these games stand the test of time!

Sure, when you fire them up in an emulator today, they can seem almost laughably simple, but they did their job of dropping you into an imagined world and taking you on an adventure, and that's no less at the heart of a good game today than it was back then.

I still remember the first time I saw Jetpac on the speccy and thought 'ooh this is almost like a proper arcade game!'

It's nice to think that an entire world can be constructed in the same amount of memory that today would be used to make Commander Shepard say 'We're all done here'.