Posts Tagged “Retro Gaming”
Tweets have been flying around all day as people get their shiny new iPads but the postman delivered something I was looking forward to for a few weeks. Yes, the JXD A1000 arrived this afternoon. I tried a few games and videos on it and it works quite well! The bundled 720p trailers were a [...]
One of my favourite Amiga games of the 90′s was Syndicate. The PC version will be available on GOG.com from next Thursday. Great little shooter, go buy it! (via)
Oh look what I found at home a few days ago! A boxed copy of Wing Commander IV for Windows 95 and DOS. I have never even played this and honestly don’t remember buying it but since GOG have just released the third game in the series I should give this a go. The game [...]
No, not the podcast, but a Polish game released in 2004 and it’s on gog.com now. Yesterday it was priced at $3.99 and I jumped at the chance after watching the Zero Punctuation review and a couple of Youtube gameplay videos. Looks very old school like Quake, Doom or Serious Sam! It’s back to $9.99 [...]
A few games I found recently while sorting through boxes at home: Quake 3 tin box, Linux edition. I wrote an article about this for the Irish Times a few years ago. Double Dragon, C64 version, I posted pictures of this before of course. Gyroscope, the first 5 1/4 disk based game I owned on [...]
Pangea Arcade is free on the Mac App store right now. There are 3 classic arcade games in this app based on Centipede, Asteroids and Missile Command so there’s plenty of gameplay on offer here! I’m trying to install it but the App Store has frozen on my machine. Hopefully it’ll stop being a buggy [...]
Arcade emulator MAME saved the day for a software developer working on a mobile port of Spy Hunter. Fascinating read about extracting the assets from the game to speed up development. Shame how the lawyers treated the guy who extracted the sound effects! (via)
I was a big fan of Stunt Car Racer on the C64, and later played it on the Amiga too but I never knew about Stunt Car Racer TNT. TNT is an extra tracks mod of the Amiga version released a few years ago by AmiGer. Here’s his announcement post: Stunt Car Racer TNT (The [...]
If you’re an older gamer who loved the classic gameplay of Rick Dangerous and other platformers you’ll love Rocky Memphis and The Temple of Ophuxoff, a freeware game made by Trevor (Smilia) Storey and Stuart Collier. It’s a huge 600 screen platformer to explore so this won’t be finished quickly. It’s “casual gamer” friendly too [...]
