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It's Only Rock 'N' Roll: K-tel's pop star game lets you live your dreams...for a while
The fun is short-lived here, and that's probably on purpose. Behind the primitive cosmetics, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll is a brutally real take on life in…
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How To Be A Complete Bastard: that time the Your Sinclair covertape made a Tory MP furious
“I am pursuing this matter and should be grateful for your comments.”
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Neil Grayson

August 2022

Sleepwalker and the army of British 8-bit fans still playing cassette games in the '90s
It's true that the UK moved on to Amigas and consoles as the '80s faded. But a lot of Spectrums, C64s and Amstrads were still plugged in. A handful of…
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TOTAL! recall: how the '80s shaped one of the '90s greatest games magazines - part one
Future's Nintendo mag was like your best mate. It nods firmly to the best of the '80s, when one editor rebelled against the boring status quo and…
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Five "football" games on old computers that everyone can enjoy
Text adventures! Platform games! 3D on a C64! There's lots to discover in the football genre, even if you don't like the sport.
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July 2022

Playing Merry Christmas by Melbourne House on the hottest day of the year
Old computer games aren't just fun: they let you revisit A Time Before. As long as you stay a while, not forever, that can be really precious.
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April 2022

I spent a week playing "erotic" games on old computers
No sex please, we're 8-Bitish.
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CPC Attack! magazine told its readers to "sod off". So they did
The self-styled "rival" to Amstrad Action was more interested in the SNES and slagging off Amiga Power than celebrating the CPC. It didn't last long.
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March 2022

Grange Hill: The Computer Game. Bloody hell
"He steals to keep his habit, and makes addicts of children. He is dead, and soon you will be too.”
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Neil Grayson
I read every issue of Bad Influence! magazine
...both of them.
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