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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘action’
#281 Worms
Posted: 5th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, action, ocean software, Strategy, team17, Various
#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 […]
#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. […]
#903 Fat Princess
Posted: 3rd November 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2009, action, playstation 3, titan studios
191st played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Titan Studios Publisher: Sony Time for us to take another delve into the dark world of downloadable console games and it’s actually one of the reasons I wanted to buy a PS3. Strangely it took me a long time to get […]
#691 Bully
Posted: 8th September 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2006, action, adventure, ps2, rockstar
177th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PS2 Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Rockstar Vancouver Publisher: Rockstar Games Bully, our next game, is an open world-ish action adventure set in a boarding school… Bullsworth Academy. You’re a kid who’s just been sent there, abandoned by his parents. In the mean time, you have to survive […]
#504 Steel Battalion
Posted: 4th September 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, action, capcom, nude maker, xbox
176th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Capcom, Nude Maker Publisher: Capcom As we’ve discussed before, there are some games on the list that worry us. Some games, like Reset Generation, because they seem to be impossible to play now. (Actually, due to several issues, this is currently the […]
#601 Ninja Gaiden
Posted: 8th June 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2004, action, adventure, team ninja, xbox
153rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Tecmo People tend to moan about how games have been getting easier when compared to many of the games released in the eighties and early nineties. To be fair this is a fair comment with save points being mostly […]
#402 Grand Theft Auto 2
Posted: 15th April 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, action, DMA Design, GTA, pc, PS1, Rockstar Games
138th played so far Genre: Action Platform: PC/PS1 Year of Release: 1999 Developer: DMA Design Publisher: Rockstar Games Let’s be honest first. We’ve played Grand Theft Auto 38 games ago, which (in our perception by now) is fairly recent. Fair enough – we need to play one every 100 games if we want to spread […]