Gaming Memories #1: Die! Alien Slime (Commodore 64)

Do you remember the first game purchased with your own hard earned pocket money? Making the small trek to Planet Games back in the good ol’ days of the late 80s (exact dates elude me as now I can’t even do simple maths let alone remember an arbitrary time period) and spending what must have felt like an eternity for my dad as my brother and I picked our first ever store bought games. We were lucky enough to get a Commodore 64 one Christmas – my dad must have worked six jobs at the time as we weren’t a well to do family so fair play to him – so we already had some pack in games but there is nothing quite like poring over countless cassette tapes, artwork, squinting at screen shots and (more importantly) the prices to find that one game to rule them all for the next six months before a birthday or even the next birth of a false deity. Anyway, unless you have been hit in the head with a rock recently and still can’t tell, my first ever game was called Die! Alien Slime and it cost me around four weeks worth of pocket money at a whopping £1.99! 

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