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SirClive wrote:

Celebaglar wrote:How about this one?

Oi!!!! It's my go!

The newbie apologises.

Runestone it was.

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It's Jack Tramiel.
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Jay Miner?

All in all, it's probably Mr C5, and that's hard to say for a C64/Amiga guy.

Eye of the Moon was intended as the third in Mike Singleton's series after Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge , but of course it never actually saw the light of day. I seem to remember that at least one magazine of the time previewed the game, complete with some work in progress mock-ups of t...

How about this one?

But it's sure you didn't know that C64 originally was going to be released as a console. Because of the fall of video games crisis.... (1) The game crisis happened in 1983-84, not 1981 (when the 64 was developed). In fact, 1981-82 was the gaming industry's biggest year, so your timeline is complete...

Yikes! I remember having the C&VG poster of her on my wall, even though I had no interest in the game at all, not being much of a fan of beat-em-ups.

Who needs Xena, eh?

Definitely. The first wire-frame game that didn't suck on the C64 (I played Elite to death, but the slow glitchy graphics were a huge pain, specially when everything slowed to a literal crawl in really busy combat situations). One of the most memorable game intros too.

Heroes of Karn from Interceptor for the C64. Horrible parser, excruciatingly slow-drawing graphics (yet strangely mesmerising) and some good atmospheric tunes, but it was the first game I bought, played and eventually completed on the C64. Mind you, it was a good six months between me getting a C64 ...

Real name Bill, C64 and Amiga gamer, Lords of Midnight and text adventure fan and co-developer on Midnight/MU.