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Retro game index — Acorn, Windows and shareware entries
Every Acorn, Windows and shareware entry held here, in one retro game index shareware buyers of the period would have recognised. Built from a collection that stopped growing in 2010, which makes it a record of a moment rather than a catalogue that keeps shifting.
18
Entries
7
Genres
3
Machines
The retro game index — BBC Micro to Windows shareware
Filter by genre or machine. Each row carries a button through to its entry.
| Game | Genre | Machines | Publisher | Status | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonbon Quest | Platform | Windows | Oliver Pearl | Not established | Read entry → |
| Bound Around | Puzzle | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Coin Planets | Platform | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Dirk Dashing | Platform | Windows | My Game Company | Publisher dark | Read entry → |
| Galaforce | Shooter | BBC Micro, Acorn Electron | Superior Software | Still sold | Read entry → |
| Gibbage | Arcade | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Hap-Hazard | Platform | Windows | Cellosoft | Publisher dark | Read entry → |
| Joystick Johnny | Arcade | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Mars Miner | Arcade | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Mr. Robot | Puzzle adventure | Windows | Moonpod | Publisher dark | Read entry → |
| Qwak | Platform | Windows | Jamie Woodhouse | Domain lost | Read entry → |
| Rage of Magic 2 | Fighting | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Ravenskull | Arcade adventure | BBC Micro, Acorn Electron | Superior Software | Still sold | Read entry → |
| Repton | Puzzle | BBC Micro, Acorn Electron | Superior Software | Still sold | Read entry → |
| Repton 2 | Puzzle | BBC Micro, Acorn Electron | Superior Software | Still sold | Read entry → |
| Repton 3 | Puzzle | BBC Micro, Acorn Electron | Superior Software | Still sold | Read entry → |
| Storked | Puzzle | Windows | Not established | Not established | Read entry → |
| Titan Attacks | Shooter | Windows | Puppy Games | Still sold | Read entry → |
The Acorn thread through the index
Where this retro game index shareware coverage goes deepest, and why.
The densest material here is the Superior Software catalogue on the BBC Micro and the Acorn Electron — the Repton games, Ravenskull and Galaforce. That is not an editorial preference. It is where the record is best, where the publisher still trades, and where the surrounding community has kept working for four decades.
The Windows entries sit at the other end. Most were sold directly by their authors, and most of those authors' addresses have gone quiet, so the record for a 2008 shareware game is often thinner than the record for a 1986 cassette. That inversion is the most consistently surprising thing in this archive.
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Questions about the index
Scope, filtering, and why the addresses never move.
What is in this retro game index?
Every game this archive holds — 18 entries covering BBC Micro and Acorn Electron titles alongside the Windows shareware games the same audience bought later. Each entry has its own page at the address it has had since it was first published.
Can I filter the retro game index by machine or genre?
Yes. The filter buttons above the table narrow it by genre and by machine without leaving the page, and the table keeps working with filtering unavailable, because it is plain markup underneath.
Why are BBC Micro games and Windows shareware in the same index?
Because they are the same story told twice. Very small teams selling directly to a British audience, working under limits that shaped what they made — first the limits of the hardware, then the limits of being two people with a website.
Keeping them in one retro game index makes the continuity visible. Splitting them would imply a break that the audience never actually made.
Do the entry addresses ever change?
No, and that is deliberate. Every entry sits at the address it was first published at, including the file extension. Outside references to these pages have been accumulating for close to twenty years and moving them would break every one of those references for no benefit.