Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Sunday, September 7th, 2003 |
Review: Star Wars Galaxies (PC)First of all I’m not that far yet and played this game now for one week so you will not get any too detailed information about it here. I’ve spent most of the recent days training my character in the Tyrena area on Corellia an finally got my pistol skill tree full being able to call myself a pistol apprentice. I thought I would be able to hop right on the novice smugglers skill trees but to my surprise I still have to get some more skill points in at least pistol ranged combat before I can do that.
I’ve started off with an artisan and did the tedious task of surveying and sampling ore, minerals and chemicals for a long time with the intention to manufacture my own (better) weapons, since these seem to be very rare (at least on the Chilastra server?!), even bought and planted some personal mineral extractors later but got bored with it and decided to get onto the adventurous side with the rebels. Gladly I’ve already worked my pistol skills up a lot to that time. So after doing rebel delivery and destroy missions until I’ve got 200 rebel faction points to join them and hanging around on Corellia for almost one week I’ve decided it’s time to take a flight to Tatooine.
Shortly after I arrived in Mos Espa, I’ve grouped with a Trandoshan and a Bothan who asked me to join to raid Fort Tusken which lies close to that area. Three persons are way to few to raid the Tuskens but we thought to find others on that location to team up.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2003 |
Today my copy of Star Wars Galaxies arrived and I was more than enthusiastic to push the CD in and run it up. I have to admit that I’m a complete newbie to online roleplay games and besides tried some Ultima Online before played nothing else in this direction. However SWG was just too tempting after I’ve read many good and not so good reviews on that game!
After I’ve created my first character with much love and detail I arrived on the space station and prompt the server was down….. for several hours …… as I had to find out later that there’s a maintenance downtime everyday!
So I hardly had time yet to see something of the game but I surely will so today evening and post some upcoming reviews on that game here later.
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Sunday, July 13th, 2003 |
Review: Tomb Raider - The Angel Of Darkness (PC)
Lara's back ... in 5000 Polygons.
As an old Tomb Raider player who digged through the vaults of the Tomb Raider series from the beginning on the Playstation, I got myself to give the newly just released Tomb Raider - The Angel Of Darkness in that Lara has to solve mysteries that will brighten up why her former mentor got killed after she gave him a visit after that she got suspected and hunted for the murder.
Several years after the last part Tomb Raider Chronicles was released, the expectation for the new game became high and the big question you might ask is if Core Design managed to bring Lara back in a style that she deserved.
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Sunday, July 6th, 2003 |
Review: V-Scroll-Shoot’em’ups with MAME
Nothing rocks more for a spontaneous minute fun than playing a session of arcade shoot’em’ups! They always kicked up the limit of graphic power in the eighties and nineties that home computers couldn’t provide! Nowadays someone who collects and eventually owns a room full of arcade machines could count himself to the happy ones owning these oversized piggy banks! But with a PC or Mac and a recent version of MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) there’s nothing in the way for some fast paced fun!For this reason I’m going to introduce some of my favorite Shoot’em’ups here …
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Monday, June 23rd, 2003 |
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.
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2003 |
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!
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2003 |
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.
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Saturday, June 21st, 2003 |
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 …
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Friday, June 13th, 2003 |
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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