Time traveling tactics from the past – Rescue Raiders
RTS games today often trace their roots back to famous titles such as Westwood’s Dune II or Command & Conquer, but their history could arguably be pushed a bit further […]
RTS games today often trace their roots back to famous titles such as Westwood’s Dune II or Command & Conquer, but their history could arguably be pushed a bit further […]
There have been some decent movie tie-ins and a lot of really bad ones. But years before Mavis Beacon started to teach typing to PC users and a decade and […]
Time travel has always been a tricky subject for any system to tackle from PnP RPG systems to computer games. Many often used it as a simplified wrapper to wow […]
One of Capcom’s big hits during the 80s was a vertically scrolling shooter called 1942 set in the Pacific Theater of WW2 starting from Midway and ending in Tokyo. In […]
Considered by many to be one of the godfathers of hacker movies, WarGames, dramatically introduced a generation of moviegoers to the power of the computer. Instead of an action hero, […]
Most people may not have heard of Will Harvey, but he was responsible for one or two iconic games from the 80s that everyone knew such as Atari’s Marble Madness. […]
The mock up above wasn’t in the game, but the screenshots revealed a look that later space sims would often use as the de facto cockpit view. Ray Tobey’s Skyfox, […]
Infocom stood as one of the giants of interactive fiction during the eighties. The ad above from 1984 was perfectly accurate — the best graphics were in the heads of […]
David Crane’s sequel to Pitfall, which he also worked on, had the worst release timing. It arrived in 1984 in the midst of the “Video Game Crash”. But like the […]
Danger Mouse was a fantastic cartoon series from the UK that spoofed spy stuff like James Bond with its animal characters who took on the same roles. The title character […]