SOURCES: Missing BBC Games Help Required!

[fuzzel]

I've set up this topic as a complement to the Missing BBC Games Help Required! page.

Original thread here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14458

Could anyone post adverts, reviews and their sources please for the missing games listed in the above.
My starters for ten are the following:

A Carver - Lander, Maximus, Life-Survival, Starshot II, Alpha Worm, Pairs, Memy, Treasure-Hunt, Mastermind, Bouncing-The-Cat. Acorn User, November 1986: p215 - Small Ads:

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TNL Soft - Legend, Fuglemere, Gunslinger. Acorn User, November 1986: p215 - Small Ads:

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[lurkio]

Nice, but in your post could you please add a link to the original thread?

Here is the link in question:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14458

[leenew]

Gah!
I spent hours and hours last week looking through sources on archive.org which helped me clear some dubious items from the list (and add some new ones), but I didn't save any

If I can summon the energy I will try and add some later.

PS I wonder what the odds are of finding anything from one of these tiny classified ads?!
Lee

[fuzzel]

It's a long, long, long shot but perhaps someone (me even) could write a nice letter to the address in the ad and maybe, just maybe, the person concerned or a relative still lives there. If not it's very unlikely (but not impossible) that we'd get a forwarding address.

[fuzzel]

Golden Challenge Software - Caligula 1 (Acorn User, January 1984: p50):

[iamaran]

Snow Joke by Mythsoft. Advertised in Micro Adventurer magazine, issue 17 page 41.

[iamaran]

Colonists of Procyon by Andromeda Systems. Advertised in Micro Adventurer magazine, issue 9 page 42.

[iamaran]

The Uranium Factor by A&F Software. Mentioned in Micro Adventurer magazine, issue 17 page 7.

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[iamaran]

The Lair by Utopia Software. Advertised in Micro Adventurer magazine, issue 10 page 44.

Reviewed in A&B Computing, December 1984 page 70 where it scored an overall 0%.

[iamaran]

What the Dickens by Riverdale Software. Advertised in Adventure Probe magazine, issue 01/10 (March 1987) page 25.

Also mentioned in Electron User, issue 04-02 (November 1986) page 6.

[iamaran]

Yes Chancellor by Chalksoft. Reviewed in The Micro User, issue 04.01 (March 1986) page 88.

[leenew]

A&F software EARLY WARNING and POLECAT from Your Computer June 1982.

and ROADRUNNER from Acorn User November 1982.

[fuzzel]

Vannin Software: Laser Attack, The Golden Maze, Spider Speller, Double Turn, The Facts of Europe, Racecount. Micro User, August 1985: p178:

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[leenew]

Link 4 Plus by ABC games, reviewed in Laserbug issue 7, December 1982.

[iamaran]

Reversi, Gateway To The Stars, Haunted House by Silverlind. Advertised in Acorn Programs, issue 2 (February/March 1984) page 6.
Edit: Reversi and Haunted House have now been found.

[leenew]

Magic & Mayhem from Tortoisesoft. Acorn User August 1984.

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[leenew]

STATASOFT games "KEN 1" and "KEN 2" from Acorn Programs May 1984:

[lurkio]

Vannin Software (Micro User, August 1985: p178):
Vannin MU Aug85.jpg

Laser Attack
The Golden Maze
Spider Speller
Double Turn
The Facts of Europe
Racecount

[Software titles added to improve on-page searchability (Ctrl-F).]

[leenew]

SRM software: Centipede, Galaxians, and Invaders from Acorn User March 1983.

[leenew]

INVADERS from Software Invasion. Acorn User March 1983.

[lurkio]

The Ghosts Of Grunley Grammar by Graham Nelson and Magic Software Ltd.

Advert for The Ghosts Of Grunley Grammar from the October 1983 issue of Acorn User magazine:

viewtopic.php?p=140010#p140010

[leenew]

Software For All games, MOONLANDER, GHOST MAZE, and INVADERS from Acorn User October 1982.
*note MOONLANDER appeared on very few adverts.

Can anyone find a SOFTWARE FOR ALL advert that advertises GALAXIANS?

[lurkio]

The Entrepreneur by Peter Molyneux and Vulcan Computing.

"...an ad from May 1984's Acorn User for a business simulator called The Entrepreneur, the only game ever released by a small and short-lived company in Surrey called Vulcan Computing":

viewtopic.php?p=240723#p240723

[leenew]

RED SHIFT "Apocalypse". New Map packs. Micro User December 1983
Volume 1:
USA: Arctic Circle
S.E. Asia: Star Systems
S. Africa: Nether Earth

Volume 2 chapter 1:
Fall of Rome
Napoleon's Campaigns 1813

Volume 2 chapter 2:
1984 The Pacific War

**EDIT - Deleted from the MIA list - The advert says the expansion packs are for the Spectrum only!!**

[leenew]

LANDFALL and SERPENT from GT Software. Laserbug November 1982.

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[leenew]

AMERICAN TRADER and TEMPLE OF DISRONDU from R. STEGGLES. Laserbug November 1982.

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[leenew]

COM-TEC. The shop where I worked as a teenager

[leenew]

ORION SOFTWARE: HANGMAN and SPACE TANKS from Micro User October 1983.

And from Micro User December 1983 showing HORSES

[leenew]

ARROWSOFT: FIGHTER, PONTOON and ZOMBIES REVENGE from Micro User October 1983

[leenew]

SQUIRREL SOFTWARE: SPACE WALKER from Micro User July 1983

Can anyone find an advert for CODEBREAKER or GAMES DISC?