Archive for January, 2011

#374 F-Zero X

Posted: 30th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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24th game played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo The best way to explain this game is as a fast futuristic racer where you need to be careful not to crash and burn, or fall down from the road. In other words, a faster, deadlier Mario […]

#352 Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars

Posted: 27th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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23rd game played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo DO A BARREL ROLL! *cough* Ahem. Sorry but the temptation was overwhelming. As I previously blogged on here we received a bumper crop of game from my good friend Kat (HI KAT!!!) so we are […]

Epic Acquisition of the Televisual Variety

Posted: 25th January 2011 by Mulholland in Acquisition
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Isn’t it beautiful! As you are likely to notice a change in the quality (or lack thereof) of our screenshots I thought it would be best to announce our brand new television. This was not an extreme impulse buy (maybe a little bit) since my previous television was at least 10 years old and it […]

#942 Little King’s Story

Posted: 24th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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22nd game played so far Genre: Strategy/RPG Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Cing Publisher:ย  JP/NA: Marvelous Entertainment, EU: Rising Star Games Following a rat through a hole, you end up in a magical kingdom where you are the king of the only kingdom in the world. Then it turns out there’s about eight […]

#657 Lego Star Wars

Posted: 21st January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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21st game played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Traveller’s Tales Publisher: Eidos Interactive/LucasArts It’s the game that came as a result of the accumulated wishes of every lonely child the union between the genius Lego toys with the now legendary Star Wars (the original trilogy… since the prequel trilogy […]

#818 Mario Kart Wii

Posted: 18th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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20th game played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Earlier we kinda made a pledge that if there was a series then we would cover them from the first game on the 1001 list… we may not have mentioned it on here but such a promise was […]

#507 Soulcalibur II

Posted: 15th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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19th game played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Various Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco It is with great pleasure that I introduce our first attempts at covering a fighting game! Being a long-time exponent of the fighting genre it was great to see so many included on the list itself, and there […]

#460 Animal Crossing

Posted: 12th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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18th game played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: Nintendo 64 and Gamecube Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Something that every game wants to tap into is that addiction centre of the brain. As I mentioned/ranted about in a recent post the games that work best are those that reward at random […]

#810 Audiosurf

Posted: 9th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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17th game played so far Genre: Puzzle/Music Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Dylan Fitterer Publisher: Steam (online), Ascaron (hard-copy) Many games have been released that have tried to capitalise on visualisations of music. We will be covering a bunch of these later on but Audiosurf already does something that they can not; create […]

#494 Uplink

Posted: 6th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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16th game played so far Genre: Simulation Platform: PC Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Introversion Software Publisher: Introversion Software Ever wanted to feel like one of those hackers in the movies? Well now you can in Uplink; a hacking simulation which was the first release by the UK-based company Introversion Software. Whilst I am personally […]