Took me completely by surprise that Campbell narrated the game and honestly, that kept me going.

I remember games being really hard (or I’m just crap) back in the home micro 8bit days. Then I watch play throughs on YouTube and discover if you figured out what to do, the game could be completed in under an hour!

The Blue Shift expansion definitely was released onto the internet, but the loading times put me off playing the game.

I swear I downloaded and played Half Life for the DC back when I had the machine. I think it was Blue Shift which was originally going to be on the DC first (as an exclusive?).

It was perfectly fine to play but I guess due to hardware limitations, the areas in which you played weren’t that large and loading times off the CD was quite slow.

I was a sucker for these fmv games back in the day. The more CDs the game came on the better. Bonus for lots of recognisable actors too.

This was the first computer I ever played on, it was at my cousin’s house. I was convinced there was a loop of film in the cartridge but couldn’t figure out how that would work with player interaction.

When my cousin got a screwdriver and opened the cartridge to reveal a couple of black chips on a circuit board, my mind was blown.

Here’s a couple I posted a while back.

Crazy Taxi was fantastic.

Metropolis Street Racer was utterly brilliant and I remember being annoyed when I heard the sequel was going to that new Microsoft console called XBox. That was of course Project Gotham Racing.

And Rez which I love so much I bought it remastered on Xbox360, again on PS4 and one final time on Quest 2.

I tried copying a friend’s copy of Rebel Assault to my hard drive. It technically worked but the video playback was stuttery and terrible

My first CD-ROM was a quad speed for £120 and that was very cheap at the time. I then switched over to the CD edition of my favourite monthly of magazine and was adjusted by the new games I could play.

Ooh! LucasArts adventure games with full speech!

I was a sucker for FMV games on the PC. There was the X-Files FMV adventure game, that was six CDs. So was Ripper, another adventure game that starred Christopher Walken, Karen Allen, John Rhys Davies and many more.

I also had Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Borg and a thriller about a nuclear submarine called Silent Steel.

I loved the FMV cut scenes in Westwood Studios games. They always managed to get a minor celebrity as the games got bigger.

They also made a really good Diablo style game called Nox.

Isn’t this the game that had to run full page adverts claiming a new, updated version was available and “the bugs have been squashed!” Obviously this was pre-internet, so updates like this were quite uncommon.

Yep, those were different times.

Battlecruiser 3000AD. This advert was later revised and they drew black knickers on the model.

Psycho Pigs UXB. Another British classic?

Keep 'em coming. Another great read thank you.

What a great read for Saturday morning. I agree, Bomb Jack was an awesome game on the humble Speccy even though I had never played the arcade original.

It was one of the games that came free with my Atari ST when I upgraded but it just didn’t feel the same on my new machine.

Growing up, I was quite brand loyal with occasional dips to other magazines if the freebies were any good.

ZX Spectrum - Crash magazine Atari ST - ST Format with semi regular copies of ST Action depending on the demo disks. PC - PC Format. Dreamcast - The official Dreamcast magazine, it was the only one with demo CDs. GameCube - I honestly can’t remember which magazine but I definitely bought one regulary.

By the time I had the first Xbox, all reviews and news I was getting from the internet.

Oh my god Hyper Sports. Those kinds of games were joystick killers. Combat School killed my Quickshot 2!

That’s when I took it apart and learned about leaf springs and why microswitched joysticks were better.

I had one of those for my Atari ST. Surprisingly comfortable and very strong too. That was a great joystick.

If you liked that, I followed this up with two more reviews.

Back to the Future: Part II which I owned back in the day and made a pretty good game in places.

Also, Back to the Future: Part III, a fresh look at this one because I had moved on from the Spectrum by the time this game had been released.

Keep these posts coming, they’re fantastic. I think I was on my Atari ST by this point. I can’t remember if I had Final Fight or not.

While my friends owned Amigas, they easily got the latest games by swapping disks with friends. As an ST owner, I knew no one and had to take risks with every game I purchased. 😂