Archive for May, 2013

#862 Top Spin 3

Posted: 30th May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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243rd played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Various Year of Release: 2008 Developer: PAM Development Publisher: 2K Sports To be honest, I’m not sure whether I’m entirely qualified to participate in today’s write-up, for similar reasons as why I felt my input on Sega Rally Championship were ‘invaluable’. Peter’s mother is a big fan (tennis […]

#587 Everquest 2

Posted: 26th May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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242nd played so far Genre: MMORPG Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Sony Online Entertainment Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment Sequels are fairly common in videogames – if a formula works, why not tweak it and try again? As a lot of engine work and assets can be reused, it can even be cheaper, or […]

#517 Panzer Dragoon Orta

Posted: 22nd May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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241th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Smilebit Publisher: Sega Would you believe this game is made by the same developers as the previous Jet Set Radio Future? Even odder, they’re also responsible for the upcoming, even other edutainment/survival horror Typing of the Dead. Even more depressing […]

#506 Jet Set Radio Future

Posted: 18th May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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240th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Smilebit Publisher: Sega I hate playing games out of order in this blog. It’s something we only do if we are unable to get an earlier game or if we are doing something special. So since we are doing X-Fest we are […]

239th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: PS2/Gamecube/Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: AKI Corporation, EA Canada Publisher: Electronic Arts It’s official, the drought of fighting games is now over. 50 games since we last covered one (Splatterhouse) and finally we doing our next one as part of X-Fest. The main reason for this is […]

238th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Digital Illusions CE Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios As you know, we had to obtain an Xbox a while ago to go with our Steel Battalion controller. We didn’t make much use of it since, but knew we’d need it for the games […]

#124 Thrust

Posted: 6th May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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237th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Jeremy Smith Publisher: Superior Software Now for a return to old style gaming. Games have for a long time tried to mix realism into their gameplay. Early on, Asteroids introduced inertia and related space flight to the games, and Lunar […]

#43 Xevious

Posted: 2nd May 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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236th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco There is a big argument for doing games in strictly chronological order, that way we can see exactly who did what first and who influenced whom. Xevious is the earliest example of a vertical shooting game that […]