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Rampage: monsters VS buildings

24th October 2020retro game spotlight

As a kid, I remember spending hours at the bar down the road playing at Rampage as Lizzie. Destroying buildings and eating tasty humans was one of my favourite past-times. It's surprising that the coin-op conversion of Rampage for DOS ended up as a nice game. Granted it's not the arcade, Rampage for DOS retains a lot of the appeal of the coin-op.
Arthurian legends: from Camelot to PC

17th October 2020keywords and genres

King Arthur, Merlin, the sword Excalibur, the knights of the round table and the kingdom of Camelot are known to almost everyone. The so called Arthurian legends tell the story of king Arthur and his court in the fictional kingdom of Camelot. By today standards, arthurian legends could be categorized as "medieval fantasy".
Heimdall: an RPG with a norse mythology setting

10th October 2020retro game spotlight

"This PC Incarnation of Heimdall is every bit as good as its Amiga cousin, and also runs slightly faster. You're not just playing an adventure, you're experiencing a bridge between game genres, and the transition is a very easy one. Everything about the game is excellent, and even if you're not a fan of the arcade elements, most can be skipped or avoided in the game's conscious effort to be user-friendly. From the moment the intro starts to play to the battles against the world snake. I guarantee you'll be enthralled by Heimdall's bustling gameplay. Developers 8th Day may not be the new Lord British, but they've certainly got what it takes in the mass appeal stakes. Classic stuff." - PC Review Issue 7 (1992)
Collector's info: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2nd October 2020retro game spotlight

Infocom interactive fiction games are fondly remembered for their quality, but also for the sheer number of items contained in each original big box. They also got a name for them: "feelies".The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a text adventure based on the Douglas Adams novel by the same ...
Jagged Alliance 2: squad tactics at its best

26th September 2020retro game spotlight

I'm a fan of the original X-COM. I think it's one of the best turn-based tactics games ever released for DOS. Unfortunately, games like X-COM are not many. Jagged Alliance 2 has a similar tactical component: you give turn-based orders to a team of mercenaries, mission after mission. There's no management component (at least not as extensive as in the X-COM series). The setting is quite unusual to gamers ike me, used to fantasy or science fiction: Jagged Alliance 2 takes place on a fictional south american country. I'm sure I'm not the only one that loved Jagged Alliance 2. If you didn't play it yet and you love team-based tactics, go buy it immediately.

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Alternate history: Command HQ

Released in 1990Alternate history

What if the nazi won World War 2? What if nuclear weapons brought humanity to a post-apocalyptical nightmare in the 50s? Alternate history video games deal exactly with that: history that took a turn into a different direction (usually for the worse) than the timeline we know.
Space exploration: Psi 5 Trading Company

Released in 1986Space exploration

Space exploration games are self-explanatory. The gameplay is all about flying a starship in the vastness of space and having fun with activities such as space exploration, trading commodities, space combat, asteroid mining, pirate hunting, etc. The most popular space exploration games are Elite and Frontier, both designed by David Braben.

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Where does the love for old abandoned games comes from? Our childhood, perhaps. What's left of that age? What do we miss so much? The long afternoons spent walking in the worlds of Ultima or the hours passed impersonating Duke Nukem. Here we are now, slightly aged, eager to pay homage to all those wonderful DOS games.

After all, it's about the passion for old games and a little bit of nostalgia.

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Rampage: monsters VS buildings

Arthurian legends: from Camelot to PC

Heimdall: an RPG with a norse mythology setting

Collector's info: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Jagged Alliance 2: squad tactics at its best

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Alternate history: Command HQ

Space exploration: Psi 5 Trading Company

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