Archive for October, 2012

#886 Fieldrunners

Posted: 30th October 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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190th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Subatomic Studios Publisher: Subatomic Studios Game 200 really feels incredibly close now. I can’t quite believe that are now reaching that 20% or 1-in-5. The whole idea that in little under two years we have reached such a milestone. One type of […]

#159 Splatterhouse

Posted: 26th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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189th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Rounding off our stint of games from 1986-1990 is a rather different title which is a cross between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombies Ate Our Neighbours. Unlike any of the fighting games we have encountered during this blog […]

#112 Kid Icarus

Posted: 22nd October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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188th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Some fifteen years ago, I first watched the Captain N TV series. They were, as you can imagine, awesome for the time – here was a hero who used a NES controller to get special powers and who fought […]

#151 Wizball

Posted: 18th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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187th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Sensible Software Publisher: Ocean Software Continuing our run of “wow we’re getting close to 200 games… we need to play more pre-1990 games” we are taking on Wizball. It is our eventual hope that we will play so many of […]

#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 […]

185th played so far Genre: Pinball Platform: Various Year of Release: 1992 Developer: Digital Illusions CE Publisher: 21st Century Entertainment These days, pinball games are more or less a thing of the past. There might be a handful out there in casual games, but by and large, the industry has moved on. It’s not hard […]

#653 Guitar Hero

Posted: 6th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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184th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Harmonix Publisher: RedOctane Time for a slight step back. We’ve played Beatles: Rock Band before, as well as played something from the same series through DJ Hero. Now it’s back to the game that (mostly) started this whole plastic instrument craze… […]

#336 Beatmania

Posted: 2nd October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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183rd played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Music games started out in the arcade. I think we can all agree on this since all the home peripherals that we have grown to love (by storing them on top of a wardrobe alongside that dragon kite you […]