Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

373rd played so far Genre: Puzzle/Platform Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Media Molecule Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Here’s a game with a bit of a history for us. We’ve been looking at writing up LittleBigPlanet for some time now, as we obtained it soon after Peter got his Playstation 3. For […]

#15 Rogue

Posted: 19th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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372nd played so far Genre: Strategy/Role-Playing Platform: Various Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, Ken Arnold, Jon Lane Here’s to a game that’s probably named and referenced by a group of people several orders of magnitude larger than have actually played it. As we discussed with Nethack, roguelikes are an old genre, […]

#726 OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

Posted: 15th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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371st played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Sumo Digital Publisher: SEGA We really need to play more racing games. We enjoy the more ‘manic’ ones like Mario Kart, but have less of an affinity for more realistic games. Sort of enjoyable when we get into them, but not something […]

#174 Prince of Persia

Posted: 11th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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370th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Broderbund Publisher: Broderbund Prince of Persia is a familiar title. I remember playing it on our old PC, back in the days, for some time unable to play it properly as the shift-key on the keyboard didn’t work – some cheating was […]

369th played so far Genre: Stealth Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Ubisoft Shanghai Publisher: Ubisoft When we think of stealth games the first thing that comes across out mind is Metal Gear Solid and the fact that very early in our blog we managed to cover five of them in pretty quick succession. […]

#51 Chuckie Egg

Posted: 3rd October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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368th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: A&F Software Publisher: A&F Software Chuckie Egg, although not actually related, looks similar to Manic Miner, the predecessor of the not-that-interesting Bounty Bob Strikes Back. The point here appears to be to collect eggs instead of walking over floors and collect eggs. […]

#952 UFC 2009: Undisputed

Posted: 29th September 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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367th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Playstation 3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Yuke’s Osaka Publisher: THQ After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we wanted to try some of them, we decided to still play these […]

#582 Counter-Strike: Source

Posted: 26th September 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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366th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Valve Corporation Publisher: Valve Corporation As much as war is a big, easy setting to go to for many shooters, from Call of Duty to Metal Gear Solid and Halo, these days terrorism seems a bigger concern in our world. As […]

#102 Tetris

Posted: 21st September 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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365th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Alexej Pajitnov Publisher: Various We’ve held off for quite a while, but it’s time. We’ve played Tetris often enough that we should be familiar enough to write this. Tetris is the single best-selling game in the world, with 143 million games sold […]

364th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Playstation 3/Playstation Portable Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Just Add Water Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we wanted to try some of them, we […]