618th played so far Genre: Action/Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Sensible Software Publisher: Virgin Interactive Partially because of this blog, I started reading up more on older games, to learn about their background and find out more about them. Cannon Fodder is one of the games that I feel are often discussed […]
Posts Tagged ‘Various’
#235 Cannon Fodder
Posted: 18th July 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, action, sensible software, Strategy, Various, Virgin Interactive
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#56 Planetfall
Posted: 12th June 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, Infocom, interactive fiction, Various
609th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Infocom Publisher: Infocom It feels like the arcades dominate these early years of gaming, and my mind, when seeing a title like Planetfall, automatically assumes it’s some action gamer or shooter once again with a space theme. The space theme is […]
#1008 Portal 2
Posted: 31st May 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2011, platform, puzzle, valve corporation, Various
606th played so far Genre: Platform/Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 2011 Developer: Valve Corporation Publisher: Valve Corporation I’ve been simultaneously looking forward to the sequel to Portal, and been holding off on it as a possible final puzzle game. In the end, the determining factor was that we got Lego Dimensions (part of the […]
#94 Mercenary
Posted: 15th May 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, action, adventure, novagen, Various
602nd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Novagen I think I underestimated Mercenary slightly. All this time, I thought it was another shoot ’em up, which is frequent in this era, and certainly not the action/adventure we’re getting here. What it is, is a game that has you crash […]
#1004 Limbo
Posted: 11th May 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2010, platform, playdead, puzzle, Various
601st played so far Genre: Platform/Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 2010 Developer: Playdead Publisher: Playdead We begin the next hundred with another known indie game. Limbo is a platformer that gained a good reputation for its implicit storytelling and world it creates in a platformer setting. I never actually had a chacne to play […]
#680 Resident Evil 4
Posted: 16th March 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2005, capcom, shoot 'em up, survival horror, Various
587th played so far Genre: Survival Horror/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom I can’t say I’ve enjoyed the previous Resident Evil games much. There were some okay adventure elements and such, but the controls were terrible and shooting difficult. Partially it’s said this was meant to create horror, […]
582nd played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Various Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway My knowledge of basketball is probably summed up best by saying that the podcast Pistol Shrimps Radio actually teaches me things about the game, and that the most exposure I’ve had to it was through the Michael Jordan classic […]
#225 Mortal Kombat
Posted: 26th December 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1992, fighting, midway games, Various
567th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Various Year of Release: 1992 Developer: Midway Games Publisher: Midway Games What a glorious game for Boxing day, right? Pure coincidence, I can assure you – just how the numbers happened to work out. Mortal Kombat is an early moral outrage game. People fighting each other in games […]
559th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games Welcome to my Atari/Midway arcade-a-thon! Some time ago, we picked up a PSP collection, Midway Arcade Treasures for a decent price, which contained several games on the list. We have used it for a few games already, […]
#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, […]