Super Chart Island

So far in 2026, out of sixteen games released this year which have reached #1 in UK sales charts, five have been some form of remake, remaster or repackage, from Star Fox to Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2.

11 years before the release of Starwing/Star Fox, and 44 years before Argonaut Games signed up to an arms dealer’s retrogaming side project, Argonaut was formed in 1982 by Jez San.

In Kevin Toms’s Software Star, released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher.

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.

FIFA 18 (EA Sports, 2017, PlayStation 4) I wrote this article for GameTripper in 2022, but it didn’t end up being published.

In 1969, the controller of BBC Two, one David Attenborough, had a bit of an issue.

Does this game-of-the-movie capture the coolest parts of the film?

First, a recap of the last time I wrote about Yu Suzuki and Sega.

Konami did very well from Hyper Olympic (also known in some places as Track and Field), the 1983 multi-sports game which became one of the arcade successes of the following year.

Out of all the UK number one games I’ve covered from 1983 to 1987, Game, Set and Match is the third to have been a compilation rather than a single game.

The increasing success of Code Masters in 1987 prompted rounds of coverage of the Darling brothers as young business whizz-kids.

In its January 1984 issue, Computer & Video Games magazine printed code listings for nine different games, ready for readers to type into their computers and run.

Yoshihisa Kishimoto was born in Tokyo in 1961.

In 1980, the British government set up the Microelectronics Education Programme, MEP, with an initial budget of £12 million for four years.

In 1932, Britain’s national coalition government, headed by Labour Party co-founder Ramsey McDonald, decided to take action to stabilise the dairy industry.

“When I joined the company, I kind of had an idea of what I thought quality was and where the bar was to meet in terms of delivering a quality product.

Mark Cale had a vision, a plan to “do something a bit different, something that would really capture the imagination”.