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From the pages of the past, games of yesteryear – Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant, and the cloudy end of Sir-Tech

April 27, 2013by Reggie C. Leave a comment

No one could have guessed that the ending to the trilogy started in Bane of the Cosmic Forge would arrive nine years after the release of Wizardry VII: Crusaders of […]

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From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Duke Nukem 3D

December 12, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Sixteen years after he had made his 3D debut in DOS and twenty one years after his 2D platforming debut in his first game, Good Old Games is offering up […]

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From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Twilight 2000

November 29, 2012by Reggie C. 3 Comments

Twilight 2000 was a tabletop RPG that had first arrived in 1984 from Game Designers’ Workshop whose library consisted of a number of notable classics such as MegaTraveller, Cadillacs and […]

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From the PC of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Realms of the Haunting

October 31, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

It’s 1997 and Interplay was a year away from entering the stock market with its own IPO, albeit to help drum up funding in order to shore up future projects […]

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From the PCs of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Waxworks

October 30, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Horror Soft in the UK was a rare kind of label back in the early 90s. Catering exclusively to horror-themed games, they tried to fill in a niche that few […]

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From the Sierra of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

October 26, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Horror adventures are still few and far between. Convincingly chilling forays into the psychological monsters and physical threats of danger that are hallmarks of the genre are not often as […]

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From the pages of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Ravenloft: Stone Prophet

October 18, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Published only for DOS PCs in 1995 by SSI, a year after Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession, this CD-ROM only sequel took players once more into TSR’s gothic horror themed setting. This […]

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From the pages of the past! Horror from yesteryear – Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession

October 18, 2012by Reggie C. 1 Comment

TSR went through a Renaissance of ideas in the early nineties as it unleashed a blitzkrieg of IP into comics, novels, and new worlds, something that SSI was keen to […]

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Dishonored is old-school fun

October 17, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Loved this game. A lot. Reminded me much of the old Thief games from Looking Glass back in the day. If you play it like Garrett did in the City, […]

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From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Veil of Darkness

October 17, 2012by Reggie C. Leave a comment

SSI’s reputation for CRPGs and tactical wargames didn’t make it an obvious go-to name for horror which makes their publication of 1993′s Veil of Darkness a surprise. This came out […]

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