348th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1994 Developer: id Software Publisher: GT Interactive We have (obviously) played Doom before, the granddaddy of all other FPS games. Not the first perhaps, but the first that made it Big and put LAN multiplayer on the map. The second was released not […]
Posts Tagged ‘Various’
#260 Doom II: Hell On Earth
Posted: 15th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, first person shooter, gt interactive, id software, Various
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#142 Maniac Mansion
Posted: 7th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1987, adventure, lucasfilm games, Various
346th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Lucasfilm Games Publisher: Lucasfilm Games It’s no big secret on this blog that I enjoy the Lucasfilm adventures, especially the later ones – Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max hit the Road, Grim Fandango and so on, and I’m […]
#84 Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Posted: 29th June 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1984, big five software, platform, Various
344th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Big Five Software Publisher: Big Five Software First, a quick admission: we found out, after we started this game, that it’s a sequel to another game on the list, Miner 2049er. Both games are fairly old platformers – one that looks fairly […]
#953 WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010
Posted: 9th June 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, fighting, thq, Various, yuke's
339th played so farGenre: Fighting Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Yuke’s Publisher: THQ After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we wanted to try some of them, we decided to still play these twelve, but with shorter […]
#176 Stunt Car Racer
Posted: 28th May 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1989, driving, microplay, microprose, microstyle, Various
336th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Various Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Microstyle Publisher: Microprose/Microplay Now is the time for us to make another random pick from the slowly shrinking list of games. After a few re-rolls (since we still do not have access to every game on this list) we happen across a […]
#123 The Sentinel
Posted: 9th February 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1986, firebird, geoff crammond, Strategy, Various
306th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Geoff Crammond Publisher: Firebird The book describes this game as “chess with added paranoia”. To be honest, I’ve never heard of this game before the blog and keep forgetting about it afterwards. It’s vague enough that today, we have no clue what […]
#383 Resident Evil 2
Posted: 5th February 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, capcom, survival horror, Various
305th played so far Genre: Survival Horror Platform: Various Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom The Resident Evil series is one that keeps haunting us. Not in the spooky scary sense, but in the sense of a series that has several entries in the list, while we’re not the most keen to play […]
#685 Uno
Posted: 6th January 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2006, carbonated games, gameloft, microsoft game studios, puzzle, Strategy, Various
298th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Carbonated Games/Gameloft Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios/Gameloft For a long time, Uno was (possibly still is) the highest selling Xbox Live Arcade game. Yeah, that’s right, with all the options videogames afford us, it’s a virtual version of a board game that people […]
#136 International Karate +
Posted: 29th December 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1987, fighting, system 3, Various
296th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: System 3 Publisher: System 3 Fighting game, fairly old, something karate with some control improvements according to the book. Sorry, near-300 exhaustion is setting in and there are only so many things we can introduce these with. Probably the main innovation mentioned […]