Head Over Heels: A remake that’s long overdue a remake

Head Over Heels is the first game I remember really loving. Not just liking, but, as the title itself implies, completely falling in love with. Back in the late Eighties and early Nineties, my dad would occasionally give me a couple of quid and take me into a little games shop in Wakefield where I could choose any game I wanted. This early in life, I didn’t really have games magazines with which to make informed decisions and there wasn’t much word of mouth either. So choices were almost entirely made based on the packaging alone, and in the case of Head Over Heels it was the packaging that called out to me.

The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The Space Mutants – The Games Of Christmas Past #2

While I spent a good part of last week’s post explaining the popularity of Trivial Pursuit in the early Eighties, I really shouldn’t need to do the same for The Simpsons. The TV show has been an institution for over 30 years, but if you weren’t there at the beginning, you might not realise just how much The Simpsons was an absolute phenomenon in its first few years. And in 1991, when the first of many Simpsons games was released, I was just nine years old, the perfect age to get swept up in the hysteria.