wp-gdpr-compliance domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/douglast/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131wp-gdpr-compliance domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/douglast/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Burger time is one of those classic games from the arcade which made it onto many of the early consoles and computers, with varying results. Your job is the 8 bit equivalent of flipping burgers for a big burger chain, including being chased by fried eggs and tomatoes, or is […]
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Pitfighter by Atari on Sega Master System A quick look at the title tells you this is some kind of fighting game, and it involves a pit, or not. OK it is definitely a fighting game like many others, one on one, mano a mano etc. and so on. The […]
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Defender is another of those early arcade games which has been copied, ported and borrowed from for most early games systems with widely varying results. In Defender your role is to save the humans from the alien invasion force which is taking them away to do who knows what with […]
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Fantastic Dizzy on Master System Dizzy is apparently legendary. For me though this is our first introduction so I have no rose tinted specs or axes to grind (or even soldiers to dip) where Dizzy is concerened, so I’m going in with an open mind. The first thing which grabs […]
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Ghost house for the Sega Master system throws you into a haunted house, where your job is to scout out the vampires and kick their blood sucking asses. Of course it’s not going to be as simple as that or there’d be no fun in playing the game. The gameplay […]
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Having sorted out my garage I came across a lot of my old retro gaming stuff which had been “lost” for the last 9 years or so. A testament to the retro consoles build quality is that most of them still worked after given a clean and airing to get […]
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Carvup is a side on platformer where you play as a car, your mission takes place on a building site where you have to dodge the bulldozers and rivet in the girders. With simple controls, left , right and jump it’s quick and easy to start playing this cartoon styled […]
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Carnival for Colecovision’s console is a shooting gallery simulator which owes a lot to Space Invaders. Why do I mention Space Invaders? It’s because you are a small gun at the bottom of the screen which can move left and right. The shooting gallery staples of tin ducks, tin rabbits, […]
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Looping on ColecoVision The first thing to strike me about Looping is the games simplicity. Simple graphics, simple gameplay and a simple goal. That doesn’t mean that Looping isn’t challenging, considering you only have to remember 3 controls , pushing up points the nose of your plane down, pushing down […]
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Zaxxon is one of the early Arcade shootem ups which made it on to many home computers and consoles. What makes Zaxxon stand out from other titles of the time is its strange view point which is neither horizontal or vertical, as is the norm, but goes diagonally across the […]
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Nova 2001 is a classic arcade game that was released in 1983 by UPL. The game is a 2D shoot ’em up set in space where the player controls a spaceship that needs to destroy all enemies on the screen to move on to a new level 12. In Nova 2001, players can steer their […]
