205th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito There are times that we (okay mostly me in this case at least) see a game in this book which intrigues us to the point that we really want to play. Nothing interesting there right? Well this game has […]
Archive for December, 2012
#162 The NewZealand Story
Posted: 29th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1988, platform, taito, Various
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#983 Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Posted: 25th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, adventure, DS, Level-5, nintendo, puzzle
204th played so far Genre: Adventure/Puzzle Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Level-5 Publisher: Nintendo First of all, merry Christmas to all our readers! We hope you have a great time with family, friends or other people you want to spend time with, and that your presents were good (and filled with great video […]
#894 Assassin’s Creed II
Posted: 21st December 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2009, action, adventure, pc, playstation 3, ubisoft, xbox 360
203rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft The way we find out about games can really vary depending on the person and the game itself. It may be a magazine, a billboard poster or a meme depicting a gang of chicks […]
#403 Ferrari F355 Challenge
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, arcade, dreamcast, driving, sega
202nd played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega So a few months ago (at the time you read this, that is), we went to Disneyland Paris. A nice diversion that turned out to be an amazing time off. The stories about that are for another time, but […]
#992 Time Gentlemen, Please!
Posted: 13th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, adventure, pc, zombie cow studios
201st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Zombie Cow Studios Here’s a difference: We pretty much stopped this time not because we were done with the game, but because we wanted to play it seperately. We got a good idea of what the game was like… but are excited […]
With Jeroen’s summary post looking back over the previous 50 I guess it is apt that I look to the future for when we reach our next big landmark of 250 games… or 25%! Well, we have jumped around a lot between games and for the next 50 we are going to have more of […]
Fifty more games since our last summary post. Wow. For those keeping track, we’ve now played and written about 200 games for this blog, so we’ve done one in five games – looking at the book we made it from 1971 to 1991. Here, we’ve randomly jumped around and created patches and connected sections… the […]
#455 The Sims
Posted: 9th December 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2000, life simulation, maxis, pc
200th played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: PC Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Maxis Publisher: Electronic Arts Guess what? We’ve reached the stage where we can now say that we have reached the point of having covered one game in every five! Also known as 20% this is such a landmark where it now […]
#281 Worms
Posted: 5th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, action, ocean software, Strategy, team17, Various
199th played so far Genre: Action/Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Team17 Publisher: Ocean Software Show me someone who had a PC between the years 1995-2001 and you will have someone that has played Worms or at least one of the franchise. It’s going to be pretty hard to write this since everyone […]
#368 Dance Dance Revolution
Posted: 1st December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, arcade, konami, music
198th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Okay, so the original Dance Dance Revolution wasn’t exactly released outside of Japan. Instead we in the UK got a game called Dancing Stage. As a kid I had the first home release of a DDR game called Dance […]