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Some brief but important news about what will be happening on ChinnyVision in June, July and August 2023. In brief, weekly videos will be ceasing until September but they’ll still be ad-hoc videos. So if you want to be informed when a video is up you have to press the …

Race across Europe in stages with Supertrux from Elite. You know, like that other game where you race across Europe…. Released in 1988, what we have here is an Outrun clone but with trucks. It even features splitting roads to choose your route! Get trucking on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore …

Type in games were a staple of my early computing experiences and in this weeks ChinnyVision I investigate 5 games that were published in Amstrad Computer User. Frantic Freddy sees you clearing plants from a haunted attic. Duck Dodgers is, well Buck Rogers. Trench has been inspired by Star Wars. …

The Virgin Atlantic Challenge Game simulates the 1986 crossing of the Virgin Atlantic Challenger 2 (1 sank), to try and win the Blue Riband title. Except the boat didn’t qualify for the rules so Richard Branson had his own trophy made. Released on the Spectrum and Amstrad CPC (the C64 …

Peter Beardsley, Newcastle, Everton, Liverpool and England legend. 735 professional games and star of a remake of Casablanca (sub please check). Being an 80’s football star of course there is a game. And who better to code it than Teque (sub please check). Grandslam published the game and some versions …

Silverstone is the home of the British Grand Prix. It’s a former World War 2 airfield that has undergone much refurbishment in more recent years. But how about looking at 8 games where you can race around it on your 8 and 16 bit home computers. Race around corners like …

Uridium is a 1986 horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up from Hewson released on the C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro and Atari ST. Shoot the baddies, take out the defences then land your craft before deactivating the enemy dreadnaught. Did I mention the sheer speed everything chops along at on some of …

Always great to see new games on old systems. In fact what we have here are four new VIC 20 games that you can obtain as a physical release in 2023. Super Monza GP is a racing game with large sprites for the Vic. Race around Monza with the aim …

Premier Manager is a football management game by Gremlin. The game spawned a series lasting 20 years but what we are concerned here is the first version coded by Realms of Fantasy. You take a team from the Conference all the way to the Premier League and the European Championship. …

River Raid is a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up from 1982, originally released by Activision on the Atari 2600. Coded by Carol Shaw, she also ported the game to the Atari 8 bit home computer systems. In addition to the Atari XL/XE, ChinnyVision also looks at the game on the C64, MSX …