No.18: Deathchase - Micromega, 1983
This 16K classic clocked in at number one on Stuart Campbell’s Top 100 list in Your Sinclair’s final issue. While I think it’s an amazing game, and worthy entry in my top 20, I couldn’t quite elevate it above all the other amazing games that sit in front of it. A pure shooting game, the simplicity of Deathchase is its attraction, notwithstanding the amazing technical achievement of actually squeezing a high speed motorbike chase game into just 16K. Released the same year as the third Star Wars movie, Return Of The Jedi, it was also a timely way of pretending you were Luke Skywalker and those enemy bikes were stormtroopers astride speeders.
A great game and if you’re reading this Mervyn, fancy getting in touch?
Thanks to www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk for images.
