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Retro: An ode to Super Mario World

A couple of days ago, I found myself in an interesting situation. I found, that I had no desire to play my next-gen games. Hell, I didn’t even want to play my PS2. No, I wanted to play something 2D, and not the 2D with a 3D twist like Odin Sphere, but something truly classic, [...]

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Download Doomsday and the addons
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Doomsday and projects like jDoom have kept the game going well into the 21st century, with support for high resolution graphics and textures, OpenGL, new character models, particle effects, high-quality audio and a whole host of hacks, tweaks, mods and fixes for Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Hexen and Heretic.
It also brings 16-player multiplayer and [...]

Retro: Dark Side of the Moon

Despite constant CD-switching and some bugs, great graphics, sound and storyline helped make this 1998 adventure game one of SouthPeak’s late goodies.

A complete NES inside a game cartridge?
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In a stroke of imaginative genius, French modder Kotomi managed to squeeze an entire Nintendo Entertainment System into an old Super Mario Bros. cartridge.

The Old Shoebox: The Halo E3 2000 trailer

There’s no question that Halo was one of the best action/shooter games ever made. It was a remarkable achievement in gaming and carried the Xbox at launch time. Its multiplayer had that James Bond Goldeneye/N64 feel where you could play it, the same levels, over and over again and love every minute.
I still like to [...]

Retro: Boss Rally
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The ultimate goal of Boss Rally is to play through several seasons of racing, earning points and unlocking faster cars and harder tracks to become the ultimate rally champion. You can play against the computer or via modem, LAN or serial cable to play with a friend. You can control your game with either a [...]

Retro: WCW/NWO Revenge
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This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998 when there was no real professional wrestling monopoly.
WCW/NWO is one of the best wrestling sims THQ has come out with. Featuring up to date rosters and an excellent array of moves, Revenge is a welcome addition to your N64 game library.
Control in Revenge is easy once you [...]

The Old Shoebox: Download Bio Menace
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In December 2005, Apogee/3D Realms released the classic side-scrolling action game Bio Menace as a freeware “Christmas present” for its customers and loyal fans.
At that time, the game had floundered around incompatibility issues and relative obscurity — DOSBox wasn’t a big deal yet.

The game is built on the Commander Keen 2D engine and designed as [...]

The Old Shoebox: Links: The Challenge of Golf
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One of the best computer golf games is still Links LS 98 and subsiquent versions for Windows, released 11 years ago by Access Software.
Access made some very good games in the 80s and 90s, including the Tex Murphy series, before they lost their identity — and eventually their existance.
Links: The Challenge of Golf was released in 1990 [...]

Retro: Intellivision Lives!
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This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999.
The Intellivision collection was relaunched on the last generation of consoles — Xbox, PS2, GC — in 2004 to mixed reviews. You have to give Keith Robinson, who runs and basically is wholly responsible for the survival of Intellivision, for keeping these games alive! See the bottom [...]

The Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware
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Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along with everything else in those days, by GT Interactive in 1994.
Heretic introduced ambient noise — evil laughter and such — that was random, as [...]

The Old Shoebox: Download the Hardball 5 demo
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One of my all time favorite PC sports games was High Heat Baseball 1999. It was behind its time and had sub par graphics, but it was a smooth playing game that was insanely customizable. It had replaceable graphics, importable stadiums (real Citgo sign for Fenway) and custom sound effects and player musical anthems you [...]

Retro: Beetle Adventure Racing
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This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999. Why haven’t we seen anything like it since? EA/VW — let’s get a game going!
By Tom Carroll
You would have to live in a cave in Northern Siberia to not know there was a new Beetle on the scene. Volkswagen pulled out all the stops in publicizing the [...]

Retro: Metal Gear Solid
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This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998.
Konami’s Metal Gear Solid is the most intense stealth game for any system. Not only has it completely revolutionized stealth/action games, but it has raised the expectations of all games. In other words, this could be the best Playstation game ever!
As one of the first full length stealth [...]

Retro: Altec Lansing PowerCube Plus ACS48

Without question, the PowerCube Plus ACS48 was one of a few product releases by Altec Lansing, Labtec and a few other companies that changed computer audio forever. Ten years ago, soundcards were starting to get better, but speaker offerings still largely consisted of two-piece, unpowered sets that sounded like cheap headphones. The PowerCube Plus ACS48, [...]

Retro: Command Antivirus
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This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com and Sharewarejunkies.com in 1998. It was rock-solid software that still exists today.
By John Guilfoil
Command Software pretty much created a winner with this one. Command Antivirus with F-PROT Professional is an affordable, high quality mercenary that will set out and battle any fiendish viral vermin that threaten your beloved system.
The [...]

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