Happy Independence Day from the past – Liberty or Death
Koei’s roots didn’t start off with a game that allowed players to rage as third-person marauders during the Three Kingdoms period in China. They weren’t even a game company. Instead, […]
Koei’s roots didn’t start off with a game that allowed players to rage as third-person marauders during the Three Kingdoms period in China. They weren’t even a game company. Instead, […]
Cinemaware set out to dominate the eyeballs and imaginations of players with movie-like graphics and cinematics filling the moments in between shots of gameplay. Disks were labeled “reels” and were […]
Sir-tech seemed to be on the verge of appearing obsolete. Wizardry V, while it was fun, lacked some of the flashy aesthetics and mechanical advancements that seemed to leave its […]
I was a late bloomer when it came to the Ultima series having spent much of my CRPG time with The Bard’s Tale, Wasteland, Dragon Wars, and a few of […]
Richard “Lord British” Garriott was getting older, more experienced, and his games grew along with him. By the time Ultima IV arrived in 1985 after two years of development, he […]
Video games, like many entertainment mediums, are no strangers to controversy. But one thing that controversy has sometimes done, however, is provide free press for the material in question which […]
Origin’s Ultima Underworld rewrote what to expect in a CRPG when it arrived in 1992, raising the bar on interactive, virtual dungeons with massive levels perforated with materials of questing. […]
Released in 1992, Ultima Underworld set the CRPG world on fire when it arrived. Although first-person 3D dungeons were nothing new by the time it came out thanks to games […]
As one of the powerhouse publishers in computer gaming, Mindscape was as prolific as its rivals, EA and Activision, and until 2011, had a history nearly as long as either […]
If the Mayan apocalypse was going to involve giant monsters, Crush, Crumble, & Chomp would have been the primer to prepare people for the end — at least from the […]