Posts Tagged ‘atari’

#82 Paperboy

Posted: 11th November 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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465th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari A bit of a step down, isn’t it? After the complex and intricate Dwarf Fortress, building a mine and getting a city going, we now go slightly simpler… we’re delivering papers. Paperboy is an older game that just seems […]

#33 Gravitar

Posted: 6th October 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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461st played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Back in time again, we’re grabbing one of our old shoot ’em ups to cross off some old games. Gravitar comes from Atari’s stable and runs with what seems like vector graphics. Without any other reference, we’d […]

#58 Crystal Castles

Posted: 24th September 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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458th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari These isometric games don’t work well for me. I’m not sure why, but there’s a series of games like Crystal Castles (several of which are yet to come) that I just dread. The controls are awkward, the action simple […]

#22 Centipede

Posted: 24th February 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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405th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari There are some games, such as today’s game Centipede, that always stayed a bit nebulous to me. I had seen in come by on floppy disks a long time ago, but don’t recall ever playing it. I’m not […]

#21 Warlords

Posted: 2nd December 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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384th played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Today’s game is the third shoot ’em up in a row… and the third we’re using to finish some of the earliest games. We wanted to catch up a bit on our stats and knock off some […]

#16 Tempest

Posted: 24th November 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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382nd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Flashback time! We played the sequel of this game before, as Tempest 2000. Familiarity may occur. Our Thoughts With our other memorable remake, the rather deplorable and (to us) unnecessary Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, we […]

#14 Missile Command

Posted: 31st July 2014 by Jeroen in Uncategorized
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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 […]

#8 Asteroids

Posted: 22nd April 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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324th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Some games are so well-known, they require no introduction. Our Thoughts I mean, do I really need to describe Asteroids? Line graphics, little ship that rotates and moves ahead, firing at rocks to split and destroy them. […]

#10 Lunar Lander

Posted: 17th February 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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308th played so far Genre: Flight Simulator Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Going back in time almost as far as we can go, Lunar Lander is one of the last remaining games of the seventies that we have to cover. Its premise? Simple. Land a lunar lander on the moon […]

#945 Race Pro

Posted: 25th December 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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295th played so far Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: SimBin Publisher: Atari There’s not much more I can continue to say about these racers, to be honest. Car. Race on track. All sorts of classes and types. And supposed to be very realistic. Go! Our Thoughts Here’s the problem with […]