Ernest Borgnine was the original J. Edgar
Retro: Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Oct. 2, 2009 1 Comment
From 2002, a game that was almost made for N64 then almost for Dreamcast
Retro: Force 21
Sept. 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999. Force 21 is far from your normal real-time gtrategy game. You don’t have a base where you begin — mining resources, building buildings, which in turn allow you to build certain units. No, it’s nothing like that. Force 21 doesn’t try to be that. It’s something much [...]
Retro: The original PlayStation 2 launch titles
Dec. 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
December 2008. Sony PlayStation 2 has been a viable product for eight years, selling about 140 million units wordwide, more than any other video game console in history. The fact that we’re still talking about PlayStation 2 and still talking about new games being made only for the PlayStation 2 in the 2008 holiday season [...]
Mega Man 9 shines with nostalgia, charm
Nov. 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
It would have been easy for Capcom to release yet another reboot of the Mega Man series. Instead, Mega Man 9 is a frustrating, pixelated adventure that looks like it’s been sitting in out game collection for the past 15 years. [...]
The Old Shoebox: Cylindrix
Oct. 20, 2008 Leave a Comment
Cylindrix was coded to run in Dos DJGPP Protected Mode so that it could address more than 640 KB of memory, something that the Dos programmers felt was impossible at one point in history.
The Old Shoebox: Download Overkill
Sept. 1, 2008 1 Comment
In 1992, Epic MegaGames released this almost forgettable little EGA game called Overkill. You, the pilot, are tasked with destroying all the evil alien forces that captured six otherwise peaceful planets, enslaving the populations along the way. Destroy them.
Retro: Intellivision Lives!
March 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Retro: Command Antivirus
Feb. 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Retro: Knights and Merchants
Jan. 14, 2008 2 Comments
This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999 during an explosion of real-time strategy games. After many battles, a former kingdom has been divided into many small principalities and earldoms. The king’s troops were pushed back into one last royal province, and the rulers of the other provinces waged terrible, destructive wars against one another. [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download the original Tomb Raider demo
Jan. 3, 2008 1 Comment
There once was a magazine called Launch. Oh what a magazine it was. Launch was mainly a music publication, which offered a Macromedia-powered CD-ROM magazine in the 90s. It was an early form of convergence journalism, and we pay homage to them and their efforts. Like just about every other good thing in the tech [...]
RetroPort for Wii
Dec. 4, 2007 Leave a Comment
One of the greatest features on the Nintendo Wii is the Virtual Console, giving players a chance to relive some of the greatest games ever made, including the original Mario Brothers and Zelda games. But try as you might, many people just don’t feel the Wiimote — or even the Gamecube controller — feels right. [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
Dec. 2, 2007 3 Comments
Today’s Old Shoebox feature is a game that brought me a ton of joy in the mid-90s. The game is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the CD I originally found it on is called “Aztech’s Super Games,” a red CD-ROM that came bundled with my first 4x CD-ROM drive many years ago. The CD [...]