Game 7: NHL ’96 (Electronic Arts, 1995)
Ice Cream Jonsey I have a treadmill in front of my television and have learned that a full game of NHL 23 for the Playstation 4 is about 36 minutes. Walking that while…
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Game 5: Vyrzon (Minsoft, 2023)
The Vectrex homebrew scene is crushing it. Look at the box that Vyrzon arrives in! It’s gorgeous. It would not be out of place in the 1980s. The first versions…
Game 4: Aquatron (Sierra On-Line, 1984)
Aquatron (Atari 8-bit 1983, Apple // 1984) is a bit like Defender, although with a slow enough pace that you can survive on the screen for a while. These days,…
Game 3: Silent Hill 2 Remake (Capcom, 2024)
Silent Hill 2 created sympathy for the protagonist we would be playing by painting him as a desperate anti-intellectual that responded to a single piece of mail stating that his…
Game 2: Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Muse Software, 1985)
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple, C64 and Atari 8-bit for 1984, IBM PC in 1985) You know how Michael Jordan was not part of the NBA’s player association licensing deals, and therefore…
Game 1: Adventure (Atari, 1980)
Let’s talk about a brutal game that still holds up!
The Top 50 Games of the Decade on Caltrops
I am writing for a project that looks at the top 50 games, as selected and gently encouraged by the posters of Caltrops.com. There’s a couple pieces left to the…
Resident Evil 7 review on Caltrops
I wrote a review to the opener of Resident Evil 7 over on Caltrops. If you like the sort of thing a chap like myself writes, you may find it…
Pit of the Condemned (2015, Inform)
I wrote a review of Pit of the Condemned, a fun little number in last year’s IF Comp, on Emily Short’s blog. Check it out here.
Lode Runner
Douglas E. Smith has died. This news was broken by people at Tozai Games, who handle the mobile platform ports of his game. The news was picked up by the…