Archive for August, 2012

#581 City of Heroes

Posted: 31st August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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175th played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Cryptic Studios Publisher: NCsoft Up next in our desperate panic to play certain games before any decent support sees them fall off of the face of the planet (Reset Generation, where are you?) is City of Heroes. Whilst this is a successful […]

#299 Sega Rally Championship

Posted: 27th August 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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174th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1995 Developer: AM5 Publisher: Sega Did I ever tell you my father did some rally driving? While he was more often around to repair the cars (for one of the better teams in the country), he also got to be a navigator on a […]

#66 Bank Panic

Posted: 23rd August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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173rd played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Sanritsu Publisher: Sega This morning Jeroen accidentally (through a slip of the tongue) coined a term: short ’em up. I thought he was being clever since there are many shoot ’em ups left for us to do on this list […]

#47 Utopia

Posted: 19th August 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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172nd played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Intellivision Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Mattel Publisher: Mattel The Intellivision is one of those consoles that is forgotten, from the ages of Atari, Amiga and ZX Spectrum. Back when everyone was creating consoles, Mattel jumped in as well and created the Intellivision. In a historical context this […]

171st played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: BioWare Publisher: LucasArts It’s interesting to see how many Star Wars game have ended up in the list. As much of a bad reputation licensed games have – a result of many of them having been generic platformers with updated graphics and, […]

#748 Crackdown

Posted: 11th August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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170th played so far Genre: Adventure/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Realtime Worlds Publisher: Microsoft This is so strange. Whilst on the train to Brighton we were talking about the possibly upcoming Sony answer to Super Smash Bros. and what characters would be included and we got onto the topic […]

#334 Final Furlong, #269 Puzzle Bobble

Posted: 7th August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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As you have undoubtedly noticed we are, once again, doing two ames in one post. We did this two months ago after trawling the arcades of Piccadilly Circus so what could that mean? It was a grey Saturday. Slightly chilly and there was some spits of rain in the afternoon… so of course this is […]

#114 Ikari Warriors

Posted: 3rd August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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167th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1986 Developer: SNK Publisher: Tradewest Do you know what this game signifies? We have now covered 1 in 6 games on the list! Woo! This is a bit of a mini landmark so it’s fair that this game is also a mini […]