352nd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Oldie time! The very plain and boring reason we’re playing this today is that we were going through the book, updating our checks on games we’ve covered, and we accidentally went one too far and checked Missile […]
Archive for July, 2014
#14 Missile Command
Posted: 31st July 2014 by Jeroen in UncategorizedTags: 1980, arcade, atari, shoot 'em up
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#861 PixelJunk Monsters
Posted: 27th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2008, double eleven, playstation 3, q-games, scea, scee, Strategy
351st played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PlayStation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Q-Games/Double Eleven Publisher: Q-Games/SCEA/SCEE For the first game of another fifty, we go back to another indie(-ish) title. Based on just what I remember coming across the name occasionally, I keep wanting to mistype it PixelHunt Monsters – it was originally […]
If I am being honest my heart has not exactly been in this blog for the last 50. I have had such a turbulent time of it that there are a number of games where I just watched them being played rather than playing them myself since I had so much work to do in […]
Woo! 350! Another batch of games done! And it’s been eventful – during this fifty we found out a new edition of the book had been released and we have to scramble to see how we can deal with this. Still, adding twenty games to the total project (with only 12 more obsoleted games to […]
#389 Starcraft
Posted: 23rd July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, Blizzard Entertainment, pc, Strategy
350th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Here we are – another fifty games done! And on my pick, I decided to go for pure indulgence (although it made sense for the stats too). We’ve enjoyed Warcraft II before (I did at least) and […]
#302 Duke Nukem 3D
Posted: 19th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1996, 3D Realms, first person shooter, gt interactive, pc
349th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1996 Developer: 3D Realms Publisher: GT Interactive The Duke is in the house baby! If, like me, you’re a PC gamer of a certain age you’ll probably have heard of this game. It’s not as multiplayer famous as Doom and the like, the […]
#260 Doom II: Hell On Earth
Posted: 15th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, first person shooter, gt interactive, id software, Various
348th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1994 Developer: id Software Publisher: GT Interactive We have (obviously) played Doom before, the granddaddy of all other FPS games. Not the first perhaps, but the first that made it Big and put LAN multiplayer on the map. The second was released not […]
#1001 Alien Zombie Death
Posted: 11th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2010, pompom games, psp, shoot 'em up
347th played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: PSP Year of Release: 2010 Developer: PomPom Games Publisher: PomPom Games 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 wanted to try some of them, we decided to still play […]
#142 Maniac Mansion
Posted: 7th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1987, adventure, lucasfilm games, Various
346th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Lucasfilm Games Publisher: Lucasfilm Games It’s no big secret on this blog that I enjoy the Lucasfilm adventures, especially the later ones – Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max hit the Road, Grim Fandango and so on, and I’m […]
#265 Little Big Adventure
Posted: 3rd July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, action, adeline software international, adventure, electronic arts, pc
345th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Adeline Software International Publisher: Electronic Arts For me, Little Big Adventure has been a game I’ve been curious about, but not too excited with. For Peter, well… Little Big Adventureย is one of my first gaming memories. Cool Spot will always be the […]