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Iain Mew
@superchartisland.com

This week my post on a UK #1 from 1988 was on Football Manager 2. Featuring Football Manager's American Football equivalent, Football Manager's appalling MSX version, Software Star, Graham Taylor (not that one), and how to make 35 versions of a game at once: superchartisland.com/football-manager-2

superchartisland.comFootball Manager 2 – “Extra training”In Kevin Toms’s Software Star, released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher. You name new games, decide how to promote them (including whether to lead with Hype or Hones…
Iain Mew@superchartisland.com

ICYMI, this week I wrote about 8-bit beat-'em-up sequel Target: Renegade. Read about hypothetical outraged vicars, FFVII lift animations, its melancholic music, and its inspiration from Dirty Harry, Joe Lewis and of course Double Dragon www.superchartisland.com/target-renegade

superchartisland.comTarget: Renegade – “The skin-heads, the Beastie Boys, the bouncers”Yoshihisa Kishimoto and Technos set some key standards in early beat-’em-ups with 熱血硬派くにおくん, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun or, as it was known in the West, Renegade. Having launched Kunio-kun as the main…

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