After many years of Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC gaming, I finally found my true love. The Atari ST, along with a carrier bag full of pirated game compilation disks (all individually wrapped, god bless you Mum) became mine one Christmas morning, and I have used one ever since. My Atari ST has been in the company of a multitude of systems throughout the hardware generations and never once played second fiddle. Until now, that is.

Last week I placed my Atari STE in the loft alongside its three STFM brethren in order to make room for the impending arrival of the fourth member of the Game & Write clan. What better way to mark this sad happening than with a look back at my favourite games for the system. [...]

Who would have thought that De La Soul could have got it so wrong? It seems that 3 is not the magic number at all. For me it is 60: the magic amount of Great British pennies which I am willing to spend when taking a punt on something new, throwing caution to the wind.

Luckily, there are two outlets for my oxymoronic thrifty abandon: XBox Live Indie Games (see Shoot 1-Up) and Apple’s App Store feature some super games at the bargain price point of 80MSP and 59p respectively. This week, my Star Bar fund was depleted by Rovio’s Angry Birds. [...]