With the good ship Atari Legend once again afloat upon the seven seas of the world wide web, it is once again time to cast my net into its briney wash to see which tasty gaming morsel shall sate my hunger. Well blow me if it isn’t Fish!, a very Piscine interactive fiction penned by a bunch of pilchards from London, namely Magnetic Scrolls.

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Welcome to the regular feature of The Joy Of Sticks where I visit Atari Legend and play and review the first game that appears on its ‘Featured Game’ sidebar, no matter what it is. This time up it’s… (drum roll please) …Rockford!

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Welcome to the regular feature of The Joy Of Sticks where I visit Atari Legend and play and review the first game that appears on its ‘Featured Game’ sidebar, no matter what it is! Here goes… Oh dear.

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Welcome to the regular feature of The Joy Of Sticks where I visit Atari Legend and play and review the first game that appears on its ‘Featured Game’ sidebar, no matter what it is! Well somebody upstairs likes me (No, I don’t mean the wife), because I’ve dodged the could-be-a-dodgy-PD-game-or-German-text-adventure-or-even-Pit-Fighter bullet once again, this time the AL database kicks up an all time favourite of mine: Sensible Soccer.

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Welcome to the first of a regular series of posts where I play a random game generated by Atari Legend‘s featured game sidebar (located at the top right). The rules are simple: whichever of the 4,834 featured games of the AL database appears when I point my browser towards the site, I must play. First up: (drum roll please… ) Turbo Outrun. Read the rest of this article »