Dune II, a real-time strategy game released in 1992, was as you may guess based on Frank Herbert’s second book in the Dune series. I didn’t play it at the time as I still owned a C64 at the time but I did play it before the decade was out. […]
Games
A SNES Mini found a new home
The first Nintendo console I owned was the Gameboy Advance. The earlier Nintendo machines passed me by as I was busy coding on the C64, messing with the Amiga and PCs and college then kept me busy! I never owned a SNES and Nintendo 64 and rarely even used the […]
C64 , Games
Retrograde
Ah Retrograde, a Commodore 64 game released by Thalamus in 1989. The Rowland Brothers, of Creatures, Creatures 2 and Mayhem in Monsterland fame created this game and it shows. Presentation is top notch. Some would say that this is a repetitive shoot ’em up but I love it. Nice mix […]
Games
You Have To Win The Game
What game? No, that’s the title of a free game on Steam and on the Commodore 64! The C64 version can be found here on CSDb while the Steam version is here. The Steam version works on Windows, Mac and 32 bit Linux! A comment on the original announcement post […]
Games
When Bob Started a Syndicate
The other day I was reading through the very last issue of Ace Magazine when I came across an "In the Works" preview of a game called Bob. It was the temporary name given to a work-in-progress game by developers Bullfrog. It meant nothing to me until I saw the […]
Games
I guess I haven’t bought anything on Steam recently …
This is what happens when you have Humble Bundles and a backlog of games. Speaking of backlogs, one game I really enjoyed that I bought got in a Humble Bundle ages ago but never played until recently was Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. If we’re friends on Steam, chances are […]
Games
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal – Farbor
Creeper World 3 is a sort of a tower defence game but it’s more a real time strategy (RTS) game. You move your pieces to combat the relentless Creeper as it flows over everything to consume the map. It’s a mostly easy-going game as you can pause and consider your […]
Games
Pokemon Go > Ingress
I bet Niantic wished they’d created a Pokemon game four years ago instead of labouring on Ingress all that time. Pokemon Go was released last week in the US and has already spawned many a meme on Facebook. It apparently has more concurrent players than concurrent Twitter users. My first, […]
Games , Music
Megablast Banjo Remix
Here’s rather impressive remix of the Xenon 2 Megablast main title tune created by a talented banjo player! Long time readers may remember I used the original music in a video for a short but fun game of Bad Company 2. We joined a game with nobody on the other […]
C64 , Games
My Mr Robot
When people talk about how great Mr Robot is I agree but I suspect we’re not talking about the same thing.