Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved

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Not so long ago, I found a stash of my old ZX Spectrum games in the attic.

And rummaging through those tatty boxes - the old half-forgotten bargain bin bangers, the illicit passed-around-the-playground compilation tapes - it wasn't the games I found myself thinking about, it was the memories around them.

My mind leapt back to evenings spent poring over stamp-sized magazine screenshots; the Friday night trips to Tescos and the exotic box art tempting me to part with my £2; the POKE codes and the dog-eared anti-piracy sheets; the wild classroom rumours of in-game secrets that would only reveal themselves when elaborate steps were performed.

But they're not just my memories, of course; they'll be familiar to many of a certain place and time.

And it's this sense of cultural nostalgia that Forbidden Solitaire captures so well.

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