Archive for February, 2011

#343 Final Fantasy VII

Posted: 26th February 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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33rd game played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: Playstation 1 Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Square-Enix Publisher: Sony Final Fantasy is quite possibly the biggest RPG franchise known to man at this point in time. The game was named that because, when the first game was created, Square took a gamble by making it. […]

#492 SSX Tricky

Posted: 23rd February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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32nd game played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Playstation 2, Gamcube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance Year of Release: 2001 Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports BIG Multitasking is considered by some to be the spice of life, this is especially so with this blog. At any one time we typically have 2-3 games on the […]

R.I.P. XBox 360 2006-2011

Posted: 23rd February 2011 by Mulholland in Goodbye
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To anyone who is reading this I really ask for there to be no judgement about how bad this news made me feel. The loss of a console really should not have reduced me to tears but it really felt like the passing of something really important to me. Probably would acquaint to the similar […]

#454 The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Posted: 20th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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31st game played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo There are certain gaming series that have a large number of games on the 1001 list. So far we have made a sizeable dent in the Mario games (although to be honest there is a hell of […]

#431 Perfect Dark

Posted: 17th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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30th game played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Okay we’re going for a bit of a Rare overdose but we promise that this is the last of their games which we will be covering for a while. Maybe… Perfect Dark was originally released […]

#364 Banjo-Kazooie

Posted: 14th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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29th game played so far Genre: Platformer Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Whilst Goldeneye 007 may be Rare’s most famous and highly rated game I think it is fair to say that Banjo-Kazooie may be the epitome of what makes a Rare game. It’s cute cartoon visuals and wide […]

#416 Planescape: Torment

Posted: 11th February 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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28th game played so far Genre: RPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Black Isle Studios Publisher: Interplay Entertainment Vigilant readers of this blog may have realised that the last six games that we covered were all exclusively found on a Nintendo-made console. As you can probably guess we both felt the need for […]

#305 Mario Kart 64

Posted: 8th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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27th game played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo As we know, Mario loves his racing, and he loves racing with his friends. After doing so for the first time on the SNES, he returns on the Nintendo 64 with full 3D tracks, more options and […]

#326 Super Mario 64

Posted: 5th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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26th game played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Heads. I won. It’s time for a little bit of Super Mario 64. Yeah, and I don’t mind. The first real Mario 3D game. The game that moved it from a 2D platformer to a 3D action […]

#345 Goldeneye 007

Posted: 2nd February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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25th game played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release:1997 Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo The latest in a long line of classics (thanks again Kat) that are covering in this blog. Goldeneye 007 is the first of a rather select few of movie tie-in games that we will be featuring […]