The King of Grabs

Here's a celebration of homebrew gaming grabs for you!

Co-designed by David Braben - along with his team at Frontier Developments - DarXide is a more frivolous space shooter, compared to what he usually puts out.

This sequel to Battle Clash was released only in Western regions in 1993 (USA) and 1994 (Europe), for the Super Nintendo.

Developed by Intelligent Systems, Battle Clash has one or two-player lightgun-based gameplay, although you take it in turns to use the Super Scope (unfortunately two simultaneous Super Scopes are not a thing).

The C64 version of Ocean Software's ubiquitous The Addams Family is another decent platform game on the system.

Described as a game with "primary imbalance", by publisher The Edge in 1985, Brian Bloodaxe is a strange platform game that tries to have a laugh at the expense of everyone - you; itself, and the genre of platform games it belongs to.

Developed by Origin Systems and published by FCI (North America) and Pony Canyon (Japan), in 1993, Ultima: Runes of Virtue II is the sequel to Ultima: Runes of Virtue, although in reality it is more of a remake than a sequel.

Ultima: Runes of Virtue is a cut-down version of Richard Garriott's famous Ultima games, in particular the Age of Enlightenment trilogy, because Runes of Virtue features some of the main characters from those games.

Ocean Software's Match Day is up there with the very worst football games on the Commodore 64.

Jeep Jamboree: Off-Road Adventure is a cockpit-based, first-person driving game in which you race Jeep Wrangler vehicles on off-road courses.

Created by Paul Voysey and Tayo Olowu, with graphics by Yemi Olowu, PSI Warrior is an almost mythical game, released fairly early in the C64's lifetime (1984) by Beyond Software.

Postal: Brain Damaged is a so-called "boomer shooter" (whatever that means), developed by HyperStrange, and first published in 2022.

Written by Simon Nicol for Psygnosis in 1994, Apocalypse II was almost complete when it was decided to not release it.

Mega Apocalypse is the sequel to Crazy Comets.