Modaxus

The 'Golden Age' may well differ from person to person but for me it probably began with the screech of the tape player as it loaded the next few Gauntlet levels into the Sinclair Spectrum. Continued through the Amiga days with titles such a Civilization, Powermonger, Syndicate, Elite Frontier, and then on into the early Command and Conquer games on the PC. The days when computer games came in large boxes, not for show, but because the printed manual really was that big! I still have a 160+ page manual from a helicopter gunship game that contains descriptions of such things as Transational Lift and Vortex Ring Effect. Sitting next to it, a 300 page printed guide to Naval Warfare that came with another game. They certainly don't make 'em like they used to. Why, I remember when I were a lad ........