Firebird

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This was the software publishing arm of British Telecom, and it later changed its name to Rainbird, and also for a while went under the name of Telecom Soft. Rainbird was still producing games for other formats in the early 1990's, but I think they were sold off as British Telecom changed to BT in the mid 90's. They did some good, and some not so good games.

Please contact me if you have any additional information about the company or its games!


Harvey Head Banger

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One of the only two player only games on the Beeb, one player is in control of Harvey and the other is his friend Hamish. You have to bounce into each other, and the eventual aim is to get rid of the other player by reducing his energy. It is very annoying and quite boring, not really how a two player game should be!


Microcosm

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This is a very strange game, you have to make plants grow, by watering them, and avoid the nasties that fly around the level, and when you have got all the plants grown, you complete the level. It is very strange, but worth playing as the graphcis are good and it at least has some original gameplay!


Mr Freeze

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Interesting 1984 effort, this is quite a busy game, there's lots going on, you have to shoot the bad guys and de-ice the level. The graphics are pretty average, quite basic really, but they work! Its nothing amazing, just a basic platform sort of game with various baddies.


Sentinel

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Arrhhhh! I hate this game, and I mean hate it, with a passion! It is a very weird game, and I won't even begin to try and explain it because I can't. All I'll say is that it is a very slow, very boring game, written in 3d, where the object is to climb higher than your opponent, the sentinel, whilst taking care not to be seen by any of his drones. I hate this game because it is so slow, and annoying, and I'd never reccommend it to anyone!


Star Drifter

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Another graphical adventure, but this time set from an overhead point of view. You have to find your way out of the space station, by collecting keys and objects and shooting the bad guys. The gameplay is good fun, but sometimes it is hard to know what to do with the object you have. The graphics are nice and colourful, sound is not very good, but overall a very nice game which probably did nothing to damage Firebird's reputation as a quality software house.


Video Classics

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Collection of 6 little mini-games derived from the old bat and ball type games such as Pong. There's Tennis, Football, Squash, Solo Squash, Four Bat Blip and Asterbliperoids (tennis with asteroids moving across the screen which the ball can bounce off of). Its very simplistic and good fun if you remember the first video games.