URIDIUM

INFO

» C64 RELEASE:

1986

» ZX SPECTRUM RELEASE:

1986

» CONVERSION CODER:

DOMINIC ROBINSON

» AVERAGE SCORE:

92%

The UK’s top two home computers during the Eighties – the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 – had very different hardware, which made it challenging to convert games that played to one system’s strengths to its rival. But in the case of Graftgold’s Uridium, the firm’s chart-topper had been so intrinsically designed around the C64’s inner workings that a conversion to the Spectrum was dismissed out of hand.

Graftgold’s founder Steve Turner also took this view, but then a