5th January 2009
I have reviewed six games:

• Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
• Death Wish 3
• Infernal Runner
• Jimmy Business
• Master of the Lamps
• Red LED

This now means that CPC Game Reviews has reviewed exactly 1500 games - count them, 1500! It'll be a long time before it will attain 2000, though...

This is therefore a good opportunity to remind readers that if there's a game on this site that hasn't been reviewed yet, and you feel like writing a review, you can e-mail it to me at nich <AT> durge <DOT> org. If you can send a screenshot with the review, it would be appreciated, but if you don't know how to grab screenshots, don't worry; I can grab one for you. You may think that with 1500 games reviewed, there aren't many left to review, but believe me, there are!

19th December 2008
You may be aware that Carnivac has been working on a new PC game called Cosmic Prison Commando for the last few months. Although it runs on a PC, it has a very deliberate CPC look and feel about it, as you can see from the screenshots shown here.

The game was written for the Retro Remakes Competition 2008. Entries for the competition have now closed, and you can download all of the entries, including Cosmic Prison Commando, from the competition site (Cosmic Prison Commando is on page 5). Unfortunately, only a one-level demo version is available, and there are a few bugs in the code (the game crashes if you lose all your lives, the music stops playing after a few minutes, and on one occasion, I couldn't move after losing a life). Don't be put off by this, though, as it's still fully playable and a truly great game!

Hopefully, Carnivac will finish the game in 2009 and remove the remaining bugs. I know I can't wait to see the release of the full version! You can monitor the progress of Cosmic Prison Commando, and report any other bugs, at the Carnivac Games Forum. There is even an offer for a team of programmers to convert the game to a real CPC, if anyone is brave enough to attempt to do so...

23rd November 2008
Retro Gamer magazine has reviewed Sudoku in their latest issue (number 57), where it achieved a rating of 89%. Congratulations to Kevin Thacker!

ESP Soft have released a text adventure, Nheredia. It was developed by MiguelSky and has been created using the Professional Adventure Writer (PAW) tool. I'm sure that every CPC connoisseur of text adventures has seen an adventure that has been developed with Graphic Adventure Creator or The Quill, but it's not often that one sees a PAW adventure - especially one that includes graphics! The game is available in both English and Spanish versions, and you can download both versions from ESP Soft's web site.

I have also reviewed two games:

• Hideous
• Knight Games

E-mail: nich <AT> durge <DOT> org