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Retro Game Review: Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare

October 26, 2004October 2, 2011 Pooch

For my second installment of Not-Quite-Retro-Gaming-Month™, I was going to reinstall and play Gothic, a medieval RPG that I thought was a major bore back in the day (but which a friend thought was quite fun), but I really wasn’t in the mood to install and slog through an RPG just yet.

Freedom Force: Still As Boring As Ever

October 25, 2004October 7, 2011 Pooch

Yeah, I know – March was Retro Gaming Month. Well, excuse me for not having posting privileges then. And now it’s time to feeeeel the flaaaames! Ahem. What I mean is, I think I’m one of the only people on Earth (along with Sparse) who didn’t like Freedom Force when it came out.

The Ultimate Doom

August 10, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

This time it’s for real! Doom 3, the long-awaited third installment in id Software’s hallowed Doom series of PC games, has finally landed. I admit I haven’t posted here in quite a few days because, well, I’ve been busy playing it, among other things I’ve been tied up with.

Come In, Corneria!

July 4, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Back in 1993 I remember buying a Super Nintendo game and excitedly reading the manual in the car on the way home. That game was Star Fox. One of the forgotten classics produced for the SNES, Star Fox has, in my opinion, the absolute best soundtrack of any game released on that platform, period.

DOS Adventures

May 7, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Last night I began my latest “gee, that sounds like fun” project: Slap together a DOS gaming box and get it loaded up with every classic game from my past, from Wolfenstein to Doom, Duke3D to System Shock, Quarantine to Heretic.

Sacred: A Mainstream Gamer’s Medieval RPG

April 5, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

My friends will tell you that I’m not much for medieval PC RPGs like Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind. I’m more of a mainstream FPS gamer who likes your run-of-the-mill Dooms, Half-Lives, and all that other crap. But even I can get into a good medieval RPG if it’s accessible enough, and that’s where Sacred comes in.

Retro Gaming Installment #2: Blood 2: The Chosen

March 16, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

The second installment in my impromptu Retro Gaming Month commentary features Blood II: The Chosen, one of the premiere games running on Monolith Productions’ brand-new LithTech Technology in 1998. The first game I remember playing from this development team was Blood, the original, in approximately 1996 sometime.

March is Retro Gaming Month!

March 16, 2004October 21, 2012 Chief Oddball

By my own spur-of-the-moment declaration, March is Retro Gaming Month! Since every lame, pointless organization needs their own “official wipe your mouth month” or “official kick the refrigerator” month or whatever else, I figure, why not? The calendar’s plenty cluttered up as it is, and yet I don’t care!

Revisiting Deus Ex: Invisible War

January 14, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Given that it was the first 100% worry-free weekend I’ve had in quite a while, I spent most of my time goofing off. I mean, what else would one do, having been suddenly freed from responsibility? Oh yes. Game time. So I spent most of Friday through Sunday playing Deus Ex: Invisible War, which I initially reviewed here some weeks ago.

Prepping The Game Store

December 18, 2003October 21, 2012 Chief Oddball

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I’m forgoing the Xbox/laptop drag-along this Christmas, and relying only on the computers at my parents’ house for gaming entertainment. Since one of these computers is a three-year-old notebook and the other is an eight-year-old Pentium Pro, I decided that the only games I’m going to be playing were games at least as old as these systems.

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