Frankie Goes to Hollywood

What could have been tacky licensed fodder was instead one of the most imaginative games of the mid-eighties

DENTON DESIGNS / 1985 / ZX SPECTRUM, AMSTRAD CPC, C64 You don’t tend to find much in the way of innovation in licensed games, but Frankie Goes to Hollywood bucked that trend in the middle of the 1980s. At the time, the Liverpool band that inspired it was at the height of its commercial powers; in early 1984, BBC disc jockey Mike Smith had made a big deal of banning the single Relax from his radio show, which (predictably) helped turn it into a smash-hit. Superstar status soon beckoned. As follow-up singles appeared in the charts and Frankie T-shirts became a must-have fashion item, someone decided the band ought to get its own video game. The job of actually making it fell to Denton Designs, a Liverpool-based studio formed from…

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