Retro: Stairway To Hell
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The Stairway to Hell is an awesome collection of Acorn Electron and BBC Model B ROMs, tape/disk images and utilities, and named after a classic BBC/Electron game. A labor of love by Dave Moore and other contributors, it's the central place to get access to classic games that I used to play many years ago. The game database is incredibly extensive with a huge inventory of games, and cover scans for tapes and boxes are also included. This should be considered THE resource for Old Skool Acorn gaming. I've lost many hours of my life playing the games listed on this site and I've not really regretted any of it at all. The price was right years ago, and I had a lot of fun playing them back then, and even more so now.
Games I can heartily recommend are:
- Philosopher's Quest (Adventure)
- Sphinx Adventure (Adventure, duhr)
- Twin Kingdom Valley (Adventure)
- Starship Command
- Spellbinder
- Citadel
- Stryker's Run
- Codename: Droid (Stryker's Run 2)
- Dare Devil Dennis
- Danger UXB
- Jet Boot Jack
- Deathstar
- Chuckie Egg (A must!)
- Hunkidory
- Ghouls
- Imogen
- Impossible Mission
- Omega Orb
- Thrust
- Thunderstruck
- Thunderstruck 2
- Vindaloo
- Night World
- Elite
- Elixir
- Exile
- Repton (any of the games)
- Rubble Trouble
- Smash & Grab
- Frak!
- and Stairway to Hell (obviously)
You'll need to grab an emulator and both BASIC and OS ROMS to get up and running with this great gaming platform, but if you're big into retro gaming and remember the days of the Spectrum 48k and the Commodore 64 well, you'll probably remember the Acorn machines (probably with snobbery) and you should check out the goodness that there was on offer all those years ago.
The Acorn Electron is the computer I cut my teeth on for programming, writing my first computer program when I was 12 years old (that would be in 1985). Today I still have fond memories of that computer and I have a single unit sitting in the basement here that I take out from time to time and look at, remembering just how old I am today.
If you don't hear from me, I'm lost in the mists of time.
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