Archive for June, 2015

436th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1997 Developer: LucasArts Publisher: LucasArts  An FPS set in the Star Wars universe? The two seem made for each other. Let’s just do this. Our Thoughts While it often makes sense to unlock your powers one step at a time, giving you a […]

#28 Venture

Posted: 24th June 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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435th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Exidy Publisher: Exidy Time for a short diversion to another early game. Venture isn’t the first dungeon crawler we covered – Eamon, Rogue and Adventure came before, as did arguably Zork and MUD. Venture, however, is the first arcade one on the list, and […]

434th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Monolith Productions Publisher: Sierra Entertainment Spy movies can make for good games, especially with a nice bit of shooting – as we’ve seen in Goldeneye 007 before. Some shooting, but also plenty of reasons to explore, look in out of the […]

433rd played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Croteam Publisher: Gathering of Developers/Gotham Games Time to play a few first-person shooters! We’ve been falling behind a bit and it’s time we play some more. It’s odd that we are – we generally find them enjoy (even if not always […]

#70 Elite

Posted: 12th June 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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432nd played so far Genre: Strategy/Shoot Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1984 Developer: David Braben and Ian Bell Publisher: Acornsoft This isn’t actually the first time Elite has popped up for us to play on the blog – we tried to do so before, but got stuck and felt we needed a manual. […]

#209 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

Posted: 8th June 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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431st played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Interplay Publisher: Interplay The Star Trek TV series is a surprising resilient science fiction series – between tv series, movies and recent revivals it has been around for 49 years now (at the time of writing). And as beloved as it is […]

#461 Final Fantasy X

Posted: 4th June 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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430th played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Square Publisher: Square It feels wrong to write this. Final Fantasy X is one of Peter’s favourite games – the reason we’re playing this is in part because he got the HD remake for Christmas – and I’m not sure I […]