Bits & Pieces of individual Game Development
I’m going to review here only on the episode ‘Beyond’ from the Animatrix movies as it’s my very favorite (together with ‘Detective Story’) on there. Director Koji Morimoto had the brilliant idea to show a very different view on the Matrix by letting some children in a big city (obviously Tokyo) discover a bug in the Matrix incidentally.
Incidentally switched onto communal TV program tonight to catch up the most of the rest of Funeral in Berlin, an excellent spy movie from 1966 with Michael Caine starring as cult status attained Secret Service agent Harry Palmer.
Most of the story plays in Berlin where an old KGB chief plans his desertion to the west side. The movie conveys the quiet and sneaky atmosphere of the mid-century espionage movies greatly, not as exaggerated as James Bond movies of course while staying always a bit more authentic. As a fan of such movies a feast for me! Too bad I didn’t caught up the beginning! Guess I gotta have to watch it then someday fully again.
There’s a well sorted website, dealing with everything about thick-spectacled Harry Palmer which you shouldn’t miss to take a look on for a load of background infos and photos!
what professional graphic interface designers usually want to avoid is glitch art for others and there’s a whole gallery of it plus a howto-glitch tutorial. featuring plenty of screenshots of the state when something got completely wrong or messed up in your computer. be it from 8bit emulators or internet explorer, still nowadays no software is save from that. and if you are honest, this is even more exciting than mandelbrote or juliamengen, is this without a doubt the true random chaos!
Review: Project Firestart (C64)
We enter!
Time for another classic game review: today it’s one of my very favorites back on the C64, the space horror action adventure Project Firestart!
It was back in July 1989 when I was reading the game review of PF in the cult and now abandoned German game magazine Power Play written by Michael Hengst, I was instantly hooked and had to buy the game!
Let me tell you that the game’s pixel blood level is very high. The story is about a research ship near Saturn that doesn’t answer anymore on the space radio. So you jump into your fashionable green lined bodysuit to be sent to the ship to look if everything is OK.
C64-Paradroid played on GBA (a study)
it looks tempting! the author of splam.emuhq.com is working on a *C64 emulator* for the Gameboy Advance™! He’s already busy since a good amount on time and it seems writing a C64 emu for the GBA is more than a challenge!
Promising however that there already is a c64 music demo rom for d/l from his site which has a truckload of c64 tunes included. hopefully soon we can ask splam: are we happy? and if he answers yes, there seem to be no limits anymore to take your collection of c64 games to where you ever want to go and play in a 8bit style!
There are people who are completely captivated by Blade Runner and I’m somewhere between them and the halfway of being absorbed. If you don’t count to them, there’s a good chance that you don’t know the Blade Runner Esper Edition Soundtrack yet. So was I until some days ago!
The Esper Edition is a two CDR bootleg compilation of all music that occurred in the movie from beginning to end. Not sure where the author got the missing pieces from - possibly even recorded them out of the movie - but the quality is quite nice and there are finally these music parts like Deckard Enters The Bradbury or Taffey Lewis Night Club that I’ve missed painfully every time I’ve listened the original motion picture soundtrack.
Problem is, there were only a limited number of 10 CD’s of this jewel out which makes them ultra-rare! But let’s not forget about our helpful p2p apps like {place your favorite here} to find this lovely collection.
engaged console modders in HK tinkered together the first Dreamcast(tm) with LCD display! Looks quite funny the bumpy DC with a LCD on top! It doesn’t make it more portable however as you still need to connect to a power outlet.
there is still no decent Dreamcast emulator to this day that i know of. only some that can frankly emulate some demos or 8bit style games. i found one emu named ‘nightmare‘ with that came a screenshot…. uh wait…. they updated …… several screenshots. according to them the only dc emu that can play commercial games yet. unfortunately it seems only to eat .GRE format ROM’s.
Review: Todd’s Adventures In Slime World (Atari Lynx)
Do you remember the Lynx™? That was Atari’s approach in the late 80ties/early 90ties to get onto the Handheld market! … now you remember? Ok, that Handheld console wasn’t very popular for a long time not to say it was never really popular! The few Handhelds that existed to that time (including the Game Gear) hadn’t much chance against Nintendo’s famous Gameboy.
However there were some game pearls for unpopular play devices that never made it to other platforms. One of these was Todd’s Adventures In Slime World …
And then there was the boy who shot a photo of himself everyday since 1998 and uploaded it to his website. interesting to look at the difference between the early photos where he looks like a real geek to the current ones which actually look sympathetic in a way and not geeky at all anymore.
Let's see what is in that barn!
Aaah Friday the 13th! What relaxation, what pleasure! The day when nothing’s going wrong! I remember when I was a lot younger (around 14 that means) I’ve played the game Friday the 13th on my trusty Commodore C64 often on this special day! It grew almost to a tradition!
Luceey! ... I'm home!
Though most people marked that game as being boring and dull, I think it was one of the most frightening games ever. You ran around on that 16 color crystal lake camp on the search for Jason who was decreasing your friends at the same time.
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