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Beam Software, Melbourne House, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

The Fellowship of the Ring is an interactive fiction (with graphics) game based on the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, describing the efforts of the Hobbits Frodo, Pippin, and Sam and their quest to bring the ring to Mount Doom. The game is divided into two parts (represented by two separate executable files: DOS version). The first part starts with Frodo at his home in the Shire, where eventually you will team up with the other Hobbits Pippin and Sam, as well as Aragorn and Gandalf. From meeting with Tom Bombadil, the Green Knight, the Balrog and ends with the Nazgul River incident. The second part of the game starts with forming of the fellowship, thus adding new team members: Boromir, Legolas, etc., until the end of the novel.

Beam Software, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Melbourne House

The Shadows of Mordor is an officially licensed J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" text adventure game based on the second part of the trilogy - "The Two Towers". You can select to play as either Frodo or Sam. The game follows the plot of the book closely and many locations have accompanying illustrations. Unusually for a text adventure game, the action happens in real time: if you sit there thinking of what to do next, things will happen in the game, e.g. creatures will move from location to location.

Beam Software, Melbourne House, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

A ground breaking text-adventure video game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Arcadia Systems, Binary Design, Melbourne House

In each city you need to destroy the buildings until you find the Roc's egg. There is an egg hidden in most but not all of the cities. You will need to punch the buildings to demolish them, or flame them to set them on fire, while fighting off the other creatures on the screen. Watch out for the hornets that fly across the screen and sting you. Be wary of the weapons the humans try to bring to bear. You will need to destroy these before they destroy you.

Psygnosis, Melbourne House, Mastertronic

Welcome to the world of Barbarian. In this world you control our hero "Hegor". Once the game has started you will see him standing in the marsh. Using the mouse, jouystick or keyboard (or all three simultaneously) you issue commands that control his actions. Thus enabling you to explore the world of Durgan. You should always remember that Barbarian features context sensitive animation which allows the same commands to do different things depending on the situation Hegor is involved in. In order to complete the game you must locate and destroy the crystal which is the source of the evil power of Necron. Once the crystal has been destroyed the volcano in which Durgan is located will start to erupt making it imperative that you reach the surface again before it blows.

The Bitmap Brothers, Melbourne House, Arcadia Systems

Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter computer game, developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Melbourne House which was then owned by Mastertronic. Xenon was followed in 1989 by Xenon 2: Megablast. The player assumes the role of Darrian, a future space pilot called into action by a mayday report from his superior on a nebula space station. As of late, the colonies of mankind have been under attack by mysterious and violent aliens called the Xenites and it is finally time for Darrian to engage them. Unlike most scrolling shooters, the player can move in any direction instead of straight up. The player craft has two modes, a flying plane and a ground tank. The transition between crafts can be initiated at almost any time during play (except during the mid- and end-of-level boss sections, as well as certain levels where a certain mode is forced), and the mode chosen depends on the nature of the threat the player faces. Destroying some enemies released power-ups the player could catch to enhance their ship.

Psygnosis, Melbourne House

Melbourne House

Arcadia Systems, Melbourne House, Dro Soft

A 1-on-1 3-D shoot-em'-up in which one or two players drive battlespheres (futuristic tanks) up an infinitely long road and destroy oncoming hazards. The action is very simplistic and there's little to do other than dodge or blast approaching objects.

Melbourne House

The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.

Melbourne House

You have to help the Ancient One to find all the pieces of a time machine before the evil Bostafer beats you to it.

Beam Software, Ricochet, Melbourne House

Discover Kung-Fu: The Way of the Exploding Fist (also known as Way of the Exploding Fist, The Way of the Exploding Fist), an excellent game of 1985 runnable on Amstrad CPC system. With side view, fixed / flip-screen perspective, the publisher Melbourne House had wonderful ideas around fighting, martial arts.

Beam Software, Melbourne House

Based on the French comic heroes Asterix & Obelix, the game is a side-scrolling beat-em up developed by Krome Studios in 1986. In super early previews from old UK magazines, you can see a tiny Asterix sprite for the C64 version but when it hit shelves worldwide, it was already renamed to Ardok the Barbarian

Melbourne House

Melbourne House

"Soldier of fortune and one man killing machine Bazooka Bill has been despatched to Clarke Air Force Base in a last ditch attempt to rescue General MacArthur" Pentagon officials announced yesterday. You are Bazooka Bill, you must rescue the general from the revolutionaries using only your fists, and anything else you pick up along the way.

Beam Software, Melbourne House

You have to search a hotel in order to find the plans for a super computer in this adventure with arcade elements.

Catalyst Coders, Melbourne House

Gyroscope is based on the Atari arcade game Marble Madness, the gameplay is very similar except the player controls a spinning gyroscope rather than a marble. The game is presented in isometric 3D. The player must guide the gyroscope from the top of the course to the bottom within an allotted time limit. If the gyroscope topples off the edge, a life is lost. Hazards on the course include potholes, aliens and glass slopes which cause the gyroscope to spin in random directions. There are five courses comprising four screens each. The gyroscope had to land on a marked square to complete each level.

Studio B Ltd., Melbourne House

Fighting Warrior is a melee / weapon based beat em up game released

Melbourne House

You are a Starion, a rookie space pilot, and have to change crucial events in history and dogfight the perpetrators in space in order to save mankind.

Melbourne House

The Mystery of Arkham Manor is a detective adventure horror game inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's fictionalized world of Arkham. The player will play as the London Chronicle’s freelance reporter, and he will start the game moments after he arrives by train at the local train station. He has to be both reporter and detective to decipher what has been happening in the villag. But the only clue he has in his possession is Colonel Lemin’s intriguing letter. During the gameplay there are several characters to be interviewed, objects to be picked up, photographs to be taken, stories to be reported, and questions to be made to the newspaper.

Melbourne House

Horace to the Rescue is a cancelled game for the ZX Spectrum.

Beam Software Pty., Ltd., Melbourne House

You play a gang member of a criminal organization in Chicago during the 1930s. But staying a simple gangster is not all your ambition calls for...

Melbourne House

Step into the shoes of the Master Detective, and abuse Watson in whatever way you see fit in this text adventure

Beam Software, Melbourne House

You are Mugsy, head of a mob, making money by selling booze during the Prohibition.