Ultimate Play the Game (now known as Rare) were the premiere video game developer in the 1980's and their first games outshone the competition by a country mile. One of the most celebrated titles was Knight Lore, an action adventure game with a heavy emphasis on puzzle solving as well as dexterous platform jumping. In this episode of Games of Praise we take a look at the ZX Spectrum version as we delve deep into the castle that holds the antidote to Sabreman's lycanthropy problem. This is an archive of a stream that was aired on 4th November 2018 at 8pm GMT on this Twitch stream: http://twitch.tv/theretroasylum ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17M1PTizjA

In 1985 Mastertronic and KP Crisps got together and released a branded game in the form of Action Biker starring Clumsy Colin. It was ported to the Atari 8 bits, ZX Spectrum and C64 computers and is a favourite title of Steve Ericson, co-host of the Retro Asylum podcast. This depth of Action Biker is somewhat puddle like and requires the player to drive around scrolling environment while collecting items that randomly appear across the map. Once you have collected everything the player must guide Clumsy Colin through a series of obstacles. It's an odd little game that had show how Chris O'Regan slowly lose the will to live as he played through it. This video is an archive of a Twitch stream that was aired on 22nd April 2018 at 4pm BST here: http://twitch.tv/theretroasylum ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCLrE8tJoyY