In a previous podcast we had a feeling that Commando (the arcade hit and excellent ZX Spectrum conversion) and Rambo were basically the same game, well, that's what our memories of 80´s gaming were telling us!

Surely they were both Shoot 'em ups? In this episode we played both games and few others in the same gaming genre to see if we still felt they were "the same game". Do you remember Ikari Warriors in the arcade or did you have it on a home computer or console? Maybe on the Commodore 65 or the Amstrad? Did you play Secret Command on the Sega Master System?

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Why? Just why did they make Wanted Monty Mole so hard? Listen to Phil and Chris discuss this retro gaming classic by Gremlin Graphics on the ZX Spectrum. It also came out on the Commodore 64.

It has just been released on Nintendo Switch and is also available on Steam thanks to Pixel Games UK (https://pixelgames.uk/).

Other titles in the series include...

Monty is Innocent

Monty on the Run

Auf Wiedersehen Monty

Moley Christmas

Impossamole

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Whether you are a PC gamer or a console gamer, we want to know, are games just too long now?

Games only lasted about 20 minutes back in the days of the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, now they can last for hundreds of hours! Games like Zelda and the Witcher, massive sprawling sandbox style adventure games, role playing games, not to mention the almost infinite quality of online gaming like GTA. Is it that us middle aged people just haven't the time or energy to start a game with that much content? Or maybe games are better value now than they ever have been? Let us know your thoughts.

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