Category Archives: Let’s Play!

Remember Daley Thompson? He was that guy in the 80s who was always in the Olympics. Who was reasonably good. And had AWESOME facial hair. Like a brush, it was. Well, in gaming circles, he was known for his ability … Continue reading →

In the 80s, whenever a new, popular, game came out twenty million other white rappe…uh games that were the same appeared. Also, back in the 80s, it was quite common for us kids to think the real game was actually … Continue reading →

That Harry S Price was a card, wasn’t he? Ripping off loads of Spectrum games, altering their graphics, selling the game on as his own. Nawty. One of these game was The Steelyard Blues. Which I loved, until only a … Continue reading →

This came up in a conversation on ugvm this week (in Tuesday’s A-Z of Games thread, under V, obviously) and generally although people remembered it nobody had a clue what to do. Lets see if we can fix that, yes? … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I last did a Friday Let’s Play, but here’s one you really should have a go at – Freddy Hardest. I recently played and recorded it for Game Over, Yeah!!, and got almost nowhere – … Continue reading →

Look! A Commodore 64 game! I finally got the Java C64 emulator working, so you might see some more of these in the future. It’s a bit picky about what will and won’t work though. Anyway! The bunnysamurai game! I’m … Continue reading →

In the days of 8-bit gaming, there were over $hlmun platform games. It’s not really surprising, given the excellence and popularity of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner. One of the platform collect-’em-ups I remember most vividly was Tubaruba, not … Continue reading →

Woo! A rhyming Let’s Play! Ricochet was the best Breakout clone ever, at the time. Well, it wasn’t. It wasn’t even nearly the best. And Arcanoid and Batty and Krakout were all much better. But the thing with Ricochet was … Continue reading →

One of the things I certainly never did when I was at high school was play games on the Acorn computers at lunchtime when we weren’t allowed to do so. And one of those games I certainly never played was … Continue reading →