gotta love this little jem?!

Everyone loves Apple products right? Well someone went a little further and create a lego apple logo… very retro!

Anyone got any more retro logo designs they want to share?

Dizzy with overweight Daisy

Magicland Dizzy is not one of the best Dizzy games, but up there as it is a great “Dizzy Style” Dizzy Game. The Dizzy series could be split into official games and spinoff games. The spinoff games explored a number of different styles of game, whereas the official games followed the same style of adventure games, with Dizzy negotiating platform areas to the game and solving various puzzles. The puzzles themselves arent terribly difficult, anyone with a little sense can often figure them out, although there are some areas which are fiendishly tough.

There are glimmers of humourn throughout the game and is not neccesarily targetted just at kids, one example would be were Dizzy finds Daisy, who is trapped in a room because of her expanding waistline – dizzy comments about it and is proposed to marry her which he struggles to find an answer to! Not lewd, but funny none the less. The music for the game is also somewhat mesmerising and charming, which adds nicely to the lighthearted nature of the game itself. Although the game is not particularly difficult, its still a fun C64 classic so if you can get a chance to play Magicland Dizzy i would highly recommend you do.

Creatures 2: Torture Trouble Commodore 64

The main part of the game that was unanimously loved by all players we the hilariously funny torture screens. The first Creatures game consisted of side-scrolling levels, followed by these infamous torture screens. These involved rescuing one of your kids from a tortuous death in a crazy contraption. The machines require a little bit of forward planning, but were fairly straightforward. Fail however, and you’ll see one of your beloved children perish in a gruesome manner. The torture screens were so popular, they became the main focus of Creatures 2.

The torture screens were increased from three in the original game to six, and

Creatures 2 Funny intermission

inbetween them was a sub-game which involved bouncing the fuzzy wuzzies from one side of the screen to the other (stupid i know… but hey it was fun!). Following that are the 3 boss screens & a transportation bit where you have to transport the rescued fuzzy wuzzies from one island to another.This is a fantastic C64 game,  full of character, quirkyness and humour. The torture screens are of course the best bit of the game, and mixes niceley with the tricky intermission games.The look and feel of the game is bright and breezy and is a strange balance to the dark undertones of the games underlying theme!