The Archimedes & Zarch

[Tirian]

There were some other cracking games too .. I remember one called "Twin Worlds" - a platformer that I sank many, many hours into.

THen there was E-Type, a racing game similar to Outrun. There was an underwater game very similar to Elite, the name of which escapes me for the moment.

And a great adventure game where you were a knight in medieval times, and had to .. um, well, I can't remember what the ultimate objective was, but you trotted around doing all sorts, including entering archery contests, arm-wrestling, meeting people, buying stuff, exploring. Unfortunately, sooner or later you ended up having to sword-fight with someone, and I never did work out how to do the sword-fighting bit, so I always died there.

Then there was Moonquake, a manic Bomberman clone.

And Mad Professor Moriarty, a platform puzzler. And some crummy golf game, that my DT teacher caught us playing once .. and rather than reprimanding us (not really allowed to play games on the school computers) he proceeded to sit down and kick our arses at it.

Bastard. Oh, and there was the all time best ever version of Elite, as I believe everyone so far has mentioned, pretty much.

There were a whole bunch of other games too, I'm sure, but those are the ones that spring straight to mind. And Lemmings of course. Always Lemmings!

Tirian

[Corrupt Rose]

I remember seeing an exceptionally basic Zarch conversion on the BBC Micro. Wireframe and all. I always wondered exactly how well it worked without the mouse...

[Leon Retro]

I have never used an Archimedes- but it does sound excellent for it's time.

I just looked at some sites regarding the machine- it was a Risc 32bit machine launched as the succesor to the BBC. Looks like the games were much more advanced than anything else around at the time. I guess the Amiga and ST were too popular for it too compete though!

[Pavey]

It was top dollar from what i remember aswell,with not much out on launch,maybe just Zarch.