Greeny McPeaceface

If every movie, TV show, breakfast cereal, soft drink and so on, ad infinitum, is fair game for pixel-powered home micro adaptation, why not charities? Greenpeace certainly thought it couldn't hurt their eco-conservation cause, hence the existence of the multi-genre, sub-game medley, Rainbow Warrior, named in commemoration of their sabotaged, catastrophically capsized ship. Each challenge was inspired by a real-world threat to our environment or its inhabitants, aiming to entertain whilst educating gamers regarding our role in supporting the future of the planet.

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If it bleeps we can over-analyse it!

Arnie Schwarzenegger is drafted in to lead an elite paramilitary squad on a wild goose chase to rescue a couple of political VIPs. What he hasn't factored in is a toxic confrontation with a hideously ugly alien head hunter played by Bigfoot, Kevin Peter Hall.

John McTiernan's action sci-fi movie is quite rightly considered a gung-ho, testosterone-fueled classic today, largely for its ridiculous, quotable one-liners, intensely overblown artillery and impressive special effects.

Published in 1987 to coincide with the movie it is allegedly based upon, Activision's Amiga game of the same name, developed by Source the Software House, isn't quite so enthralling, memorable for the wrong reasons. I cut it open with a machete and check for green blood.

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