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Comment on #506 Jet Set Radio Future by #517 Panzer Dragoon Orta « Pong and Beyond

#517 Panzer Dragoon Orta « Pong and Beyond — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:02:10 +0000

[...] you believe this game is made by the same developers as the previous Jet Set Radio Future? Even odder, they’re also responsible for the upcoming, even other edutainment/survival [...]

Comment on #399 ChuChu Rocket by #506 Jet Set Radio Future « Pong and Beyond

#506 Jet Set Radio Future « Pong and Beyond — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:11:47 +0000

[...] I hate playing games out of order in this blog. It’s something we only do if we are unable to get an earlier game or if we are doing something special. So since we are doing X-Fest we are skipping over Jet Set Radio for now in favour of it’s sequel. Oh well, we’ll get to it in our next Dreamfest. [...]

Comment on #432 Baldur’s Gate II by #600 Def Jam: Fight for NY « Pong and Beyond

#600 Def Jam: Fight for NY « Pong and Beyond — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:16 +0000

[...] is something that we see a lot of in gaming; especially in Western RPGs like Mass Effect and Baldur‘s Gate. It is a bit rarer to see it be such a central element to a fighting game. I mean [...]

Comment on #159 Splatterhouse by #600 Def Jam: Fight for NY « Pong and Beyond

#600 Def Jam: Fight for NY « Pong and Beyond — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:00 +0000

[...] official, the drought of fighting games is now over. 50 games since we last covered one (Splatterhouse) and finally we doing our next one as part of X-Fest. The main reason for this is that as part of [...]

Comment on #504 Steel Battalion by #546 Midtown Madness 3 « Pong and Beyond

#546 Midtown Madness 3 « Pong and Beyond — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:41:49 +0000

[...] you know, we had to obtain an Xbox a while ago to go with our Steel Battalion controller. We didn’t make much use of it since, but knew we’d need it for the games [...]

Comment on #886 Fieldrunners by #124 Thrust « Pong and Beyond

#124 Thrust « Pong and Beyond — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:01:04 +0000

[...] when you realise that a defense tower is firing at you (it sucks being on the other side of the Fieldrunners fence). Only one in the first level – more in later ones – but enough to make it [...]

Comment on #41 Mr Do! by #43 Xevious « Pong and Beyond

#43 Xevious « Pong and Beyond — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:01:20 +0000

[...] of influential. (Something that may not apply to all games of such an age. Who remembers Dig Dug or Mr. Do?) But does it still hold [...]

Comment on #871 Wipeout HD by #608 Ridge Racer « Pong and Beyond

#608 Ridge Racer « Pong and Beyond — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:01:00 +0000

[...] what’s special about it before playing it. Similar things have been previously said about Wipeout HD, F-Zero GX and probably about the ghost scene in the second Matrix [...]

Comment on #494 Uplink by #636 Darwinia « Pong and Beyond

#636 Darwinia « Pong and Beyond — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:01:11 +0000

[...] time ago – about two years by now, in fact – we covered a lovely game called Uplink. Interesting in its own way, it was a hacking simulation, in a way that felt like it emphasised [...]

Comment on In the interest of full disclosure… by #532 Eve Online « Pong and Beyond

#532 Eve Online « Pong and Beyond — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:02:01 +0000

[...] Online is an odd game. As I mentioned, I often speak with people who know a thing or two about video games, and today the subject of Eve Online happened to come up. An article about someone who lost over [...]