Archive for April, 2014

326th played so far Genre: Action/First-Person Shooter Platform: PS3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Starbreeze Studios Publisher: 2K Games I’ll be honest – there are games that I’ve forgotten are on the list at all. I had that experience recently (for me) as I was setting up things in preparation for the second edition […]

#766 Hexic 2

Posted: 26th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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325th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Carbonated Games Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios We haven’t really played many puzzle games lately, have we? Especially pure puzzle games. We had Scribblenauts recently, but that’s about it. It’s a stats thing really – we were getting a bit too far […]

#8 Asteroids

Posted: 22nd April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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324th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Some games are so well-known, they require no introduction. Our Thoughts I mean, do I really need to describe Asteroids? Line graphics, little ship that rotates and moves ahead, firing at rocks to split and destroy them. […]

#970 Scribblenauts

Posted: 18th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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323th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: 5th Cell Publisher: WB Games Now here’s a game we’ve been sitting on for a while. Scribblenauts was an early “you’ve got to try this” “Oh, I love it” shared experience between Peter and myself. We both got pretty far in. In […]

#509: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Posted: 14th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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322nd played so far Genre: Action/Role-Playing Platform: PC Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Bethseda Publisher: Bethseda Sometimes we pick up a game for this blog just as a present to ourselves. Yes, part of the reason we’re delving into Morrowind today is that it’s a stop on the way to playing Peter’s preference, Oblivion, but […]

#7 Adventure

Posted: 10th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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321st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: VCS Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Inc. Publisher: Atari Inc. I was actually already sort-of planning to follow Peter’s suggestion from Gradius, coming back to play games in order at least some of the time. The next game in order is Adventure, the first adventure game (and […]

#580 Cave Story

Posted: 6th April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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320th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Studio Pixel Publisher: Studio Pixel Following our recent few familiar games, today we move on to a smaller indie game. Cave Story feels like an unexpected entry on the list. Not a game I had heard of before the blog, it appears […]

#158 Super Mario Bros. 2

Posted: 2nd April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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319th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Speaking of old favourites – after Doom last time we now get another old favourite (although I’d dare say more mine than Peter’s this time). It’s the memories of our old NES, as well as the memories of playing […]