624th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Activision Publisher: Infocom Zork is, as we’ve discussed before, one of the most important and best known text adventures. Return to Zork is a point and click instead, from a first person perspective, and with some live actors like we’ve seen in […]
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#241 Return to Zork
Posted: 11th August 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, activision, adventure, Infocom, Various
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#474 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Posted: 24th June 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2001, activision, first person shooter, gray matter interactive, pc, playstation 2, xbox
612th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC/Xbox/Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Gray Matter Interactive Publisher: Activision Wolfenstein 3D is certainly a notable game. It was amazing to see 3D done at the time, as a first person shooter. Horribly dated now, of course, but the technology was amazing at the time. […]
#417 Quake III Arena
Posted: 9th April 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, activision, first person shooter, id software, pc
593rd played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision A bit of a jump in genre here. Somewhere around 2000 – and obviously, in case of this game, in 1999, several publishers and developers realised that the main thing that kept people playing FPS games was […]
#359 Quake II
Posted: 27th August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1997, activision, first person shooter, id software, Various
537th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1997 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision Following in our travel through first-person shooters, Quake II is the next on the list. Despite its current omnipresence in the list, it seems to have taken until the 2000s before it got that good. Before then, […]
#286 MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
Posted: 31st May 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, action, activision, pc, playstation 1, saturn, Strategy
515th played so far Genre: Action/Strategy Platform: PC/Saturn/PlayStation 1 Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Activision Publisher: Activision MechWarrior 2 is a game I’ve been eyeing up for quite some time – I owned it even though I didn’t necessarily get around to playing it. It’s not quite my typical game, but I remember the fun […]
439th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Activision Publisher: Activision Time to be a hero… Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation time! It’s an old time platform game, predating the Super Mario Bros. mark, where (according to its lore) you descend into mine shafts using your helicopter to rescue those trapped […]
#610 Rome: Total War
Posted: 12th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, activision, pc, Strategy, The Creative Assembly
402nd played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: The Creative Assembly Publisher: Activision Wow, has it already been 250 games since we played Medieval: Total War? I suppose it’s what you’d expect, considering that there are still two more coming up (Medieval: Total War II and Empire: Total War), but […]
#924 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Posted: 15th January 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, activision, first person shooter, infinity ward, Various
395th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision “No Russians” As might have become clear from our earlier writing, Call of Duty is a decently done series, with the first Modern Warfare title holding up better than the first game we played. There’s just not much […]
#622 Spider-Man 2
Posted: 8th August 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, action, activision, treyarch, Various
354th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Various Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Treyarch Publisher: Activision This is a game I’ve been looking forward to playing for quite a while. When playing and discussing Prototype and Infamous, their free running mechanics came up and Spider-Man 2 was a game Peter often cited as the original […]