Arcade beat ’em ups of the past – Double Dragon
Technos’ Renegade in 1986 could be a tough game to warm up to in the arcade. In my case, I didn’t particularly like my experience with it as much as […]
Technos’ Renegade in 1986 could be a tough game to warm up to in the arcade. In my case, I didn’t particularly like my experience with it as much as […]
This arcade classic from Konami released in 1982 combined the thrills of treasure hunting and survival into a horizontal, side scrolling action game. It was apparently supposed to be called […]
The BBC reports that the Internet Archive is taking a huge step towards preserving more of gaming’s distant past, this time in the form of the Console Living Room. Using […]
As cool and as retro as Atari VCS/2600 games are, not all of them were super great. Some stood out for their simple challenge while others could actually be pretty […]
Westwood wasn’t the first, or the last, studio to diversify its library of games. Though it was well known for Command & Conquer, it dabbled with action RPGs via its […]
The final chapter in the Fiends and Fables adventure trilogy from Westwood arrived in 1994 without a lot of fanfare. From what I can remember back then, the third game […]
Westwood’s reputation as a defining force in RTS games has obscured the other things that they have done outside of mining for spice on Dune or directing the next battle […]
The sequel to Westwood’s Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos wouldn’t come out until four years later in 1997. A lot of things have also happened since then in […]
As the Gold Box series wrapped things up in 1992, SSI readied its next “big series” with a new engine and a post-apocalyptic world of high fantasy on disk or […]
SSI began wrapping up a number of its CRPG stories based around TSR’s fantasy worlds in 1992, party because the engine driving their famous Gold Box titles was starting to […]