Fairlight

I'm Lee.

Today, we've parked on Wednesday the 16th of October, 1985, when The Edge's Castle Quest Fairlight was sitting atop the Spectrum chart.

On the rundown, number one single, Wednesday Night Drama, Toy of the Year, plus a new Amstrad word processor, high street prices, magazine marks, Fairlight on three eight-bits, and the sequel row that ended in court.

Mark Webb's beside me.

I've been itching to open an isometric episode, Lee, because Fairlight felt like Night Lore had grown a proper adventure and a physics engine overnight.

Chairs you can shove into ramps, a wizard trapped for thousands of years, and a castle that actually maps like a castle.

That still sounds like magic on a forty-eight K machine.

Why this date? Gallup's Spectrum list, covering the week ending around the 5th of October, put Fairlight at number one with Daley Thompson's super test and the way of the exploding fist tucked underneath.