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THINK! Supaplex

Supaplex is an old skool puzle game that was released in 1991, then in somewhere in the mid 90s (my closest estimate is somewhere between 1994 to 1997) Digital integration, the publishers of Supaplex, agreed to release it for free and thus Supaplex became freeware. It’s the first game that I know that went from [...]

Supaplex: a history

The old adage that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” defiantly holds true in the gaming industry where clones are par for the course. Take a successful game, change the environment, enemies, weapons, story and maybe throw in a new game mechanic and bingo you have your own game. A good clone can set [...]

Midas

Remember Midas? You may have herd of him, he’s the guy in ancient Greek mythology who had the golden touch, everything he touched turned to gold. After all was said and done it wasn’t such an awesome thing. It proves that you should be careful what you wish for. This is why history is so [...]

C64anabalt

How do you turn a popular new game into an old classic? Port it to the Commodore 64 in cartridge format. It’s one thing to port an old game to a new system but to port a new game to an old system takes a little more effort specially when you only have 16KB to [...]

Supaplex & backwards compatibility

Backwards compatibility is a wonderful thing, thanks to backwards compatibility I can enjoy Supaplex in the right aspect ratio. Supaplex will install (by install I mean unzip because that’s all you have to do to ‘install’ it) and play under DOSBox without any tweaking, it’s a rare example of something just working properly out of [...]

Games used to be good then they took an arrow in the knee

I grew up in the good old 8-bit glory days of gaming when games were good and geeks weren’t chic. Now trend whores have hijacked ‘geek’ and made it ‘geeky’ apparently they decided that the geek look was in, to the ire of real geeks, ever since it became ok to be a real geek. [...]

Top 10 free indie games

Indie games have a habit of being wonderfully great, probably because indie developers are so passionate about what they do. They do it for the love of games and gaming, they do it for the love of designing, coding, creating, not for sales and money. Although I’m sure they like the money too. Apparently some [...]

Global Agenda: Recursive Colony Expansion

This is what happens if you take the Unreal engine throw in some Sci-Fi mix it with a third-person shooter perspective, sprinkle liberally with RPG elements and make it a free MMO. Global Agenda is a sci-fi, third-person class-based shooter with guns & jetpacks! What’s not to like about that? See tohose robots in the [...]

Spelunky

It’s not often, in fact it’s rare, that I get addicted to a game. Most games I play aren’t awesome enough for me to get addicted to, a lot of the time I get bored of a game and never finish it or I play it, enjoy it and finish it then never play it [...]

Mari0 update – Playable video game mashups FTW!

A lot of work has been done since I wrote about Mari0 last time. There are a bunch more screen shots, animated gif’s and videos showing off different features up on the screenshot page. The screenshots show game play and elements from Portal and Portal 2. Mari0 is going to be even more awesome than [...]

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