Doctor Who computer games page - Official, parodies and beyond

The Doctor Who Computer games page

Introduction 2006

"He's back, and he's every where !"

A misquote from the 1996 TV Movie publicity sums up the current status of Doctor Who in the UK. Late 2004 and the whole of 2005 were a turning point for Doctor Who as he returned to prime time TV screens after 16 years. Russell T Davies gave the show new life. Reborn as the 9th Doctor with companion Rose Tyler, Chrsitopher Eccleston and Billie Piper made the show a big hit. Now as David Tennant and Freema Agyeman continue as the Doctor and Martha, travelling the universe.

The show is, however, more then just a TV experience. It's now a brand name for BBC Worldwide and you can get everything from toys, trading cards, magazines to talking mugs, rucksacks, bed spreads and flannels ! Surely, we must be due for a new Doctor Who game for the PS3 or 360 ??

I created this website to fill a little gap in the history of Doctor Who in the overlooked area of his adventures in pixel format. From the very good like Dalek Attack and Mines of Terror to the very difficult like Warlord. From the very earliest with the First Adventure to the lastest Destiny of the Doctors.

This site offers backgrounds to the games releases, how they were recieved, how they were played and in some cases how to complete them. You will find everything from text files, adverts, game artwork, screen shots, maps and reviews from the time. Included on this site are all major game releases licensed by the BBC plus games which parody the series or included the Doctor and his universe in someway.

I have only included official items as most fan made games or home made games have webpages created by their writers anyway. If you have a game and would like me to put up a link I will gladly do so.

Also available is information concerning the Transformers and their battles in the arcades. Heroic Optimus Prime faces the evil Megatron in fabulous 8-bit graphics.

My final inclusions are the games based on Gerry Anderson’s ever popular puppet series Thunderbirds. There have only been a few games based on the series and I managed to gather maps, cheats, and solutions on them so they are included as well.

Most of the games were for 8-bit game machines. The best one for graphics was probably the Amstrad or the Commodore 64 but for sheer game play and amount of games it had to be the ZX Spectrum. The Spectrum was just a simple system to use, it didn’t matter about graphics.

Guide to the games

Each game is provided with as much information as possible, using the following as guidelines -
TITLE - name(s) of the game
Publisher / Author: The company or person who wrote the game
Year: Original year of release / re-release year
Price: Original price
Machines: The computers it was available for.
Type: The type of game it is (either text or arcade usually)
Music: The writer of the music (only usually applies to Commodore 64 games)
Story: The basic plot the game follows
References: Any magazine that features articles relating to the game
Notes: Any tit bits of information or general comments
Cheats, pokes, maps, solutions etc. Any help I can give on completing the games

Go to -
The 80's Dr Who games
The 90's Dr Who games
The Spin off/parody Dr Who games
The Transformer games
The Thunderbird games
Complete list of all the games (dr who, transformers, thunderbirds, Etc)
The index (for those of you who hate frames

Other interesting pages -
The Transformers UK video list
The Doctor Who Tardis Kiddie Ride

Email me

Credits and resources-
The Terrestrial Index by Jean Marc L'officer
Doctor Who - The Eighties by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker. (referred to as the Eighties)
Crash and Your Sinclair magazine
Several issues of the Doctor Who magazine

These are the good people who have helped me in completing this web page.

Jim Grimwood - A ZX Spectrum Magazine Guru. If it was in a Spectrum magazine he will find it ! He found and provided most, if not all the reviews of the games on these pages. He has two web pages -
Home of the Spectrum Oracle on Trumpton (SPOT*ON) magazine index Click here
the Your Spectrum Unofficial Archive (YRUA?) Click here

Jon Green- Helped provide information on Dr Who and the Warlord game, including all the wonderful scans of the inlay and front cover. He also provided scans of the promotional material for the Mines of Terror. His father's shop web site is here

David St. Hubbins - Provided an MP3 of the digitized speech introduction from the second transformer game.

Thanks to all those who answered my emails on the 8-bit computer newsgroups and Doctor Who newsgroups.

Disclaimers:
No games are provided on these pages, the information is provided as reference only.
Doctor Who, Tardis logos Copyright 1963, etc by the BBC. Daleks Copyright Terry Nation 1963.
Transformers, Beast Wars Copyright Taraka, Hasbro etc.
Gobots Copyright Tonka 1983/84.
Thunderbirds Copyright Gerry Anderson, 1966.
All games are Copyright their original authors/publishers.
All videos copyright their original distributors.