Archive for June, 2012

#9 Galaxian

Posted: 28th June 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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158th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco So here we go – game one of what I’ve unofficially dubbed our weekend of shoot ’em ups. We’ve got lots of them to do for the blog, and many are fairly quick and straight forward, so […]

#919 Flower

Posted: 24th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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157th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: thatgamecompany Publisher: Sony I don’t like downloadable games. This may make me a hypocrite since I laughed myself silly whilst playing Pain but I am still not convinced about XBLA, WiiWare and PSN. Still when there is a sale on and […]

Beware The New List

Posted: 22nd June 2012 by Mulholland in Uncategorized

Like the swords of Damocles there is a grim spectre hanging over this blog called the revised edition of 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. If you keep a finger on the pulse of gaming (or just read a lot of gaming websites and magazines) then it is easy to see which […]

#821 Buzz!: Quiz TV

Posted: 20th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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156th played so far Genre: Party Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Relentless Software Publisher: Sony Our quest to fill our closet with gaming peripherals will have to end at some point… but not today! In our eBay purchase of Buzz! Quiz TV we have become the proud owners of a set of […]

#377 Grim Fandango

Posted: 16th June 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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155th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1998 Developer: LucasArts Publisher: LucasArts Manuel Calavera (Manny) does not have a good life. He’s dead, first of all, but that’s not exactly a major worry. Following some bad decisions during life, he now has a depth to pay off to make up for […]

#140 Oids

Posted: 12th June 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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154th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Atari ST/Mac Year of Release: 1987 Developer: FTL Publisher: FTL Now then, back to simpler times. Oids is not one of the oldest games, but we are now going back to the Atari days (a platform we hadn’t touched yet). There’s not much to it – […]

#601 Ninja Gaiden

Posted: 8th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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153rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Tecmo People tend to moan about how games have been getting easier when compared to many of the games released in the eighties and early nineties. To be fair this is a fair comment with save points being mostly […]

#526 Grow

Posted: 4th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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152nd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Eyezmaze Publisher: Self-Published Right, so when we look at The Path we did so to include an independant title after a series of rather commercial titles… today’s game was chosen because we were sat watching a recorded episode of Dirk Gently and […]