14th game played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 1992 Developer: Westwood Studios Publisher: Virgin Interactive Three houses fight for control of Arrakis, or Dune, the only planet in the galaxy where the elusive Spice can be found. In the mean time, they also have to avoid sandworms and deal with the […]
Archive for December, 2010
#231 Dune II
Posted: 31st December 2010 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1992, pc, Strategy, Virgin Interactive, Westwood
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#356 The Last Express
Posted: 28th December 2010 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1997, adventure, pc, smoking car
13th game played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Smoking Car Productions Publisher: Brøderbund “The best game nobody ever played”, a commercial failure, and yet it’s found in the book. What’s up with that? Well, The Last Express is an adventure game that takes place in real-time. You’re Doctor Cath, […]
12th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Online Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Boštjan Čadež Publisher: N/A So far we have had serious games, casual games and those where it is questionable whether they can be considered games at all. Line Rider falls easily into the last category. Although it was designed by a […]
11th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Popcap Publisher: Popcap This was not a game we actively scheduled this early on (since we rely on a mixture of a random number generator and personal choice) but it came out of a rather slow evening when I had a […]
New Game Approaches: The First Flush
Posted: 21st December 2010 by Mulholland in AcquisitionTags: acquisition
It was always destined to happen wasn’t it? Even though we were already in possession of more than enough games to keep us blogging well into 2011 (as you saw in our introduction) the sheer amount of excitement at seeing the amount of games yet to try would lead us to making a few purchases. […]
#189 Columns
Posted: 19th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1990, arcade, genesis, mega drive, puzzle, sega
10th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega This is a game from my youth here. My first console was a Sega Mega Drive and Columns was one of the first games that I had on it (alongside Cool Spot and Sonic […]
#95 Little Computer People
Posted: 16th December 2010 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, activision, life simulation, Various
9th game played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: Various ones Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Activision Publisher: Activision Did you know there are little people living in your computer? Well, there are, and in this Tamagotchi-like fishbowl game, you can see one of them going through his daily routine. Yes, a guy and his […]
#730 Viva Piñata
Posted: 13th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2006, life simulation, rare, xbox 360
8th game played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: X-Box 360 Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Rare Publisher: Microsoft Ah Viva Piñata. The simple sandbox life simulation where you look after a garden and hope to entice some colourful chocolate-filled pinata animals to live there. Of course there are complications from ‘sour’ pinatas and ruffians […]
#901 Bayonetta
Posted: 10th December 2010 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, action, playstation 3, sega, xbox 360
7th game played so far Genre: Action Game Platform: Playstation 3, XBOX 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Platinum Games (XBOX 360), Nex Entertainment (PS3, port) Publisher: Sega Another callback to a previous game, with the developers of this game coming from Capcom, developers of Viewtiful Joe. It shows in style and game play, with […]
#97 Super Mario Bros.
Posted: 7th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1985, Mario, NES, nintendo, platformer
6th game played so far Genre: Platformer Platform: NES Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo It may seem a little bit odd to cover another Mario already but there must be in excess of 20 different games (this could be an exaggeration) featuring this plumber so it’s a good idea to get a […]