No.59: Midnight Resistance - Ocean, 1989
In my opinion, Jim Bagley's finest hour, a brilliant multi-directional run and gun game based on the Data East arcade machine.
Further reading:-
For more on this game, including a few words from Jim himself, check out this feature I wrote on the Antstream Arcade blog:-
https://www.antstream.com/post/antstream-arcade-archive-midnight-resistance
No.58: Deactivators - Ariolasoft, 1986
Deactivators is one of those little gems on the Spectrum that deserves to be on this list on merit. A neat puzzle game, its clean bright graphics and tricky gameplay make it something of a forgotten classic.
Further reading:-
I wrote a short making of on Deactivators for issue 119 of Retro Gamer magazine, and the game made my antstream arcade list of underrated Speccy gems here.
No.57: Rogue Trooper - Piranha, 1986
I’m a big fan of 2000AD so as with Nemesis The Warlock, I was keen to play the Spectrum games based on its characters. This was a relatively easy game, but it well represented the shattered world of Nu Earth.
Further reading:-
Here’s my Eurogamer feature on 2000AD games on the 8-bit computers.
As usual, thanks to www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk for images