Archive for March, 2012

#166 SimCity

Posted: 30th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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134th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Maxis Publisher: Maxis It is hard to really remember a time before the market was completely saturated with managament simulation games. Whenever you go to a Game (or even a Morrisons) to peruse a special offer for PC games you will see […]

#372 Xenogears

Posted: 26th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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133rd played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: Playstation Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Square Product Development Division 3 Publisher: Square The internet is great for many reasons. It allows us to order pizza without people laughing at your accent, it contains all the FAQs you could ever want and it brings people together. There […]

#311 Harvest Moon

Posted: 22nd March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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132nd played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Pack-In-Video Publisher: Natsume If you have been gaming for a number of years you tend to accumulate a lot of the games on the ‘would like to try’ list. These are not necessarily blue ribbon titles like Xenoblade Chronicles and Gears […]

#931 Halo 3: ODST

Posted: 18th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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131st played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft There are games where you know the moment you start playing that they are going to be enjoyable but they never live at the top of your list. Whilst this may sound odd for someone who loves […]

#575 Gregory Horror Show

Posted: 14th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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130th played so far Genre: Survival Horror Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Capcom Studio 3 Publisher: Capcom When you have fallen for a lot of bad games there are a number of rules that you know to be true. One of them is never to buy a tie-in game because they universally […]

For those of you who’ve been keeping up with recent events in the games industry, you may have read about the financial issues Game (and subbrand Gamestation) is having. They already can’t reach an agreement with Electronic Arts to stock Mass Effect 3, with other titles probably (soon) similarly affected – this was the first […]

#987 Cogs

Posted: 10th March 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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129th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Lazy 8 Studios Publisher: – We’ve been avoiding puzzle games a bit more than normal recently, having done too many of them in the early days of this blog. It’s always a marvel to get back to them. Cogs was part of […]

#773 Pain

Posted: 6th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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128th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Idol Minds Publisher: Sony As we have seen in recent years there has been a move towards downloading smaller, cheaper games on the likes of PSN, WiiWare and XBLA. The list also reflects this with a sizable number of entries between […]

#3 Breakout

Posted: 2nd March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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127th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Various Year of Release: 1976 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Games really do not get much older than this (with the exception of the earlier covered game Pong and the first actual game on the list). I would like the reason we chose to do this game to be […]