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Pipeline is a video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, originally published by Superior Software in 1988. It is an overhead view action role-playing game set on a mining platform. It was remade for Microsoft Windows as Pipeline Plus (2004).
The Multimedia division was founded in 1995 [1] and mostly focused on CD-ROM software for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.. The company attended E3 2002 by announcing its first game for the Xbox, Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction, set for a November 2002 release, [2] as well as a game adaptation of the CBBC series Ace Lightning for the PlayStation 2, with both games also on Microsoft Windows and ...
Labyrinth is an action-adventure game published in 1984 by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro.Its author, Michael Mathison, describes it as: an amalgam of what I'd seen and liked visually and I wanted to make something like an 'arcade' version of an adventure game - with lots of creatures and lots of running around shooting at things but also with some simple puzzle elements.
The BBC Sound Archive is a collection of audio recordings maintained by the BBC and founded in 1936. Its recordings date back to the late 19th century and include many rare items, including contemporary speeches by public and political figures, folk music , British dialects and sound effects.
Bolo is a video game initially created for the BBC Micro computer by Stuart Cheshire in 1987, and was later ported by Cheshire to the Apple Macintosh. [1] Although offered for sale for the BBC Micro, [2] [3] this version is now regarded as lost. [4] It is a networked multiplayer game that simulates a tank battlefield. Currently, a Windows ...
Imogen is a computer game released in 1986 for the BBC Micro. It was written by Michael St Aubyn and published by Micro Power. [1] It was reissued as the lead game of Superior Software / Acornsoft's Play It Again Sam 5 compilation in 1988 when it was also converted for the Acorn Electron. It is a platform game featuring puzzles.
This category contains computer games made for, or ported to, the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and BBC Master 1980s-vintage 8-bit home computers which have articles on Wikipedia. See List of Acorn Electron games for a more comprehensive list (although BBC only games are not included).
Computer and Video Games was established in 1981, being the first British video games magazine. [6] Initially published monthly between November 1981 [7] and October 2004 and solely web-based from 2004 onwards, [8] [9] the magazine was one of the first publications to capitalise on the growing home computing market, although it also covered arcade games.