Posts Tagged ‘1990’

#179 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

Posted: 20th March 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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411th played so far Genre: Sports/Action Platform: Amiga Year of Release: 1990 Developer: The Bitmap Brothers Publisher: Image Works The Speedball series (two entries) is a sports game. Not, as the genre often implies, a sports game that is played on fields around the world right now, but instead a futuristic setup that works in […]

#188 Dr. Mario

Posted: 8th March 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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408th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Sure, Mario has had many jobs through the years, but I suppose his employment as a doctor is probably more known to people through Super Smash Bros appearances than anyone who have played the game. Even when playing Warioware […]

#183 Pilotwings

Posted: 24th August 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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358th played so far Genre: Flight Simulator Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo SNES fest! I do love obsessively playing a run of games from one console. After Monkey Island, today we turn to Pilotwings. Again a game from my youth, although not as major as Monkey Island, I remember playing […]

#178 The Secret of Monkey Island

Posted: 20th August 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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357th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Lucasfilm Games Publisher: LucasArts Woo! Monkey Island! Maniac Mansion, our last Lucasarts game, wasn’t as much of a success, but I love Monkey Island and have fond memories of the swordfighting in this game being quoted at each other in school (it […]

#191 Super Mario Bros. 3

Posted: 16th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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332nd played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo So we’re back now to what is unambiguously the third (platform) Mario game. Released nearer to the end of the lifetime of the NES, it became one of the best-selling games ever – the highest grossing non-bundled game in […]

#187 Bomberman

Posted: 5th July 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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252nd played so far Genre: Action Platform: PC Engine Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Okay, yes, I’ve played Bomberman games before. But those were later games – in particular the SNES version. I’ve never had a chance to play the original. As that’s the version listed this time, that’s what […]

#194 Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon

Posted: 26th January 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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212th played so far Genre: Management Simulation Platform: PC Year of Release: 1990 Developer: MicroProse Publisher: MicroProse A disadvantage of looking at statistics when determining games to play is that there are genres where we have to wait a long time before we feel (statistically) able to play them. Due to a missed connection over […]

#190 John Madden Football

Posted: 14th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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186th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Mega Drive Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Park Place Production Team Publisher: EA Sports The Madden NFL series is one of the longer running sports series, bringing out yearly installments since 1990 – it started in 1988, but skipped 1989. We’ll be covering the last installment in the […]

#189 Columns

Posted: 19th December 2010 by Mulholland in Games
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10th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega This is a game from my youth here. My first console was a Sega Mega Drive and Columns was one of the first games that I had on it (alongside Cool Spot and Sonic […]