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Moonlight Madness (video Game)
''Moonlight Madness'' is a platform game for the ZX Spectrum home computer, published in 1986 by Bubble Bus Software. The player controls a boy scout attempting to unlock a safe within a mansion to obtain pills for the mansion's owner, a mad scientist, who has collapsed. This requires the player to traverse the mansion's rooms while avoiding hazards such as dangerous house servants and fatal falls. The game was developed by John F. Cain, who had previously created ''Booty'', a popular budget game. ''Moonlight Madness'' was criticized for its price on release, £7.95 in the UK, as well its technical issues. The game's graphics, gameplay and sound were negatively rated by critics, though some reviewers were more positive over these different aspects of the game. Gameplay Players must guide a boy scout through a 23-room mansion in order to obtain 16 keys and a 4 digit combination before running out of lives. The keys unlock the ACME safe containing the pills needed to save the mansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubble Bus Software
Bubble Bus Software was a publisher of video game software for home computers in the mid-1980s, founded by Mark Meakins. and based in Tonbridge, Kent. Their releases targeted popular home computers of the time, such as the Commodore 64, VIC-20 and ZX Spectrum. Their most notable releases were Starquake and Wizard's Lair, both written by Stephen Crow Stephen Crow (also known as Stephen J. Crow, Steve Crow, and Steve J. Crow) is a game programmer who worked in the 1980s on the ZX Spectrum platform, programming for companies such as Hewson Consultants and Bubble Bus Software. He also worked with .... Wizard's Lair was notable for its similarity to both Atic Atac and Sabre Wulf. Wizard's Lair review - Crash Games developed or published *Alien Panic 64 (Commodore 64) *Aqua Racer (Commodore 64) *Awesome Earl in SkateRock (Ams ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potty Painter
''Potty Painter'', also known as ''Potty Painter in the Jungle'', is a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 computers and released by Rabbit Software Rabbit Software was an English software company which produced video games for home computers such as the ZX Spectrum, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 in the early to mid-1980s. Rabbit's later software packaging was slightly different from that of th ... in December 1983. It a clone of the arcade video game '' Amidar. Gameplay The goal of the game is to join the dotted lines around a grid of squares each different in size with each valuing different points. In the meantime the player must avoid enemies who try to capture them. Starting the game, the player has 5 lives and 3 freezes which enable the player to freeze the computer controlled characters for around 10 seconds. Levels alternate between playing as a monkey against tribesmen and playing as a paint-roller against teddy bears. Completing a level enables ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Computing Weekly
''Popular Computing Weekly'' was a computer magazine in the UK published from 1982 to 1990. It was sometimes referred to as ''PCW'' (although that abbreviation is more commonly associated with ''Personal Computer World'' magazine). Overview The magazine was first published on 23 April 1982. Its subject range was general, covering gaming, business, and productivity software. The founding company was Sunshine Publications based in London and the launch editor was Duncan Scot. During 1989 it incorporated ''Computer Gamesweek''. It was noteworthy for being the UK's only national weekly computer magazine of the time, and for its back page being dominated by an advertisement in the form of a comic strip, '' Piman'', by the firm Automata UK between the years 1983 and 1986. A further noteworthy feature of the early editions was the high-quality artwork on the magazine covers. These had disappeared by 1983. One other noteworthy and regular column was about adventure games, notably t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Publishing
Dennis Publishing Ltd. was a British publisher. It was founded in 1973 by Felix Dennis. Its first publication was a kung-fu magazine. Most of its titles now belong to Future plc. In the 1980s, it became a leading publisher of computer enthusiast magazines in the United Kingdom. In the 1990s, it expanded to the American market, where it published the lifestyle magazines '' Maxim'', the consumer electronics magazine ''Stuff'', and the music magazine ''Blender''. In 2007, the company sold all its American holdings, with the exception of the U.S. edition of ''The Week''. Felix Dennis died in 2014, leaving ownership of the company to the charity organization Heart of England Forest. In 2018, the company was sold to Exponent, a British private equity firm. Future plc acquired the company and its 12 titles in August 2021, absorbing them into Future Publishing. History Foundation and early development Felix Dennis started in the magazine business in the late 1960s as one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninja Hamster
''Ninja Hamster'' is a 2D fighting video game published by CRL for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Gameplay ''Ninja Hamster'' plays like other fighting games. The player-controlled hamster is on one side and the animals are on the other. The animals are all minions of the Sinister Rat. Combatants use joystick and button press combos to inflict damage on the opponent. Each combatant has an energy bar, which is somewhat drained upon each hit the character receives. Energy replenishes over time, necessitating a repeated assault to wear down an opponent. Once the energy bar is depleted, the character loses one bite out of its Green Apple and the energy bar is reset. When the Green Apple is entirely "eaten", the character dies. When the hamster defeats one animal, it moves on to face another. Eight opponents must be defeated. Eventually the hamster battles with the mastermind, Sinister Rat. An optional second player can control the animals. The player's score is disp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsport
''Marsport'' is a science fiction computer game that was released for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC home computers in 1985. It was published by Gargoyle Games in the United Kingdom and Dro Soft in Spain. ''Marsport'' was intended to be the first part of a trilogy called "The Siege of Earth" but parts two and three (''Fornax'' and ''Gath'') were not forthcoming. Because of this, it is often regarded as being part of an unofficial trilogy alongside '' Tir Na Nog'' and ''Dun Darach'' (both of which are part of the same official series) due to its having very similar gameplay to these titles. ''Marsport'' also has similarities to the later Gargoyle game '' Heavy on the Magick''. Story The year is 2494. For seventy years, the Earth has been under siege by the insectoid Sept. Since the siege began, the Sept have been kept at bay by a huge Force Sphere which surrounds the Earth and the Moon. However, the Sept are on the verge of discovering how to breach the Sphere unless it can be st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Sinclair
''Your Sinclair'', or ''YS'' as it was commonly abbreviated, was a commercially published and printed British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum. It was in circulation between 1984 and 1993. History The magazine was launched in January 1984 as ''Your Spectrum'' by Sportscene Specialist Press. (Sportscene would later be renamed to Dennis Publishing in April 1987.) Initially, it was published bimonthly, changing to monthly in June 1984. With the January 1986 issue, the title was relaunched as ''Your Sinclair'', with the intention of expanding coverage of the QL into the main magazine (previously, ''QL User'' had been a pull-out section within the magazine), and any future computers produced by Sinclair. However, the magazine remained focused almost entirely on the ZX Spectrum games scene. In 1990, the magazine was sold to Bath-based Future plc, and the April 1990 issue was the first to be published by the new company. That issue's news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covermount
Covermount (sometimes written cover mount) is the name given to storage media (containing software and or audiovisual media) or other products (ranging from toys to flip-flops) packaged as part of a magazine or newspaper. The name comes from the method of packaging; the media or product is placed in a transparent plastic sleeve and mounted on the cover of the magazine with adhesive tape or glue. History Audio recordings were distributed in the UK by the use of covermounts in the 1960s by the fortnightly satirical magazine ''Private Eye'' though the term "covermount" was not in usage at that time. The Private Eye recordings were pressed onto 7" floppy vinyl (known as "flexi-discs" and "flimsies") and mounted on to the front of the magazine. The weekly pop music paper '' NME'' issued audio recordings of rock music on similar 7" flexi-discs as covermounts in the 1970s. The covermount practice continued with computer magazines in the early era of home computers. In the United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zafiro Software Division in the 1980s.
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Zafiro or Zafiros means sapphire in Spanish and may refer to: * the ''zafiro Mexicano'' or Mexican woodnymph, a species of hummingbird found only in Mexico * USS ''Zafiro'', a collier that served in the United States Navy from 1898 to 1904 * the Zafiro offshore oilfield in Equatorial Guinea * Zafiro (record label) a Spanish record label * Los Zafiros Cuban vocal group * Los Zafiros (Spanish band) Spanish group, one of whom was Jose Luis Paris * Zafiro Hotels, a small hotel chain in the Spanish Balearic Islands offering 4&5 star premium hotels. * Zafiro, a company operating from Madrid, which published games for the MSX MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, then vice-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CDS Microsystems
CDS Software (also known as CDS Micro Systems for its earlier titles) was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK. History The company was founded by Ian Williams, a computer programmer from Doncaster who started developing games for the Sinclair ZX80 shortly after its launch. After the initial company success he employed Giles Hunter (A manager from Doncaster W.H Smiths) to help expand the business. He sold his company to Giles Hunter to pursue other interests in 1985. In 1985, the company launched the Blue Ribbon budget label. In 1988 CDS Software, under the CDS group of companies changed its name to Nimrod Holdings Ltd, also publishing games for the Amiga. Publishing continued under the CDS Software Label until the early 1990s. Guildhall Leisure Services The company operated as RHSCO One Limited between January 1994 and March 1994, and then as Guildhall Leisure Services between March 1994 and May 2002. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Ribbon (software House)
{{Infobox company , name = Blue Ribbon Software , logo = , caption = , type = , genre = Video game publisher , fate = , predecessor = , successor = , foundation = 1985 , founder = , defunct = 1991 , location_city = Doncaster, South Yorkshire , location_country = UK , location = , locations = , area_served = , key_people = , industry = , products = , services = , revenue = , operating_income = , net_income = , aum = , assets = , equity = , owner = , num_employees = , parent = , divisions = , subsid = , homepage = , footnotes = , intl = Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems. The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
