad. For a seventeen…

The increasing success of Code Masters in 1987 prompted rounds of coverage of the Darling brothers as young business whizz-kids. They were far from the first such story. The next new game at #1 aft…

In its January 1984 issue, Computer & Video Games magazine printed code listings for nine different games, ready for readers to type into their computers and run. Each of the nine programs was …