322nd played so far Genre: Action/Role-Playing Platform: PC Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Bethseda Publisher: Bethseda Sometimes we pick up a game for this blog just as a present to ourselves. Yes, part of the reason we’re delving into Morrowind today is that it’s a stop on the way to playing Peter’s preference, Oblivion, but […]
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321st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: VCS Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Inc. Publisher: Atari Inc. I was actually already sort-of planning to follow Peter’s suggestion from Gradius, coming back to play games in order at least some of the time. The next game in order is Adventure, the first adventure game (and […]
#580 Cave Story
Posted: 6th April 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, action, adventure, pc, studio pixel
320th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Studio Pixel Publisher: Studio Pixel Following our recent few familiar games, today we move on to a smaller indie game. Cave Story feels like an unexpected entry on the list. Not a game I had heard of before the blog, it appears […]
#158 Super Mario Bros. 2
Posted: 2nd April 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1988, NES, nintendo, platform
319th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Speaking of old favourites – after Doom last time we now get another old favourite (although I’d dare say more mine than Peter’s this time). It’s the memories of our old NES, as well as the memories of playing […]
#237 Doom
Posted: 29th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, first person shooter, id software, pc
318th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1993 Developer: id Software Publisher: id Software One nice advantage of playing this blog are the excuses to go back to old games from our childhood, that we hadn’t played for ages, and give us a chance to play it again (I was […]
317th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Our original plan for today was actually to play Salamander, but on further reading we found out that it had a prequel, Gradius (or Nemesis in most non-Japanese arcade versions), and is a part of a longer […]
316th played so far Genre: Maze Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco One of the more… interesting entries on our list of genres is the maze genre. Half of it are different Pac Man entries, there’s the previous Mr. Do, and then two other digging-based games. The old Boulder Dash, pretty […]
#52 Dragon’s Lair
Posted: 17th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, advanced microcomputer systems, adventure, arcade, cinematronics, interactive fiction, taito
315th played so far Genre: Adventure/Interactive Fiction Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Advanced Microcomputer Systems Publisher: Cinematronics/Taito Today, again, we play one of the games we (or I) have been most curious about since the start of this blog. Dragon’s Lair is an early adventure games, but using the Disney animation style we […]
#633 Civilization IV
Posted: 13th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2005, 2k games, Firaxis Games, pc, Strategy
314th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Firaxis Games Publisher: 2K Games Welcome to our new apartment! By the time you read this, sure, we’ll have lived here for over five months, but this is the first game we played and wrote up here, so it’s a bit special […]
#500 Metroid Fusion
Posted: 9th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, game boy advance, nintendo, platform, shoot 'em up
313rd played so far Genre: Platform/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Game Boy Advance Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo It’s been a while since we played the surprise discovery (for us) Super Metroid. While we knew some things about the series, we weren’t entirely expecting it to be this much fun. As one of […]