Wavy Navy

Also known as: N/A

Developer: Sirius Software

Since I have forced myself to play a LOT of games from the late 70's and early 80's over the last nine months, a lot of them have been games that were inspired by Space Invaders. That makes sense, since Space Invaders was a huge hit. Unfortunately, so many of those Space Invaders-inspired games lacked any sort of originality and the developers were just content making a clone of a game that was successful instead of trying to add to it or do too much to make their game different. That's why I like Wavy Navy. Wavy Navy is Sirius Software's take on the Space Invaders formula, but instead of taking place in space, Wavy Navy takes place on the ocean. You control a ship at sea and your goal it to shoot down enemy aircraft. Sounds simple enough. However, the catch here is that the sea constantly has waves, so you're never on a flat surface as you move back and forth. Simply moving around the waves makes this game interesting enough where it may catch the attention of a lot of players. However, there's still more to this game than simply moving a boat along waves as you shoot towards the top of the screen. You'll eventually find that mines are floating in the water below you, so if you happen to be at the low point of the waves at the wrong time, you can kiss your boat goodbye. This makes the bottom half of the screen just as important to watch as the top half of the screen….while the planes up above fire at you and dive-bomb the ocean in an effort to hit you, you also need to make sure that you're positioning yourself properly where the waves don't carry you to your doom. I really liked Wavy Navy. In a sea of Space Invaders clones, Wavy Navy is an admiral, and well worth playing if you're able to find a copy.

Review added: 07/31/2026

Webster: The Word Game

Also known as: N/A

Developer: Heuristic Software

Who else here saw the name Webster and thought that this was a video game based off of the sitcom from the 80's? I was hoping for shoot some space aliens as Emmanuel Lewis, dang it. But anyway, Webster is named as such because it's named after Webster's Dictionary, and like the subtitle says, this is a word game. Why Emmanuel Lewis couldn't have still pointed to this is beyond me….well, I suppose Webster was a show on ABC television networks here in the United States and this game was put out by CBS Software, which was a division of the CBS television network system. Aaaanyway, now that I've gotten talking about Emmanuel Lewis out of my system, let's continue on with the review of this game, shall we? Webster the word game is like a less exciting, less challenging, less fun version of Wheel of Fortune…without the wheel, and limited to single words instead of phrases. Basically, a word will appear on screen, with only one or two letters of the word visible, and your goal is to fill in the gaps with the missing letters. As you do this, the word drops towards the bottom of the screen. If it reaches the bottom, you lose a hand. They just chop it off!!...lives are represented by hands here, so you lose a life, essentially, the problem that I found is that there's not really anything preventing someone from just picking every single letter in rapid fashion to fill the word up. In an early level, when I had a word figured out, I intentionally picked every other letter besides the last one that I needed. The only penalty seemed to be that I got less of a bonus since the word was closer to the bottom of the screen than it would have been had I put the correct letter in when I had first figured it out. On higher difficulty levels, you may get a minor challenge in the form of "demon" words that drop at a faster rate, or if you play long enough to get to Level 7, that level is nothing but demon words, but I didn't find most of these to be a challenge - I think most folks with a decent-sized vocabulary won't find them to be too difficult to solve before a hand is lost. Despite all of that, I do think Webster is a good game for young children and/or anyone trying to learn words in the English language. I probably would have enjoyed it, if I had owned it as a child. If you're an adult, though, you probably won't be too impressed.

Review added: 07/31/2026