I’ve actually had issue 77 since Wednesday but, with work and family matters munching their way through my free time more than they’d usually do, haven’t had a proper chance to look at the mag, let alone blog about it (and I totally forgot to mention issue 76 last month…!). Flicking through, the piece on Hewson just has to be my first stop and, amongst others, there are articles about Prince of Persia and Zork that’ll be an interesting read an’ all.

Of course, the first pages I check whilst walking back from the corner shop are going to be the homebrew section (well, I have to see how many of my screenshot captions made it in) where time-based vertical shoot ‘em up Dead on Time on the Amstrad CPC is given the first page, whilst arena blaster Berzerk MMX for the VIC 20 is joined by two platformers, Kyd Cadet for the Spectrum and a conversion of the Mojon Twins’ Uwol: Quest for Money over to the Megadrive no less.

Hermit Games’ rather spiffy ‘Troid and the less than stellar Pong Plus head up the remakes and the large review has been given over to Christine Love’s Digital: A Love Story, a spot of point-and-click interactive fiction with a surprisingly engrossing story. The Flash game is some neat gallery shooting against the clock called Nyahax ’93 and the interview victim is Pete “JCB/Meanteam” Dabbs whose nostrils are rather prominent in the picture.