Déji Fadahunsi

40 years ago Andrew Braybrook created something for the C64 that will probably live on as one of the best C64 games ever made. It was one of those games that I never managed to finish but always came back to. It has this incredible quality of "just one more try" that could keep you hooked for hours. Though it didn't have a 2-player mode, it was still fun to play in a group, as in you would pass the joystick along and cheered on your friends to just get to that next level, to see what the name of it was. Uridium had 15 levels, each named after a metal element (and changing its color accordingly), with the final level named "Uridium" after a fictional metallic element. Andrew Braybrook and the manual's author, Robert Orchard, invented the name Uridium for the final level, with Orchard noting he initially thought it was a real element. I was pretty bad at chemistry, so I didn't even think twice and thought it was real. Personally, I found it absolutely gorgeous in terms of design: the sprites were super crisp, the animations very smooth, the graphics top notch, and of course, the sound/music was simply iconic. Difficulty was truly through the roof though.