202nd played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega So a few months ago (at the time you read this, that is), we went to Disneyland Paris. A nice diversion that turned out to be an amazing time off. The stories about that are for another time, but […]
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#403 Ferrari F355 Challenge
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, arcade, dreamcast, driving, sega
#992 Time Gentlemen, Please!
Posted: 13th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, adventure, pc, zombie cow studios
201st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Zombie Cow Studios Here’s a difference: We pretty much stopped this time not because we were done with the game, but because we wanted to play it seperately. We got a good idea of what the game was like… but are excited […]
#455 The Sims
Posted: 9th December 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2000, life simulation, maxis, pc
200th played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: PC Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Maxis Publisher: Electronic Arts Guess what? We’ve reached the stage where we can now say that we have reached the point of having covered one game in every five! Also known as 20% this is such a landmark where it now […]
#281 Worms
Posted: 5th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, action, ocean software, Strategy, team17, Various
199th played so far Genre: Action/Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Team17 Publisher: Ocean Software Show me someone who had a PC between the years 1995-2001 and you will have someone that has played Worms or at least one of the franchise. It’s going to be pretty hard to write this since everyone […]
#368 Dance Dance Revolution
Posted: 1st December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, arcade, konami, music
198th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Okay, so the original Dance Dance Revolution wasn’t exactly released outside of Japan. Instead we in the UK got a game called Dancing Stage. As a kid I had the first home release of a DDR game called Dance […]
#782 Portal
Posted: 27th November 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2007, action, pc, playstation 3, puzzle, valve, xbox 360
197th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: PC/Xbox 360/PS3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Memes. A term that first arose in the 1970s when Richard Dawkins wanted a term to apply to how ideas, catchphrases and other such items of culture can quickly pass through a populace. In the age of the […]
#891 Captain Forever
Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, internet, jarrad woods, shoot 'em up
196th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Jarrad Woods One of the nicer things the internet has enabled is the easier creation and distribution of games. It’s easier to create a flash game everyone can see. While this leads to a lot of copies and crud being […]
#202 Super Castlevania IV
Posted: 19th November 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1991, action, castlevania, konami, platform, SNES
195th played so far Genre: Action/Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Castlevania’s one of those long running standard-setting series. You know, like Mario, Mega Man, Sonic and Kirby. Videogame series that have delivered several times and tend to be reliable enough to do a good job most of the time. […]
#660 Jade Empire
Posted: 15th November 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2005, action, bioware, pc, RPG, xbox
194th played so far Genre: Action/Role Playing Game Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Bioware Publisher: Microsoft (Xbox) 2K Games (Xbox) My love for Bioware has been well documented on this blog before and happily, we’ve already had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate II, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old […]
#696 Elebits (or Eledees)
Posted: 11th November 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2006, action, konami, shoot 'em up, wii
193rd played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For those of you keepin track, it’s been a while since we did a Wii game. Technically World of Goo was one, but it wasn’t a proper one… We didn’t even touch our Wii to play it. […]