This is painfully true. One geezer boasted about clearing out a small arcade after it appeared in the mag

❤️ Highlight of my month, writing for RG

I bet you bloody binned them 😉

Primal Rage

It has been done Wil, but it was right at the beginning. Issue 6 or something. Need a revisit for sure

Could also be an early Atlantis title, but nothing seems to match there

Trying to suss out your Speccy game collection. I can see Combat Lynx (big box), View to a Kill, an Imagine Ocean-era release (Yie Ar Kung-Fu?), Zoids, and what looks like four from Creative Sparks (Orc Attack, Danger Mouse, and a couple of other I can't make out)

Bit of a treasure trove that DVD Nick! Some lovely Nintendo character art on there, plus Miyamoto wielding a plastic sword and shield to reveal Twilight Princess! But the highlight has to be show floor photos from E3 and TGS 2004. Amazing

Bookmarked

Love this, looks great. Shooting backwards = essential!

And here's the magazine ad and game packaging

Here's a larger version of the fold-out map that came with the game, showing the town of Bridgton (and THE MIST creeping in from the east)

(Also reminded that Mandarin/Database/Europress were based in the same building that Live Publishing later occupied and Retro Gamer started)

Some background on the winner (and seller of the item), from New Computer Express (Apr 22, 1989).

(Vessel do nicely?? I'm having that)

There's a old interview with Don here where he says Dictator is his own personal favourite worldofspectrum.net/interviews/P...

He got into games relatively late, having started out as a teacher. In the 1980s, when in his 40s, he programmed around 20 titles for the ZX81 and Spectrum. In 1989 he quit the industry and returned to teaching, believing the days of the lone programmer to be over.

His cartoon-style games came about because the licensor insisted that Popeye must look like Popeye - pipe, anchor tattoo, the lot. To fulfil this, the characters needed to be sufficiently large to include all this detail. Somehow he made it work. This would become his signature style.