The folly stands a top Folly Hill in Oxfordshire and legend has it beneath the rock is caves where The Fiend lives. His master plan is to enslave all adventure players as he finds them all stupid. You are one player and must escape the caves and outwit The Fiend to find freedom.
Beneath Folly is a graphical text adventure where you can see a picture showing your surroundings as well as a text description describing them. You type in commands to solve the puzzles and find freedom.
1987, the year Computer Scrabble De Luxe was released on Commodore 64, as well as Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. Published by Leisure Genius, this strategy game is available for free on this page.
This is a drag racing simulator, named for Shirley Muldowney, a three-time world champion in the sport of "Professional Top Fuel Dragsters." You go through the stages of qualifying and winning races. You select your equipment and learn to use it, then take it to the track and race in the qualifications. If you do well enough, you'll enter the races.
Some attention was paid to the mechanics of driving the big cars. You need to be able to watch your tachometer and fuel gages and use a clutch.
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Clark John Denham and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64. In a battle-armoured jet suit the player fends off enemy aircraft and guided missiles whilst avoiding deadly landscape features.
A platformer written by Gavin Raeburn in which the player takes the role of a robot who enters a series of scrolling underground caverns to dispose of all the denizens.
The player, equipped with the latest military robot suit and weapon, has to collect four pieces of a logo in a soap-bubble factory in this flip-screen platformer written by Jason Kendall.