From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – The Terminator
Bethesda, the dev house best known today for their epic sandbox RPGs with their Elder Scrolls series, had been dabbling with the idea of wide open worlds for nearly as […]
Bethesda, the dev house best known today for their epic sandbox RPGs with their Elder Scrolls series, had been dabbling with the idea of wide open worlds for nearly as […]
Currently hooked on Borderlands 2. Love what they’ve done with it so far, but I’m really early in so I can’t say anymore than that. I’m playing as Maya the […]
A year later, Origin’s sequel to Crusader: No Remorse in 1996 arrived to spread more ultra violence in space. Lots of new weapons and effects were packed in such as […]
Origin’s Crusader: No Remorse hit CD-ROM only shelves in 1995 for PCs and was, in many ways, a bold experiment in pushing the envelope. As Tony Zurovec notes in an […]
The art actually came from the box set of the “Classic” Dungeons & Dragons boardgame version released in 1994. An earlier version, with a different dragon but similar arrangement (sans […]
The late eighties and early nineties saw an explosion of AD&D licensed video games as computer game developer, SSI, reaped the benefits via its series of “Gold Box” RPGs. These […]
From games like On-Line Systems’ Pac Man clone, Jawbreaker, Micromax’s Q*bert ripoff, Cubit, and AI Adventure’s take on Frogger with Preppie!, you might get the impression that making clones of […]
Gaiapolis, Entopous, or “Gaiapolis – Koganedaka no Ken” (Gaiapolis – Sword of the Hawk) as it was known in Japan, is something of a quiet, relatively unheard of arcade classic […]
Because of hardware limitations back in the day, developers found many creative ways to try and cram their games with as much content as possible while working under them. In […]
It’s hard to remember what memory expansion options were like the further back we go, but peeking through the mags of the eighties has really opened my eyes on what […]