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The previous inhabitants of the planet Plexar have were totally wiped out by a plague. Now the new inhabitants (known as Plexarians) have arrived at the planet and found the 16 continents connected by Crystal Roads that were built by the Miracle Engineers.
Once a year, one person is allowed to drive over them in their honour and (no surprises here), this time it’s you...
The Bulldog label had been set up by Mastertronic to showcase what they regarded as The Best of British. Most of the games previous to Rigel’s Revenge had been mainly of an arcade or strategy element. Step forward Smart Egg Software, with Ron Harris on game design and scenario, Nigel Brooks on implementation and development, and Said Hassan with programming and systems. They ...
I count myself to be incredibly lucky. As a sci-fi fan, I got to see Star Trek from the beginning thanks to the early re-runs hitting the screens in the UK (helped by my mother’s love of science fiction), watching Doctor Who from the beginning of the Tom Baker era, and remembering seeing Star Wars right from the start in the cinema. That was something I’ll never forget, witne...
The late 80s and 90s were fairly predictable when it game to gaming. Any time a major TV series or movie was released, you could almost guarantee that a game would follow, and even more so when it came to all the blockbuster movies. It was never a guarantee of quality, but certainly when it came to home releases it was usually a license to print money. It was the same in the ...
By now I don’t really have to hide my love of science fiction from all of you visiting this site. But what most of you probably don’t know is that as well as retro gaming, and sci-fi, I’m a huge fan of the Eagle comic. So much so, that I’ve been running a Facebook group dedicated to it for several years. So it was no surprise that I was at the front of the queue when Dan Dare...