458th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari These isometric games don’t work well for me. I’m not sure why, but there’s a series of games like Crystal Castles (several of which are yet to come) that I just dread. The controls are awkward, the action simple […]
Posts Tagged ‘action’
#58 Crystal Castles
Posted: 24th September 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, action, arcade, atari
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449th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom I’ll admit, before playing Strider was categorized, in my mind, as a general samey-seeming group of games. Somewhere between platform, beat ’em up and action game, I would have easily confused it with something like Forgotten Worlds if I […]
#223 Flashback
Posted: 11th August 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1992, action, adventure, delphine software, us gold, Various
447th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1992 Developer: Delphine Software Publisher: U.S. Gold Flashback, contradicting the above description, is described by Wikipedia as a “science fiction cinematic platform game”. To me, that sounds a bit pretentious, but I assume there’s a way in which it has earned this distinction. That […]
435th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Exidy Publisher: Exidy Time for a short diversion to another early game. Venture isn’t the first dungeon crawler we covered – Eamon, Rogue and Adventure came before, as did arguably Zork and MUD. Venture, however, is the first arcade one on the list, and […]
#209 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Posted: 8th June 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1991, action, adventure, interplay, pc
431st played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Interplay Publisher: Interplay The Star Trek TV series is a surprising resilient science fiction series – between tv series, movies and recent revivals it has been around for 49 years now (at the time of writing). And as beloved as it is […]
#318 Saturn Bomberman
Posted: 11th May 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1996, action, hudson soft, saturn
424th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Saturn Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft It feels a bit weird how, prior to starting this blog, I had never really come across the Bomberman series. I’d heard of it – may even have seen a bit of it being played – but […]
#179 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
Posted: 20th March 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1990, action, amiga, bitmap brothers, image works, sports
411th played so far Genre: Sports/Action Platform: Amiga Year of Release: 1990 Developer: The Bitmap Brothers Publisher: Image Works The Speedball series (two entries) is a sports game. Not, as the genre often implies, a sports game that is played on fields around the world right now, but instead a futuristic setup that works in […]
#63 Tapper
Posted: 16th March 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, action, arcade, bally midway, marvin glass and associates
410th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Marvin Glass and Associates Publisher: Bally Midway Commercial tie-in games always seem a bit weird. They often seem bad – existing games with the identifying marks filed off and a logo plastered in. There are probably plenty of them around (mostly as […]