Posts Tagged ‘ Classic Gaming ’

Sword of Fargoal for iPhone

  • December 13th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

The classic dungeon crawler Sword of Fargoal has been released for the iPhone and it turns out that it’s one of the few computer/console-game-to-iPhone conversions I’ve came across that are actually fun to play on the touch-screen (unlike, say, Sonic, Bomberman et al). Go check it out if you’re into RPGs with an ever-changing maze-like [ READ MORE ]

Good Old Games releases Realms of Arkania

After their last RPG masterpiece release, the Might & Magic 6-Pack, gog.com have now released Realms of Arkania 1+2 and 3. RoA is the English version of what I only knew as Das Schwarze Auge in German back in the 16-bit days of Amiga. If my memory serves me right only the first part [ READ MORE ]

Jagged Alliance: Deadly Groping

  • March 12th, 2008
  • Posted in Gaming

While Jagged Alliance is without discussion one of the finest squat squad-based strategy games ever made that has seen the daylight, I especially enjoy the ‘personal’ characteristics that the mercenaries bring with them and the frivolous Butt Groping demonstrated in this clip shows this side of JADG nicely. The map seen in this video is [ READ MORE ]

Oldschool Gaming Goodness in Flash

Thy Dungeonman 3: Behold Thy Graphics, a text/graphics adventure from Homestarrunner in the style of the very early days of computing. Complete with fake floppy load delay and amber screen display! You find yourself in a dungeon cell with doom lurking all around you. The texts are intentionally exaggerated old ‘english’ and once you got [ READ MORE ]

Review: GT Advance 3 Pro Concept Racing (Game Boy Advance)

We’ve been to her majesty’s sisters house in Koga the last weekend which is around 1h from Tokyo and spent a lazy Saturday/Sunday there and mostly played games on the GBA and PS2 of my niece in law which convinced me enough to buy a Gameboy again and so I’ve went to [ READ MORE ]

Until the pad buttons smoke!

More Shoot’em’up goodness can be found at Shmups!, a website dedicated to 2D Shooter games with plenty of reviews and information from Katakis on the C64 over Z-Out on Amiga up to Ketsui on Arcade machines! Z-Out wasn’t the best Shooter maybe but Chris Huelsbeck’s music on level 4 and 6 was brilliant! I still [ READ MORE ]

Lightspeed flight and laserfight

Review: Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic (DOS/C64) One of my very favorite games back on Amiga was the space RPG Hard Nova (to be reviewed in a while) which took me long cozy winter nights to solve. The predecessor of Hard Nova was a game called Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic which was released in 1988 [ READ MORE ]

16Bit-Mercenary Mess Up

Download: Custom VEB Missions and Campaign for Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games My big move has been delayed for a short time! I will leave here at the end of December and move to far east in middle January! I actually packed everything and made most preparations so I’m stuck with being bored now, counting every minute [ READ MORE ]

Coin-Op Shooter hysteria in your living room

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 [ READ MORE ]

Aliens and a lot of pixel blood

Review: Project Firestart (C64) 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 [ READ MORE ]

C64 pocketized

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 [ READ MORE ]

Dr. Colossus’ Adventures in Slime World

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 [ READ MORE ]