I've always held a prejudiced view of old UK games as being mid-at-best knockoffs of Japanese or American classics, made for silly, underpowered computers by insanely British goofs elevated to the status of rockstars by a quality-starved press and public. So, let's just say that this exhaustive exploration of the early work of Jeff Minter ... doesn't do a whole lot to change my mind.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of two good games in here, out of about forty. But then again, I'm not a Pink Floyd obsessed stoner living in the early 1980s with access to a Speccy and nothing else, so maybe they're just not for me.

But love what Digital Eclipse is doing, as always. God help me if they ever make one of these profiling someone I actually care about!

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2024


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16 days ago

Yeah, really didn't change my view that Commodore 64 games weren't terrible. Tempest 2000 is neat though.