Archive for May, 2014

#176 Stunt Car Racer

Posted: 28th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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336th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Various Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Microstyle Publisher: Microprose/Microplay Now is the time for us to make another random pick from the slowly shrinking list of games. After a few re-rolls (since we still do not have access to every game on this list) we happen across a […]

#11 Battlezone

Posted: 24th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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335th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari In our attempts to also get through the list more or less in order, Battle Zone comes next – and with it a jump to the next decade. From now on, the seventies are (more or less) […]

334th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Playstation 3/Playstation Portable/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2010 Developer: EA Montreal/Buzz Monkey Publisher: Electronic Arts After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we waned to try some of them, we […]

#831 Fallout 3

Posted: 20th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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333th played so far Genre: Action/Role-Playing Platform: PC/Playstation 3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Bethseda Publisher: Bethseda Sometimes, a game comes along that intersects both of our gaming preferences perfectly (or did, as it was already released by the time we met). Me, a hardcore RPG lover who includes Fallout amongst the games he […]

#191 Super Mario Bros. 3

Posted: 16th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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332nd played so far Genre: Platform Platform: NES Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo So we’re back now to what is unambiguously the third (platform) Mario game. Released nearer to the end of the lifetime of the NES, it became one of the best-selling games ever – the highest grossing non-bundled game in […]

#965: Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

Posted: 12th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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331th played so far Genre: Action Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Tiger Style Publisher: Tiger Style Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor has been on our list of games to write about for a while now. Within weeks of getting an iPad and getting the iOS games, Peter had started playing it – […]

#881 Trism

Posted: 10th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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330th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: iPhone Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Demiforce Publisher: Demiforce After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we waned to try some of them, we decided to still play these twelve, but with […]

329th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2012 Developer: thatgamecompany Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Journey is one of those games where everything seemed to have come together. We played Flowerย  some time ago, which was a great game with admirable effect. Journey had the same developers and was getting rave […]

#887 Mega Man 9

Posted: 6th May 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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328th played so far Genre: Platform/Action Platform: Playstation 3/XBox 360/Wii Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we waned to try some of them, we decided to still play these twelve, […]

327th played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2011 Developer: Level-5/Studio Ghibli Publisher: Level-5/Namco Bandai Yeah, that’s a game number beyond 1001 up there. As discussed about six months ago, the second edition of the book added 20 new games to the list (and removing 20 others). Real time finally catching […]