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I still had a C64 at that point, so, being unable to play it at home, I actually devised a Lemmings-style pen and paper game that used random elements and perils determined by dice rolls! It was impossible not to be completely and utterly charmed by the suicidal, green-haired vermin.Īgain, I first played it on someone else’s computer. The first puzzle game I ever became addicted to. I seemed to have an innate ability to build the best traps in that game and it’s one of the few titles that I have ever become such an expert at that no one wanted to play against me. It was one of the first simultaneous 2 player games I’d ever experienced and is what introduced me to the sheer and utter delight of being a sneaky, conniving bastard. The loser is left to fry in the lava of the soon-to-erupt volcano. The first to collect all 3 parts of a nuclear missile and reach the safety of a submarine just off-shore is the winner. All it was to me was a thrilling premise: two rival spies are parachuted onto an island. I’d never heard of either MAD magazine of the Spy vs Spy cartoon strip on which the game was based. I never actually owned an original until fairly recently, when I picked one up off EBay for the sake of sentimentality. The first copy of SvS2 I played was such a tape. This meant that for every one authentic copy of a game, there were probably a hundred dodgy knock-offs being shared around the playground. Back in the 80s, there was still a fair bit of mystique to the eastern martial arts….and there were Ninja Turtles on the telly….as such, anything with “Ninja” in the title was coveted by the kiddies, myself included.īack in the days when games came on cassette, all you needed to make a pirate copy was a half decent, 2-deck tape-player. I seem to remember seeing it at a friend’s house first, but I never really got the chance to spend time navigating the isometric world of the titular Ninja until my mum picked up a 6 pack of C64 games at a market. I was somewhere between 7 and 9 when I first played this.
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My top 20 fave games, listed in the order they were played, not of quality (they're ALL must-play as far as I'm concerned). Time to revive this blog with an uber-post :)