Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

#191 Super Mario Bros. 3

Posted: 16th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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332nd played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo So we’re back now to what is unambiguously the third (platform) Mario game. Released nearer to the end of the lifetime of the NES, it became one of the best-selling games ever – the highest grossing non-bundled game in […]

#965: Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

Posted: 12th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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331th played so far Genre: Action Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Tiger Style Publisher: Tiger Style Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor has been on our list of games to write about for a while now. Within weeks of getting an iPad and getting the iOS games, Peter had started playing it – […]

#881 Trism

Posted: 10th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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330th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Demiforce Publisher: Demiforce 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 waned to try some of them, we decided to still play these twelve, but with […]

329th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2012 Developer: thatgamecompany Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Journey is one of those games where everything seemed to have come together. We played Flowerย  some time ago, which was a great game with admirable effect. Journey had the same developers and was getting rave […]

#887 Mega Man 9

Posted: 6th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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328th played so far Genre: Platform/Action Platform: Playstation 3/XBox 360/Wii Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom 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 waned to try some of them, we decided to still play these twelve, […]

327th played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2011 Developer: Level-5/Studio Ghibli Publisher: Level-5/Namco Bandai Yeah, that’s a game number beyond 1001 up there. As discussed about six months ago, the second edition of the book added 20 new games to the list (and removing 20 others). Real time finally catching […]

326th played so far Genre: Action/First-Person Shooter Platform: PS3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Starbreeze Studios Publisher: 2K Games I’ll be honest – there are games that I’ve forgotten are on the list at all. I had that experience recently (for me) as I was setting up things in preparation for the second edition […]

#766 Hexic 2

Posted: 26th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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325th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Carbonated Games Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios We haven’t really played many puzzle games lately, have we? Especially pure puzzle games. We had Scribblenauts recently, but that’s about it. It’s a stats thing really – we were getting a bit too far […]

#8 Asteroids

Posted: 22nd April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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324th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Some games are so well-known, they require no introduction. Our Thoughts I mean, do I really need to describe Asteroids? Line graphics, little ship that rotates and moves ahead, firing at rocks to split and destroy them. […]

#970 Scribblenauts

Posted: 18th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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323th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: 5th Cell Publisher: WB Games Now here’s a game we’ve been sitting on for a while. Scribblenauts was an early “you’ve got to try this” “Oh, I love it” shared experience between Peter and myself. We both got pretty far in. In […]