When it comes to board games, often our fathers have taught us everything we know - namely, how to cheat! Playing Monopoly with your son is apparently an open invitation to nominate yourself as banker, as ...

While the wait for Duke Nukem Forever appears to be just that - forever - the king of PC-based blasting and babe-rescuing action has taken a pit stop to star in his very own platform game. ...

It's a scary sight... Omar Sharif's moustachioed countenance staring at you from the middle of the virtual bridge table, whilst he slowly and menacingly forms the words "two clubs". It's enough to put you right off ...

"Time goes by when you're the driver of a train, steaming into Trumpton with a cargo of co..." Ah, hang on a minute, wrong lyrics. Yes, it's Trumpton, Gordon Murray's genius in stop-motion form, with characters, ...

Rich people, eh? Who needs 'em... redistribute the wealth, that's what we say! At least while we're still relatively poor anyway. Now there's an idea for a game show - Who Wants to Live in an ...

Lego may be just plastic blocks of colour but it has the power to keep children and adults entertained for hours, and has a timeless appeal. So how does virtual Lego compare to the original? One ...

Did you ever search for the Easter eggs that your parents hid in the garden? That's probably the first - and maybe only - experience of treasure hunting that most people have. If you're the sort ...

Pool is the perennial social pub game and a source of pride, frustration and occasionally violence. What better subject for a computer game? This way you can practise your trick shots without worrying about blurring your ...

Pinball games have been around on the PC for donkeys' years, getting prettier and more realistic as time goes by. The PC's two shift keys lend themselves quite naturally to flipper control, and although you can't ...

Forget Big Blue for a moment. Desktop processor developments mean that the humble PC could give many Grand Masters a run for their money, particularly if the software in question has - as is the case ...

According to the blurb that comes with this game, "By the end of the 20th century, people finally united scientific and esoteric knowledge, which had long been separate and antagonistic. It was the achievement of some ...

Forget Tamagotchi. Those bleeping little LCD creations are nothing compared to the artificial life in Creatures 2. Following on from the first version of the game (if game it can be called), version 2 has an ...

Way back in the days before 3D graphics cards were even a twinkle in a hardware developer's eye, there were, strangely enough, some pretty good games around. Games that were squeezed onto one or two floppy ...