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Welcome to the grand Graftgold Finale with:

Virocop

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Programming: Iain Wallington, Steve Turner, Andrew Braybrook
Graphics: Colin Seaman, John Kershaw, Steve Wilkins, Terry Cattrell
Design: Iain Wallington, Colin Seaman, John Kershaw, Steve Turner
Music & SFX: Lee Banyard

Ratings:
Amiga Format: 83% Amiga Joker: 74%...

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So here it comes, Graftgolds other major Amiga update besides Paradroid 90:

Uridium 2

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Programming: Andrew Braybrook
Graphics: Mark Bentley, Stephen Rushbrook, Colin Seaman, Simon Sheridan
Musician: Jason Page

Ratings:
CU Amiga: 78%...

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Everybody loves a Jump'n'Run, so does Graftgold:

Fire & Ice

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Programming: Andrew Braybrook
Graphics: Phillip Williams, John W. Lilley
Musician: Jason Page

Ratings:
Amiga Computing: 86% Amiga Joker: 86% Zero: 90%
LemonAmiga: 7.38

Overview:
Here comes a Jump'n'Run, so cutesy that mojofltr will totally freak out!

You're controling the snowball throwing "Cool Coyote" here. Trying to rescue the world or something like that.

To complete a level, you're collecting parts of a key to a door, which are carried by some randomly selected nasties of each level. You're getting them by freezing your enemies and then trashing them into pieces ...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, what you've all been waiting for, here comes

Paradroid 90

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Programming: Andrew Braybrook, Dominic Robinson
Graphics: Michael A. Field, John Cumming, John W. Lilley
Musician: Jason Page

Ratings:
Amiga Joker: 62% Zzap: 90%
LemonAmiga: 8.25

Evolution:
This long awaited (well, at the time ) Amiga version, finally arrived 5 years after the groundbreaking C64 version. Somewhere between sequel and conversion, tagging it simply with "90", made sense and was also very honest.

Critics may quickly put it down with "Hey that's just the same game with revamped graphics and ruined scrolling", while fans may be all "Hoorray, everything is so much better now!" ...

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Some fresh blood here: John Cumming wrote another Graftgold classic:

Soldier of Fortune

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Ratings:
Lemon64: 7.3...

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So, after 2 brainchilds from Steve Turner, we now get to see Andrew Braybrooks last C64 title:

Intensity

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Ratings:
Zzap! Rating: 75%
Lemon64: 7.4...

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Here comes the next Graftgold title! After Paradroid and Uridium another re-visit with

Magnetron

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Ratings:
Zzap! Rating: 67%
Lemon64: 6.6...

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And again we continue our journey through the backcatalogue of Graftgold, and again we stop by at a classic:

Uridium

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Ratings:
Zzap! Rating: 94%
Lemon64: 7.6

Staff: Steve Turner (music) Andrew Braybrook (everything else)

Overview:
Again I'd assume that this game needs no introduction. But anyway, just in case:

A giant fleet is trying to invade the solar system. They've backed their support with a fleet of 15 dreadnoughts, all carrying supplies. Your mission is to destroy all of them, so that the invasion will hopefully get cancelled.

In this side-scrolling shoot 'em up you're basically destroying the dreadnoughts surface installations, while fighting against diverse defending squadrons. After you faced a certain number of waves, you can land on the dreadnought, initiating a destruction sequence. (Well, actually it launches some little score-bonus scene then

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Let's continue our journey through the backcatalogue of Graftgold with - the best game ever made:

Paradroid

Ratings:
Zzap! Rating: 97%
Lemon64: 8.1

Staff: Andrew Braybrook (everything)

Overview:
Well. This game needs no introduction. If you haven't been in a coma the past 20 years, you HAVE heard about it. Instead I thought to show you something that you probably haven't seen before:

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See, sometime around my 437th hour of playing this game, I found a way to exit the ship! Free at last!
Really, this is no hack, no poke, no cheat and no doctored image. It's a ...how do you call that... *bug-exploit*

Another thing... my personal obsession with this game is legendary. See this, almost one decade...

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Ok. Kicking off my journey through the backcatalogue of Graftgold with:

Gribbly's Day Out
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Ratings:
Zzap! Rating: 90%
Lemon64: 7.8

Staff: Steve Turner (music) / Andrew Braybrook (everything else)

Overview:
Now, this is one of those "weird" games of the early days. Or should I say "odd"?

In this game you control a frog-type Alien, that has only one foot and no arms. The reason why it can still survive, is because of it's Psi-Powers letting it fly, and it's ability to spit bubbles.

Now this Alien called Gribbly, is searching for a bunch of his children I assume, called Gribblets (see the three mushroom thingys in the screenshot).

Collect 8 of them and you're done with one of the 16 levels.

Fun in 2006:
I played this for about three hours all in all. I never had it back then, so the first hour was spent learning the controls and finding out what I'm supposed to do. Once...