Archive for October, 2014

#246 UFO: Enemy Unknown

Posted: 31st October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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375th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Various Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Mythos Games/Microprose Publisher: Microprose Another ‘ancient memory’ game for me – like The Legend of Zelda a few days ago, another game where I remember playing with a friend, mostly looking over their shoulder as they proved superior with it. Recently remade […]

#128 The Legend of Zelda

Posted: 27th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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374th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: NES Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Wow, it’s been a while since we last played a Legend of Zelda game – nearly 300 games ago, in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords of Adventure. This is some combination of wanting to keep the number okay […]

373rd played so far Genre: Puzzle/Platform Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Media Molecule Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Here’s a game with a bit of a history for us. We’ve been looking at writing up LittleBigPlanet for some time now, as we obtained it soon after Peter got his Playstation 3. For […]

#15 Rogue

Posted: 19th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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372nd played so far Genre: Strategy/Role-Playing Platform: Various Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, Ken Arnold, Jon Lane Here’s to a game that’s probably named and referenced by a group of people several orders of magnitude larger than have actually played it. As we discussed with Nethack, roguelikes are an old genre, […]

#726 OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

Posted: 15th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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371st played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Sumo Digital Publisher: SEGA We really need to play more racing games. We enjoy the more ‘manic’ ones like Mario Kart, but have less of an affinity for more realistic games. Sort of enjoyable when we get into them, but not something […]

#174 Prince of Persia

Posted: 11th October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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370th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Broderbund Publisher: Broderbund Prince of Persia is a familiar title. I remember playing it on our old PC, back in the days, for some time unable to play it properly as the shift-key on the keyboard didn’t work – some cheating was […]

369th played so far Genre: Stealth Platform: Various Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Ubisoft Shanghai Publisher: Ubisoft When we think of stealth games the first thing that comes across out mind is Metal Gear Solid and the fact that very early in our blog we managed to cover five of them in pretty quick succession. […]

#51 Chuckie Egg

Posted: 3rd October 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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368th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: A&F Software Publisher: A&F Software Chuckie Egg, although not actually related, looks similar to Manic Miner, the predecessor of the not-that-interesting Bounty Bob Strikes Back. The point here appears to be to collect eggs instead of walking over floors and collect eggs. […]