_{Cover of the June 1984 issue of Personal Computer Games}

Personal Computer Games is a computer gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. in the early to mid 1980s. It covered the popular 8-bit computers of the time including the Commodore 64, VIC-20, BBC, Spectrum and others. The June 1984 issue includes:

CBM 64

New Games - Reviews of Banana Drama, Get Off My Garden, Wheelin' Wallie, Fire Ant, Burger Time, Crazy Caveman, Tribble Trouble, Dinky Doo, Space Pilot, Odyssey, Zylogon, City Attack, and Killer Watt.

Convoy - A type-in game in which you must protect London from an attack by river.

Spectrum

Holy Grail - A type-in game in which you play the role of a dragon forced to retrieve a wizard's stolen grail.

Trashman - Review of a new game for the Spectrum in which you take out the trash.

BBC

Game-of-the-Month - Review of Fortress which is a bit like Zaxxon.

City Smasher - A type-in game in which you are a pilot in a crashing airplane but you must bomb the city below you so you have a place to land.

VIC 20

Olympiad - A type-in game featuring a 100m dash.

VIC-20 Games - Reviews of VIC Cricket, League, Lupin, Annihalator, Bob's Blunder, Pollywog, Kongo Kong, Snowstorm (apparently more terrible than most), Metamorphosis, and Countdown.

_{Table of Contents from the June 1984 issue of Personal Computer Games}

Features

Chess Championship - Various computer chess programs are pitted against each other to see which is the best. Contenders include MTX Chess, ZX81 Chess II, Oasis Dragonchess, Superchess 3.0, Cyrus IS, Master Chess, White Knight MkII, Acornsoft Chess, Program Power Chess, Colossus 2.0, and Grandmaster.

Game Reviews - In addition to the games already mentioned above, there are also reviews for: Sorcery, Blade Alley, Terry's Travels, Timebomb, 1994, Ad Astra, Bull Run, Pengy, Butterfly, Knight Driver, Orion, Submarine Strike, Pedro, Glug Glug, Worm Attack, Grid Patrol, Di-Lithium Lift, Tribble Trubble, Mission Omega, and Mummy Mummy for the Spectrum; Fruitee Nudge and Geneipede for the Colour Geneie; Silicon, Frogger, and Q*Bert for the Atari 8-bit; Checkout, Shuttle Pilot, Bumble Bee, and Jet Power Jack for the BBC; Trafalgar and Swordmaster for the Electron; Pasta Blasta and M.A.R.C. and Guttang Gotong for the Oric 1/ATMOS; Step Up for the CGL M5; 3D Space Wars, Pedro, North Sea Oil, 3D Seiddab Attack, and Sprite Magic for the Dragon; Draughts, Kilopede, Super Minefield, and Blobbo for the Memotech MTX.

Regulars

Buzz - The Amstrad CPC 464 is released; Sinclair Spectrum emulator announced for the Commodore 64 (sounds like vaporware to me); The Coleco Adam makes its U.K. debut; Valhalla for the Spectrum wins game of the year; and much more.

Byte-Back - Letters from readers about Scuba Dive for the Commodore 64, Matrix for the VIC-20, the Dragon 32, Cyberton Mission, and much more.

Final Conflict - A play by mail game sponsored by PCG.

Adventure World - A discussion of text only adventure games vs. adventures with graphics plus a look at Heroes of Karn (Commodore 64), Pirate Adventure (Commodore 64), Adventureland (Commodore 64), The Incredible Hulk (Atari, Spectrum, BBC, Commodore 64), Flint's Gold (BBC), Vampire Castle (BBC), and more.

_{Back cover of the June 1984 issue of Personal Computer Games}