Last Updated 5th May 2019
The BBC Games Archive - digital memories
Last Updated 5th May 2019
The biggest Software produce/publisher for the BBC ever. In fact it is still going to this day, making it the only actively supporting BBC software house. It still sells titles, but no longer develops any. The company is now being run by Steve Hanson. In the early 80's it released bundles of classics, and every game seemed to be a good one. It has probably developed more games that most other publishers have today. It acquired Acornsoft in the late 80's, and gained the rights to sell their games, but now it seems that Acorn have bought the name back again. It has produced loads of individual titles, as well as 18 Play It Again Sam Compilations, 2 Acornsoft Hits Compilations, and 2 Superior Software compilations.
Please contact me if you have any additional information about the company or its games!
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Set in the famous German prisoner camp, your task is to escape from it. It was the first adventure game I ever played, and it really made an impression on me, it isn't very detailed, but it is very fun to play. It has good character descriptions and is laid out nicely. Another one of the earlier games.
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The sequel to Acornsoft Meteors this one has a few additions, the most notable being that you can now completely disappear for a short time, to get the aliens of your tail. It is worth a quick play, I love the Asteroids style games, but definitly not a patch on the original. Only available on PIAS4.
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Not a followup to Camouflage, but a completely new game, and from a much earlier period in Superior's history. This is a space invaders style shoot-em-up, with a twist. Your 3 ships are sealed inside some blocks, the aliens form on each side of this block, and move towards it one at a time, taking blocks away as they move back and forth. You have to shoot all the aliens before they remove all the blocks and get to your missile bases. It is an enjoyable variation of Space Invaders, and worth playing.
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This is an interesting little game, mainly by the fact that it is almost identical to Overdrive, but this time with motorbikes. You just have to race around the various tracks on your motorbike, dodging the other bikes and trying to win the race. The graphics are good, and the bike handles well, and it is all in all a much more enjoyable game than Overdrive, mainly because it has a propert circuit to race along, and there is no time limit.
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A reasonable conversion of the arcade game Amidar. You have to paint around the various boxes in order to fill them in, to make this harder there are monkeys which chase you, if you touch them then you die. The graphics are good and move fast, and it is a very playable and original game.
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Decent version of the timeless British pub card game. It plays well, and as long as you prefer playing computers to humans you'll like this game! One of their earliest ever games.
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A change in style for Tony Oakden sees him producing a rather fine scrolling arcade shoot-em-up, the graphics are great, it moves superbly, and there is basically nothing to beat it apart from two games, Firetrack by Aardvark, and Nevryon by 4th Dimension, the two best shoot-em-ups, however, for someone who only ever made one shoot-em-up, Oakden really has done well with this game.
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A cool game this one - it has loads of stuff to do, and the gameplay is fast and furious. You have to collect enough crystals to destroy the Deathstar, which is being created by the robots, when it is completed, the Deathstar chases after you, and you have to blow it up with the space bombs you collect. This is one of their earliest games, and is worth playing. Find it on Superior Collection II as well as separatly available.
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Ok version of draughts, its very basic, but plays a good game. Was one of the first games they did, luckily they went on to much better things!
(C)2009 C. Boylan