403rd played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Perhaps inevitably, gaming would start riffing on movie stories. While not the first, Donkey Kong‘s inspiration is obvious form the name – King Kong is already referenced in the name, and the central image of an ape climbing a […]
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#24 Donkey Kong
Posted: 16th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, nintendo, platform
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#610 Rome: Total War
Posted: 12th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, activision, pc, Strategy, The Creative Assembly
402nd played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: The Creative Assembly Publisher: Activision Wow, has it already been 250 games since we played Medieval: Total War? I suppose it’s what you’d expect, considering that there are still two more coming up (Medieval: Total War II and Empire: Total War), but […]
#1020 Year Walk
Posted: 8th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2013, adventure, iphone, puzzle, simogo
401st played so farGenre: Advenure/Puzzle Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2013 Developer: Simogo Publisher: Simogo Some games are ones we want to play purely because of the image, which looked weird – some goat-like thing standing in a river. By the way, this game, being the before-last game, will have the highest numbered game we’ll […]
#278 Theme Park
Posted: 4th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, bullfrog productions, electronic arts, management simulation, Various
400th played so far Genre: Management Simulation Platform: Various Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Bullfrog Productions Publisher: Electronic Arts Oh Theme Park, how we’ve been looking forward to playing this. I remember playing this at a cousin’s place and being so impressed with it I wanted to see more. Because I had no other real […]
#668 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Posted: 31st January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2005, adventure, capcom, DS
399th played so farGenre: Adventure Platform: DS Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Prior to us playing the game for this blog, I mostly knew the Phoenix Wright series through word of mouth. People got quite obsessed with it for a while – something slightly obnoxiously so – and beyond that I never […]
#290 Wipeout
Posted: 27th January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, pc, playstation 1, psygnosis, racing
398th played so farGenre: Racing Platform: Playstation/PC Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Psygnosis Publisher: Psygnosis Wipeout was one of the Playstation’s launch titles (the PC doesn’t ever matter in these discussions), a fast and slick racer that found its place through its association with the dance and house music culture that was big in the […]
#545 Astro Boy: Omega Factor
Posted: 23rd January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2003, action, fighting, gameboy advance, hitman, sega, Treasure
397th played so farGenre: Action/Fighting Platform: Gameboy Advance Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Hitman/Treasure Publisher: Sega I don’t really know manga or anime. I’ve been exposed through some things (mostly through Peter), but it has never been a major focus of mine. Astro Boy seems like it’s a fairly major franchise – 4 seasons and […]
396th played so farGenre: Platform Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Time for a bit of catch up! In 1984, after gaining fame in his maze, Pac Man breaks out into his own platformer. Normally these genre shifts tend to be, at the best, dicey, but its presence on this list […]
#924 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Posted: 15th January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, activision, first person shooter, infinity ward, Various
395th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision “No Russians” As might have become clear from our earlier writing, Call of Duty is a decently done series, with the first Modern Warfare title holding up better than the first game we played. There’s just not much […]
#312 Marathon Infinity
Posted: 11th January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1996, bungie software, first person shooter, Mac, pc
394th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Mac Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Bungie Software Publisher: Bungie Software Some games on the list draw our eye simply because of its lineage. Before they became famous from the Halo series (and before they were bought by Microsoft), they worked on two series. The strategy series Myth […]