Off the Wall is a sports game that combines elements of racquetball and tennis. The game characters are moved between the net and their rear wall with a two-position joystick. A trackwheel is used to control the paddle that hits the ball. The game may be played by one player against the computer or by two players against each other. A game is over when one player scores 11 points.
Spaceman Sid is a variant of Moon Patrol. The game is a side scrolling game in which you travel left to right. The object is to drive over the surface of Mars, avoiding obstacles and shooting aliens,
The first release of Snooker by Amsoft. After obtaining the license to use snooker champion Alex Higgins shortly after release, the game was pulled and reissued with the title 'Alex Higgins' World Snooker'.
Here is the video game “Star Trooper”! Released in 1984 on Commodore 64, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's an action game, set in a sci-fi / futuristic and shooter themes.
Quest for the Holy Joystick is a traditional text adventure and the first satirical output from the then up-and-coming zany Delta 4 Software. It spoofs the contemporary software industry and the ZX Microfairs that took place in the UK in the 80's by sending the player on a magical mystery tour all over London
The player starts out at Downing Street number 5 and must take seemingly random journey on a red London bus to get to 'the umpteenth ZX Microfair at Alexandra Palace'. Along the way the player encounters numerous cultural figures as well as some of the gaming press. The game also makes excessive fun of the text adventure scene of the time.
The interface is text driven with few static graphics, as it is written using 'The Quill' the parser is limited to verb / noun input.