Escape from Atlantis Game: A Childhood Favourite

Escape from Atlantis

Escape from Atlantis was one of my favourite childhood board games

For 1-4 players, Waddington's Escape from Atlantis allows you to play as one of four colours, blue, yellow, red, or green. There are twelve of each colour pieces (people) to get to safety. Escape from Atlantis consists of the playing board, a sea surrounded by four small islands, playing pieces, Atlantis pieces, sea creatures, boats and a spinner. The aim of the game is to get as many of…

Solomon’s Key: Sinclair ZX Spectrum February Review

Solomon's Key

Solomon's Key: February featured game

Solomon's Key is a single player arcade/strategy platformer conversion from the arcade game of the same name. The aim of the game is to escape each level by collecting a key to unlock the exit. You are equipped with a magic wand which can be used to create or destroy blocks to help you do this. To reach the key you will need to arrange blocks so you can move yourself around enemies. To stop…

COVID Lockdown: 180 (Mastertronic Added Dimension)

Spectrum 180

The last on my COVID Lockdown retro gaming list is another Spectrum favourite, 180 by Mastertronic.

While we're in our third lockdown I decided to revisit some old favourites, but with a twist. The plan is to take a look at some of my all time favourite retro games but on a different system. Tonight I played 180 on the Atari XE. Spectrum version information is taken from the World of Spectrum archive.
180
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COVID 19 and my top 5 isolation games

An old style two button joystick with a red, spherical handle and two red buttons on a black base.

COVID 19: Slowest. Apocolypse. Ever.

I hope this finds you safe and well during these unusual circumstances. COVID 19 isolation has given me some much treasured time with the family (minus my eldest who is isolating with my Mum). We played board games. We played Wii games. Family time is great but being together 24/7 isn't particularly healthy either. I was starting to look a bit Catweazle so I had the Missus perform the "Quarantine Cut" on me by shaving…

Musical quirks and some more T-Shirts

Super Mario Tee: A t-shirt depicting a black and white picture of Mario holding his hands in the air. Above is the text 'Legend' in white caps.

In musical terms, it's been a strange few months

There's usually a variety of musical offerings on my iPhone. Legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen and Bob Marley are usually constants. Lately, the usual playlists haven't been doing it for me and instead I've been craving something different. I've been wanting to listen to some of those mismatched rave compilation CDs* from my youth. *I usually had the cassette tape versions back then so I could listen to them…