Baldur’s Gate isn’t too old, it was released in November of 1998, but that’s still a bit dated now. The gaming industry isn’t friendly to the years, often working in what seems to be accelerated “dog years” in terms of technological advancements. It figured this was worth covering because it’s one of the best selling […]
Entries Tagged as 'Retro'
Gaming FlashBack: Baldur’s Gate
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Episode · Flashback · Podcast · Retro · RPG
Retro Gaming Moves: Screw Attack [Metroid]
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
One of the most famous classic gaming moves, Screw Attack, is one of Samus Aran’s best power suit moves in Metroid. It was powerful enough to kill most enemies by contact; one hit for one kill. What makes this special attack at retro gaming classic is its well balanced game play style. Although Screw Attack […]
Mega Man 9, WiiWare, Retro Gamers Rejoyce!
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s been confirmed, in Nintendo Power at least, that Mega Man 9 is officially going to be something you can download on the Wii console. The game is being developed by Ini Creates, a company of ex-capcom folks who are also responsible for Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series. Of course, this is […]
Tags: Editorial · Industry News · Retro · Side Scroller · WiiWare
Classic Cinematics: Diablo
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Diablo is a classic title with endings for each class you can play, but all give you the same result: hell and torment. You battle your way through a very difficult game, defeating legions of evils minions, piling their corpses upon the floor as you dig deeper into hell. Eventually, you battle the essence of […]
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Gaming Flashback: Mega Man
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre […]
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Gaming Flashback: Lode Runner
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Lode Runner, a game many of us logged hundreds of hours upon. Lode Runner has a great deal of replay value thanks to its great map editor. The game was first published by Broderbund in 1983, but was first prototyped by Douglas Smith, an architecture student at the University of Washington. The Lode Runner prototype […]
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Gaming Flashback: DOOM
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
DOOM is a PC game titlat that wasn’t initially released in stores. It was uploaded to an FTP server in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on the Software Creations BBS on the 10th of December; released as a shareware game, people were encouraged to download and spread the game around to all their friends. In […]
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Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Double Dragon II: The Revenge, this is a sequel title to a game which arrived earlier on the NES as an arcade port, something pretty standard back in the day of arcades, and like it’s original port, has variations from the arcade. The trick is, the variations are much less than that of the original […]
Tags: Fighting · Flashback · Podcast · Retro · Side Scroller
Gaming Flashback: Secret of the Silver Blades
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
I miss old SSI games and all the beauty and wonder they brought me as a child. Perhaps it’s more of the feeling of playing old MS-DOS games and that no worries feeling of playing games all summer long when your parents are out working; no cares in the world but that of the evil […]