686th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Various Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Ubi Soft Publisher: Ubi Soft Tom Clancy games have, in the past, left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter showed earlier that its politics feel quite objectionable. That’s probably because the past few years have left […]
Posts Tagged ‘Various’
#515 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
Posted: 16th April 2018 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, action, ubi soft, Various
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#533 Beyond Good & Evil
Posted: 15th March 2018 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2003, action, adventure, ubisoft, Various
678th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Beyond Good & Evil often gets advertised with the two protagonists of the game – a young woman and a pig man. As in a pig’s head and such. That latter part always looked interesting and made me curious […]
#986 NBA 2K10
Posted: 7th February 2018 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, 2k sports, sports, Various, visual concepts
669th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Visual Concepts Publisher: 2K Sports I’ll be honest, I feel like a lot of these sports games are ones I have to cover – the yearly entry of the time was put on the list as the best representative of football, hockey, […]
#734 Tony Hawk’s Project 8
Posted: 26th January 2018 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2006, activision, Neversoft, sports, Various
666th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Neversoft Publisher: Activision We’ve played a Tony Hawk game before, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. That was fine, a skating game in preset arenas that felt mismatched – not that natural and, even though you’d always want to create a setting with […]
#113 Spindizzy
Posted: 10th January 2018 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1986, action, activision, electric dreams software, Various
662nd played so far Genre: Action Platform: Various Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Electric Dreams Software Publisher: Electric Dreams Software/Activision Spindizzy looks interesting. It uses the isometric perspective that’s quite popular in these days, but doesn’t use the human characters moving around and mostly looks like a version of Marble Madness. It’s not exactly that […]
#68 Boulder Dash
Posted: 15th November 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1984, first star software, maze, Various
648th played so far Genre: Maze Platform: Various Year of Release: 1984 Developer: First Star Software Publisher: First Star Software It might be that I’ve been focusing on a few other 1001 more lately, but that cover really reminds me of comic magazines. It’s an interesting impression – not quite what I was expecting. So […]
#799 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Posted: 30th October 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2007, red storm entertainment, shoot 'em up, Strategy, ubisoft, ubisoft paris, Various
644th played so far Genre: Strategy/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Ubisoft Paris/Red Storm Entertainment Publisher: Ubisoft The meaning of ‘strategy’ is, as so many genres, quite broad. While we’d normally think of an RTS like Command & Conquer or the Civilization series, for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 it refers […]
#62 Manic Miner
Posted: 24th September 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, bug-byte, matthew smith, platform, software projects, Various
635th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Matthew Smith Publisher: Bug-Byte/Software Projects Our next game is another early platformer. This one is inspired by Miner 2049er and will lead to future game Jet Set Willy. It’s an early platformer which looks fairly basic – so yeah, this time I […]
#241 Return to Zork
Posted: 11th August 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, activision, adventure, Infocom, Various
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 […]
#61 Lode Runner
Posted: 22nd July 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, ariolasoft, broderbund, doug smith, platform, Various
619th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Doug Smith Publisher: Broderbund/Ariolasoft I’m not going to claim any great affinity with Lode Runner, but I remember playing a version of this at some point and becoming obsessed for a bit with its large number of levels and built-in level designer. […]