Archive for the ‘Shooter’ Category

Toon Crisis – On the rails and off your rocker!

Friday, May 1st, 2009

May01 Remember on-the-rails light gun shooters like Virtua Cop and The House of the Dead?  Good ol’ rail shooters from times past where all you had to think of was point and shoot.  Or like umm… let’s say Time Crisis, where you actually had a time limit.  Yes those were fun days.  I don’t know if they’re popular nowadays, as I haven’t been in an arcade in years, but it would seem that type of game would be well suited to a mouse.  Let’s changes gears for a second now, have you ever wanted to blast some toons, no I didn’t say “blast some tunes”, I mean you could do that if you want, but that’s not what I mean.  I mean blast some toons as in CARtoons.  Well I don’t mean an emphasis on car, as this has nothing to do with cars.  I mean animated cartoon characters.  Have you wanted to shoot them?  Sure we all have.  Well what does today’s flash game have in common with shooting cartoon characters and Time Crisis?  Well actually nothing other than the name.  Oh yeah it’s a “rail” shooter as well except using the mouse.

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Retroshoot – “SHOOOOoooooooooOOOOTTT!”, Grig from the Last Starfighter.

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Apr24 What is with all this retro stuff anyways?  I mean it’s pretty big, you have all the compilations out there, most recently the Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, not to mention Namco Museum, Midway Arcade Treasures 1, 2, and 3, Atari Anthology, Intellivision Lives.  There was the Sonic Mega Collection.  There was even all the Megaman games for the Gamecube.  There was one with a bunch of Activision classics on it.  Emulators are pretty big, the biggest is the arcade emulator MAME.  What’s the deal with this anyways?  Why are so many people into games that are old, or pretend to be old.  For instance Geometry Wars was made to look like old vector graphics games.  Puppy Games try to make theirs look like they belong to some oldschool game compilation or something, yet still with modern sound, and cool effects that you couldn’t get.  I think there’s a lot of reasons.  For me I get a chance to play games that were fun to me when I was a kid, and still are.  Also some new games aren’t as fun as games used to be.  They try to make it hyper-realistic, or accurate controls.  Some first person shooters just have too many darn controls. 

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Last Man Standing – Can you stand alone against Skyn… I mean Skullnet?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apr23

Remember those wondrous days of yesteryear where nothing excited us more than a couple of colored blocks on screen, and a little bleep and bloop?  There was a console, arguably the first successful one for the home called the Atari VCS more commonly known as the Atari 2600?  You do?  Well do you remember one of the big launch titles for the 2600?  Yep Combat, and a variation within combat?  Common now, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten good ol’ Tank?  Okay admittedly I thought I remembered the game being only Tank, which is based on the arcade version of Tank by Kee and Atari games.  However Tank and it’s variations were added into the Combat cartridge with various other battle type games.  Anyways, it was always fun playing Tank and it’s various variations, and nailing the other guy.  Especially Tank Pong, where you could bounce shots off the walls.  Nothing like reliving the good ol’ days.  Well what this has to do with our next game is that it, also is a tank game.  It’s called Last Man Standing, by IronCode Software.  Let’s figure out if it’s something worth buying or not.

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