"Chaotic Neutral"

Because the weather is so good now and all people seem to went into holiday and scenes of empty and lethargic streets are regular, a friend of mine and I had the idea if everyone left Germany, we both stay here so we can maraud shops and stores etc. which would be fun.

We also had the great idea that everyone of us can mark his owned area of the town and start playing war. If he gets into my area I have to hunt him and vice versa. However that maybe wouldn’t make much sense with only two people.

We would also establish a so called ‘death zone’. In case other people want to come back, they have to run the gauntlet through this zone and if they survive it they can stay and live here.

That would be a scenery like in a low-budget endtime apocalypse movie. Maybe these kind of phantasies come up if you listen too many times to Burn The Priest/Lamb Of God. And I just wanted to broaden my music horizon…. oh dear!

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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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!

Review: Project Firestart (C64)

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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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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.

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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