And next, more retro goodness from The Centre for Computing History with an Acorn Atom, playing a bizarre sort-of pinball game which rings a distant bell in my brain, unless I’m confusing it with Video Pinball on the Atari 2600.
Then there’s the Acorn Electron playing Pacman clone, Snapper; a BBC Model B playing a flight simulator game; an Amstrad PC1512 showing text adventure, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, which I remember from the ZX Spectrum. The second picture on view was my attempt at playing it at Revival 2014, but I didn’t get the hang of it; an Atari 1040ST (I only had the 520ST) with wonderful shoot-em-up, Xenon; plus a machine I hadn’t come across before, a CGL Sord M5 Home Computer, showing Dragon Attack.
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And last, but not least, there was Halo multiplayer on Xbox; a standalone title called Lunar Panda; the Mattel Intellivision; the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) playing Super Mario Bros; the Panasonic CF2700 Personal Computer with Antarctic Adventure; two PS1 consoles with head-to-head Wipeout – and it’s so long since I’ve played that amazing game. Finally, the classic Vectrex playing Minestorm, its version of Asteroids.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.