Posts Tagged ‘ Nostalgia ’

Hidden Videogame Pr00n

Now this is just hilarious … Accidental Video Game Porn or like you would say ‘don’t let your mother see this!’ An archive of screenshots and animations showing explicit (and all non-intended of course) scenes from various old and new video games. Searching for backdoor demon sex with Zelda or hardcore bestiality orgies with Pikachu? [ READ MORE ]

640 Kilobyte ought to be enough for anybody

… was a quote from Bill Gates from 1981 according to the book Computers – An Illustrated History from Christian Wurster which I had a sneak look into some days ago in a well sorted book shop and which her majesty now surprisingly presented me as a birthday gift. This book covers the whole history of [ 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 ]

What happened to the Hired Guns?

About four years ago there was a game in development that I highly anticipated but that never actually got released. The now disbanded software company Psygnosis was about to develop a new 3D version of their 16bit classic Hired Guns. I remember playing Hired Guns back on Amiga and while the Gameplay wasn’t anything particularly [ READ MORE ]

The cool days of the Fembots

Recently I’m tending to shun most of what runs nowadays on TV! While today in the twothousands all kinds of TV series theme seems to be only about sex and interpersonal relations, they were all about humor, sarcasm and worse sci-fi in the nineties and even more back in the eigthies and seventies about action and [ READ MORE ]

The anachronism of Assembler coding

I’ve been selling and buying antique computer stuff on Ebay and also managed to get an old Commodore C64G! The G model was the one with the brown bread bin case and brighter keyboard which was introduced later after the C64C model actually got sold. This brought up some moods of nostalgia remembering the ‘good [ READ MORE ]

When 16 colors were enough

Download: C64 Tools Disk images “SMS Tools 1 & 2″ After finally having the change to access some of my over ten years old C64 floppy disks relics with the XE1541 cable, I’ve found some neat rare tools which we used back in the old days and which you might want not to miss for your [ 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 ]

Harry Palmer, the only true spy!

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 [ 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 ]