Random 80s computer game memory

I got this in cassette tape format on "Your Sinclair" magazine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_The_Battle_of_Wizards


engrossing.

I had a game like that on the commodore 64. A monkey island type thing with just text. Pretty much every game we had were knock-off versions of the classics but I didn't know it at the time. One was called "Henry's House", it was basically Donkey Kong.

We used to get great joy out of typing "Fúck off" into the monkey island type one because it would respond with something like "Oh dear, that's not very nice language". Which of course was both fascinating and hilarious for an eight year-old in the 1980s.

There were a load of Roland games for the Amstrad. I think there was nothing related between them except the name and the fact they were for the amstrad. Super lazy branding. Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves, Roland in Time, Roland on the Run, Roland Goes Digging...

Roland in Time had the Doctor Who music. Don't remember any other music so it was probably that one. Roland on the Ropes was very good though.

I liked Theatre Europe where you almost always end up destroying the world if you play it on hard when NATO and the USSR both launch their entire nuclear arsenals at each other. I remember I managed to avoid it by not using any ICBMs or chemical weapons etc at all - though I also think I read that it was impossible to do that so either that article was wrong or my memory is.

I had the genius idea of putting my saved games onto the end of the tape for Elite and quickly managed to overwrite part of the program itself.

I miss games where the programmers didn't want you to be able to finish them. Remember playing Manic Miner with 16 lives and still never getting close to completing it.

Survivor was a great game too...

But really my strongest memory has got to be the slow slideshow that was the incredibly crap Amstrad port of Double Dragon.

Last Ninja 1 and 2.

There was a c64 game that was just a stick man running across different levels, and the music was the alton towers theme music song - anyone know what that was called?

Rainbow Islands
One of last games to be distributed for 8 bit formats in general
https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Rainbow_Islands

I remember a couple on the Spectrum:

1. A bridge to far - absolutely fcuking brilliant - except it took so long to play and you had to save to tape. Saving to tape was grand but the chances of reloading from tape were about 50/50.
2. The other one was a lord of the rings type thing. It was good but I suspect impossible to win. Every turn ended with the haunting words "Do you want the dawn?". There were four characters the only one I remember was Tolken the Skulkren. At the time that name always jarred as a little too similar and a little too poetic.
   
   Anyway very limited controls and graphics. You could either look North, East, South or West or move that direction. Good game but never won it.

Codename Matt. Blatant infringements on LucasArts IP with Elite style space combat and strategic map as you seek and destroy hordes of invaders in the solar system both directly and by commanding two allied squadrons.

Admiral Graf Spree. Command the Admiral Graf Spree. Be confused by whatever the criteria are that cause you to win or lose the game, and the presence of the scuttle key.