Archive for July, 2011

73rd game played so far Genre: Action/RPG Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2003 Developer: The Game Designer’s Studio Publisher: Nintendo Before people wonder, no, this wasn’t the first or only Final Fantasy spin-off. Although I’m sure there’s others out there, two larger ones I remember preceeding this is the Gameboy Final Fantasy Adventure, which reflected […]

New server and URL!

Posted: 30th July 2011 by Jeroen in Uncategorized

Yes, we’ve gone ahead and done it. We got the domain, we got the server (well, I had it around anyway for other sites, but I might as well make more use for it) and we had the capabilities, so we moved the Pong and Beyond blog to our own server. We’ll still need to […]

#676 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Posted: 27th July 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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72nd game played so far Genre: Stealth Platform: Oh so many Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Just as soon as we had taken off our infra-red specs it is time for another stealth game to have its credentials checked out by us at Pong and Beyond. When it comes to the Splinter […]

71st game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami We’ve played a Metal Gear Solid game some time ago, and we saw it as a good stealth game… though with its flaws. Now we get to the third part (we’ll do number 2 another time), and […]

#30 Frogger

Posted: 19th July 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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70th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Konami Publisher: Sega Why did the frog cross the road? Because he wanted to get home from work. There’s premise of Frogger for you. Cross the road, avoiding cars, trucks, racing drivers, snakes, crocodiles and sinking in a river. It’s an […]

#805 Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure

Posted: 15th July 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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69th game played so far Genre: Adventure/Puzzle Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Another day, another Capcom game. Yet… we’re not bored yet. Gimme a high-five Capcom…*crickets*Fine, we’re never going to be invited to a game unveiling where we can rub shoulders with Capcom execs whilst we pocket the Hors d’oeurves […]

Those who know me, probably know that for the most part, I’m a PC gamer. Sure, I have my handheld games, and been doing more console gaming, but PC gaming is where I’ve started, PC games are the ones I own most of, and the PC is where I prefer to play. There are a […]

#671 Shadow of the Colossus

Posted: 11th July 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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68th game played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Team Ico Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment I will be completely honest here: this was a game I was hoping to save for a more landmarky sounding number. Instead here it is at lucky sixty-eight. Few games sit in the same […]

#573 F-Zero GX

Posted: 7th July 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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67th game played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Amusement Vision Ltd. Publisher: Nintendo So here we are. It’s been some time since we covered F-Zero X (although on 1001 games, the gap is still small). And so we return to the high-speed futuristic racing of the F-Zero world. The […]

#772 No More Heroes

Posted: 3rd July 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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66th game played so far Genre: Action/Fighting Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Marvelous Entertainment (JP), Rising Star Games (EU), Ubisoft (NA) When it comes to RPGs there is defining difference between those produced in the East and those from the West (as can be seen in our posts about Final […]